Not The Last Supper

Gambar foto ini semula saya lihat ketika baru masuk ke pintu beranda account facebook saya.

Gambar ini mengejutkan saya, menarik perhatian saya. Aha! Bukankah foto ini merupakan apropriasi dari lukisan mural karya Leonardo Da Vinci berjudul "The Last Supper" (Perjamuan Terakhir dalam bahasa Itali "L Ultima Cena") yang dibuat pada abad 15 Masehi di sebuah biara di Milan Italia.

Foto ini sendiri dibuat rekan-rekan IVAA (Indonesia Visual Art Archive) di Kantor Yayasan Cemeti Patehan, Yogya.

Sekedar iseng, baiklah untuk membicarakan foto ini dalam kaitannya sebagai sebuah apropriasi.

Melihat foto ini, orang dengan segera teringat kepada hasil mahakarya Da Vinci. Apalagi, judulnya sendiri merupakan kemiripan dari karya aslinya; "Not The Last Supper".

Karya foto ini lahir dari kegenitan ide rekan-rekan IVAA (entah siapa yang punya ide ini, mungkin fotografernya atau yang lain). Keisengan karya ini memberikan pemahaman akan spirit yang tengah berkembang belakangan ini, yakni upaya mendekonstruksi sebuah karya (atau apa saja) yang sudah mapan, dan paten.

Seorang Katolik yang saleh dan lebih betah di biara bisa saja tersinggung menyaksikannya. Tetapi orang mungkin akan lebih banyak yang terbahak-bahak dan geleng-geleng kepala separti saat saya baru pertama melihatnya.

Perhatikan saja sosok "Yesus" dengan kaos oblong dan rambut yang tidak panjang dan tidak pirang itu, lalu para "sahabat Yesus" yang berkaos, berkacamata dan separuhnya adalah cewek-cewek belia. Lalu latar belakang rak buku dengan ribuan koleksinya, dan yang juga menarik perhatian; kipas angin di ruangan itu.

Kalo meminjam bahasa dalam term postkolonial yang agak nyentil, foto ini "Serupa tapi tak sama" dengan karya aslinya. "White but not Quite". Ia ingin menyerupai aslinya, tetapi tidak cukup mampu untuk menyerupainya, dan memang tak ada hasrat untuk menyerupai aslinya, kecuali keinginan untuk menjadi karya yang mandiri sambil menertawakan dirinya sendiri di hadapan sebuah karya yang sudah menjadi masterpiece.

Foto ini memang karya iseng yang dibuat dengan perencanaan sambil membayangkan kejenakaan yang bakal lahir dari hasil akhirnya. Tetapi bukan berarti foto ini adalah foto yang diam, tak memberi pengertian apa-apa. Ia justru bicara mengenai sesuatu hal yang bisa dirangkum dalam satu kata meminjam istilah Derrida; dekonstruksi. Meski gagasan semacam ini tentu saja bukan hal baru lagi.

Apa yang didekonstruksi? Kesakralan itu sendiri. Kalau selama ini orang memahami bahwa wilayah yang sakral itu adalah wilayah tak tersentuh, karya foto ini melakukan hal sebaliknya; menyentuh dan membalik yang sakral.

Hampir seluruh agama semit (Kristen, Yahudi, Islam) memberikan tempat yang sangat besar pada kedudukan kaum lelaki. Seolah-olah agama ini milik kaum lelaki. Penafsiran-penafsiran atas teks agama banyak yang bersifat misoginis (memojokkan kaum perempuan sambil mengunggulkan kaum lelaki). Pemahaman semacam ini sudah lama mendapat gugatan di dalam ketiga agama semit tersebut.

Foto Not The Last Supper juga ingin melakukan hal serupa, mendeformasi bentuk asli The Last Supper yang berdasar pada fakta sejarah yang sudah dikenal luas di kalangan kaum kristiani.

