Intan Anggita Pratiwie

Intan Anggita Pratiwie is trailblazer in multiple creative domains from sustainable fashion researcher, recycling artist and Japan culture enthusiast.

She has been recycling fashion since 2004 on her campus, almost 20 years in the sustainable fashion movement.In 2012 she began by running a fashion brand for cause, fusing denim secondhand with traditional handwoven ikat, an Indonesian weaving technique to raise money for a website about inspirational people in Eastern Indonesia and their tribes.Because of this movement Intan received the Kartini Next Generation Award in 2014 from the Minister for the Role of Women and the Minister of Communication and Information in the field of Art and Culture. In 2015, she received 20 young Agent of Change from Indonesia by UNFPA.

In 2015, she built Setali Indonesia as a Co Founder on Research and Development.Setali Indonesia is a social enterprise focusing on extending the life of clothes to address fashion waste problems.Setali gives a new life to rejected, old, or unsold clothing items and textile waste by transforming them into an inspiring creation. We aim to breathe new life to waste and improve the livelihood of people who make our garments. Everyone can contribute by supplying their preloved items and in return enjoy a selection of our carefully crafted upcycling items.Every sales made and project conducted will be directed to empowering the local artisans and tailors community through training and upskilling activities.

Most recently Intan has been working as a textile artist for Greenpeace South East Asia, one of Indonesian accelerator Women Earth Alliance 2020 and 50 Punggawa Bumi of Media Indonesia 2020. 

Berita Satu People & Inspiration Awards nominee Environment 2022, Women of The Year Her World Indonesia 2022, guest lecture on many fashion faculty about sustainable fashion for two years. 2023 Indonesian delegate for ASEAN Green Cultural Entrepreneur. 2023 artist residency in Miyagi Japan, granted by the Japanese government.

Solo Exhibition:

2022, Barang Lama Bersemi Kembali, Astha Mall,

2023, World Within Wardrobe, Subo family, Jakarta.

2023, World Within Wardrobe, BNA Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, 

2023, In Nature We Trust, BACC, Bangkok, Thailand

2023 Intan release book about sustainable fashion:

World Within Wardrobe (Dunia Dalam Lemari).

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Project Plan

Intan will conduct her research , exhibition and workshops both in Tokyo and Fujiyoshida(Yamanashi pref) as an extension program of Co-iki Residency.

◾️Exhibition / Workshop 

Celebration of Nature’s Palette with Sande Nusantara　

インドネシアのサンデ・ヌサンタラ来日展示

「天然の色彩を祝福する」

Showcase the diverse range of colors derived from natural sources like plants, roots, and minerals, illustrating the richness and variety of sustainable dyeing options.

Date & Time

Exhibition:March 24th(sun) – 30th(sat)

11:00-17:00

Open Studio: March 24th(sun) All Day

Workshop & Talk: March 30th(sat) 13:00-15:00

*3500JPY participation fee for the workshop

Venue: Kura House 

(Address: 2-1-25, Fujiyoshida-shi, Yamanashi, Japan )

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Story of Indonesian Batik in General

Indonesian batik, a traditional textile art form, intricately applies wax and dye to create beautiful patterns on cloth. This process involves several steps: Design Creation, Wax Application, Dyeing, Wax Removal, and Final Touches.

Natural coloring in Indonesian batik involves using dyes derived from plants, minerals, and insects. These natural dyes produce vibrant colors and are favored for their eco-friendly and sustainable properties. Common natural dye sources include indigo, sappanwood, turmeric, and various leaves and flowers.

Indonesian batik is not only a beautiful art form but also a symbol of cultural identity and heritage. Traditional techniques and natural coloring methods have been passed down through generations, contributing to the rich and diverse tapestry of Indonesian textile art.

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“Batik: Weaving the Wonders of the Sea”

When we infuse the batik-making process with the essence of marine life and natural coloring, we embark on a journey that allows us to immerse ourselves in the wonders of the ocean and the beauty of nature. 

Imagine standing amidst the vibrant hues of the ocean’s depths, surrounded by the captivating sights and sounds of marine life. 

Instead of relying on synthetic dyes, we turn to the treasures of the sea itself to create our palette. 

From the deep blues of extracted indigo to the golden tones of turmeric mirroring the sunlit shallows, and the rich greens derived from algae, each pigment tells a story of the diverse life that thrives beneath the waves.

As we sketch intricate designs onto the fabric, we draw inspiration from the myriad forms of marine biodiversity. With each stroke of the canting, we delicately apply hot wax, preserving spaces where the natural colors will later bring our designs to life. 

