3 - From Writing to 'Blabbing' or Why Jurnal Karbon Doesn't Publish Articles Anymore But Talks on the Radio: A Reflection

Jurnal Karbon is a media outlet devoted to discussing Indonesian contemporary art. This journal was published by ruangrupa almost at the same time as the art collective was born. In the beginning, it was a printed journal. It then changed to online media along with the presence of internet media in Indonesia. Currently, if you search for the Jurnal Karbon’s website page, you will not find it; he is on hiatus. However, you can find new products from this journal in podcasts and broadcast programs on rururadio. This journal tries to continue to discuss Indonesian contemporary art, even though its conventional platforms are not available. Apart from the specific technical conditions that caused this, there are several things that can be reflected on further. First, the uncertainty of a writing tradition grafted from outside, second, the desire to be 'read' and 'understood' from the artworld itself, third, the effectiveness of writing as a means of distributing knowledge, and fourth, other possibilities for distributing knowledge.