Sahabat Yesus yang sebagiannya perempuan dalam Not The Last Supper adalah deformasi dari kekakuan akan tafsir monolitik yang sudah lama digugat itu. Begitu pula bentuk Yesus yang terlalu "Eropa" itu digantikan dengan sosok yang lebih pribumi. Aura abad pertama Masehi dalam The Last Supper dimana figur sosok dalam lukisan Da Vinci digambarkan secara karismatik, juga dibalik dengan sosok kekinian ala anak-anak remaja.

Nuansa kemuraman yang dalam yang digambarkan dalam lukisan Da Vinci (karena karya ini mengisahkan tentang perhimpunan Yesus dan kedua belas sahabatnya dimana Yesus memfatwakan bahwa akan ada satu diantara sahabatnya yang akan mengkhianatinya) dalam Not The Last Supper digantikan dengan situasi yang lebih rileks, seperti sedang ada sesi foto bersama, sebagaimana kebiasaan yang dilakukan anak-anak organisasi yang sangat gemar melakukan acara foto bersama setelah selesainya suatu kegiatan tertentu.

Foto yang sudah di-upload di jejaring sosial facebook sejak maret 2011 itu menurut rencana yang tertera dalam captionnya, dijadikan sebagai sampul buku terbitan IVAA. Ciamik..!

Yahoo Founder Jerry Yang Resigns

Wednesday 18, 2012, founder of Yahoo Inc. Jerry Yang-Chih Yuan (age 43) leave for his position as top chairman in Yahoo. Still there is no reason dealing with his resignation.

Who is Yang?

He firstly came to San Jose, California, USA in 1978. He was unable to speak English even a word, though his mother was an English teacher. He completed learning language for three years long, then to enter to the school of Advanced Placement Program. As he grew adult, he went to college at Stanford University took the electronic subject.

Over there Yang met with David Filo. His good friendship with Filo brought them into an experimental of the internet world. Till in 1994 Yang and Filo build an application program that could make another sites accessible. The application named Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web.

In the next other day, they changed the application name to Yahoo. Yahoo itself is an acronym of Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle. Then Yahoo went popular ever since. They made it business patent Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995.

Little Yang was born in Taipei Taiwan in November 6, 1968. He has one brother, and his father passed away as he was two years old.

In 1992, as he following abroad tour program of Stanford University in Kyoto Japan, he met Akiko Yamazaki a girl whom he married later. Akiko her self was growing in Costa Rica.

In 2007, Forbes Magazine put Yang in the 432 ranking of the richest men in the world. At that time, the wealth of Yang got about 2,2 million USD or about 20 billion rupiah.

It is a shockingly news that in his very mature of career, Yang decided to resign.

trans. by sam, source: tempointeraktif.

Tolerance but Refusing Food

During my living in Bali, I get into a new interaction with others of Hindus. Here, in Negara, we live side by side with Hindus. It seem the religious sentiment that recently arose among religious follower didn't take impact towards the religious community relationship in Bali.

In Negara of Jembrana Regency, majority moslem live in Loloan village, near by Negara City. Some are live in Pulukan, Medewi, Banyubiru, Melaya, and Gilimanuk. It is unique that moslem in Negara (Loloan) using a Melayu language to communicate. Some using both Melayu and Balinese local language.

In the center of Negara traditional market, we can see a kind of good interaction between two of religious follower Moslem and Hindus. We can make difference of who Hindus are and who Moslem. Hindus trader usually put a small sanggah (a place to put incense and flowers for worship) gaudy looked in a corner of their shop. Hindus speak Balinese and Moslem speak both Melayu and Balinese.

Some moslem work as servant for Hindus and so otherwise.

In every religious day ceremony of Galungan and Kuningan, my Hindus fellow bring us a color of food, cake or in Balinese language called ngejot.
We receive the food kindly, but back in our home we avoid to eat it. My parent in law prohibit me having the cake and food eating. "These (cake, food) are Hindus made, don't ever to eat it," they said.

