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This page is the smallest. Even though I have researched ruangrupa the most.
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I interviewed reinaart vanhoe, a belgian artist who has been involved with ruangrupa since 2000, and had seen them evolve over 20 years. In the interview it all comes together, please listen to it. I have not editted it, it is 1,5 hours (i'm sorry)
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reinaart vanhoe is a teacher on WdkA and wrote multiple books and zines on ruru and complex, social, relational art praxis. He gave me three of his publications to read.
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Reza Afisina, a member of ruangrupa is co-curating Garage Rotterdam, bringing the collective practice with reinaart, I / we are invited to also organize in that context there, there will be possibility for relational art practices.
Reflection:
I have dissapeared in a rabbit hole researching this collective. I heard about them in a converstation a few years ago. After it was mentioned is served as (amongst other ideas) as inspiration to the Amalgam program I wanted to know more.
The (real) library of the KABK, which I find a comforting place to start research, owns two titles containing text on Ruangrupa. Both published in the same year as the dokumenta 15 in 2022 even though the collective loosely started operating in Yogijakarta after 2000. Both in german and therefore not of much help for me.
I started googling and found a lot of different sources, i feel mainly from the same angle and I have tried to form a base of sources that I could draw from. From skimming a Master Thesis, reading upon the earlier Sonsbeek collaboration, listening to podcasts on Ruangrupa and Unbound collective by the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art(ACCA). Discovering on the 'praxis'(counterintuively called 'praxis') of nongkrong, gudskul and lumbung, of which the last reminds me of Mladen Stilinovic's In praise of lazyness. Which was written on the wall of Moezeum.
And again the broader topic of differences between living well according to cultures from the mondial south versus a western capitalist time=money mindset surfaces. How art arises with rest and contemplation, breaking from society's rush.
