Journal 31 – Pun Tabe Pun

Podcast – Contemporary Art Tasmania, 7 July 2023

Journal 31 Pun Tabe Pun

Pun Tabe Pun by Jeprut Artist Community

This edition of Journal is taking a phonic turn, from the musicians and members of the Jeprut artist community who performed as part of Greed Rakus Geirig presented at the Long House for Dark Mofo 2023. The featured recording titled Pun Tabe Pun, is a Sundanese saying which translates as asking permission of our ancestors whom have passed away.

The Jeprut artist community was founded in the 1980s in Bandung, West Java. Indonesian artist, Tisna Sanjaya is a leading figure in this community movement, and has gone on to produce many collaborative performance based art actions within this unique movement. Jeprut is a Sundanese term for a regenerative force. The performances held as part of Dark Mofo in partnership with Contemporary Art Tasmania and Project Eleven were a rare blend of contemporary, ephemeral, immersive spaces for shared experience steeped in traditional Sundanese spiritual practice understood through the global scope of art as activism.

This recording was engineered by Chris Townend, recorded at Frying Pan Studios at MONA. It is the first ever professional recording made by the musicians collectively.