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<b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">School of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities / Swinburne Institute for Social Research - Seminar Series</span></b><b><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Presenter: Leonor Veiga, Leiden University
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Title:
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Contemporary Art from
1990s Indonesia and Timor-Leste: A Space of Convergence <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Friday, 8 July</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">
<span style="color:#404040">2016</span></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">This talk aims to address similarities in content and form of art practices in 1990s Indonesia and Timor-Leste. While differences are notorious, finding common ground proves to be a
harder task. Yet I affirm that artists from both countries, especially those considered second class citizens – the ethnic Chinese and women in Indonesia and the Timorese – were equally repressed, silenced and fought against by the New Order totalitarian regime
of Suharto (1965-1998).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">In Indonesia, Fx Harsono was making political installations against human rights abuses such as the banishment of media opposition to the regime. Indonesian artist Arahmaiani emerged
in this decade as a controversial figure that disrupted the status quo that the regime tried to maintain orderly through force. Her performance work was direct and brutal. Her political ideas lead to the regime sentencing her to death.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">In Australia, Maria Madeira from Timor-Leste was exiled when she learned about human rights abuses in her country, that she feared would be lost forever due to the cultural genocide
propagated by the Indonesian military. Similarly, Dadang Christanto was exiled in Australia, due to the extreme political message against human rights abuses in Indonesia.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">In this talk, I will try to explain the whys and hows, the priority given by artists to political content – a normal behaviour in the region of Southeast Asia – and explain how it has
been conveyed through traditional arts. I propose that the usage of traditional arts characteristic of this decade was not simply symptomatic of identity politics in a world coming together after the end of the Cold War, but rather it constituted a form of
avant-gardism specific to the region, a circumstance that I call the ‘Third Avant-garde.’
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Leonor Veiga</span></b><span style="color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> is a PhD candidate at Leiden University. Her dissertation The Third Avant-Garde: Contemporary Art from
Southeast Asia Recalling Tradition, analyses contemporary art practices from the region that reprocess elements of traditional culture. The dissertation is supervised by Prof. Kitty Zijlmans and Prof. Pieter ter Keurs. Her curatorial projects (2006-11) include
exhibitions in Indonesia, Mozambique, London, Macau and Lisbon. Her writing on the arts (2010-15) has mainly focused on Southeast Asian contemporary art. Essays published include “The Third Avant-garde: messages of discontent” in Southeast of Now (forthcoming,</span>
<a href="http://southeastofnow.com/">http://southeastofnow.com/</a>), <span style="color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">
“Movimentu Kultura in Timor-Leste: Maria Madeira’s Agency” in Cadernos de Arte e Cultura (2015</span>,
<a href="http://cadernosaa.revues.org/821">http://cadernosaa.revues.org/821</a>) <span style="color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">
and “Suddenly we arrived: polarities and paradoxes of Indonesian Contemporary Art”, in Indonesian Eye: Contemporary Art from Indonesia, SKIRA Editore S.p.A., (2011).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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