APT3 performance / Mella Jaarsma: Hi inlander (Hello native)
Many Indonesians of Chinese origin have experienced violent expressions of community resentment. As a foreigner living in Indonesia for many years, Mella Jaarsma has considered questions of ethnic difference in performance installations staged both in the streets of Yogyakarta and in art galleries. She develops this theme with the work Hi inlander, which translates as Hello native-born – a derogatory colonial Dutch form of address. The ‘inlanders’ that Jaarsma greets are figures clad in hooded costumes like the Muslim woman’s jilbab, made of chicken, fish, frog and kangaroo skins. These materials dramatically emphasise difference while revealing the common status of living creatures. The work suggests that though people look and even cook differently, they co-habit in the same social and national space.
Artist statement
Consciousness of time appeared with the beginning of a new era after the reassignment of Suharto who has been more than thirty years the president of Indonesia. Hope for the future and the meaning of future itself related democracy, has arisen with the fall of political censorship.
With this new-found freedom of expression, but in the middle of the economical and political crisis, artists in Indonesia have to redefine their position. Still many taboos, rules and habits remain to be questioned and visualized.
Growing up in the Netherlands I have chosen to live in a total different culture and I have been living and working in Java since 1984. What interests me is that artists in Indonesia are pushed to be aware of their place/function in society and their position to communicate to that society. All kinds of aspects entered my art while being part of this hybrid society, with a strong traditional background, a rather new capitalist consumer culture and political tensions.
What we consider as reality comes to us by contrasts in experiences. Everybody is tied to a certain spot where he/she is born, lives and dies. My work deals with awareness of our own existence on a certain spot in this world. The paintings, photographs, installations and performances I made during the last years basically are meant to invite people to consider where they are placed. On one side every person has to deal with very personal experiences which come to us by our family-background, given possibilities and choices. On the other side experiences are made by general circumstances (culturally, politically and socially).
In my art I like to confront the audience with their own existence with memories and thoughts, related to the cultural, social and political circumstances. To shorten the distance between the audience and the art work, I create art where persons are physical - and psychological parts of the work and actively get an experience.
The performance 'Pribumi', refers to the 13th and 14th of May 1998, when riots took place and where ethnic Chinese people were killed and raped. During and after these riots many people put notes on their doors with the word 'Pribumi', 'Pribumi asli', or 'Pribumi asli Moslem', which means indigenous people or original Moslem indigenous people. By frying frog-legs in the street done by seven foreign people living in Yogyakarta, I tried to open up thoughts and discussions about racism. Frog-legs are a Chinese food and Moslems are not allowed to eat them because they are not 'halal' (clean). I, original Dutch, was confronted with one of the consequences of colonial background and the favor treatment to Chinese by the Dutch in colonial times.
The installation 'Hi Inlander' (Indigenous Javanese people called by the Dutch Colonizer) questions borders of political correctness by using skins in the form of 'jilbabs' (veils) which closes communication and meat in the form of cooking installations which opens up communication by exchanging recipes of different cultures. [Mella Jaarsma 1999]
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Mella Jaarsma, The Netherlands/Indonesia b.1960 / Hi inlander (Hello native) 1998-99 / Installation comprising treated skins (fish, chicken, frog, kangaroo), cooking equipment, photographs / 244 x 97cm (kangaroo); 140 x 84cm (frog); 150 x 100cm (fish); 152 x 95cm (chicken) / Purchased 2000. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery / © The artist
Performance/ September 1999
The 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT3) / Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Brisbane Australia / 9 September 1999 – 26 January 2000
Source: QAGOMA APT Archive
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