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Passport, Passphoto (2018)
Passport, Passphoto departs from the paradoxical situation of piles of archives containing identity photos (pass photos) in the collection of Nyoo Studio, an old photo studio that was founded in the 1940s in Kalisat, Jember, East Java. Decades of operating as a photo studio, Nyoo Studio piles up and collects most of the photos it takes without the will of any categorization or classification. In order to see the wide scale of possibilities of this “archive centre”, this work decided to reproduce the Nyoo Studio mode of operation, by opening a branch of the photo studio. On a daily basis, Nyoo Studio's main work is the production of photographs – objects that continue to act as a sign of citizenship. Therefore, this work looks at identity photos as a marker of the state's panopticon in managing citizen data and how this data is negotiated with Nyoo Studio's archiving practices through collecting identity photos without any information about the owner of the photos such as name, gender, address, religion, ethnicity, and others.
Production Manager
Kurnia Yaumil Fajar

Artistic Director
Shohifur Ridho'i

Researcher
Kurnia Yaumil Fajar
Prasetya Yudha
Shohifur Ridho'i

Performer
Ceng Romli
Eka Putra Nggalu (Jakarta edition)

Scenography
Prasetya Yudha
Rizki Nur Widyatmaja

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Thanks to
Bambang Hermanto, Qingliang Yang, and all members of Nyoo family

Ayos Purwoaji

Rz Hakim, Zuhanna Anibudin Zuhro, and all members of Sudut Kalisat collective
Produced by
rokateater and Nyoo Studio

Performed at
-Cabaret Chairil, initiated by Garasi Performance Institute, Yogyakarta (curated by Taufik Darwis)

-Djakarta Theatre Platform, initiated by Theatre Committee, Jakarta Arts Council
Essays
Photos by Yennu Ariendra (Yogyakarta edition)