Towards an Ordinary Day - Taufik Darwis, Indonesia
The Towards an Ordinary Day project is a podcast story project that wants to play around with the idea of a 'documentary' between history and fiction about normality in residential and urban living in the coronavirus era. The project will involve residents of Kampung Kota (the urban poor) who are surviving in the remnants of the eviction, as well as residents of urban villages who still live in their respective homes. They will be invited to share their vision in imagining life in the next ten years, as well as collecting stories in the lives of previous generations in the face of a crisis / plague. The political-aesthetic vision of this project is in addition to interrupting the stereotypical identity of Kampung Kota residents who are often seen as ignoring government policies on the coronavirus pandemic. This project wants to position itself into a kind of citizenship laboratory in providing alternative imaginative structures to form the backbone of social relations in the present and the future.
Taufik Darwis is a dramaturg, curator, researcher and theatre director, and co-founder Bandung Performing Arts Forum.
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“This pandemic has disrupted our life plans and brought uncertainty that is hard to touch. Every plan goes awry, stops, is postponed, is cancelled, but we are still scheming so life doesn’t stop.”
“And what if today is the next ten years? Maybe we can no longer return to normal life if this pandemic passes. And maybe it’s best not to get back to normal.”
“And what if today is the next ten years in an eviction area, an area that has been stereotyped by the government to be evicted?”