A PUBLIC ART FESTIVAL IN EAST TIMOR
A$15,925
of $15,000 targetyrs ago
Successful on 29th Aug 2014 at 1:49AM.
Arte Publiku! is East Timor’s inaugural Public Arts Festival.
Experimental theatre, burning drums, hypnotic projection works, large-scale sculptural installations, primal performance art, ceremonial and contemporary print and textiles, comics, murals, contemporary dance flashmobs and more will transform streets into stages of creative collaboration in Dili, East Timor, between August 24-31, 2014.
Leading artists from East Timor’s districts and Dili,will collaborate with Indonesian and Australian artists across a range of art forms, reimagining Dili’s public spaces as a melting pot of contemporary creative expression and collaboration in a nation still defining it’s identity through independence.
A series of international exhibitions, book launches and workshops will prelude a free and accessible three-day art festival for East Timor’s public, encouraging the revitalisation of creative expression and democratic participation.
Arte Moris, East Timor’s Free Art School and Arte Publiku! host, is excited to have received expressions of interest from over 50 district-based artists who will travel to Dili and join over 60 of their city-based collaborators.
International art collectives and artists with strong links to East Timor will return and build upon existing relationships and partnerships to create new work with Timorese collaborators. Visual artists, performers and social activists from Indonesian art collectives and organistions Taring Padi, Bengkel Mime Theatre, Survive Garage and Kampung Halaman join performers, musicians, projection artists and illustrators from Australia-East Timor collective Animatism and the Silent Army.
This is art as a celebration of place, culture, diversity, democracy and history, designed to excite, entertain, inspire and promote discussion of contemporary issues with the population of one of the world’s newest democracies.
Why is Arte Publiku! important?
Art offers an effective, peaceful and necessary outlet for creativity in the process of nation building and the creation of identity. This occurs through it’s ability to re-present culture and history and through it’s knack of giving visibility to the invisible.
Arte Publiku! will facilitate a dynamic environment for ongoing exchanges with artists from East Timor’s nearest neighbours, Australia and Indonesia, countries entwined in East Timor’s history and current development progress.
The workshop series and festival will facilitate intergenerational and regional dialogue around art, creativity, activism, and democratic participation in a free and developing East Timor and inform enduring strategies towards greater creative collaboration across the region.
Arte Publiku! directly addresses key issues of East Timor’s economic and cultural development through its focus on issues of youth unemployment and participation, gender and intergenerational friction around cultural practice and the development of peace building in nationhood through art.
Arte Publiku! provides an international festival platform for East Timorese, Indonesian and Australian artists to collaborate on, engaging with artists and audiences and the communities around the festival, developing deeper knowledge and more considered regional relationships, through art.
Arte Publiku! will motivate local communities to engage, create and express at a grassroots level, empowering people to connect with developmental agendas that include the environment, equal opportunity and gender participation. The Festival’s capacity to
demonstrate innovative collaborations and pathways towards empowering and equal partnerships in the region develops social cohesion within urban and regional spaces across the country and beyond.
Importantly, Arte Publiku! demonstrates the transformative power of art as a binding agent in international development, encouraging a heightened focus on the conditions and role of art and creativity in greater government and civic engagement and participation.
Arte Publiku! will facilitate a dynamic environment for ongoing exchanges with artists from East Timor’s nearest neighbours, Australia and Indonesia, countries entwined in East Timor’s history and current development progress.
The workshop series and festival will facilitate intergenerational and regional dialogue around art, creativity, activism, and democratic participation in a free and developing East Timor and inform enduring strategies towards greater creative collaboration across the region.
Arte Publiku! directly addresses key issues of East Timor’s economic and cultural development through its focus on issues of youth unemployment and participation, gender and intergenerational friction around cultural practice and the development of peace building in nationhood through art.
Arte Publiku! provides an international festival platform for East Timorese, Indonesian and Australian artists to collaborate on, engaging with artists and audiences and the communities around the festival, developing deeper knowledge and more considered regional relationships, through art.
Arte Publiku! will motivate local communities to engage, create and express at a grassroots level, empowering people to connect with developmental agendas that include the environment, equal opportunity and gender participation. The Festival’s capacity to
demonstrate innovative collaborations and pathways towards empowering and equal partnerships in the region develops social cohesion within urban and regional spaces across the country and beyond.
Importantly, Arte Publiku! demonstrates the transformative power of art as a binding agent in international development, encouraging a heightened focus on the conditions and role of art and creativity in greater government and civic engagement and participation.
How The Funds Will Be Used
$7,500 towards total costs of more than $12,500 associated with the transport, accommodation and participation costs of East Timorese regional artists
$5000 towards total material cost of $20,000 needed to support the festival that includes:
$1,000 Art supplies for artist workshops and collaborations
$2,500 Festival Hub rigging / staging and lighting
$1,500 For catering for participating artists and volunteers over the three day festival event
$2,500 towards total freight and festival transport costs of 6,500 for Dili based, international artists and organisers
The Challenges
Some of the Challenges of Arte Publiku! are being resolved by you, our philanthropists.
