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Theme: 6. Using the Arts, Media and Culture: Contestations and Collaborations
Danishwara Nathaniel
Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID), Switzerland
Anitha Silvia
C2O Library & Collabtive, Indonesia
Anitha Silvia
C2O Library & Collabtive, Indonesia
Maulana Ibrahim
Khairun University Ternate, Indonesia
Fadriah Syuaib
Ternate, Indonesia
Adlun Fiqri
Fakawele & SaveSagea, Indonesia
Shuttle bus info (For those who registered for this workshop)
We would like to inform you that the ICAS 13 Organising Committee has prepared a shuttle bus from the Campus B, Universitas Airlangga to the Workshop venue, Javasche Bank. (Please note: Only for those who registered for the workshop).
If you want to make use of the shuttle service, please ensure to be at UNAIR shuttle bus pick-up/drop-off point by 16:00. Please note that the bus will leave to the workshop venue on time. An ICAS 13 Badge is required to board the shuttle bus.
*Shuttle bus only brings participants to the workshop location, after the session, participant can explore Surabaya at their leisure. Find more information about Surabaya transportation here.
Media and Heritage Workshops and Activities: Tracing the Spice Trade History V
The Media and Heritage Workshops and Activities consists of five parts:
1. Art Exhibition by Fadriah Syuaib: Dari Gunung ke Lait (Spices from Mountain to Sea)
2. Urban Sketchwalk - Tracing the Spice Route in Surabaya
3. Heritage Walk with Oud Soerabaja Hunter and Maulana Ibrahim from Ternate Heritage Society - Tracing the Spice Route in Surabaya
4. Film and Discussion with Adlun Fiqri - "Nickel Unearthed: The Human and Climate Costs of Indonesia's Nickel Industry""
5. Concluding Roundtable
The main purpose of the Media and Heritage Workshops and Activities is to provide a space for and to facilitate exchanges between practitioners and grassroots communities from Ternate, North Maluku, and Surabaya. In the age of digital media, images have played a pertinent role in mediating everyday social relations and sustaining collective memories. They have the capacity to address/redress marginalized histories, contest official narratives, and envision narratives to imagine a more sustainable future. Seen this way, images and image-making practices are potent sites of creativity and political engagement. In this series of workshops and activities, we would like to centre the work of heritage, arts, and environment-related practitioners to experiment with their medium in situ and to discuss what issues and concerns, through their practices, emerged and the challenges they face. The experiences from two Indonesian urban centres, one in Java and the other one in Ternate, North Maluku, offer unique perspectives on concerns of using visual media practices that articulate contemporary issues surrounding urban and heritage activism, alongside environmental struggles.
This programme is a part of the SNF-funded research project: Images, (In)visibilities, and Work on Appearances (IMAGEAPP). Please consult our Instagram (@imageapproject) where we use the platform to document, exhibit, and interact with the work of our interlocutors, including those from this programme.
Roundtable abstract:
This roundtable discussion unpacks the nexus between media and heritage practices in relation to environmental and urban politics from the perspectives of Indonesian cultural activists. The discussion is part of a series of workshops involving cultural practitioners from Ternate and Surabaya as they grapple with Indonesia’s colonial history, focusing on the spice trade route, in various forms of engagement. Centering the work of heritage walk groups, urban sketchers, and environmental activists, the discussion is meant to open up space for exchanges between practitioners and grassroots communities from both Ternate and Surabaya in a convivial manner. They will share personal reflections based on their own practices and what they see as challenges and possibilities that lie ahead. We particularly highlight the role of image-making and place-making practices that engage with urban politics, heritage, and the environment.
Panelists from Ternate include Fadriah Syuaib (Ternate Artist & UrbanSketcher), Maulana Ibrahim (Ternate Heritage Society), Adlun Fiqri (Environmental campaigner #SaveSagea)
We invite Surbaya-based practitioners and collectivities who share similar strategies and concerns: Oud Soerabaja Hunter, Roode Brug Soerabaia, Institut Seni Tambak Bayan, Urban Sketchers Surabaya.
Convener: Danishwara Nathaniel; Moderator: Anitha Silvia
The roundtable will take place in the same space as the exhibition, as it is a part of the workshops. Participants involve the wider public. Discussions will be done in Indonesian and English.