All Outputs (5)

Between recolonisation and decolonisation: Documenta 15 and the political decontextualisation of art (2025)
Journal Article
Bräuchler, B., & Supartono, A. (online). Between recolonisation and decolonisation: Documenta 15 and the political decontextualisation of art. Cultural Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1177/09213740251323341

Documenta 15, a global exhibition of contemporary art that took place in 2022 in Germany, over a period of 100 days, stands out for two reasons: (1) for the first time documenta was under artistic directorship of an art collective, and (2) it was sca... Read More about Between recolonisation and decolonisation: Documenta 15 and the political decontextualisation of art.

« L’attente silencieuse »: Antiquités javanaises et photographie au xixe siècle dans les Indes orientales néerlandaises (2024)
Journal Article
Supartono, A. (2024). « L’attente silencieuse »: Antiquités javanaises et photographie au xixe siècle dans les Indes orientales néerlandaises. Photographica, 9, 62-80. https://doi.org/10.4000/12paq

This essay discusses the significant role of archaeological expeditions in the early development of photography in the Dutch East Indies (colonial Indonesia). In the wake of competitive archaeological treasure hunts in the 19th century, the camera wa... Read More about « L’attente silencieuse »: Antiquités javanaises et photographie au xixe siècle dans les Indes orientales néerlandaises.

Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia (2020)
Journal Article
Supartono, A., & Moschovi, A. (2020). Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 51(3), 343-371. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463420000508

This article seeks to explore the impact of digital technologies upon the material, conceptual and ideological premises of the colonial archive in the digital era. This analysis is pursued though a discussion of creative work produced during an inter... Read More about Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia.

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.

Lost in Translation (2015)
Journal Article
Cavers, C., & Supartono, A. (2015). Lost in Translation. Ojodepez, 43, 52-57