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girls talk goes online!
Seeing the last development with the booklet, I find that it’s quite impractical both in circulation and in archival. The part I like the most about the booklet is that it’s quite freeform in nature, so the participants can choose to write or draw (or even insert images) as they please. It is also quite…
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girls talk: a sprouting platform to share wisdom
This is one of my explorations with the intention to archive the conversations between women that are often overlooked. Oftentimes, women exchange advice and wisdom with each other in an informal setting. Think of tips on how to execute specific recipes that older women give to their younger family members in the kitchen. That kind…
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Workshop as a Toolkit
One avenue I tried to explore was turning the workshop I had done into a toolkit. I intended it to be modular, easy to transport, to replicate, and applicable across cultural contexts. The aim is to trigger conversations and realizations among women about the underrepresentation of women in history.
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Reorienting My Project
Centering this project on women and their representation felt menial at first, almost unimportant. I felt shy moving forward with this project, thinking that I am not tackling a real issue—considering the state of women’s rights and justice in my country, above all—with the workshop that I was not even sure of the outcome. Will…
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Zine Picnic and Some Friends
The research for Positions Through Iterating led me to the text We Publish to Find Comrades, and even just the title moves me. Finding comrades, especially here in London, has been something that I really wanted to do. Since the political situation in Indonesia has gone nuts, I have been antsy and anxious. I wanted…
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Where Are You? Transcript
Where were you? Were you there? Or there? Or there? I was there. Was this you? Where you there? Did you laid the table there? Did you pick out his clothes? Did you sew this banner? (involvement in movement through skills.) Did you do all that? Were you there? I was there. You were? We…
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Where Are You?
This video essay explores the themes of representing underrepresented Indonesian women in the context of Indonesian history. All cutout assets are taken from the workshops I did for this brief, where women point out and annotate traces of women in the Indonesian archive. The first song I used is by the late Titiek Puspa, a…
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That’s My Girl
That’s My Girl is a workshop and publication series that uses participatory design to represent the underrepresented everyday women in Indonesian history. Women from different educational and cultural backgrounds came together to interact with the same set of nine archival photos taken from a news outlet. They were given the same prompt: to find anything…
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Exploration of Outside-the-Margins Identity Through Reproduction
It started with a picture, defaced 100 times to show 100 years of progress of the common women’s wear in Indonesia. The process had me questioning and thinking; from the very technical, “what could I do to draw over oil pastel?” to borderline existential about the identity of being an Indonesian woman. I am also…
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Challenging Productivity
Reflection I’ve always wanted my practice to center on human experiences and humanizing our existence in the world. This project helped me develop that focus. Early group discussions and learning about Crip Time highlighted how challenging it is for disabled people to keep up with everyday life. We chose to explore corporate culture—specifically, the rigid…