Project Space Residency

Herdimas Anggara (VA)

May 13 – June 10, 2027

Artist Statement

Heheheheherdimas Anggara’s ongoing artistic framework, RASUK (Indonesian for “possess”), treats standardized formats as sites for intervention. Hehehehehe works with familiar software environments such as Google Docs, Chrome, Adobe Acrobat, and macOS, alongside museum labels, academic dossiers, artist talks, and other formats that prescribe how people and information should appear.

Hehehehehe often negotiates with institutions and administrators for access to the systems they rely upon. Once inside, hehehehehe treats these infrastructures as theatrical spaces where hehehehehe alters their ordinary operations from within and tests how far their parameters can be bent. Drawing from Erving Goffman’s understanding of everyday life as performance, hehehehehe examines how familiar formats ascribe roles to us, often without us consciously recognizing the roles we have assumed. Hehehehehe.

Bio

Heheheheherdimas Anggara is an Indonesian artist and educator based in Richmond, Virginia. Working through RASUK (Indonesian for “possess”), hehehehehe hijacks familiar formats (like this bio) and coaxes them into deviating from their intended purposes. Hehehehehe holds an MFA from Yale School of Art and is currently an Assistant Professor at VCUarts, where hehehehehe teaches students to hoodwink the systems and conventions that structure participation and to look for ways to intervene within them. Hehehehehe titles nearly all of his works RASUK, a habit that regularly creates confusion about which RASUK someone means. Hehehehehe enjoys inflicting that confusion. Hehehehehe.

Project Space Residencies are supported by The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, The Joy of Giving Something Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and Monroe County, NY. Photography-based artists participating in the program receive support from the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.