Baskoro Latu & Lukas Birk

Baskoro Latu, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
He graduated from Art Institutes of Yogyakarta, Visual Design Communication. Music and graphics are his two main focuses. His interest in music has made him join an alternative Keroncong band called Keronchonk Chaos, which gained great popularity in the year 2000. His interest in graphics made him learn art- graphics with his friends at grafis minggiran’community in 1993. His efforts have proven successfully with the participation in exhibitions in Yogyakarta and other cities in Indonesia.

Personal statement to the collaboration with Lukas Birk in To Know The Unknown
I see an image given to me that talks a lot about politics and the history of humans. I rarely use political issues in direct form in my artwork. Therefore I try to see another perspective to each photo given to me. Like the image with rubble of buildings that might have been caused by war. To explore this image I tried to discover the effect of the war for the children. Or the image about a mosque as a religious symbol. How come religion is so misguided in it's momentary ways? Religion is not about God anymore. It is about benefit.

Lukas Birk Bregenz, Austria.
Worked at a very young age as radio presenter and journalist in Austria and Germany. Held first photographic exhibitions after extensive travels in India and South East Asia age 20. Studied Digital Art and Photography at LondonCMM. Co-founder of: Austro Sino Arts Program, artist group free lovemotel, Afghan box camera project and the Austro Indonesian Arts Program. His photographic, video and installation works included topics such as tourism to war zones, sentimentalities in mega-cities, the void and constructing new worlds. He travels up to 6 months a year and these explorations are a major part of his work. His work has been shown extensively on three continents.

Personal statement on the collaboration with Baskoro Latu for To Know The Unknown
Losing control is a difficult but exciting process in creating work. I tend to be very organized and structured with my projects. The concept of To know the unknown forced me to give up certain controls and allow a collaboration on, to me, unmapped territory. As a traveller I am very often in situations were differences in reflection and interpretation create a temporary or even permanent widening of one owns perception. The artistic system applied in this collaboration forms such an augmentation of comprehension.

Images from the collaboration