The Performing Arts and Visual Arts Studies (in Indonesian: Pengkajian Seni Pertunjukan dan Seni Rupa – PSPSR), Graduate School, Universitas Gadjah Mada received a visit from representatives of Teater Garasi, including Yudi Ahmad Tajudin, Lusia Neti Cahyani, and Shohifur Ridho’i, on Wednesday 27 April 2022. The visit included more about the collaboration between PSPSR and Teater Garasi in the Intersection Media Laboratory Project (Project Laboratorium Sesilangan Media).
Yudi Ahmad Tajudin stated that the Intermediality Laboratory Project, which targets the Performing Arts, Film, and Digital Games (Digital Games), is an effort to link themselves with academic friends. The program aims to track and conduct cross-media experiments that go further than transmedial, to express ideas and social issues through the medium of performing arts, films, and digital games in an increasingly mediated society. As a ‘laboratory,’ this program will be realized in 3 types of interrelated activities: discussion forums and workshops, the creation of cross-media works, and public presentations.
Dr. Budi Irawanto as the Head of the Doctoral Program and Dr. Rr. Paramitha Dyah Fitriasari, as the Head of the Master’s Program, welcomes collaboration with Teater Garasi because it can provide new experiences for students and support each other’s development of the university, especially the Performing Arts and Fine Arts Study Program. This collaboration and initial meeting can formulate future cooperation programs to explore art and see the interrelationships in media intersections.
Later this collaboration will involve PSPSR students as facilitators who will participate in the brainstorming, discussion, recording, documentation, study, and presentation stages.