Through our art, we capture the fluidity of tropical fish darting through coral reefs. Each brushstroke brings to life the intricate patterns of fish scales and the delicate swaying of seaweed. With every detail meticulously rendered, our batik becomes a vibrant tapestry that portrays the interconnectedness of marine life and the natural world.

Each piece of batik becomes a reflection of our reverence for the ocean, telling a tale of wonder, beauty, and the delicate balance of life beneath the waves. In this way, batik becomes more than just an artistic endeavor; it becomes a canvas for expressing our deep connection to the ocean and our commitment to preserving its precious ecosystems for generations to come. Through our batik creations, we celebrate the intricate harmony and vibrant diversity of marine life, sharing its magnificence with the world.

◾️Participating Artists from Sande Nusantara

Made Ayu Anggara Wardhani

In Indonesia’s vibrant creative scene, Made stands out as an exceptional Art Director. With 16 years of experience, she has spearheaded branding initiatives for a leading lifestyle design company. In 2015, she co-founded Arjuna Photo Studio, a venture that seamlessly blends art and culture, catering particularly to Japanese residents through traditional Indonesian photo sessions featuring a variety of indigenous textiles.

Featured in the “100 Indonesian Women” project of 2021 by a prominent Fashion Photographer, Made became part of Setali Indonesia in 2021, and later co-founded Sande Nusantara Batik Textile Research in 2022. Driven by a fervent commitment to innovation and cultural heritage preservation, Sande delves into the realm of eco-friendly dyeing techniques.

In 2023, Made collaborated with Setali Indonesia to launch the Fabric Lab, a groundbreaking initiative that repurposes textile waste into sustainable products. Presently, she is spearheading the establishment of a design studio prioritizing sustainability, while concurrently advancing Sande and Fabric Lab’s eco-conscious textile practices.

Consistently pushing the boundaries of creativity, Made leaves an enduring imprint on the landscape of Indonesian design.

instagram : 

https://www.instagram.com/madeaaw/

https://www.instagram.com/sande.nusantara/

Nabila

Nabila, also known as Bia, is a sociopreneur and avid batik art enthusiast from Pekalongan, known as the world’s city of Batik. Since 2016, she’s been empowering local batik artisans. Her journey began while studying at Telkom University, where her thesis explored Batik Djawa Hokokai, sparking her passion for empowering artisans and promoting its historical significance.

In 2018, Bia won the national entrepreneurship competition ‘Wirausaha Muda Mandiri’, enabling her to support local artisans in Pekalongan. Through various initiatives, she highlights the craftsmanship of handwritten batik, emphasizing its chemical-free process and supporting livelihoods.

Recognized for her advocacy, Bia received the top student award in Indonesia for The Entrepreneurs Organization’s Global Student Entrepreneur Award in 2019. In 2022, she joined Sande Nusantara to continue her journey of promoting batik art as our authentic cultural legacy.

Currently, Bia focuses on handwritten and hand-stamped batik with natural dyes, aiming to establish her own batik production house. Her ultimate goal is to host workshops, inviting people worldwide to experience and learn about Pekalongan’s cultural heritage, spreading the beauty of our cultural legacy globally.

instagram : 

http://Www.instagram.com/heybiaa._

Beste Sevindik is a Turkish/Dutch violinist and researcher based in the Netherlands. She is currently conducting a research project on the Dutch government’s initiatives and backing for diverse interdisciplinary cultural collaboration projects with Japan at the Leiden Asia Center. 

Having graduated from Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory, Beste earned her Master’s degree at the Prince Claus Conservatoire in Groningen, with generous support from the Prince Bernhard Cultural Fund and the Klaas Dijkstra Fonds. 

As a classical violinist, Beste has performed on various stages in Germany, Belgium, France, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Japan and throughout the Netherlands. Beyond the concert hall, she actively engages in innovative projects such as “Meaningful Music in Healthcare” project. This initiative involves musicians playing repertoire pieces and improvisations to surgical patients and their care staff at the University Medical Center Groningen and HMC Antoniushove in The Hague. Additionally, Beste has taken part in entrepreneurship and innovative music projects across Europe as a trainee through RENEW, a program supported by the European Commission’s Erasmus+ initiative.


