Perhutana
A PROGRAM BY SWAB FOUNDATION
The fair develops and supports community projects that promote collaboration, sustainability and the construction of new collective imaginaries. Through initiatives that link artistic practice with the territory, Swab Foundation promotes proposals that encourage the conservation of heritage, the active participation of communities and intercultural dialogue.
Established in 2005, Jatiwangi art Factory (JaF) is a community that embraces contemporary arts and cultural practices as part of the local life discourse in a rural area. Their manifold activities, always involving the local public, include a video festival, a music festival, a residency program, a discussion series, and a TV and radio station.
At the beginning of the XXth century, its clay industry made Jatiwangi the biggest roof-tile producing region in Southeast Asia. The project Kota Terakota (Terracota City) thus marks the beginning of a new clay culture for Jatiwangi, remodelling the city based on its people’s desires and their collective agreement. In this sense, Kota Terakota speaks to “terra” not only as a material, but also as land, territory, or idea.
For the past 10 years, Jatiwangi has been planned by the Indonesian government as part of a strategic industrial development zone called ‘Segitiga Rebana’. In response, JaF is developing strategies for its region to be catalogued of ecological and cultural significance, to build from that space alternative discourses to technocentrism.
PERHUTANA, part of the Kota Terakota project, consists of reclaiming an 8 hectare plot of land from the industrial development plan and turning it into sacred (conservation) land. It involves the act of creating a collectively owned forest, utilizing the transactional logic of a real estate company as a method of collective action.
By participating in PERHUTANA one gets the following: a 4m² plot of land that will later be donated for the creation of the forest, a terracotta certificate, designed and made by artists from Jatiwangi Art Factory and a digital certificate.
BE PART OF PERHUTANA
PERHUTANA is part of the Kota Terakota initiative to reclaim 8 hectares of land and transform it into sacred (conservatory) land. This land will later be collectively managed and owned by those participating in future investment transactions focused on the most basic human need: oxygen.
PERHUTANA offers land lots with the goal of collectively growing a forest, providing stakeholders with three key benefits:
-Ownership of a 4×4 m² land lot, which will later be donated to the Sacred (Conservatory) Forest.
-An exclusive certificate designed and crafted by JaF artist Aldizar Ahmad for Swab Barcelona.
-A digital certificate.
Once all land lots are sold and planted, PERHUTANA will be officially registered with the Ministry of Forests as an indigenous forest for the people of the Majalengka region.
Participation in PERHUTANA requires a contribution of €300. For more information, contact us at info@swab.es
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