A Temporary Landing Place: An Analysis of the Indonesian Art Collective, SURVIVE! Garage, through Rhythm

The research presents an analysis of their practice of art collectivism via refractive methods. The refractive method accounts for the weave between the indexical, interpretive and the abstract as concepts negotiating the plurality of art collectivism and the positioning of the researcher viz a viz the researched across scales of participation and observation. The research is a process-led undertaking designed to thicken a theory of analysis that addresses the pre-existing connectedness of the social field of this study alongside an analysis of SURVIVE! Garage’s practice of art collectivism. The research orientates its enquiry through Henri Lefebvre’s proposal of Rhythmanalysis. It critically engages rhythm as a theory of analysis, registering rhythm as a methodology and directing this methodology towards a refractive method and practice linking the social, political, creative and urban collective practice employed by SURVIVE! Garage to a personal praxis of social, collective and creative processes.