Tisna and the River

Tisna sanjaya in one of his performance art
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Tentang Tisna Sanjaya dan Sungai Citarum

Tisna Sanjaya adalah Doktor lulusan  ISI ( Institut Seni Indonesia) Yogja dan perupa “paling unik” saat ini di tanah air. Melukis, mengajar/ menjadi dosen di FSRD ITB, aktivis untuk limbah/sampah dan bintang program TV lokal Bandung ini memang patut ditauladani. 

NUS Museum Singapura pada 2011 lalu "terpaksa" harus menerima lebih dari 1 ton sampah dari sungai Citarum, Bandung, sebagai karya seni dari Tisna yang sedang berpameran solo di galeri museum tersebut. 

Tisna adalah prototipe perupa cum aktivis tulen. Berkolaborasi dengan masyarakat yang hidup di bantaran kali Citarum, kecamatan Cigondewah, ia berhasil mentransformasi sampah plastik menjadi kegiatan seni, membuat mesin daur-ulang mesin sampah bersama warga.

About Tisna Sanjaya and Citarum River

Tisna Sanjaya is a doctor graduate from ISI ( Indonesian Institute of the Arts) Jogja and currently regarded as the “most unique artist” in the country. 

Working as a painter, a lecturer at Institut Teknologi Bandung’s Faculty of Visual Art and Design, a garbage/waste prevention activist and a local Bandung TV star, this man is an outstanding model for art activism. 

In 2011, NUS Museum Singapore had to take more than 1 ton of wastes from Citarum river, Bandung, as an “artwork” from Tisna who was having his solo exhibition at the museum gallery. Tisna is a prototype of a true artist-cum-activist. Collaborating with people who live by Citarum riverbank, he managed to transform plastic junks into art and create a waste recycling machine with the local people.

Artist Tisna Sanjaya (using hat) with volunteers and children painting with mud medium on canvas by the River Citarum in Kampoong Mekarsari, Sub Baleendah, Bandung regency, West Java, Indonesia (21.03.12). Surrounding communities were invited to care about conserving water on World Water Day.
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Tisna sanjaya art installation on display at the National Gallery of Indonesia. The exhibition with the theme of "Sin City" in 2011 explores how art related to environmental issues, politics and humanity.
photo courtesy: Imam Muhtarom

Residents of kampoong to see ‘ Tisna mud painting’ with a number of art enthusiasts and activists of Indonesia Greenpeace commemorating the  World Water Day in polluted Citarum river in Cigebar, Bandung regency, West Java, Indonesia. 70 percent of approximately 600 industries located in the upper reaches of Citarum river and only 10 percent have a standard installation of wastewater treatment. 80 percent of the river water Citarumi is a source of raw water for drinking water company in Jakarta. 

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activists at the riverbank
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Cigondewah: An Art Project by Tisna Sanjaya, NUS Museum, Singapore,  2011
photo courtesy: NUS Museum gallery