BATU
BATU is an intercultural and interdisciplinary work by Ayu Permata Sari (Indonesia) and Hasyimah Harith (Singapore), rooted in the cultural heritage of the Malay world—Lampung Pepadun and Singapore Malay. Starting from the traditional grinding stone (batu lesung/cobek), this work explores the female body in relation to myths, rituals, domestic labor, and desire within a patriarchal system.
The stone is not seen as a dead object, but as an existential symbol—a sign of life and death, a ritual tool, a house supporter, and a weight of memory. Through performative fragments, BATU moves across the kitchen, prostitution, stadiums, and birth rituals—breaking the boundary between sensual, domestic, and political bodies. The work is a process of transformation between object, body, and environment; between power, memory, and longing. The spicy taste of sambal, the rhythm of dangdut, and the silence of ritual come together in a body that questions dominant narratives and demands space for women’s agency. More than a dance, BATU is a body that remembers, resists, and transforms pain into a statement of existence.
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