Edi Danartono

Edi Danartono is an artist and designer based in Berlin. He holds a MA in graphic and exhibition design from the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf and is Meisterschüler in fine arts of Tobias Rehberger, graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts – Städelschule Frankfurt / Main in 2019.

Connected Material

The audio map “biography of kecak” is an attempt to decrease this discrepancy between the singularity of archival knowledge and the multiplicity of individual realiities – using the sonic as its material.

This text examines how sound can be archived on an object like a wax cylinder and how this way of archiving the intangible differs fundamentally from the approach of oral cultures, using Safi Faye’s film Fad’jal as an example.