Art Residency Program as a Form of Creative Process for Artist

Abstract

The art residency program is a new art practice which starts to grow in Indonesia in the past ten years. This practice provides ongoing influence for artist to be more intense in their work processes. Living in a new place until deciding to conduct an experiment with the new media that was recently found, became one of the factors that made the art residency program attracted by many artist. The art residency program emphasizes the creative process rather than the final result. The focus of this research is on the creative process of Apip, the artist who have had the opportunity to do an art residency program at Mogus Lab, Yogyakarta. The method for this research using descriptive analysis, data in the form of creative process archives and work are collected as primary data. The data will be completed by texts from catalogs and artist notes. The aim of most art residency programs is not the completion of work. Art activities such as the art residency program become a place for artist to gain an understanding from new environment through creative work by constructing identities based on ways of thinking and action.