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In 2000, the artist was filmed at a theatre in Germany performing Exergie – Butter Dance, then filmed again performing in Jakarta in 2021. The best of Suryodarmo’s art is found in her live performances, or in videos that document her performances without jazzing them up for the camera. Their production and editing feels mannered and somehow a bit arty. Most don’t do the best of her work justice. Several videos of the artist’s own elaborate performances – including one set in the ruins of her late father’s house ‑ are also screened around the Ikon. With the walls covered in images of the studio’s verdant surroundings, and soundtracked by evocative birdsong and rain, Ikon’s top floor space is decked out with furniture, and numerous desktop videos of workshops and performances.

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Suryodarmo’s show here mixes a series of live solo and collective performances from her repertoire (one is performed by members of a union of south-east Asian domestic workers), video, photography and a whole gallery dedicated to Studio Plesungan, the artist-run space she has founded in the Javanese countryside. The top floor of the Ikon re-creates Suryodarmo’s Javanese studio. After that single performance, visitors to Ikon will see only the charcoal, the bench and the block, greyed smears on the white wall and an accompanying video of the artist’s action. Her work strikes me as an exercise in futility and the waste of human potential. Tell that to the cleaner at the Ikon, the road sweeper, the zero-hours contract worker, to the millions who toil unacknowledged. We are told that the performance symbolises “the expenditure of life’s energy and the potential for renewal”. Suryodarmo is not the first and certainly won’t be the last artist to submit to the rigours of an extreme, self-inflicted regime. Why would anyone put themselves through this? She’s only midway through her shift but she’s teetering and looks stunned. She also spends periods standing facing her audience, though she doesn’t seem to see us, like a field worker snatching a second while trying to get through another interminable day. Sometimes Suryodarmo walks away from the block, bending to select the lumps and gather them up in her smock before returning to her task.

‘She doesn’t seem to see us.’ Photograph: Tod Jones I’m struck by how close it is to hard labour, the futile, soul-breaking punishment tasks given to Victorian prisoners – climbing the treadmill, turning the crank, moving rocks from one side of a room to the other, then back again. We watch in silence, to the sound of crushing and sifting, the noise of her feet crunching over the charcoal, the repeated stamp of the roller as she breaks up the bigger, fist-sized lumps. Some stay, willing Suryodarmo on, or waiting for her to drop. The audience comes and goes through the long day. Suryodarmo’s I’m a Ghost in My Own House, which she has been performing since 2012, is compelling, though the work she’s doing is horrible and hazardous. The artist began performing – if performance it is – at 10am, and continues for 12 hours, with no intermissions, no toilet breaks, no water, as she goes about her task. Thin black rivulets run from her nostrils. The residue has blackened her hands and arms. She’s made no discernible inroads, though the black dust soils her smock and hangs in the air as it spills to the floor. The whole scene is black and white and grey under the gallery lights. All day, Indonesian artist Melati Suryodarmo has been crushing charcoal to dust with a heavy, stone rolling pin, leaning over a stone block mounted on an iron table.

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My only recommendation is to make sure you bring antibacterial wipes if you're going to play the arcade games, it's impossible for them to clean between every use. Everything we ordered from the bar menu was overpriced and awful. Karen 2 years agoįun place to spend a night,but I would not reccomend anything from the food menu. If there was any kind of issue they were on top of it trying to make the situation better. Guest 2 years agoĮveryone had a great time.

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