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Elghandiva Tholkhah

MA work

MA work

  • Black and Blue II

    Black and Blue II, Elghandiva A Tholkhah 2018
    Live work
    Photographer: Ada Hao (still from video work)

  • Black and Blue II

    Black and Blue II, Elghandiva A Tholkhah 2018
    Live work
    Photographer: Ada Hao

  • Black and Blue I

    Black and Blue I, Elghandiva A Tholkhah 2018
    Live work
    Photographer: JJ Rolfe (still from video work)

  • Black and Blue I

    Black and Blue I, Elghandiva A Tholkhah 2018
    Live work - bodily movement
    Photographer: JJ Rolfe (still from video work)

Black and Blue

Black and Blue offer a testimony to the bruising and wounding power of experiences. The experiences of extreme trauma often result in such identity disturbances that retrieving the “I” that we once embodied, can be incredibly complex and painful, physically or metaphysically. This work reveals and transform something private and public, something delicate and catastrophic, something black and blue.

Utilizing bodily movements, traces of gestures influenced by Indonesian classical dance, and materials that point towards historical and political critique, the impossible representation of violence and history is understood through the earthy and delicate erotics of love. Considering this, her research investigates the contact and transgression between displeasure and pleasure. Intimate with curiosity, the artist aspires to offer a voyeuristic experience through her performance art.

Programme
Contemporary Art Practice
Sponsors
Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education

Info

Info

  • Elghandiva Tholkhah

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Arts & Humanities

    Programme

    MA Contemporary Art Practice, 2018

    Specialism

    performance

  • Elghandiva Astrilia Tholkhah (b.1990) typically explores the corporeal potential of a range of media including performance, video, sound, and sculpture. 

    Challenging risks surrounding the post-colonial female body and self-identity, the artist thrusts herself through performativity in order to respond, dismantle, and reclaim. Through ritualistic gestures influenced by Indonesian classical dance, everyday objects, natural materials, and fictional space, her research seeks to orchestrate catastrophe with thoughtful lightness in its quest to reveal something private and public by offering the encounter between them.

    Through philosophical and psychological rationale, her research investigates the contact between displeasure and pleasure.

  • Degrees

  • BA Visual Communication Design, Pelita Harapan University, Indonesia, 2012

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