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03/08/2022

Hybrid book talk and discussion on Prof. Patricia Spyer's new book:

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2022/10/book-talk-orphaned-landscapes-prof.-patricia-spyer

Prof. Patricia Spyer (The Graduate Institute Geneva) will talk about her new book Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia (Fordham University Press 2021).

09/06/2022

The project's Principal Investigator, Prof. Patricia Spyer launched her new book Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia.

Patricia Spyer launched her new book during an event featuring faculty, students, and invited speakers.

24/05/2022

BOOK LAUNCH: ORPHANED LANDSCAPES: VIOLENCE, VISUALITY, AND APPEARANCE IN INDONESIA BY PATRICIA SPYER.

02 June 2022, 18:00 - 20:00
Auditorium A2 (Petal 1), Maison de la paix, Genève. To attend online register here:

https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/events/book-launch-orphaned-landscapes

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Less than a year after the end of authoritarian rule in 1998, huge images of Jesus Christ and Christian scenes proliferated on walls and billboards around a provincial town in eastern Indonesia in a conflict pitting Muslims against Christians. A manifestation of the extreme perception that emerged amidst the uncertainty and challenge to seeing brought on by urban warfare, the street paintings erected by Protestant motorbike-taxi drivers signaled a radical departure from the aniconic tradition of the old colonial church, a desire to be seen and recognized by political authorities from Jakarta to the UN and European Union, an aim to reinstate the Christian look of a city amid the country’s widespread islamicization, and an opening to a more intimate relationship to the divine through the bringing-into-vision of the Christian god. Stridently assertive, these affectively charged mediations of religion, masculinity, Christian privilege and subjectivity are among the myriad ephemera of war; from graffiti, incendiary pamphlets and video CDs to Peace Provocateur text-messages and children’s reconciliation drawings. Orphaned Landscapes theorizes the production of monumental street art and other visual media as part of a wider work on appearance in which ordinary people, wittingly or unwittingly, refigure their urban surroundings. The book offers an account of a place in crisis and motion and shows how the work on appearance is inherent to sociopolitical change.

This event is co-hosted by the Graduate Institute’s Anthropology and Sociology Department(ANSO) and the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy (AHCD).

08/02/2022

The project's Principal Investigator, Prof. Patricia Spyer will be giving a talk with regards to her newly published book Orphaned Landscape: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia (Fordham University Press, 2021). There will be three excellent discussants: Rebecca Stein, Fred Myers, and Christopher Pinney.

Please find the Zoom link to the event taking place this Friday, February 11 at 3pm UK time here: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/99301975791?pwd=RTVBWmQzaThGenVRY1M5RFdaZFlhZz09

Photo credit by Danishwara Nathaniel
Painting by Jhon Yesayas

19/01/2022

We would like to congratulate the artist and researcher Tintin Wulia, who is one of our interlocutors for the IMAGEAPP project, for recently being awarded the prestigious European Research Council grant.

Her project, titled Things for Politics' Sake: Aesthetic Objects and Social Change, explores questions of how aesthetic objects mediate and drive different social and political movements. Please consult this link for more information: https://www.gu.se/en/news/research-on-how-aesthetic-objects-instigate-socio-political-change-receives-prestigious-erc-grant

We look forward to continuing our conversation with Tintin Wulia. Once again, congratulations!

12/11/2021

Patricia Spyer’s, the Principal Investigator of this project, new book is out. For more details, check out our website link in bio.

22/09/2021

In this excerpt from our event, Reckonings and Revisions, Nancy Jouwe, a cultural historian and Chairwoman of the BAK Supervisory Board, talks about her newest project, Mapping Slavery, a transnational research project that maps the Dutch colonial history of slavery.

To know more about the project, please see https://imageapproject.com/. Link in bio.

21/09/2021

Video interview with one of our project interlocutors is now up in our website and social media channels.

The Banda Journal has recently been published in April 2021 in a photobook form by Indonesian documentary photographer Muhammad Fadli and writer Fatris MF, combining the medium of text and images to chronicle the legacy of the brutal colonization of Banda. The video interview aim at generating discussions surrounding the production process of their project, its collaborative and innovative methods, critical approaches to storytelling and historiography, and the public reception of this archive. The main theme is to inquire how the image-maker and his collaborators see the workings of images in the political process.

Thank you to Muhammad Fadli - Photographer The Banda Journal and the video's production team.

The Banda Journal has recently been published in April 2021 in a photobook form by Indonesian documentary photographer Muhammad Fadli and writer Fatris MF, ...

18/08/2021

Portfolio of ’s watercolor painting. Fadriah graduated with Masters of Arts from the Indonesian Arts Institute Surakarta. Currently she is working on art projects in Ternate through the community platform of Kampong Warna and Magazin Art Space, that function as educational platform for artists and literature enthusiasts in Ternate and North Maluku.

18/08/2021

Introducing one of our Affiliated Artist based in Ternate: Fadriah Syuaib . Recently she collaborated with comics collective in Ternate to organize an exhibition inside the Dutch Fort, Fort Oranje, which now has been repurposed to community and arts spaces. The comics exhibition speaks to contemporary social issues in Ternate, such as environmental degradation, education, and community development.

18/08/2021

Ternate’s urban landmark. July 2021.

Slide 1-3: Kota Ternate letters which is located close to the Port of Ternate, can be seen from an incoming boat from afar against a volcano backdrop.

Slide 4: view of Fort Kalamata, a Portuguese- built fort in 1540 in effort to secure monopoly over the lucrative clove trade.

Slide 5: waterfront pathways and benches at Taman Nukila

Slide 6: The Sultanate of Ternate, which has a museum inside.

Slide 7: The Residen Bridge was historically built by Dutch colonial government in 1811. Today it is used for speedboats and boat crossings.

Slide 8-10: newly built waterfront city right in front of the city mayor’s main office is a public square that is one of Ternate’s main landmark. It is a great spot for sunset.

18/08/2021

Video interview in process with one of our project interlocutors Documentary photographer . Check out his long-term project on the Banda Islands

18/08/2021

Video interview in process with of . One of our interlocutors in this project, speaks about the image-making process and socio-historical context of his newly published photobook.

18/08/2021

One of our project interlocutor has just published a photo-book co-written with author Fatris MF. Please check out

18/08/2021

We are pleased to present the online workshop Reckonings & Revisions  which will preface the launch of the website of the research project “Images, (In)Visibilities and Work on Appearance.”  This online workshop is scheduled for the 19th of March, 2021 from 1500h-1800h CET, and will be held on zoom. The registration link can be found here.

The two roundtables will engage with some of the main theoretical stakes of this project, from a comparative perspective followed by the launch of the official website.  The discussants will be addressing questions of visual rights, (in)visibilities, and the material mediations of political recognition and belonging from a range of empirical situations. The workshop will also explore the role of  myriad infrastructures of the imagination in the creation and reproduction of sociopolitical environments where ‘history ain’t got the eyes to see everything.’ Equally important will be a focus on the forms of representational redress and ‘work on appearances’ through which such environments are re-envisioned and remade.