Ratri Notosudirdjo

cross-over - community - performance

Ratri Notosudirdjo (Jakarta 1994) is an interdisciplinary artist currently living in Rotterdam and belonging to the queer Indonesian diaspora. She is a visual artist, poet, storyteller and performer. Her research and practice are based on de- and postcolonial theory, focusing on storytelling in both historical and contemporary contexts and exploring mechanisms that enable the cultural and poetic identity of diaspora individuals. Through her work, she delves into personal experiences of migration, capitalism and identity formation in childhood; exploring the internal conflicts of identity, memories and what it means to belong. The principle of diaspora serves as a central perspective, creating a kaleidoscopic archive that interweaves the physical and unconscious aspects of the present. Notosudirdjo's work takes the form of performances and installations infused with surrealism, myths, fantasy and folklore elements. Through these projects, she seeks to break supposedly universal narratives through the intimacy of storytelling.


Waterfalls & Sparring Scars

Workshop

  • 01-07-2021 t/m 31-12-2022
  • Locatie: , Rottedam
  • Waterfalls & Sparring Scars is a year long workshop first created during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project mixes performance and workshop to intertwine the participant's experience of storytelling. In this space we center diasporic narratives and try to breakdown this word and expand it through methods of writing and visualization exercises. The aim is to re-present a map that is related by the close paradigms intimate migrant experiences.

Wunderplatz X Skills Worm

Residenties / uitwisseling

  • 01-06-2022 t/m 31-12-2022
  • 3 presentation moments will be developed under the Wunderplatz X Skills residency at Worm (Facilitated by Henrietta Muller). These moments will be spread out through the year 2022 and will focus on themes of sound, the body and its geogaphy, interventions, performance and street busking.

Hamburger Community of Art

Residenties / uitwisseling

  • 01-03-2022 t/m 01-03-2023
  • Locatie: Roodkapje,
  • A year-long research about narrative identity, focusing on narratives in relation to diaspora and migration, is inspired by the close realities of second and third-generation immigrants in her family, friends and co-workers. Looking internally and questioning notions of Indonesianness.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL63pBNBwK8

wet dreamzzz

  • 15-12-2021
  • wet dreamzZz is a performance collective influenced by magic realism, surrealism and immersivity. The collective consists of Ratri Notosudirdjo, Magdalena Petrova and Lili Ullrich. Through wet dreamzZz we explore queering archetypes, deconstructing perceptions of femininity and exploring identity through gentle, mythical creatures and psychic disturbances. These alter egos exist in a hypnagogic state and transcend through explorations of our traumas, visions, delusions and hallucinations.
  • https://www.instagram.com/wet_dr3amzzz/

Performance Database

Overig

  • 01-06-2022 t/m 29-12-2022
  • The database meant to be open to all bodies of people with all levels of experiences interested in performing. You sign up by simply sending your email address and every 3-4 weeks members will get an elegantly laid out newsletter updating them on upcoming performances, workshops and experiments that have vacancy. Some are paid gigs, some need volunteers and give opportunities to those who are not yet fully stepped into performance art but are interested.

teeth n' wings

Overig

  • 15-07-2023
  • Locatie: IJzerblock Studios, Rotterdam
  • Scriptwriter, researcher and sound designer for queer reality web series "teeth n' wings" created by director Lili Ullrich. Through using nonlinear storylines, magic realism and a Rotterdam based cast of performers, a tv show has been created to capture the contemporary lives of vampires and angels and their survival here on earth.

Stichting Destination Unknown, Phillips Factory

Residenties / uitwisseling

  • 01-07-2023 t/m 02-10-2023
  • Locatie: Phillips Factory, Bredeweg 10, Roermond
  • The former Philips factory in Roermond has been made available by Matzinger Real Estate to serve as a workshop for artists during the months of July, August and September. During this working period, professionals from the field were invited to give workshops and to enter into dialogue with the participating artists. The work period is traditionally concluded with an exhibition weekend.
  • https://www.destinationunknown.nu/du2023/

DED BRUNCH Series

Performance

  • 04-06-2022
  • A Pop-up food series where topics surrounding death are stimulated through the things we eat. The first edition started at IJzerblock curated and cooked with Runa Ong. There have been an accumulation of different meanings attributed to the term "dead" such as deadline, undead, dead or alive, deadass, dead set, dead name and the list grows. These brunches are organised to unpack our cultural humour and anxieties surrounding 'the dead' things in our lives. Upcoming pop-up in October!