CURATOR'S STATEMENT
6 Agustus 2015
DARE TO SHARE
Lahir dan tumbuh di Jakarta, Listya Amelia (b.1986), atau akrab dengan sapaan Tya, sejak kecil memiliki passion yang sangat tinggi dalam dunia Seni dan Design. Studi pertamanya di bidang Seni dan Design dimulai pada tahun 2004 di Universitas Trisakti Jakarta.
Setelah mendapat BA Design Visual Communication pada tahun 2008, mimpi dan harapan untuk menggali profesinya lebih dalam sebagai seorang Graphic Designer tidak pernah padam. Tya bermimpi untuk melanjutkan studi MA Design di Eropa. Namun, tidaklah mudah untuk melanjutkan studi di bidang Design khususnya di benua Eropa tanpa dana yang besar dan pengalaman yang cukup.
Karena keterbatasan biaya dan pengalaman, Tya memutuskan untuk memberanikan diri memulai karir internasionalnya sebagai Graphic Designer di sebuah Digital Creative Agency di India. Setelah mendapat pengalaman bekerja sebagai Graphic Designer di India dan Singapore, Tya memilih untuk melanjutkan mimpinya di bidang akademis.
Kerja kerasnya untuk melanjutkan edukasi di benua Eropa pun terbayar, setelah Tya memperoleh MA in Design Visual Communication (2012-2014) di Kunst-og Designhøgskolen i Bergen, Norway−sebagai mahasiswa Indonesia pertama yang mendapat Full-Scholarship di Universitas tersebut. Karyanya yang bertajuk “Dare to Share” telah mendapat partisipan dari kurang lebih 19 negara di dunia. Tya mempunyai mimpi dan harapan untuk menjadi seorang Graphic Designer yang dapat menginspirasi lingkungan sekitar dengan berkarya.
Berikut adalah karyanya yang berjudul: “Dare to Share”
Dare to Share Project (2014)
Kunst-og Designhøgskolen I Bergen
www.daretoshareproject.tumblr.com
About
Dare to Share (2014) is an experimental project about how design can be a platform to encourage people to express and share their dreams, hopes and wishes that might otherwise be forgotten or kept safely to themselves.
Dare to Share is the title of MA project by Listya Amelia, recently graduated student at Kunst-og Designhøgskolen i Bergen, (KHiB) Norway. In her thesis, she questions “How can I use design as a tool to communicate people’s dreams into a meaningful message?” The thesis critically discusses the reflection of Graphic Designer’s role in society, with a purpose to raise design thinking by focusing on the spiritual value, rather than economical value. Led by her critical reflection as a Graphic Designer, and curiosity about people’s dreams today, she creates a digital platform (www.daretoshare.it), which is aimed to encourage and facilitate people to express and share their ideas, and imagination of dreams, hopes, and wishes. Moreover, she interprets the material (collections of people’s dreams, hopes, wishes) into a visual exploration (Visual Book and Object). To go further, the purpose of this project is to create a meaningful message as an inspiring experience, and self-reflection.
Dare to Share Thesis
This is the final thesis of my MA project (Dare to Share) at Kunst-og Designhøgskolen i Bergen, Norway, which questions ”How can I use design as a tool to communicate people’s dreams in a meaningful message?” This thesis critically discusses the reflection of Graphic Designer’s role in society, with a purpose to raise design thinking by focusing on the spiritual value, rather than mere economical value, in the hope of creating a meaningful message as an inspiring experience, and self-reflection.
Dare to Share Website
Dare to Share Website is an experimental digital platform which is aimed to encourage and facilitate people to express and share their ideas and imagination of dreams, hopes and wishes. This platform was born out of my inquiry if I could use a digital platform (website) to widen people’s closed horizons to afford them self-evident right to aspire to dream. Currently, there are more than 280 dreams submitted from 19 different countries around the world. www.daretoshare.it
Dare to Share Visual Book (Visual Interpretation)
Dare to Share Visual Book is a part of my visual interpretation series from Dare to Share Project. The book contains visual interpretation of selected people’s dreams/hopes/wishes that have been shared through Dare to Share website (www.daretoshare.it)
Dare to Share Object (Visual Interpretation)
This is an exploration object as a part of my visual interpretation series from Dare to Share Project. A hand made (plaster-based material) egg sculpture as an interpretation of people’s dreams into an object. I chose eggs as a representation of fragile, raw, newborn objects that fit the ideas of dreams, hopes and wishes. I made approximately 80 eggs as a reward for people who have contributed to Dare to Share Project at USF, Verftet gallery, Bergen, Norway.
Dare to Share Activity in Public Spaces (2013-2014).
As a part of the experiment series from Dare to Share Project, this activity have an attempt to create public conscious, by spreading people’s dreams in a fluorescent flyer, in order to make people stop from their journey and read people’s dreams. By reading people’s dreams, my attention is to create an inspirational experience for people to start wonder and reflect about their won dreams, hopes, and wishes.
Exhibition
Dare to Share project took part in a group exhibition by graduated MA student from Kunst-og Designhøgskolen i Bergen, (KHiB) Norway. This exhibition was held at USF Verftet Gallery, Bergen, Norway in May 2014.
