Description

Established in August 2003, Common Room is an artist initiative space which is co-organized together by Bandung Center for New Media Arts (BCfNMA) & Klab Baca - Toko Buku Kecil. Both organizations decide to share this space for various activities and purposes, such as exhibition, workshop, discussions, small-scale music concert, public lecture, residential program, etc. Common Room becomes an anchor for both organizations and along with the increasing quantity of co-operations; a new structure emerged and developed. No longer a physical space, it is now a transit space facilitating both sides. It is a melting pot of many events, facilitating the needs of dialogues, conventions, and inter-disciplinary collaborations, to liberate a discourse from its limitations. Common Room activities conclude a vast sphere, starting from documenting and exploring phenomena, ideas, models, and new concepts born from inter-disciplinary approaches in the field of visual arts, urban architecture, music, fashion, literature, and further study for urban culture.

Former use :
Private house
Total surface of the site :
+ 380 square meter
Architect of the rehabilitation :
T. Ismail Reza (Architect),
Gustaff H. Iskandar (Artist)
Renovation costs of the building :
+ Rp. 200.000.000,- (+ USD. 21.000,-)
Location :
City
Foundation year of the centre :
August 2003
Type of occupation :
Free-lending contract
Owner of the building :
Reina Wulansari

Infrastructures / Facilities

 Facilities
Parking space
Terrace
Common Room
Bookshop
Library
Kitchen (shared)
Toilet & shower (shared)
Guest room (2 single bed)
Computer workshop (shared)
Studio (shared)

 Equipments
Slide Projector
Over Head Projector
Screen
14", 21" & 29"Television
DVD, VHS, VCD Player
3 Windows PCs
DSL internet connection
Inkjet printers
A4 Scanner
Digital camera

Social and artistic disciplines

 Encourage the growth of independent local communities, in term of economic, social and political context, trough various activities such as discussion, workshop, music concert, exhibition, residential program, and other regular programs. The community development is focusing on the field of visual arts, urban architecture, music, fashion, literature, and further study for urban culture. This point aims towards the development of independent civil society.

 Create a sustainable local community by providing facilities to support community programs. This include developing network of cooperation towards local, regional, and international scale, for wider information access and gain more knowledge and economic opportunity to support community development.

 Facilitate a dialogue space to bridge multi-disciplinary cooperation through people to people connections, and network connection with other institution/communities within various economical, social (ethnic and religious groups) and political backgrounds. This dialogue space will stand for working on certain negotiation, transaction of experience and knowledge, as well as mutual collaboration to achieve a common goal and opportunities for those who actively involved.

 Build a collaborative working method to transfer an experience-based knowledge, to enhance further creative development and working experience both on personal and collective level. As a methodology, this point aims to focusing on knowledge dissemination, and sharing working experiences as an open source activity trough self-initiative resources.

 Further knowledge dissemination to share working experience, assisted with critical comparison towards already existing theory or model of knowledge. Every activity in Common Room will be regularly documented and evaluated. On other level, various records and documentation will be elaborated and distributed through printed or online publication.

Other structures/organisations resident on the site

Bandung Center for New Media Arts

Klab baca - Toko Buku Kecil

Financial support

Public donation, sponsorship, non-commercial & commercial projects

Networks

Local networks:

 Faculty of Fine Arts & Design, Bandung Institute of Technology
 Philosophy Faculty, Parahyangan University, Bandung
 Deutsche Internationale Schule, Bandung
 Jendela Ide, Bandung
 Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung
 Galeri Kita, Bandung
 Galeri Soemardja, Bandung
 Biosampler/Cerahati, Bandung
 Rumah Proses, Bandung
 VideoBabes, Bandung
 Room No. 1, Bandung
 IF Venue, Bandung
 TRL Bar, Bandung
 Bentara Budaya Jakarta
 The British Council Jakarta
 Japan Foundation Jakarta
 Centre Culturel Francais Bandung
 Goethe Institut Jakarta
 Goethe Institut Bandung
 Artnivora, Jakarta
 ruangrupa, Jakarta
 Jakarta International Film Festival (Jiffest)
 Minikino, Denpasar
 Rumah Seni Cemeti, Yogyakarta
 Yayasan Seni Cemeti, Yogyakarta
 OCC, Yogyakarta
 Rumah Seni Yaitu, Semarang

International Networks:

 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
 Digi-Arts UNESCO
 Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)
 Inter Society for The Electronic Arts, Amsterdam, NL
 M-Cult, Helsinki, Finland
 Theatreworks, Singapore
 Sarai, India
 Video Art Center Tokyo, Japan
 The Tanzquartier Wien, Austria