Moving is curious. Or perhaps it’s the fact that I have moved too many times that makes it curious. Waking up in the dark, I find myself visualising the scene out the window of my new bedroom, and that visualisation is of the scene out my old window. I visualise the outside of my bedroom […]
Category Archives: great wallpaper
Tintin Wulia: Deconstruction of a Wall, solo show at Ark Galerie, Jakarta. Curated by Alia Swastika. Thanks to Ronald Akili, Jason Gunawan, Putri Ayu. Photos courtesy of the artist, which is me.
Installation view of the Great Wallpaper series. Photo courtesy of Cemeti Art House/Sari Handayani. When I returned, she was still drawing. On the wall. Why, I asked her. Because it is a wall, she said. But why, I asked again. Because a wall is a construct that stands between this space, where we are, […]
Presented as a party game, Terra incognita, et cetera (2009, interactive performance and wall installation) is an exercise in collective painting and, simultaneously, a play of collaboration and territorial marking. The interactive performance is an art exhibition opening party game where audience members can participate in cutting up a blank map of the world into […]
Great Wallpaper series was conceived during the Cemeti residency. My next plan is to make the fourth in the series with video. I have noticed how during the process of doing the murals, the OHP projection would also fall on my ladder and on the pedestals that I use to put my watercolour bowl. Imagine […]
If I would have been born exactly where I was born — approximately 4400 kilometres away from where I currently reside — but 100 years before, people might have called me a Chinese Dutch East Indian. If I would have been born exactly where I was born but 30 years before, my birth certificate would have been — like […]
Great Wallpaper series, installation view at Cemeti Art House. Photography: Sari Handayani.
Packing now, after 3 months in Jogja. In the exhibition I showed Invasion (was Almost Cut when still in progress), Great Wallpaper No. 211/1940, Great Wallpaper No. 12/2602, Great Wallpaper No. 470/I/Sbki/67, (Re)Collection of Togetherness – Stage 2 which included Pulang (was Sobron Sehari-hari until the most recent draft – this is also still in […]
My grandmother Tan Tjit Nio was born in 1912, in Pangkalpinang. She didn’t have any birth certificate. What she had was a acknowledgment of birth letter made in Batavia in 1940, signed by the Assistent-Resident of the Dutch India government of Batavia. It says: dat Tan Tjit Nio voornoemd niet in het bezit is van […]
When we went to the Ngasem pet market to look for some sand to put in the kite pots, Ratna saw this baby mosquitoes for fish food. She immediately and excitedly asked me whether I still was collecting mosquitoes. I said yes, bought one plastic bag of those baby mosquitoes and brought them back […]
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