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Kabut Zaman

by Uwalmassa

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Full video: youtu.be/ALjPFdQbkww

Kabut translates as mist, or fog, and zaman as age. The title of the work can be translated as the mist of the ages, or the age of mist.

It is an illustration and a rumination of the murkiness of nature; its unexplainable, supernatural temper. Images of landscapes, spices, and rock formations are distorted into abstraction, subverted beyond recognition. The textures breathe and bubble, both microscopic and macroscopic, leaning towards the interdimensional and metaphysical.

Delving into space mysticism, 'Kabut Zaman' proposes to depart from an extractivist relationship to space. This approach stems from our observation of the Global South’s exclusion from the conversation on the promise of space, space colonization, and space mining, and the Westerncentrism of such concerns.

Breaking away from nature as a resource, 'Kabut Zaman' is an incantation, a devotion inviting the supernatural to manifest - a direct reference to Southeast Asia’s reverence with spirits and the “unknowable”. Hauntedness appears as a condition, a way of existing together with the ghosts of the past—colonization, corruption, and tradition–while also looking toward ghosts of the future—neocolonialism. Here, specifically, as a bi-product of Western exploitation logics of space and as a speculative proposal for a symbiotic and spiritual relationship with nature.

This work is driven by the sonics as much as it is by the morphing visuals - a result of extrusion and distortion of photographic images built with audio-reactive techniques. The sonic components are sourced from human voices, metallic objects, metallophones, and a variety of instruments from Indonesia - creating a cross-modulation of timbres that conjure a sense of perpetual tension.

Work description is co-written by the artist and curator Jade Barget.

'Kabut Zaman' is an audiovisual piece by DIVISI62. Originally part of the online exhibition 'Nameless. echoes, spectres and hisses' by XING (29 June - 27 July 2020) - presented and commissioned by A.I. Gallery.

Music and sound design by Uwalmassa.
Additional photography by Danishwara Nathaniel.

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released March 17, 2022

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