Tisna Sanjaya
About the work
This year Tisna Sanjaya presents new and prexisting work for the Canberra Art Biennial, installed in the city centre. While in town for the Biennial, Tisna also undertakes a printing residency at Megalo Print studio accompanied by a public conversation with Elly Kent.
Images
About the artist
For Tisna Sanjaya, the linking of performance, theatre and etching are a formwork for socially engaged practice. He returned from Masters study in Germany in the late 1990’s to lecture at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia’s key conceptual art school and complete his Doctorate at Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta (known as ISI). Tisna’s artworks (etchings, paintings, installations), performances and social situations, are unwavering in their attention to the political and environmental conditions in his home city of Bandung in West Java and the world at large.
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