Outputs (4)

A History Of Boys: The MES 56 And Beyond (2018)
Journal Article
Supartono, A. (2018). A History Of Boys: The MES 56 And Beyond. DECK Journal of Photography, 1(1), 94-105

In 2017, DECK Art Photography Center in Singapore started a series of research-based exhibitions on contemporary Southeast Asian photography. For its inaugural exhibition of the series, DECK invited me to curate a show on the MES 56, arguably the mos... Read More about A History Of Boys: The MES 56 And Beyond.

From Singapore with Nature. (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Supartono, A., Renhui, R. Z., Ang, S. N., Marvin, T., & Woong, S. T. From Singapore with Nature. Exhibited at Thessalonika, Greece. 28 September 2018 - 27 January 2019

In this year’s Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2018, the central exhibition entitled “Capitalist Realism“, which is structured in two large sections, at the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, is curated by... Read More about From Singapore with Nature..

From Singapore with Nature (2018)
Book Chapter
Supartono, A. (2018). From Singapore with Nature. In Capitalist Realism: Future Perfect, Past Continuous (200-211)

In 1819, when Stamford Raffles decided to turn the small fishing island at the Malacca strait into a trading port of British East India company, the future of Singapore was sealed.  Highly influenced by then the admirable Adam Smith and David Ricardo... Read More about From Singapore with Nature.

Native Visions? Photographic Modernism in South and Southeast Asia (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Supartono, A. (2018, July). Native Visions? Photographic Modernism in South and Southeast Asia. Presented at 22nd ASAA Biennial Conference 2018, University of Sydney, Australia

This paper investigates the adoption and adaptation of colonial pictorial commonplace that formulated the shared photographic traditions in 19th-century South and Southeast Asia through the works of three leading native photographers, Kassian Cephas... Read More about Native Visions? Photographic Modernism in South and Southeast Asia.