Burning Bodies-Burning Country II @ Arahmaiani. 1998
- ARAHMAIANI, Burning Bodies-Burning Country II, Cultural Center Phillipines (CCP), Manila.
Installation and performance at the conference ‘Women Imaging Women: Home, Body, Memory’, Manille. Acrylic paint, plastic flowers, scissors, crowbar, rice, drum frame
This piece refers to a concrete incident: during a demonstration against the Suharto regime in May 1998, four students were killed. Riots and pillages, mostly directed against the Chinese population, were the consequence. Some 1500 people were victim of the three days of terror and hundreds of women raped.