Dr Alexander Supartono's Outputs (9)

Customised Postures, (De)colonising Gestures (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Supartono, A. (2024). Customised Postures, (De)colonising Gestures. [Photography, Painting, Sculpture, Video and Installation]. 19 January 2024 - 18 April 2025

This exhibition aims to establish an interconnectivity between pictorial and thematic commonplaces of photography practice in colonial Southeast Asia and the contemporary art practice from the region. It intends to showcase how colonial photographic... Read More about Customised Postures, (De)colonising Gestures.

Sculpture and Activism: Dolorosa Sinaga & Budi Santoso (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Supartono, A. (2024). Sculpture and Activism: Dolorosa Sinaga & Budi Santoso. 19 July 2024 - 7 November 2024

Sculpture and Activism of Dolorosa Sinaga & Budi Santoso is an exhibition of two sculptors, Dolorosa Sinaga and Budi Santoso who come from two different generations and cultural traditions. They met for the first time in 2000 when Dolorosa opened her... Read More about Sculpture and Activism: Dolorosa Sinaga & Budi Santoso.

Tanah Tumpah Darah (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Supartono, A. (2024). Tanah Tumpah Darah. [Banner, Cardboard Puppets, Woodcut Prints]. 29 February 2024 - 25 May 2024

Taring Padi are a leading Indonesian collective of art workers with a mission to understand the cultural and social history of Indonesia through a contemporary lens. Based in Yogyakarta, they use art as a tool to explore issues of sovereignty to over... Read More about Tanah Tumpah Darah.

Tanah Merdeka (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Supartono, A. (2023). Tanah Merdeka. [Banner, Cardboard Puppets, Woodcut poster]. 25 June 2023 - 10 September 2023

Taring Padi’s works in utilising art as political tools in the past 25 years demonstrate that it has been and it will be colonialism, its continuous impacts and metamorphosis are responsible for the worsening injustice in the world. This is not a nai... Read More about Tanah Merdeka.

Flame of Solidarity (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Supartono, A. (2022). Flame of Solidarity. [Banner, cardboard puppet, woodcut poster]. 18 June 2022 - 25 September 2022

The acclaimed international art festival Documenta 15 in Kassel, Germany, summer 2022 centres around an artistic, social and economic model of collectivity and communal resource sharing. Taring Padi accepted the invitation to participate in Documen... Read More about Flame of Solidarity.

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..

The History of Boys, the MES 56 and Beyond: A survey of Contemporary Photography in Indonesia (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
Supartono, A. The History of Boys, the MES 56 and Beyond: A survey of Contemporary Photography in Indonesia. Exhibited at Singapore. 17 March 2017 - 23 April 2017

This inaugural show of “Crossing SEA”, a series of research-based Southeast Asia photographic exhibitions, DECK presented one of the most successful and enduring photography collective in the region: the MES 56 of Yogyakarta, curated by Dr. Alexander... Read More about The History of Boys, the MES 56 and Beyond: A survey of Contemporary Photography in Indonesia.

Postcolonial Photo Studio (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
Supartono, A. (2015). Postcolonial Photo Studio. [Photography]. 23 August 2015 - 11 October 2015

The exhibition explores the interface of photography and colonial history by examining how photo studio concept and technique in the colonial era influence the world of images in a ‘postcolonial’ age. Contemporary South and Southeast Asian photograph... Read More about Postcolonial Photo Studio.

Afterimage: Contemporary Photography in Southeast Asia (2014)
Exhibition / Performance
(2014). Afterimage: Contemporary Photography in Southeast Asia. [Photography]. 3 October 2014 - 8 February 2015

The Afterimage exhibition offers a cross-section of contemporary photographic practice in Southeast Asia in the last five years. It explores the commonalities, synergies, and antinomies traced in the selected bodies of work with view to examine wheth... Read More about Afterimage: Contemporary Photography in Southeast Asia.