The world turns feel faster with the human can access everything easily, from access to knowledge, data, goods, services, or even other things we’ve never eaten before. All can be accessed only by touching a finger on the gadgets that every day we hold, we don’t need to go to the seller to make transactions. Food can also easily be made through the inter-messaging service is available, the goods with many online pages that act as a catalog as well as sellers who peddle goods with interesting offers. This is the background of the election theme from Serbuk Kayu, inspired by the work pattern of delivery order ¹, then changed the words delivery into diversity.

The explanation above is the explanation why Serbuk Kayu using diversity order as a theme, Serbuk Kayu want to adapt the interpersonal messaging service, to distribute Serbuk Kayu artworks as information to his appreciator, and to distribute art as knowledge at the same time.

Diversity is a great narrative that has always been buzzed, Indonesia is a large country consisting of many tribes, cultures, languages all of which make Indonesia so diverse, to talk more about diversity, this word can be used to translate the number of things that occur related to anything, not least in the art and work patterns. Diversity of course will be a tremendous force, as this diversity can be united. But on the other hand, diversity is also a very sensitive issue, because if misinterpreted, or even misused, diversity can be a divisive weapon. We know in mathematics that fractions will be able to be summed up if they have the same denominator, as well as this issue, when all of these diversities have the same denominator, or can be conceived of having a common purpose in the presence of the agreement, this diversity can be a force intact, and of course very profitable.

Serbuk Kayu is an art community that not only focuses on fine art but more on all aspects of art, but the purpose of the movement made by Serbuk Kayu is to distribute art as knowledge, the meaning is, that art can be interpreted better, into something that can be studied because therms of creative works not only contemplative, imaginative, or just rely on the talent of the perpetrator. But what Serbuk Kayu expects is the art of being something readable, and learned, which aims to create further advances in the artistry itself.

In constructing artworks, the artist sure have a unique method to use, it has a different distribution pattern, between one artist and another artist. This is also the case in Serbuk Kayu as an art community, which is a description of the diversity to be discussed, and is interpreted in the exhibition carried out by Serbuk Kayu.

In achieving the desired goal to distribute art as knowledge of each member in the Serbuk Kayu also has a variety of ways of working, not the same from one to another. Each member has their respective strengths in his work, in which the things that underlie the work become strong can be accounted for conceptually. this is the second reason why using diversity themes.

To transmit knowledge to the appreciator through participatory work is the selected visual form of Serbuk Kayu to convey the purpose in this exhibition. Citing Benedict Anderson ‘To be able to feel this change, we will benefit when we examine visual displays’², meaning that the visual form becomes one of the important elements as the medium so that what is expected can be distributed well.

The background is the unhealthy work patterns, which occur in the art scene where Wood Powder is processed. Wood powder processed in Surabaya, in Surabaya art activities continue to look, in one month more or less average there are 4 to 5 art activities held, either by individual artists or in groups. But what happens is most of the hearing of this activity is only a form of celebration, and unfortunately the perpetrators do not plan it. The actors plan to organize an activity for a broader purpose, such as that his work can be appreciated by the wider community, or for his work to contribute to the health of the arts ecosystem here by enhancing the understanding and appreciation of the community, and much more types of goals to be achieved. But what happens is that these actors set goals without making a bridge to cross, suppose the artist on the right side of the river, and the community is on the left side of the river, so that artists and the community can be connected together then what is needed is, of course, a bridge. But with the pattern of the artists instead of making bridges but instead celebrating on the right side of the river, hoping that people on the left side of the river would turn and come in contact with what they do, of course, this would be very difficult to happen because there really is no liaison. This is an illustration of how the pattern of work is happening here.

If each communication process is described as a process related to the signification system, it is necessary to determine the basic structure of the communication itself, since it is this basic structure of communication in general that can be seen in its basic elements³. In order to be a work or activity that is right on target, then the form of communication by making this liaison is done by Wood Powder. This bridge is starting to want to be built by Serbuk Kayu, with a little eroding the painting as a cult of the glorified. The paintings along with the work of the ‘study desk’ displayed will be a medium for interaction, between artists with appreciators. The occurrence of two-way communication related to the responsibility of the work answer is the thing to do.

Hopefully what the Serbuk Kayu desires to distribute art as knowledge can be well captured by the appreciator through the works displayed, which in turn occurs the pattern of distribution work not only from the artist but also from the appreciator.

¹ The word Delivery can mean, ie, delivery. While rust order has two meanings, namely ordering and order. In the dictionary, the word deilivery order means the delivery of the order, In the colloquial in the ad, the phrase is set as (serve) the message between.
² Quoted from the writings of Benedic Anderson in the book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the orign and spread of natinalism
³Umberto Eco, A Teory Of Semiotics (Indiana University Press, 1976), 45

• Written as a curatorial introduction to the exhibition entitled TALKING ABOUT 4 (Diversity Order)
• Artist : Hanifi S. Mahtione, Zalfa Robby, Arsya Deananda, Arif Mulyadi, Sony Himantoko, Dyan Condro, Fathur Rohman, Indra Prayoghi, M. One Abdillah, Krisna Esa, Yudha Ramadhana, Ebby Dwijaya
• Exhibition Period : 8 – 30 September 2017
• at  Galeri House of Sampoerna,Taman Sampoerna 6, Surabaya 031-3539000