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This video workshop was organized by Bandung Center for New Media Arts and Klab Baca - Tobucil. Held in Common Room in December 2004, this project is taking place when Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia (One of Indonesia's leading publisher) asked Common Room to hold Puisi Mbeling (Mbeling Poetry) book's launching and discussion in Bandung - Indonesia. Bored with the usual format of discussion, Common Room offered different proposals: the interpretation of poems through the use of video.

The result is compiled in 13 video works made by 1 group & 11 invited individuals with various approach and arrangements. For this project, Bandung Center for New Media Arts invited participants who were not entirely familiar with the video medium to submit their works. The result was screened during the Puisi Mbeling book’s launching in Common Room in December 2004, followed by discussion with Remy Sylado him self, and participated by the public audience.

Puisi Mbeling is known as Indonesian subversive poetry movement in the 1970’s, with its leading figure Remy Sylado. It was first published as a regular column in Aktuil Magazine, a leading Bandung’s youth magazine in the 1970’s. During its time, this magazine is considered as the only publication that recorded and accommodated cultural aspiration of young urban generation in Bandung and other city such as Jakarta, Surabaya, and Medan, reaching 126.000 copies circulation; this level of circulation was the highest among other youth media scenes in Indonesia in the 1970’s.

Video Mbeling workshop participants consist:
9 Nyawa & Friends, Puji Siswanti, Dewi Aditia, Yustinus Arditya, Andry Moch., Prilla Tania, Raka Auliantara, Muhamad Iqbal Rezeki Awal, Amelia Lestari, Dodi Mustafa a.k.a DOMUS, Hendy Hertiasa a.k.a Party Maker Inc. and Dhany Anugrahman.