CATES ASIA presents Summit of Critical Making: Democratizing Energy

The Yogyakarta 2015 Summit of Critical Making is intended as a global collaborative event, bringing the world’s leading ‘critical’ makers, thinkers and doers together in a focussed exploration of today’s most pressing cultural, technological and sustainability challenges.

Inspired by the Huge of National Fiber (HONF-Yogya) theme of “Democratising Energy” the summit is concerned with the various ways of obtaining and harnessing alternative energy sources, their social, economic and political components – and foremost how the interactions between culture, society and art are defined by how energy and its relationship to globalized life are expressed. CATEC Asia is a collective of media, arts and business professionals from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore who work to empower communities by harnessing and pushing the synergies between culture, arts and technology.

The first ever "Festival Merak" celebrates the creation of the Merak Dance in Bandung in 1965, and its evolution in choreography and costume since that time. Tari Merak became a national symbol as it emerged as a centerpiece in the international tours by the palace dancers of President Sukarno during the 1960's. Tari Merak defined elegance of movement, sophistication in presentation, and in general, represented the refinement of Indonesian arts and the classical dance o Sunda, West Java, on the world stage,