EVENT 27.05.2023–31.08.2023

FREE

Kleidungsaffe

Kleidungsaffe (Clothes Ape) is a delegated durational performance, first performed and created by Melati Suryodarmo in 2006. For three hours, a performer wraps their legs and arms around a tree of clothes – a 6.2 metres high pillar wrapped in colourful garments donated by Collection 4 Clothes, a West Midlands ethical recycling organisation.

The performance invites us to contemplate the relationship between our clothing consumption and desire to gain social status.

Presented as part of Melati Suryodarmo’s exhibition Passionate Pilgrim (17 May – 3 September 2023).

This exhibition is supported by Bagri Foundation, British Council through the Connections Through Culture grants programme, Birmingham City University, University of Leeds, and the Melati Suryodarmo Exhibition Circle: A.I. Gallery; ShanghART, Tanya Michele Amador and Michiel Verhoeven; and Michelangelo and Lourdes Samson.

It is developed in collaboration with Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN), Jakarta, Indonesia.

FREE

Event Dates

Thursday 08.06.2023 / 2.00pm–5.00pm

Saturday 17.06.2023 / 2.00pm–5.00pm

Thursday 22.06.2023 / 2.00pm–5.00pm

Saturday 01.07.2023 / 2.00pm–5.00pm

Thursday 06.07.2023 / 2.00pm–5.00pm

Saturday 15.07.2023 / 2.00pm–5.00pm

Thursday 20.07.2023 / 2.00pm–5.00pm

Saturday 29.07.2023 / 2.00pm–5.00pm

Thursday 03.08.2023 / 2.00pm–5.00pm

Saturday 12.08.2023 / 2.00pm–5.00pm

Thursday 17.08.2023 / 2.00pm–5.00pm

Saturday 26.08.2023 / 2.00pm–5.00pm

Thursday 31.08.2023 / 2.00pm–5.00pm

Event Details

Second Floor Galleries

Free entry, donations welcome

No need to book, just drop in

Suitable for all ages

Seating available. Information on Ikon Gallery’s accessibility is available here.

For additional access enquiries please contact education@ikon-gallery.org

VENUE

Ikon Gallery

1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS

Image Credits

Melati Suryodarmo, Kleidungsaffe (2006). Performed at Melati Suryodarmo: Why Let the Chicken Run? exhibition, Museum MACAN (2021). Images courtesy of Museum MACAN.

Exhibition 17.05.2023–03.09.2023

MELATI SURYODARMO

Passionate Pilgrim

In summer 2023, Ikon transforms its galleries into a platform for performance art, with the first UK exhibition by acclaimed Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo (b.1969).  

Events/Performance 04.06.2023 / 2.00pm–3.00pm

Ratu R. Saraswati

PRESENT TO PRESENCE - PERFORMANCE ART LABORATORY

Ratu R. Saraswati performs in Present to Presence, a performance art laboratory including Indonesian and UK-based artists. Presented as part of Melati Suryodarmo’s exhibition Passionate Pilgrim (17 May – 3 September 2023).

Events/Performance 02.06.2023 / 3.00pm–5.00pm

Sinéad O’Donnell

PRESENT TO PRESENCE - PERFORMANCE ART LABORATORY

Sinéad O’Donnell performs in Present to Presence, a performance art laboratory including Indonesian and UK-based artists. Presented as part of Melati Suryodarmo’s exhibition Passionate Pilgrim (17 May – 3 September 2023).

Events/Performance 03.06.2023 / 6.30pm–7.30pm

Alastair MacLennan

PRESENT TO PRESENCE - PERFORMANCE ART LABORATORY

Alastair MacLennan performs in Present to Presence, a performance art laboratory including Indonesian and UK-based artists. Presented as part of Melati Suryodarmo’s exhibition Passionate Pilgrim (17 May – 3 September 2023).

Events/Performance 03.06.2023 / 3.00pm–5.00pm

Selina Bonelli

PRESENT TO PRESENCE - PERFORMANCE ART LABORATORY

Selina Bonelli performs in Present to Presence, a performance art laboratory including Indonesian and UK-based artists. Presented as part of Melati Suryodarmo’s exhibition Passionate Pilgrim (17 May – 3 September 2023).

Events/Performance 02.06.2023 / 12.00pm–12.40pm

Kelvin Atmadibrata

Present to Presence - Performance Art Laboratory

Kelvin Atmadibrata performs in Present to Presence, a performance art laboratory including Indonesian and UK-based artists. Presented as part of Melati Suryodarmo’s exhibition Passionate Pilgrim (17 May – 3 September 2023).

Events/Screening 01.06.2023 / 6.30pm–7.30pm

Marintan Sirait

PRESENT TO PRESENCE - PERFORMANCE ART LABORATORY

Ikon screens a pre-recorded performance by Marintan Sirait in Present to Presence, a performance art laboratory including Indonesian and UK-based artists. Presented as part of Melati Suryodarmo’s exhibition Passionate Pilgrim (17 May – 3 September 2023).

Events/Talk 04.06.2023 / 6.30pm–7.30pm

Melati Suryodarmo and Present to Presence artists 

Panel Discussion

Join Melati Suryodarmo and artists who have participated in the Present to Presence performance art laboratory for a panel discussion, during which they discuss their experience of taking part in the project and their concluding performances.

Events/Performance/Artist Laboratory 31.05.2023–04.06.2023

Present to Presence

Performance Art Laboratory

Present to Presence is a performance art laboratory including Indonesian and UK-based artists. Presented as part of Melati Suryodarmo’s exhibition Passionate Pilgrim (17 May – 3 September 2023).

Talk 01.06.2023 / 3.00pm–4.00pm

Alastair MacLennan

PRESENT TO PRESENCE - PERFORMANCE ART LABORATORY

Alastair MacLennan delivers a performance lecture in Present to Presence, a performance art laboratory including Indonesian and UK-based artists. Presented as part of Melati Suryodarmo’s exhibition Passionate Pilgrim (17 May – 3 September 2023).

Performance 28.05.2023 / 2.00pm–4.00pm

Passionate Pilgrim Extended

Passionate Pilgrim Extended (2010–23) is a new, 2-hour performance based on Melati Suryodarmo’s original work, Passionate Pilgrim. For the first time, she performs alongside 14 women from The Voice of Domestic Workers, a UK-based network and activist group.

Kleidungsaffe

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