Videos
ARKA KINARI
2019 | Director
Concert - Music - Singular proposition
Arka- (Latin) vessel, repository, from the verb arcere, meaning “to hold off or defend”
Kinari- (Sanskrit) a half-human, half-bird musician, guardian of the tree of life
Arka Kinari is a multimedia performance staged from the deck of a traditional sailing ship, using live music and cinematic visuals to imagine life after the carbon economy, resilience to climate change, and re-engagement with the last great commons- the sea.
Subersive, immersive and partially submerged, Arka Kinari sounds the alarm for ecological crisis and prefigures nomadic life in a porous and borderless future.
Filastine & Nova’s otherwordly mix of traditional Javanese melodies, hypnotic polyrhythms and contemporary electronic music propel a dynamic 75-minute performance. The two musicians and two addtional crew-performers use the ship, elements of the waterfront, and the water itself as stage and scenography. The sails become surfaces for video projection mapping and the rigging hosts a lighting installation designed in collaboration with audiovisual laboratory Playmodes. As a touring production powered by renewable energy and shared at public waterfronts, Arka Kinari’s method embodies its message.
A Creation of: Grey Filastine & Nova Ruth Setyaningtyas | Director: Ricard Soler Mallol | Technical production team: Adria Pinar, Deden Bulqini | Wardrobe Design: Ican Harem | Light Design: Eloi Maduell (Playmodes) | Consulting Directors: Jeff Stark, John Jordan | Video editors: Astu Prasidya, Nova Ruth Setyaningtyas
Consulting Sailors: Rudi Mintarto (Pinisi Pusaka), Margaret Ahab (captain, Drummer), Arjen Van Der Veen (captain, Tres Hombres Sail Trading), Blair Stafford (1st mate, Sea Shepherd Martin Sheen), Matello (captain, L’alliance), Charles Lim (Olympic sailor, visual artist), Yann Martinie (owner, Nataraja)