It was happen one day as I tried to buy a traditional cake name Kelepon in Negara traditional market, my wife forbid me said, "that is Hindus made. I don't like it, even though it look so delightful. Be aware of Hindus made of cake and food."

According to them, those cake and food are unclean (not halal) for made by Hindus, while Hindus them self keeping pig in their home. Pig is a kind of animal that prohibited by Islam to be eaten (haram). Hindus eat pig meat, and made it as a main food in every ceremony. But, it is not certainly true that they made the food and cake by mixing it up with pig meat.

It is so strange to think that we avoid some kind of cake or food, and receive other kind, say like Kacang Rahayu that produced by Hindus home factory in Denpasar. We love to buy and to eat it.

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In Lebaran day of moslem day ceremony, we do the same of ngejot, that is to bring the food to our Hindus neighbor. But, I don't know, whether they refuse to eat it as we did to their food gift.

Another example of refusing is as we to chose restaurant or rice-shop to eat. We, moslem, avoid going to Hindus rice-shop. But, it is conversely happen to Hindus. Hindus don't avoid Moslem rice-shop.

There is a rice-shop name Warung Barokah in Negara which is crowded visit everyday both by Moslem and also Hindus. Hindus comfortably eating the food of moslem Barokah rice-shop without any prejudice.

I will note here, the phenomena of avoiding Hindus food by Moslem indicating a syndrom of majority. Moslem as majority desire to show its power by prohibiting the Hindus food. However, it happen under consciously. Really!

The Year 2011 The Year of Arab Spring

The year 2011 is marked by revolution in the Arab land. It is well-known as The Arab Spring. It was begun in Tunisia, demonstration and protest went on against official government demanded renewing the system. The massif protest in Tunisia was commenced in the mid of December 2010 to the year of 2011.

The demonstration forced President Zaen al Abidin ben Ali resign from his position. He fled to Saudi Arabia for seeking asylum in January 2011. The wave of massif protest it self grew as the young goods peddler name Mohammed Bouazizi burn his body as a sign of protest against the state-police treatment upon the peddlers.

In the following month, 11 February, Egypt President Hosni Mubarak resign after the wave of unrest in the town center. The clash between demonstrator and the state-police grew the spirit of revolution. Thousand people gathered in the Tahrir Square stayed day and night waiting for the birth of freedom from the old system of Hosni Mobarak rule.

The wave of protest also happened in Libya. The protest went on against the outrage of Moammar Gadafy's regime. Finally, the protest spark the civil war between the rebels and Gadafy's loyalist. Gadafy overthrown on 23 August, and he was terribly killed, shot to dead on 20 October in his hometown of Sirte.

Another protest in the Arab land also going on in Bahrain, Sudan, Yaman, Oman, Lebanon, and Syria.

In Syria, civil disorder sustaining so far.

Indomie

My wife served my dinner by cooking a simple menu, mie (indomie). She just need to heat water, pour the flavoring into the bowl and wait a few minute. My wife said, if only we live in dormitory, we must be having breakfast to dinner with indomie.

Mie is an instant food and less nutrition. I sometime quest about its magic flavoring taste; the maker or producer of mie understand the taste of whole citizen. This food suitable for all taste. Remember its advertorial jingle on tv:

Dari Sabang sampe Merauke, dari Timor hingga ke Talau, Indonesia tanah airku, Indomie seleraku.. (from Sabang to Merauke, from Timor to Talau, Indonesia is my homeland, Indomie my favorite)

Mie instant now with color of brand, Indomie, Sedap mie, Salam mie, Sari Mie, Mie Gelas and many others, become a second menu in our home. It is sold in hypermarket to small shop. We could find it everywhere. Its also become an emergency food, while we run out of food stock or on the way of traveling.

We consume its commercial advertisement on television every day. Although it is not our main food, and it couldn't make stomach full-satisfied, but we depend on it. !