Indonesia based an inter-disciplinary artist and designer with a focus on conceptual, site specific and participatory public
Activities
Fine Art, Research, Others
Awards
Biography
Novan Effendy is an inter-disciplinary artist and designer with a focus on conceptual, site specific, and participatory projects. He believes that art helps us to mediate our environment, whether as a viewer or as a participator. Like the shining of the lantern on darken, it is also about the experience as well as emotions. It reveals the invisible, gives shape to the intangible. These principles are driven not by a self-indulgent romance of art, but a belief that art can be socially relevant. Art provides a language to render social issues alive and meditate on ideas and impressions that can engage a larger public.
Effendy has received postgraduate training at PCP SAC Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Surabaya, he is known as an artist and practitioner of Indonesian culture who has dedicated himself to the preservation and advancement of the Damar Kurung lantern art with the initiation of festival practices as well as research and archiving through the Damar Kurung Institute. In the last decade, he has taken serious and specific observations on various fire cultural activities, light rites, and traditional lantern traditions studies that cross the Asian region, particularly Southeast Asia.
Effendy’s works have been featured in notable exhibitions and many experimental venues in Indonesia. Examples include the DIY Bonbin (2015) has collaborated with Kingsley Ng-a Hong Kong-based artist in Surabaya Zoo, Kemijen Narrative: Forget the Flood (2016) in Kemijen village, Semarang city, central Java, Pelito Koto Lamo (2017) in the Rimbang Baling indigenous forest, Riau Province, Purgatorio Hotel (2019) Biennale Jogja XV Equator #5 has collaborated with Yoshi Fajar Kresnomurti in Yogyakarta city, and the Butterfly of Dreams (2021) has collaborated with Boonpong Panich (Thailand), Moonpong Jeeramet (Thailand), and also Mangkabia, youth collective (Thailand) in Loei Art Fes 2021.
Language
English
Place
Gresik city / Indonesia
