ISSUE #1 Nature & Ecology

Ghosts in the Forest: Robert Zhao’s Counter-Anthropocentric Operative Images

by Yu Ke Dong

Operational images beyond the city: surveillance, colonial legacies, and forest ecologies in Robert Zhao Renhui’s work.

ISSUE #1 Nature & Ecology

From Extraction to Kinship: Queer Ecologies and the Relational Technologies of Southeast Asian Art

by Kenneth Wong See Huat

Queer ecologies in Southeast Asian art transform extractive histories into practices of kinship and care.

ISSUE #1 Urbanism

Tropicalia Vulgaris: Radical Infrastructures for Tropical Worlds

by Annabelle Tan Kai Lin

Reimagining Singapore’s infrastructure as socio-ecological systems for collective tropical futures.

ISSUE #1 Nature & Ecology

A Drop in the Ocean

Tracing a droplet’s journey through monsoon currents, Mekong migrations, dams, and subsea data centers: elemental storytelling on water, contamination, and technological entanglement in Southeast Asia.

ISSUE #1 Indigenous Discourse

Indigenous-Eco-Futurism: Embodied Ecologies and the Making of Futures

by Wency Mendes

A framework for imagining ecological futures through Indigenous knowledge, collective practice, and lived relations with land and water.

ISSUE #1 Colonialism

Against the Colonial Camera: Counter-Archives and Posthumous Agency in Southeast Asian Contemporary Art

by Jaron Lua Jie Long

Counter-archives and digital reimaginings of colonial Southeast Asia through the works of Yee I-Lann and Agan Harahap.

ISSUE #1 Nature & Ecology

Decolonising Technology: Three Lessons from Southeast Asian Artists - Bagus Pandega, Derek Tumala, and Priyageetha Dia

by Chiara Serpani

Decolonising the built environment: ecological entanglements, extractive histories, and technological reimaginings in the practices of Bagus Pandega, Derek Tumala, and Priyageetha Dia.

ISSUE #1 Labor & Work

The Lonely Machine: Marcos Kueh at De Fabriek

by Elena Wise

Marcos Kueh’s installation reflects on labour, industrial time, and the ecological residues of global production.

ISSUE #0 (Pilot) Criticism

Amaris and the Conditions of Containment

Nathaniel Amaris works from a small home studio in Bogor, which he refers to as Studio 23. His paintings centre on the human figure, most times nude, in motion or suspended in stillness.

ISSUE #0 (Pilot) Essay

Spaces: Inner, Inhabited, In-Between: The Paintings of Judith Ansems

Judith Ansems is a Dutch painter, former chart-topping musician, and a licensed child psychologist. Her paintings of domestic interiors — rooms, stairwells, corridors — are rooted in a profound understanding of one’s inner world.

ISSUE #0 (Pilot) Essay

Ustina Yakovleva’s Slow Surfaces

Ustina Yakovleva’s practice unfolds through long, durational processes — embroidery, beading and drawn line. She works without preparatory sketches, allowing each line or thread to gradually construct its own internal structure.

ISSUE #0 (Pilot) Criticism

The Artist as Cybershaman

Sofya Skidan’s work resists the binary legacies of modernism: the separation of body and mind, of nature and culture, of science and spirit.

Positions Review

Aiming Out: Chiara Hardy’s Ephemeral Radio

Since the late 1970s, artists and theorists have explored sound and radio as a site of resistance, embodied transmission, and spatial disruption.

Positions Review

Performing Culture: Slinat’s Uncomfortable Truths on Balinese Ritual

Slinat has been around for a while — those in Bali will know his street pieces: stencil-like, bold, sometimes funny, sometimes unsettling. He’s long been circling the same set of questions — what happens when ritual becomes a front?

ISSUE #0 (Pilot) Review

Filippo Sciascia — a Renaissance Man. Thoughts on Filippo Sciascia’s “Primitive Learning”

“Nature is uncomfortable”, Filippo Sciascia says, smiling. We’re sitting outside of the Nonfrasa gallery in Bali, after walking through his exhibition Primitive Learning.

ISSUE #0 (Pilot) Essay

Rivers and Magic Computers:​ Indah Arsyad's AMRTA (Indonesia Bertutur 2024)

Presented during the Indonesia Bertutur 2024 programme, AMRTA is a multimedia installation set against the backdrop of the serene gardens of the Museum Puri Lukisan in Ubud, Bali.