The Other Festival | British Council

By UK/Indonesia 2016-18 team

07 November 2018 - 11:39

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The UK/ID festival sign in neon lights on the roof of Hotel Monopoli in Jakarta.

For the finale of UK/ID Festival 2018 - Breaking Boundaries, British Council Indonesia alongside Double Deer and Tokopedia took over the Hotel Monopoli in Jakarta for three days.

This festival celebrated creative technology, music and art, and featured music performances, art installations, discussion panels, workshops and poetry from UK and Indonesian artists.

UK poet and performance artist Sonority Turner performing at The Other Festival — "I like the idea of breaking boundaries, I like the idea of meeting poets and saying - how can we break this poetry out of the page? How can we take our poems off the stage?"UK poet and performance artist Sonority Turner spent time collaborating with Jakarta based poetry collective Paviliun Puisi, fusing spoken word with technology. They performed on the opening night of The Other Festival.

A diorama of WAFT Lab's mobile lab which was exhibited at Hotel Monopoli — Glasgow based artist Robbie Thomson spent a month collaborating with WAFT Lab to create a mobile lab - a converted van with solar panels, generators and tools to teach workshops, put on film screenings and more for audiences from the streets of the capital to remote villages around Java and beyond.They also made a diorama of their mobile lab which was exhibited at Hotel Monopoli.

DJ Chris Massey performing at The Other Festival — DJ Chris Massey playing on the Saturday night.Since UK/ID Festival 2017, Manchester based music collective Sprechen and Jakarta based collective Double Deer have been exchanging ideas, experimenting with processes, creating new tracks, collaborating, performing in the UK and sharing artistic experiences. Titled ‘Coming Together’ they exhibited and performed at The Other Festival.

The Hive on top of the roof of Hotel Monopoli in Jakarta — Resembling a suspended organic hive structure, The Hive is a larger-than-life resonator, with vibrating chimes for visitors to interact with, creating new compositions. Liverpool based Laurie Crombie worked with Indonesian artists Ikbal Lubys and Tony Maryana to create this sculptural instrument, that was housed on the roof of Hotel Monopoli over the 3-day festival.

DJ Lapalux from London, UK performing at The Other Festival — "I like the mix of digital and analog equipment..." - DJ Lapalux from London, UK performed on the opening night of The Other Festival

Jack Lowe of curious directive brought the show Frogman to Indonesia, a hybrid of virtual reality and theatre. He ran a virtual reality workshop as part of The Other Festival.

The Other Festival also showcased 100 Masters, a video project which profiles the experts and artisans of today, to inspire the pioneers of tomorrow. It started in the Black Country, UK, and this year embraced a new community - Semarang, Indonesia.