{"id":4888,"date":"2022-08-23T06:23:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T06:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ketemu.org\/?post_type=profile&p=4888"},"modified":"2022-10-03T03:20:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T03:20:46","slug":"lala-nurlala","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/ketemu.org\/profile\/lala-nurlala","title":{"rendered":"Lala Nurlala"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Text by Lala Nurlala<\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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What happens when a minor character goes through a recontexualisation and ends up becoming a major character if not the centerpiece. This is what I am trying to do with my work, particularly The Legend of Dr. Zone after Dan and Swampy<\/em>. The artwork revolves around Dr. Zone, a character from Milo Murphy\u2019s Law<\/em>, created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff \u201cSwampy\u201d Marsh of Phineas and Ferb<\/em> fame. In Milo Murphy\u2019s Law<\/em>, Dr. Zone is a television character inspired by Doctor Who <\/em>and other sci fi TV series. He was hyped up by multiple people. Unfortunately, that catalyzed my high expectations on Dr. Zone\u2019s role in the show and my emotional attachment to him that was influenced by my complex personal issues. So when it has been revealed that Dr. Zone wasn\u2019t any more than a plot device character, I was devastated. So I decided to take matters with my own hands and make Dr. Zone an important character, the central, constant element into my series of works.<\/p>

The Legend of Dr. Zone <\/em>is a video art that consists of a stylized drawing of Dr. Zone with a spear-arrow and a platypus being used as a stencil that superimposes footage of the Dr. Zone wandering about in the final episode of Milo Murphy\u2019s Law<\/em> where he would appear in, The Phineas and Ferb Effect<\/em>. I try to put an effort to mask Dr. Zone while I heavily alter his everyday surroundings with swirly effects and different tints, isolating the orange-ish character against a green edited mess of colours. After the footage is done, the stencil reveals itself clearer as the background turns to white. Accompanying the video is various music. The main music is Javanese gamelan song that often accompanies a shadow puppet performance, although there are snippets of the Maori haka and the Sundanese song \u201cTanah Sunda\u201d. Most of the dialogue from the Milo Murphy\u2019s Law<\/em> footage is muffled, with only Dr. Zone\u2019s dialogue sounding clear. Some of his voice actor, Jemaine Clement\u2019s dialogue from an external source has been included, usually to cover up some unwanted parts from Dr. Zone\u2019s dialogue, further separating him from the original context.<\/p>

The artwork is arguably Dr. Zone\u2019s origin story in my series of artwork, different from Orton Mahlson (Dr. Zone\u2019s actor)\u2019s story in Milo Murphy\u2019s Law<\/em>. Dr. Zone travels through the chaos that was his original world, the world of Milo Murphy\u2019s Law<\/em>. He feels left behind, in the sidelines (in Milo Murphy\u2019s Law<\/em>, he doesn\u2019t serve much of an active role), and thus left in an overstimulating world of uncertainty that doesn\u2019t care about him. But he still has himself. He knows that he matters. And so he focuses on himself. It is only him who is a constant, a source of stability. Then he discovers a way where he truly thrives, and declares himself as Dr. Zone. The illustration that becomes the stencil is inspired from a prehistoric rock carving found in Indonesia which depicts humans hunting down animals.<\/p>

Unlike a film where the viewer sees an series of coherent events, The Legend of Dr. Zone<\/em> is more like a moving painting where one should observe how the colors, shapes, and sounds move about within a timeframe. In this artwork, a character from a medium with a fixed and defined context transcends into an abstract artform with more leeway for more various interpretations, stripping away all previous contexts except for his visual form and voice.\u00a0<\/p>

However, this artwork isn\u2019t free from all context. Instead, I have given him a context that is relevant to my experience. In this piece Dr. Zone has been dipped in an intersection of social issues, mainly autism and postcolonialism. Dr. Zone\u2019s situation in the video is very similar to how autistics experience the world surrounding them. One defining trait of autistics is that they find the world, whether it\u2019s the environment or other people, overstimulating to them, which affects their functioning. Autistics also experience marginalisation from other people. Another social theme that is present in The Legend of Dr. Zone<\/em> is postcolonialism. Dr. Zone, a mostly British-presenting white-passing American cartoon character, has been recontextualised into a character who acknowledges Maori (as Jemaine Clement is Maori) and Indonesian culture which in Western pop culture has been mostly ignored.<\/p>

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Which cultures inspire your work?<\/strong><\/p>

I\u2019m not sure. There are many cultures that I have absorbed subconsciously. I was born into a Sundanese family in Jakarta and spent a significant amount of my childhood in the United States; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to be precise. My autism also affects how I have participated in culture, as autism makes my social skills different from others.<\/p>

At first, I thought cultural influences would only involve cuisine, costumes, and greetings. But it turned out to be more than that. Except that for me, my cultural influences were so obscure and complicated that there were no references from the outside: whether it\u2019s the media or other people, to help me identify them. Through my work, I try to pick up where I am in the world.<\/p>

For my work in general, aside from Sundanese culture and other cultures on Java Island, I also involve a bit of Maori culture, as Dr. Zone\u2019s voice actor and visual inspiration Jemaine Clement is Maori. I\u2019ve found that there are many similarities between those cultures, especially the visuals, so I decided to amalgamate them into a style that represents my relationship with Dr. Zone.<\/p>

How did popular culture affect your growing up?<\/strong><\/p>

Since childhood, I had a hard time getting along with other people, so I usually turn to cartoons and games for entertainment. By taking interest in them and participating in Wikia (a kind of encyclopedia for the Web), I\u2019ve made a few friends. Aside from that, pop culture, especially for kids, are really straightforward with its entertainment and art style, so I find them easier to understand than interactions in real life. Because of that, I feel like I\u2019ve gained more life experiences from pop culture than whatever\u2019s in my surroundings, as terrible as that sounds.<\/p>

What\u2019s your favourite piece of pop culture?<\/strong><\/p>

I have a lot of pop culture media that I enjoy, but one of the most, if not the most influential pop culture media to me would be Phineas and Ferb<\/em>. I really enjoyed the geometrical character designs and how the writers play with the show\u2019s formula. The show was a big inspiration for me to strive for creativity and to solve problems that arise along with it. That\u2019s why I became so disappointed with the creators\u2019 next work Milo Murphy\u2019s Law<\/em>. It doesn\u2019t have the same juvenile, creative spirit that Phineas and Ferb<\/em> had. However, the show did give me Dr. Zone so I\u2019m grateful for that.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Lala Nurlala Text by Lala Nurlala What happens when a minor character goes through a recontexualisation and ends up becoming a major character if not the centerpiece. This is what I am trying to do with my work, particularly The Legend of Dr. Zone after Dan and Swampy. The artwork revolves around Dr. Zone, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4926,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"person_category":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":4888},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ketemu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/4888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ketemu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ketemu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ketemu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/4888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5171,"href":"https:\/\/ketemu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/4888\/revisions\/5171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ketemu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ketemu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ketemu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ketemu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}