‘What’s Up, Doc?’ as the carrot-chewing animated cartoon character Bugs Bunny would say. LIFE is a pack of ciki (cherki) cards of a deck of dominoes as the two protagonists, Mr Dominoes with a spade and Mr Ciki with a pickaxe square off in an undisclosed duel, while their fighting cockerel proxies join the fray. Is the paltry amount of 50,000 rupiahs stated in the Panitia Penggalian Dana (fund-raising committee) the prize? The ciki game, a Peranakan pastime, uses two packs of a deck of 60 cards (30 different patterns, each one repeated twice, each measuring approximately 60mm x 24mm in size). The winner is the one with three sets of three cards of the same value.
Indonesian Dodit Artawan is part of an artist’s collective, TAXU Art Clinic who graduated with a BFA from the Indonesian Art Institute in Denpasar in 1997. Based in Batubulan in Bali, his solos include Larger Than Life (Art Projects Gallery, Hong Kong, October 2014); Pool Party (Taksu Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, 2012); and The Pleasure of the Eye (Langgeng Icon Gallery, Jakarta, 2008).