Rakarsa Foundation is an arts and culture non-profit organization based in Bandung, Indonesia, focusing on facilitating and connecting through arts.

Established in 2018, Rakarsa seeks to expand arts as the common ground for various individuals, backgrounds, and skills to meet and collaborate in forms of exhibitions, gatherings, cultural exchanges, and educational activities.

The foundation was initially found to support an experiment of a cooperative economic system for the local contemporary art ecosystem in Bandung, 2018. As things slew down during the Covid-19 pandemic, the cooperative has undergone a careful assessment while the foundation reformulates its strategic means. In 2020, the foundation started working towards the vision of a solid interdisciplinary network, establishing sustainable collaborations to contribute to artistic, social, and ecological improvements.

We are currently working on shaping our mode of arts and culture actors' relations, as well as future collaborations with collectives and civil initiatives of various disciplines.

organisation
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area of interests

visual arts & cultural studies informal learning ¬ community & multi/transdisciplinary collaboration ¬ young art practitioners course development

practice
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scope of activities

exhibition, screening, participatory project production & management ¬ residency, research & cultural exchange ¬ gathering, talk, workshop & class ¬ research & artwork commission ¬ publishing

Arsya Ardiansyah

members
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Endira F. Julianda

Clarissa Tifanny

Nuri Fatimah

Vincent Rumahloine

Yori Papilaya

Filmmaking, immersive installation

Art mediation

More-than-human action research

Andragogy of creatives

Alternative narrative, ethnographic practice in art

Creative writing, performance

Artworks © The Artists and Contributors. All contents © Yayasan Rodha Among Karsa (Rakarsa).

Rakarsa
Jl. Ligar Mayang no. 1
Kec. Cimenyan, Kabupaten Bandung 40191
West Java - Indonesia

contact@rakarsa.org

(62) 857-2142-7788