My Beautiful Catastrophe
September 2024 - June 2025

Welcome

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In this project, an elective ( 6credits), we're bringing together students from different campuses and disciplines of LUCA School of Arts ( 2BA and 3BA) and connected with students from the Institute of Technology in Bandung, Indonesia. ( Art, design and architecture)

Two years ago, while we were writing about this project, Ronny Smedts and me ( Caro Van den hole), together with the team of ITB, something interesting came up. We found it was difficult to translate the word "catastrophe" into Indonesian. This made us ask a big question:

Is climate change and its impact on people a cataclysm (a terrible, destructive event)? Or is it a catalyst for transformation (something that makes us change and improve)?

This question is at the heart of our project, and we hope our work will help us all explore.

This project was a reciprocal practice to share our knowledge, between disciplines and between borders, inspired by the spirit of lumbung. Like the communal rice barns in Indonesia, where surplus harvest is stored for the common good and future well-being of the community, our collaboration aimed to build a shared repository of ideas, insights, and creative resources.

Together, we explored different views from Belgium and Indonesia about climate change / community / colonialism / art and spaces.

The results of these cultural exchanges are brought together in this collaborative exposition. It is a space to slow down, reflect, take your time and interact – a space where our collective effort is shared and can continue to grow. So we welcome you in our common, nonkrong space.

We continue to share.

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