The participation of artists from East Timor’s regional areas is a task that is fraught with logistical challenges including transport to, from and around Dili, accommodation in Dili, and sustenance needs. Supporting artists from the districts to be involved in this festival is of high priority and importance, particularly to a nation that is focusing on decentralisation. Funding, for this specific endeavour, has been hard to come by. We need support from you to make this happen.
Many materials for Arte Publiku! require shipment from Indonesia and Australia. No matter how frugal we are, there are somewhat astronomical costs associated with this reality. You and your generosity, again, assists Arte Publiku! in resolving this challenge.
Youth participation and the empowerment of East Timor’s predominantly young population is an ongoing concern and challenge in East Timor. Arte Publiku! and you are directly addressing this concern by harnessing the power of art to reach out to people’s hopes, expectations, and dreams and provide them with a way to socially engage in an international context of participation through creativity.
The security of local and international artists and the general public for the duration of Arte Publiku! is a challenge that is taken seriously by festival organisers. Local security through East Timor’s Police Force (PNTL) have been engaged and will ensure a safe and vibrant ambience for audiences and participating artists for the duration of the festival.
The participation of artists from East Timor’s regional areas is a task that is fraught with logistical challenges including transport to, from and around Dili, accommodation in Dili, and sustenance needs. Supporting artists from the districts to be involved in this festival is of high priority and importance, particularly to a nation that is focusing on decentralisation. Funding, for this specific endeavour, has been hard to come by. We need support from you to make this happen.
Many materials for Arte Publiku! require shipment from Indonesia and Australia. No matter how frugal we are, there are somewhat astronomical costs associated with this reality. You and your generosity, again, assists Arte Publiku! in resolving this challenge.
Youth participation and the empowerment of East Timor’s predominantly young population is an ongoing concern and challenge in East Timor. Arte Publiku! and you are directly addressing this concern by harnessing the power of art to reach out to people’s hopes, expectations, and dreams and provide them with a way to socially engage in an international context of participation through creativity.
The security of local and international artists and the general public for the duration of Arte Publiku! is a challenge that is taken seriously by festival organisers. Local security through East Timor’s Police Force (PNTL) have been engaged and will ensure a safe and vibrant ambience for audiences and participating artists for the duration of the festival.
OBRIGADO!
Your name on the festival website
6 chosen / 44 available
Est. delivery is Sep 14
THE CHEAP AND CHEERFUL
1 x Arte Moris post card set, 1 x Limited Arte Publiku Edition 6X4" LOROSAE photographic print by Chris Parkinson, 1 X Arte Publiku! Art walk
25 chosen / 75 available
Est. delivery is Dec 14
THE PINEAPPLE
1 x Arte Moris post card set, 1 X Arte Moris T-Shirt, 1 x Limited Arte Publiku Edition 6X4" ANIMATISM photographic print by Chris Parkinson, 1 x exclusive Arte Moris Print, 1 X Arte Publiku! Art walk
42 chosen / 58 available
Est. delivery is Dec 14
THE LITERACY PACKAGE
1 x copy of Taring Padi Book, 1 x copy of Peace of Wall; Street Art from East Timor, 1 x Art as Life, by Michael Fikaris, 1 X Arte Publiku! Art walk
11 chosen / 39 available
Est. delivery is Dec 14
THE PRINT PACKAGE
1 X Djuwadi (Taring Padi) Print, 1 x Arte Moris Print, 1 x Michael Fikaris print, 1 x Tony Amaral Print, 1 x Arte Publiku! Stencil Print, 1 X Arte Publiku! Art walk
13 chosen / 7 available
Est. delivery is Dec 14
THE EXPERIENCE PACKAGE
Invitation to Arte Publiku! artist party, Private festival tour, 1 x Arte Publiku Art Walk, 1 x Personal portrait from participating artist Michael Fikaris, 1 x Personal portrait from participating artist Peter Gunter
2 chosen / 18 available
Est. delivery is Dec 14
THE ROLLED INTO ONE PACK
BOOK, PRINT AND EXPERIENCE PACKAGE: Taring Padi Book, Peace of Wall; Street Art from East Timor, Art as Life, 1 X Arte Publiku! Art walk, 1 X Djuwadi (Taring Padi) Print, 1 x Arte Moris Print, 1 x Michael Fikaris print, 1 x Tony Amaral Print, 1 x Arte Publiku! Stencil Print, Invitation to Arte Publiku! artist party, Private festival tour, 1 x Arte Publiku Art Walk, 1 x Personal portrait from participating artist Michael Fikaris, 1 x Personal portrait from participating artist Peter Gunter
5 chosen / 5 available
Est. delivery is Dec 14
THE HIGHBROW PACKAGE
1 X Original artwork from participating East Timorese artist 1 X Original artwork from participating Indonesian artist 1 X Original artwork from participating Australian artist
2 chosen / 0 available
Est. delivery is Dec 14