New Modes of Environmental Communication in Yogyakarta
The film "New Modes of Environmental Communication: Four Street Art Experiments" by Ali Minanto has been screened on March 5, 2023, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
The screening, which brought together street artists, academics, and the community, took place at ViaVia Jogja, Prawirotaman in Yogyakarta, together with the street art exhibition opening ceremony ‘Jalan Lingkar’ (Ring Road). The screening started with the introduction of the documentary, and was followed by an informal discussion with the film director.
"New Modes of Environmental Communication: Four Street Art Experiments” is a 23:34-minute documentary film by Ali Minanto, that reflects on how knowledge about the environment is produced and shared in creative ways, moving beyond the, sometimes, narrow spaces of academia, without disregarding academic knowledge. One of these spaces of knowledge production and creative communication is street art, where artistic aesthetics and practices of civic expression are combined. The video features the experiment, where academic researchers, based at Charles University in Prague and affiliated to the Mistra Environmental Communication Research Program and the 4EU+ European University Alliance, commissioned four Indonesian street artists to produce four street artworks in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta: “Welcome New Pollution” by Anagard, “Plant Trees Plant Hope” by Guerrillas, “Plastic Reduce” by Kinky Twenty, and “Planting Determination” by Young Surakarta.
Read more about the film: New Modes of Environmental Communication: Four Street Art Experiments