Wayang Kardus Workshop: Struggle and Solidarity

Wayang kardus, or recycled cardboard puppetry, is one of the Indonesian collective Taring Padi’s artistic practices to support people in their struggles for social justice. As part of their project for the upcoming documenta fifteen, Taring Padi has been visiting places and sharing skills of creating cardboard puppets through collaborative workshops as a way to stand in solidarity with different activist groups and communities around the world.

For Taring Padi’s visit to the Netherlands, Framer Framed will host a special workshop on March 4 and 5, 2022 under the theme Struggle and Solidarity. The two-day event is developed in collaboration with annual electronic music festival Lente Kabinet and Amsterdam based artists Özgür Atlagan, Diana Cantarey, Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba, Julian Abraham ‘Togar’, Sungeun Lee. During the workshop, participants will be guided to collectively give shape and sound to a space created by artist Kevin van Braak together with students from Disarming Design, a two-year Master programme at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam. Together we will learn how to make cardboard puppets based on different stories and struggles, which can be shared through storytelling, singing, humming or jamming sessions. Each day, the workshop will be accompanied by food-tasting breaks and end with culinary gatherings designed by Dini Arisandi with the support of artist Donghwan Kam’s mobile kitchen.

By sharing food, conversations, sound and music, the workshop hopes to create a space that enables affective encounters and open conversations between peoples of various backgrounds. The puppets created during the workshop will be included in Taring Padi’s contribution to the upcoming documenta fifteen in Kassel, Germany from June 18–September 25, 2022.

Wayang Kardus Workshop: Struggle and Solidarity is part of the Project: DIT—Do it together by Framer Framed.

Framer Framed’s program is made possible with support from Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst; and Gemeente Amsterdam – Stadsdeel Oost.

About Framer Framed
Framer Framed is an Amsterdam-based platform for contemporary art, visual culture, and critical theory & practice. Each year the organisation presents a variety of exhibitions in collaboration with both emerging and established international curators and artists. An extensive public program is organised alongside these exhibitions in order to shed light on the topics concerned, and provide a wide range of perspectives.