Credits
The Curatorial Intensive in Indonesia was developed with in-tangible institute, and organized in collaboration with the Indonesian Visual Art Archive and the Bali Purnati Center for the Arts. Support for the program was generously provided by the Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, Friends of Yayasan Bali Purnati, Teiger Foundation, ICI’s Board of Trustees, and ICI’s Leadership Council. Special thanks to ICI Trustee Cindy Livingston. Additional support was provided by the Taipei Cultural Center in New York.
About the in-tangible institute and POLLINATION
in-tangible institute offers curatorial mentorship, educational programs, strategic advice, and industry consultation, towards the nurturing of productive, critical, and innovative relationships between curators and their various stakeholders in the arts. We work with artists, collectors, writers, teachers, researchers, business entrepreneurs and more in the interest of building a diverse interdisciplinary ecology for the arts. in-tangible institute will possess modest office, display, and residency space in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in 2024. Its programs are carried out with community and partners globally.
This Curatorial Intensive collaborates with in-tangible institute and its ‘POLLINATION’ platform (established 2018). POLLINATION provides emerging curators and artists in South East Asia the opportunity to co-produce, collaborate, and share (or pollinate) their critical ideas and activities in the interest of building contextually responsive houses of culture. Its alumni, who are invariably leading their own institutions and initiatives across the region, have been invited as guest faculty for this Intensive. Learn more at www.in-tangible.org.
About the Indonesian Visual Art Archive
The Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA), a nonprofit organization that focuses on serving as a central organizer of Indonesian visual art archives, was established in Yogyakarta April 2007. The IVAA evolved from the Cemeti Arts Foundation (1995–2007) and became a meeting point for artists, curators, scholars, and those engaged in the arts and humanities. In general, the IVAA collection consists of photographs, audio-visual recordings, and printed documents about artistic practices from pre-independence to the present. Printed documents include exhibition catalogs, research reports on the visual arts, newspaper clippings, artist portfolios, and textbooks. This collection can be accessed offline in the RumahIVAA library and online at http://archive.ivaa-online.org.
Starting from the necessity for an art infrastructure independent of governmental activities and the academic setting, IVAA then examined the platforms and information that Indonesian artists were attempting to communicate. IVAA believes that art, namely fine art, can provide insight and understanding into what is happening in the surrounding environment. Local knowledge and critical thinking need to be documented, researched, and shared.
The IVAA recognizes the value of making the stories found in the archives accessible to the general public as one of the archival exploration initiatives. Through a variety of public activities, including archive exhibitions and interdisciplinary arts forums, history is portrayed as a fluid and friendly experience. The emergence of intimate interactions then generates new, frequently underappreciated histories.
