THINGSTIGATE TALK - Wulan Dirgantoro: Art after Conflict

Wulan Dirgantoro, Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies Fellow and Lecturer in Contemporary Art at the University of Melbourne, will present a new long-term research project that she contributes to with her focus on post-conflict art in Timor-Leste. An early output of this Australian Research Council grant project (LP210300068, led by Kit Messham-Muir, Curtin University) is the exhibition Art of Peace: Art After War at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. The exhibition, curated by Kit Messham-Muir, AGWA Curator Robert Cook, and Independent Curator/Writer Bahar Sayed, features nine artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, and Timor-Leste, and explores how visual artists address the trauma of war and life after conflict. 

HDK-Valand artist-researcher Tintin Wulia will then join Wulan in a discussion that explores the project's broader aims and the historical ties between Timor-Leste and Indonesia, including ones concerning the legacy of the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, which informs one of the case studies in THINGSTIGATE (ERC, 101041284), a European Research Council-funded project led by Wulia on aesthetic objects and sociopolitical change.

Both Dirgantoro and Wulia are members of the transnational research-relay collective 1965 Setiap Hari/Living 1965, collecting and disseminating narratives surrounding the 1965-66 Indonesian mass killings through social media platforms.

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