Public Programs

Collecting Entanglements: the Tusks, the Stripes, and the Good Names © Cecil Mariani07.07.2022 | 5 PM Jakarta/Bangkok Time

Collecting Entanglements: the Tusks, the Stripes, and the Good Names

The program explores the significance and challenges of building art collections with four institutional leaders from Berlin, Canberra, Jakarta, and Tokyo.

Panel Discussion 13.05.2022 | 5 PM Jakarta/Bangkok Time

Entwined Pursuits: Conversations on Pedagogy, Writing Histories of Art, and Collections

A conversation with T.K. Sabapathy on his life-long involvement in teaching, writing histories of art and building intuitional art collections in Southeast Asia from the 1970s until the present, facilitated by Fang-Tze Hsu and Shabbir Hussain Mustafa.

31.03.2022 | 5 PM Jakarta/Bangkok Time

Aerial Witness

Artists Ho Tzu Nyen, Stephanie Comilang, and Tita Salina discuss drones in the context of artistic practice and discover the technological advancement as a witness to statecraft, ecological collapse, and hidden labor in a panel discussion moderated by author Alex Quicho.

Alternate Histories (Alternative Geschichte-n) © Goethe-Institut Jakarta28.01.2022 | 5 PM Jakarta/Bangkok Time

Alternate History

An artist talk with FX Harsono, Khvay Samnang, Koh Nguang How with Chairat Polmuk as discussant, in conjunction with the exhibition ERRATA, part of the long-term project Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories.
 

Politics, Play, and Media Ecologies: The Mao-Hope March and the Artistic Practice of Öyvind Fahlström © Cecil Mariani14.12.2021 | 7 PM Jakarta/Bangkok Time

Politics, Play, and Media Ecologies: The Mao-Hope March and the Artistic Practice of Öyvind Fahlström

Professor Jesper Olsson delivers an online public lecture on Swedish artist, poet, and writer Öyvind Fahlström, specifically his video work Mao-Hope March (1966).

Artwork: Käthe Kollwitz - Nie Wieder Krieg (Never Again War), 1924 © Wikimedia / Cecil Mariani25.11.2021 | 11 AM Berlin

Käthe Kollwitz & the Power of Art

Dolorosa Sinaga, Lim Cheng Tju, and Tisna Sanjaya discuss the significance of Käthe Kollwitz and her artistic practice in a discussion moderated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers.

Contrasting Memories—A Reading Group on Colonialism and Decolonialism © Cecil Mariani29.10.2021 | 1 PM Jakarta/Bangkok Time

Contrasting Memories—A Reading Group on Colonialism and Decolonialism

How might differences in memory reveal disparities in the lived realities of different communities? This reading group discusses readings by Takao Fusuyama and Teresia K. Teaiwa.

To Conjure Something Out of Nothing © Cecil Mariani26.08.2021 | 5 PM Jakarta/Bangkok Time

To Conjure Something Out of Nothing

Join us in discussing archives in visual art and film with Grace Samboh, Lisabona Rahman, Michelle Wong and Shabbir Hussain Mustafa.

The ‘Body’ is Not Just Flesh © Cecil Mariani29.07.2021 | 5 PM Jakarta/Bangkok Time

The ‘Body’ is Not Just Flesh

A conversation between Arahmaiani (Yogyakarta), Kawita Vatanajyankur (Bangkok) and Suthirat Supaparinya (Chiang Mai). This session will be moderated by Zoe Butt (Ho Chi Minh City)

Unsubtitled* © Cecil MarianiReading Group | 01.07.2021, 8 PM Jakarta/Bangkok Time

Unsubtitled*

Curator Grace Samboh and Nathalie Johnston of Myanmar Art Resource Center and Archive (MARCA) host a reading group to discuss The Time is Out of Joint (2016) with Khairunnisa, Mary Pansanga and Ruth Noack. The session is moderated by Enin Supriyanto.

Domestic Notes © Cecil MarianiTalk | 27.05.2021, 5 PM Jakarta/Bangkok Time

Domestic Notes

A conversation between Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Grace Samboh, Gridthiya Gaweewong, June Yap.

Solidaritas © Dolorosa Sinaga/Galeri Nasional IndonesiaTalk | 22.04.2021, 5 PM Jakarta/Bangkok Time

Collecting Entanglements

Join the curators and directors to investigate the challenges and opportunities of institutional cooperation and cultural exchange across borders.

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