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Deepthroat, 2017. Photo by FJ Kunting
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Image courtesy of the artist.
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Image courtesy of the artist.
Exhibition
Kelvin Atmadibrata - WARNING! The final boss is coming!!
10 Sep 2021
Regular hours
- Fri, 10 Sep
- 17:00 – 21:00
Address
- Enclave
- 50 Resolution Way
- London
England - SE8 4AL
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- New Cross
- Deptford
A performance-installation by Kelvin Atmadibrata, with Nick Wong and Chunlin Men.
About
"Wanting to see the sea
And somebody to love me
Even monsters
Have a heart"
A Monster’s Ballad,
Yuuko Aioi
Clasping his palms, a male figure moves them as if they were a fish lost from its school. Nearby, another similarly clothed body is slowly breaking a loaf ofbread into an empty small fish bowl and resignedly watches they turn soggy and uneaten. In the corner, a third performer with a pair of oven mitts struggles to stand still, making sure the sculpture he is holding stands upright. The threebreathing pedestals are accompanied by drawings, both printed on stickers onthe wall and hidden inside pages of notebooks as they invite the audience intoa larger fish tank, the exhibition space itself.
WARNING! The final boss is coming!! is the first in a trilogy of works by Kelvin Atmadibrata exploring the identity of a transfer student. The work narrates the student’s first day in school and within social context, it investigates the conflict between adaptation and alienation, self-inflicted or otherwise. The project is a result of the artist’s studio residency program with VSSL Studiofrom October 2020 to June 2021.
This is a durational performance and audience will be free to come and go from the space as they like. Mindful of the pandemic, and the continuing restrictions on indoor gatherings and events, audiences are invited to book limited places for this indoor performance.
Kelvin Atmadibrata (b.1988, Jakarta, Indonesia) recruits superpowers awakened by puberty and adolescent fantasy. Equipped by shōnen characters, kōhai hierarchy and macho ero-kawaii, he often personifies power and strength into partially canon and fan fiction antiheroes to contest Southeast Asian masculine meta and erotica. He works primarily with performances, often accompanied by and translated into drawings, mixed media collages and objects compiled as installations. Approached as bricolages, Kelvin translates narratives and recreates personifications based on RPGs (Role-playing video games) theories and pop mythologies. He is a recent Master of Art graduate in Contemporary Art Practice (Performance) from Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom and currently lives and works between London and Jakarta.
