MELLA JAARSMA (Netherlands/Indonesia)

This place is mine (installation, video, format: DVD)
Source: artist
Content (quote from GG's introduction text in SOC guildbook):
"For the Liberation chapter, Mella Jaarsma will exhibit a new work entitled This place is mine, based on her experience of the recent Yogyakarta earthquake. It will consist of assembled garments, sculpture, photographs and video. Three costumes, resembling shelters and tents will be placed on piles of earthquake rubble in particular spots where a household once was. These charged ‘flexible housing’ sites are documented in photographs.
For the exhibition in Saigon, Jaarsma will extend the project by placing the ‘flexible houses’ in front of places that have been rebuilt after the war, and then film them on video. By incorporating the debris of a past catastrophe, Jaarsma’s work asks how, with everything destroyed, can we rebuild our existence? Do we want to replace the old, or do we have the ability to improve?"

Exhibition venue: WRM
Reason of refusal: unappropriate exhibition venue
Final exhibition venue: SOC