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.