Beyond her musical endeavours, Beste is deeply engaged in research projects exploring the societal role of musicians. As a researcher at the Royal Conservatoire and Hanze University, she contributed to the international project ProMiMiC, exploring the impact of music in healthcare, a collaboration with the Royal College London and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Beste’s love for Japanese arts and culture led her to pursue Japanese studies at Leiden University. Following her graduation in 2022, Beste undertook a research internship at the Research Institute for Women and Careers of Japan Women’s University, Tokyo. Here, she conducted qualitative research into the socio-economic conditions of women musicians working in Japan. 

Residency Plan: 

During my residency, my primary objective is to advance my research project investigating interdisciplinary cultural collaboration between Japan and the Netherlands. I aim to explore the lasting implications and legacy of such projects in shaping bilateral relations, with a particular focus on their relevance leading up to World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan. Throughout my stay, I plan to conduct extensive data collection, including video material and interviews with organizations and individuals involved in these projects. 

Another goal of my residency is to expand my professional network in Tokyo and gather ideas for a PhD proposal which centres on the professionalization of women musicians in Japan. I plan to actively participate in cultural events, workshops, and gatherings to connect with professionals and artists, establishing relationships that may contribute to future collaborative projects and research endeavours. Using this immersive experience, I aim to refine the focus of my PhD proposal.

Additionally, as a musician, I am eager to explore diverse forms of artistic collaboration, such as improvisation sessions and workshops and fostering connections with local artists from various disciplines. By engaging in discussion, seeking advice from experts, and drawing inspiration from the vibrant cultural landscape of Tokyo, I anticipate that this residency will not only be a vital experience for my current research project but also a catalyst for the development of my future academic pursuits.

Instagram：@bestesevindik

Francesca Le Lohé is a British composer & community musician active in Japan and the UK. She strives to make ambitious music-based projects which provoke awareness and discussion, bringing together the experience and skills of multiple people across disciplines and cultures. Operas include: “How Was It For You?”, exploring themes of Relationship and Sex Education within Japan and the UK (Tokyo, May 2022); “THE鍵KEY“: an immersive, site-specific opera inspired by Tanizaki’s novella, featuring a mixture of Japanese and Western artforms (2019 “Keizo Saji Prize”. Tokyo & London, 2018 & 2019).

Francesca’s work has been performed by ensembles including Ensemble Zar, Senju Dajare Ongaku-sai, GBSR duo, Psappha, and Red Note ensemble, and featured in Sonorities, Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival and the London Festival of Architecture. She has held artist residencies at Elektronmusikstudion (Sweden) Hospitalfield and NOVARS (UK), and is a London Symphony Orchestra Soundhub Associate 2022-2024. In 2020, Francesca co-founded the “Sound & Word Network”, an international collective of composers and writers whose collaborative work has featured in Tama Music and Arts Festival (Japan) and The Arc Project Festival (UK).

Twitter: @francescalelohe

Website: www.francescalelohe.com

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKmrMo-c39ePjxnuKhS599Q/featured

Residency Plan:

During my residency at co.iki, I will be working with biwa performer Akiko Kubota to create & rehearse a new piece for premiere at Jiyugakuen Myonichikan, Tokyo on Sunday 10th December 2023. My new piece “On an Endless Road” will focus on the life and work of writer & feminist anarchist Itō Noe (1895 – 1923). In her brief life, she wrote for and edited pioneering feminist magazine ‘Seito’ and campaigned for women’s and workers rights along with fellow anarchist & partner, Osugi Sakae.  In the biwa tradition, performers recite historical tales of battles and warriors whilst accompanying themselves on the instrument.

Whilst studying the biwa, I began thinking of other kinds of ‘warriors’ and felt the biwa to be the perfect place to highlight the life of passionate activist Itō Noe through a new work with the text formed from Itō’s own writings. The premiere comes at a symbolic time: exactly 100 years since Itō and Osugi were murdered by state forces.

The piece will be performed alongside music by Japanese women composers contemporary to Itō and with insights from special talk guests Professor Iida Yuko (modern literature and gender studies specialist) and Ai Watanabe (Japanese Women Composers Meeting).

More information and tickets can be found here: https://itonoe2023.peatix.com   

Updates posted on Twitter & Instagram: @itonoe231210

I am very excited to develop my work and prepare for the concert whilst in residence at co.iki. I am keen to meet new artists and expand my network through the residency and to spend time reconnecting with the friends and fellow artists I met whilst living in Tokyo, 2015-2021. 

