Aliansyah Caniago Indonesian, b. 1987
Having spent most of my youth on the street as a gangster, I become more sensitive and aware of the changing build environment surround me. When I enter the BFA program in Bandung Institute of Technology, I'm intrigued to do art practices in the form of public-related art. With a background in painting, my practice has expanded into the medium of performance and installation as a need to engange with the urgencies of the everyday, to work with and speak to a wider community. Questions of identity and environment, memory, tradition and modernity have been at the core of my work.
The notion of ‘landscape’ has played an important role in my practice and I engaged with it in different ways. For me, landscape is not a neutral subject nor static like a panorama view. It exist a human element and space formation because of the human presence and interaction, and I am interested in investigating how they shape and subject each other.
