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Dr Alexander Supartono's Outputs (12)

Othering Studio Portraiture Tradition in Colonial Southeast Asia (2024)
Book Chapter
Supartono, A. (in press). Othering Studio Portraiture Tradition in Colonial Southeast Asia. In Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape. San José Museum of Art, California

The well-established colonial photography industry in Southeast Asia collapsed following the region’s long decolonisation process from mid 1940s to 1970s. Western (and a few Japanese) photographers and photo studios closed, and the majority of their... Read More about Othering Studio Portraiture Tradition in Colonial Southeast Asia.

Taring Padi Reader: Tanah Tumpah Darah (2024)
Book Chapter
Supartono, A., Goddard, A., Seroussi, B., Laurente, D., Framed, F., proppaNOW, & Padi, T. (2024). Taring Padi Reader: Tanah Tumpah Darah. . Griffith University Art Museum

There is no adequate translation in English for the Indonesian tanah tumpah darah, the phrase Taring Padi employ as the title of their exhibition at the Griffith Univeristy Art Museum in Brisbane, Australia. It literally means ‘land of spilled blood’... Read More about Taring Padi Reader: Tanah Tumpah Darah.

Tanah Merdeka (2023)
Book Chapter
Supartono, A. (2023). Tanah Merdeka. . Framer Framed

In 2011, Taring Padi published the book Art Smashing Tyranny. The publication recorded and contextualised the collective’s politically engaged practice against the ills of militarism and neoliberalism and its social commitment to gender equality, the... Read More about Tanah Merdeka.

“The Silent Waiting”: Javanese Antiquity and 19th Century Photography in the Dutch East Indies (2022)
Book Chapter
Supartono, A. (2022). “The Silent Waiting”: Javanese Antiquity and 19th Century Photography in the Dutch East Indies. In Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia (307-311). National Gallery of Singapore

In assessing a cropped photograph of a Hindu goddess from the second base relief of the Shiva temple of Parambanan published in De versierende kunsten in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië. Eenige Hindoemonumenten op Midden-Java (the Decorative Arts in the Dutc... Read More about “The Silent Waiting”: Javanese Antiquity and 19th Century Photography in the Dutch East Indies.

Walter B. Woodbury: Portrait of Javanese People (2022)
Book Chapter
Supartono, A. (2022). Walter B. Woodbury: Portrait of Javanese People. In P. Prodger (Ed.), An Alternative History of Photography (88-89). Prestel

“We shall visit the Princes’ Lands where all the native princes live, and all the magnificent ancient temples are,” wrote Walter Bentley Woodbury (Manchester, 1834-Margate, 1885) to his mother in England in September 1857. The Manchurian photographer... Read More about Walter B. Woodbury: Portrait of Javanese People.

Stories Beyond Matter: Catalogue, Gallery, Anthology, and Biography (2019)
Book Chapter
Supartono, A. (2019). Stories Beyond Matter: Catalogue, Gallery, Anthology, and Biography. In Dolorosa Sinaga: Body, Form, Matter (10-39). Jakarta Art Institute Press

Supartono, A. (2019). Stories Beyond Matter: Catalogue, Gallery, Anthology, and Biography. In Dolorosa Sinaga: Body, Form, Matter (10-39). Jakarta, Indonesia: Jakarta Art Institute Press.

Cultural antinomies, creative complicities: Agan Harahap's digital hoaxes (2019)
Book Chapter
Moschovi, A., & Supartono, A. (2019). Cultural antinomies, creative complicities: Agan Harahap's digital hoaxes. In H. Lewi, W. Smith, S. Cooke, & D. vom Lehn (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites (227-240). Routledge

The chapter explores how creative repurposing of networked photographs and online interactivity may open new channels and networks for the critical re-evaluation of mainstream culture and subcultures, identity politics, history and power structures.... Read More about Cultural antinomies, creative complicities: Agan Harahap's digital hoaxes.

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.

Postcolonial Photo Studio (2017)
Book Chapter
Supartono, A. (2017). Postcolonial Photo Studio. In IX Chobi Mela 2017. Chobi Mela

This series explores the interface of photography and colonial history by examining how photo studio concepts and techniques of the colonial era influence the world of images in a postcolonial age. Contemporary South and Southeast Asian artists part... Read More about Postcolonial Photo Studio.

Afterimage: Is there such thing as Southeast Asian Photography? (2014)
Book Chapter
Supartono, A. (2014). Afterimage: Is there such thing as Southeast Asian Photography?. In Afterimage: Contemporary Photography from Southeast Asia (14-19). Singapore Art Museum

A survey of contemporary photography practice in Southeast Asia inevitably invites reflection the idea of the region as an interconnected geopolitical and cultural territory. As such, geographical proximity should, hypothetically, play a determinant... Read More about Afterimage: Is there such thing as Southeast Asian Photography?.

Colonial Machine: the Image of the Industry (2014)
Book Chapter
Supartono, A. (2014). Colonial Machine: the Image of the Industry. In G. Newton (Ed.), Garden of the East: Photography in Indonesia 1860s-1940s (56-59). National Gallery of Australia

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