Performance & talk schedule:

29th November, 16:40 – 18:10: “Ito Noe via Biwa: Process & Perspectives” Seminar at Kyushu University (online)

10th December, 18:00 – 20:00: “On an Endless Road: Itō Noe and Women Composers of her Era” concert & talk at Jiyūgakuen Myōnichikan Hall, Nishi-Ikebukuro, Tokyo 

13th December, 14:30 – 16:30: Performance and lecture at The Gender Research Library, Nagoya University, Nagoya

Milian Mori is a composer and digital artist based in Switzerland. As part of his solo work he integrates dance, algorithms, pixels, and club music. In the last 12 years Mori has developed a musical language that aims to expand, project and reinterpret dance music’s common vocabulary.

Mori shares his deep interest in combining mathematics, geometry and data with emotion, dance and fulfillment: technology meets nature, binary meets fluids, algorithm meets spirituality, dualism meets triality, machine meets human, randomness meets self similarity. All of his works are trying to open the space which exceeds dualism. His art doesn’t want to answer, nor does it aim to question.

His debut album AS YOU WERE LISTENING is being released via the Raster Media platform, and captures the spirit of his previous works as well as establishing a new vision in which he endeavours to fuse pop culture with the art world. In AS YOU WERE LISTENING he’s using the distinct language of dub techno whilst attempting to expand the genre’s vocabulary with new changes, elements and aesthetics.

https://milianmori.com/　(Artist Official)   /  IG: https://www.instagram.com/milianmori/

milian mori | artists | raster-media　(Raster Media)

Project Plan (performance plan)

During my stay, I will collaborate with the Japanese artist Toru Izumida (https://www.toruizumida.com) who invited me to play at his concert series called “Public Visuals” (https://linktr.ee/publicvisuals). Together we will play at three different events.

Through this residency, I will be able to gain a deeper understanding of the culture of my collaborating partner and have the opportunity to prepare and process all the information before playing at the venue. In addition, if you see another possibility to present my music, I’d like to play at another venue too.

It’s the right step in my artistic career to participate in Co-iki residency.

There are many influences in my work that come from Japan, including Ryoji Ikeda, Aoki Takamasa, Vector Architects, and others. The residency will lay the groundwork for my artistic ex- change with Japanese culture: I’m hoping to build a relationship with this country which is mutually beneficial for both sides. I seek new connections and relations of different origins. The ultimate goal of my exchange with Japan is to lay the foundation for a long-term relationship. Hopefully, we can establish a mutually beneficial exchange.

 Following the dates for Milian Mori’s upcoming performances:

*Please contact us if you wish him to perform in other venues in Tokyo / Japan during his residency.  [ contact@co-iki.org ] 

• 1 July, 15;00-21:00 “Public Visuals” Live Show @ Tunnel Tokyo
• 2 July,  17:00-23:00 “Public Visuals” DJ Set @ Space Orbit
• 20 July, 19:00-21:00 Live Show & Streaming @DOMMUNE , Shibuya ,Tokyo
• 29 July “Public Visuals” Exhibition Opening,Video Installation@ Root K Contemporary (Exhibition from July 25th to Aug 5th) 
• 4 August, DJ Set @ Note Tokyo
• 5 August, 16:50-17:10 “Public Visuals” Live Show with Toru Izumida @ Root K Contemporary Tokyo
• 9 August , 18:30-23:00 Live Show “Utekisei” @KGRn , Kagurazaka,Tokyo
• 19 August , 13:00-21:00 Live Show @ Solfa ,Nakameguro ,Tokyo
• 22 August, 19:30- 22:00 DJ Set @ Mame Romantic (Haretara Sora ni Mame Maite), Organized by  Embassy of Switzerland in Japan 

+  more to come..

Background and Interest

In the last six years I have spent most of my time studying music in Switzerland. Beginning with a bachelor’s degree in sound art, I finished my master’s degree in composition at the University of Bern in 2022.

Co-iki residency will be the perfect space for me to clear my mind and let go of all the knowledge I have accumulated over the years so I can find new original music. When I saw your photos online, I immediately knew this is exactly the place I’m looking for.

The most important aspect of the residency is to pick up the spirit of Japan and blend it with my music. This happens through the environment of the residency itself. I am really curious about people who live in this area, as well as the neighborhood around Co-iki.

My goal is to capture and digitally process the noises and activities of the city using special microphones. It’s a process of silence, listening and opening yourself to your surroundings. My curiosity is to know how the culture of your country will influence my music, and how I can combine it with my own musical and aesthetic language without losing the connection to the tradition I come from. The result of my research will be presented on my next solo album.