ORCYWORLD A.K.A. GILANG ANOM M.M.

Gilang Anom M. M. born in 1997, Bandung, Indonesia, is a visual & performing artist. At the age of 15, by choice switched his study from classical schools to homeschooling, to focus on arts and develop his skills, ideas and perspective through workshops, residencies, join cultural exchange programs and independent classes with senior artist like Tisna Sanjaya, a performance artist and lecturer of graphic arts in Bandung Institute of Technology, Melati Suryodarmo, a durational performance artist and founder of Studio Plesungan, Katsura Kan, a butoh dancer and choreographer from Kyoto-Japan, Lee Wen a Singapore based performance artist.

Grew up in a visual and performing artist family who founded a non-profit culture center in Bandung, named Jendela Ide Indonesia, he explores his artistic work throughout drawing, painting, performance art, mantra singing, and costume making. He starts his professional career as an artist by combining his experience, creating an imaginary world called Orcyworld.

Orcyworld is a world that are forged by question and curiosity of the universe’s structure, dream and imagination, vision of the past and vision of the future, myth and the concepts of the spiritual plane, a world that are taking its place outside our physical limits. Inspired by the belief system in the Indonesian indigenous culture which provide an equilibrium of nature and culture. Orcyworld is the base concept of his work, to bring its beings and their culture through their stories, myth, languages, and ceremonial Ritual. 

He has been exhibiting his visual and performance work in various project and art exhibition, for example: Indonesia Art & Cultural Congress by The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology in Bandung, Indonesia (2015), SXSW Festival in Austin Texas, America (2018), Instrumenta an International media art festival at National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (2019), Wartakawarsa at WORM Rotterdam, Netherlands (2021), and Indonesia Bertutur festival as part of G20 Culture Ministers Meeting event at Borobudur, Magelang, Indonesia (2022).