Speaking Landscapes
Archive / Moving Images / Writing (2025)
Archive / Moving Images / Writing (2025)
Artistic Research in Landscape. Invited by Sudut Kalisat (East Java, Indonesia)
- Participatory Collective Study in
Growing Archives, Historical Narratives, and the Environment.
Growing Archives, Historical Narratives, and the Environment.
Publication: The Vacuum Landscape
(2025-2026)
The Vacuum Landscape is an artists' book that
addresses the intersections of art, archives,
and land politics. Framed through the lens
of postcolonial land conflicts, it focuses on
ongoing land struggles in Indonesia and their
historical relationship with the Netherlands.
Drawing from fieldwork, archival research, visual
documentation, and essay that unfolds the
aesthetic of “landscape” within contemporary art.
addresses the intersections of art, archives,
and land politics. Framed through the lens
of postcolonial land conflicts, it focuses on
ongoing land struggles in Indonesia and their
historical relationship with the Netherlands.
Drawing from fieldwork, archival research, visual
documentation, and essay that unfolds the
aesthetic of “landscape” within contemporary art.
Structured in seven chapters, the publication
brings together Dutch archives, photography,
and outcomes from artistic research. Each
chapter offers a layered connection in historical
context, resistance stories, and visual materials.
The chapters reflect a fragmented yet coherent
view of how art can become a method of
intervening in and rearticulating histories that
have been silenced or distorted by colonial and
state structures.
Archiving The Scene
(Scene #1) 4”21, 2021
(Scene #2) 3”18, 2022
(Scene #3) 5”59, 2023
(Scene #4) 5”02, 2024
(Scene #2) 3”18, 2022
(Scene #3) 5”59, 2023
(Scene #4) 5”02, 2024
(Scene #5) ... coming in 2025 ...
Work Description :
Archiving The Scene is a video series revisiting
the protests in Hong Kong during 2019–2020
through archival press photographs. The work
created a structure accessible to diverse audiences
by adopting the rhythm of painting tutorial as it visual language.
It unpacks the complexities of social movements,
narrating contemporary political life through interdisciplinary
research in visual art and journalism.
Archiving The Scene is a video series revisiting
the protests in Hong Kong during 2019–2020
through archival press photographs. The work
created a structure accessible to diverse audiences
by adopting the rhythm of painting tutorial as it visual language.
It unpacks the complexities of social movements,
narrating contemporary political life through interdisciplinary
research in visual art and journalism.