Klampisan Studio together with farmers, artists, and researchers in Tapal Kuda will hold “Repertoar Fenologi: Mangsa Iklim Mendidih” on 25 – 26 April 2025 in Purwoharjo, Banyuwangi, as a response to the increasingly unpredictable climate crisis. Through a series of laboratories, performances, and symposiums, this event invites the public to reread changes in seasons and the environment through the body, art, and collective knowledge.
Why is the Seasonal Calendar No Longer Relevant?
In an agrarian area like Tapal Kuda, local knowledge about the seasons – which has been passed down from generation to generation through Pranata Mangsa – is increasingly losing its accuracy.
Planting seasons shift, rain comes unpredictably, and farmers are confused about determining the right time to plant or harvest. In this situation, both old traditions and modern scientific approaches are often unable to provide truly down-to-earth answers.
This is where art plays an important role – not only as an expression, but as an alternative navigation tool. Through the body, space, and time, art is proposed as a new method to read the unpredictable natural phenomena.
Studio Klampisan introduces the concept of Titèn Baru – a way of reading the seasons and the environment through the body, attention, and direct experience. Through the Repertoar Fenologi project, performing arts are used as a laboratory to observe, record, and create new knowledge rooted in collective consciousness.
The bodies of farmers, artists, and urban communities are positioned no longer as objects that are affected, but as active sensors that record changes and respond to the surrounding landscape.
"This is not a documentary theater like the ones we usually do. Climate documentation actually becomes a catalyst for the performance, opening up space for interpretation, dialogue, and artistic action."
For two days on April 25-26, 2025, the fields behind Studio Klampisan, Purwoharjo, Banyuwangi, will become a shared space that unites art, science, and agrarian culture. The three series of events in the program include:
Phenology Lab: New Climate, New Titèn. A grassroots learning space where farmers record rainfall, soil conditions, and the presence of organisms with simple tools and mindfulness. Amid a crisis of confidence in global weather prediction systems, the lab offers a new, more down-to-earth way to understand change.
Site-Specific Time-Performance.
A performance that grows from the rice fields, not from a script. Through a collaborative and improvisational process, performers from various regions transform into living sensors who read, experience, and respond to environmental changes directly – with their movements, breath, and bodies.
Art & Agriculture Symposium.
A cross-disciplinary forum that brings together artists, farmers, scientists, and the public to exchange concrete experiences about the climate crisis. Not to seek absolute conclusions, but to nurture the diversity of ways of knowing and reconnect the relationship between humans, nature, and art.
The Repertoar Fenologi event is not just about art. It is an invitation to re-experience the world that we have so far observed from a distance. When algorithms and satellites are no longer reliable, the body that has been considered passive can actually become the center of meaning creation.
In an increasingly “boiling” world, this project is here to pioneer a more sensitive life practice: towards changing landscapes, towards marginalized subjectivities, and towards new possibilities born from attention and togetherness.
Through this project, Studio Klampisan shows that art can be an alternative infrastructure to re-understand time, seasons, and life itself.
And in the midst of an uncertain climate, art becomes a navigational aid: not to determine direction, but to hone sensitivity, nurture feelings, and open new paths towards a more humane and sustainable world.
If you are interested in witnessing and experiencing firsthand how art and land can speak, you can come to see the event details here.
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