Since the late 1970s, artists and theorists have explored sound and radio as a site of resistance, embodied transmission, and spatial disruption.
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?
“Nature is uncomfortable”, Filippo Sciascia says, smiling. We’re sitting outside of the Nonfrasa gallery in Bali, after walking through his exhibition Primitive Learning.
RUANG// publishes writing on Southeast Asian contemporary art with a focus on critical perspectives. We are especially interested in work that engages with technology, ecology, colonial histories, and the shifting cultural and political contexts of the region — but we also welcome other approaches that push conversations forward.
Call For Papers: Technology and Ecology in Southeast Asian Contemporary Art. Submission Guidelines
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