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Tintin Wulia
Researcher
The Crafts and Fine Art UnitAbout Tintin Wulia
Dr Tintin Wulia is a Senior Researcher at HDK-Valand/Academy of Art and Design, a Visiting Research Fellow at LSE Department of International History, and a Principal Investigator for
- Protocols of Killings: 1965, distance, and the ethics of future warfare (Swedish Research Council, 2021-2023)
- Things for Politics’ Sake: Aesthetic Objects and Social Change (ERC, THINGSTIGATE, 101041284, 2023-2028).
Wulia is an artist/researcher and research group leader with twenty-four-year international track record.
Wulia's research stems out of conceptual and empirical engagement with the complexities of borders. She sees the world as an interconnected system – not a borderless world, but a world where entities interface with one another contiguously. Her works with video, sound, paintings, drawings, dance, text, installation, performance, public interventions, and quantitative methods mostly aim to tease out and activate these interconnections. Hence, they are often processual, interactive, and participatory. Wulia joined the University of Gothenburg in 2018, with a Postdoctoral Fellowship in design, crafts and society with a focus on migration, working interdepartmentally with HDK-Valand and the School of Global Studies, at the Centre on Global Migration (2018-2020).
She is a recipient of the highly competitive ERC Starting Grant 2021 for her project Things for Politics’ Sake: Aesthetic Objects and Social Change. A concept in this project is the subject of her retrospective solo show, curated by Naoko Sumi, Tintin Wulia: Things-in-Common at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 21 Sep 2024 - 5 Jan 2025, showing 25 works spanning over twenty-four years of her career. An associated learning gallery exhibits works by collaborators Rangga Purbaya and Dr Wulan Dirgantoro (1965 Setiap Hari), as well as participatory work Butsu-butsu Ko-kan, by Thingstigate team members Dr Kelly Ka-Lai Chan and Maxine Chionh, 21 Sep - 5 Nov 2024.
Wulia's works have been shown in major exhibitions including Chicago Architecture Biennale (2021), Sharjah Biennale (2013), Asia Pacific Triennale (2012), Gwangju Biennale (2012), Moscow Biennale (2011), Jakarta Biennale (2009), and Istanbul Biennale (2005), amongst others. They are also part of prominent private and public collections internationally, including in Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Singapore Art Museum, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, and He Xiangning Art Museum. Wulia represented Indonesia with a solo pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017).
Prior to receiving her PhD in art (RMIT University, 2014), Wulia's practice and research branched out of her trainings as a film composer (BMus, Berklee College of Music, 1997) and architecture engineer (BEng, Universitas Katolik Parahyangan, 1998). Her Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship (2014-2016) extended her engagements in diverse public spaces, and in a mobile ethnography of objects in urban settings. She was a Transcultural Art Network artist-in-residence (2015) at the UCL Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK, a Jackman Goldwasser Residency artist (2016) at Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, USA, and a Baik Residency artist (2019) at Davidson College, NC, USA, amongst other residencies. Her Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2018) at the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, NMNH(SI), Washington DC, USA, explores mosquitoes and migration, deaths during mosquitoes' larval and pupal emergence (which she calls liminal death), and wartime specimen collection.
Wulia is a co-founder and member of the transnational relay/research collective 1965 Setiap Hari; an initiator and member of the Make Your Own Passport network at the Centre on Global Migration, University of Gothenburg; member of the research group Power, Resistance and Social Change at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg; and a project interlocutor for an SNF-funded research project led by Prof Patricia Spyer, Images, (In)visibilities, and Work on Appearances at the Graduate Institute (IHEID). She co-founded minikino in 2002 and directed it until 2010. Wulia is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL The Slade School of Fine Art (2022-3). Between 2015 and 2022 Wulia served on the editorial board of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) journal, GeoHumanities.
As an artist Wulia is represented by Baik Art, Jakarta, and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
Research areas and interests
• everyday aesthetics and sociopolitics • aesthetic cosmopolitanism • critical geopolitics • human geography • resistance studies • materiality • socially engaged art • public art intervention • participatory performance • critical play • migration and the border • mobile ethnography • political ecology • peace and development studies • science and technology studies • Indonesian studies
• motifs: passports | mosquitoes | insects | maps | death | geometry | cardboard waste | machines
• themes: inclusive citizenship | mobility | chance | iconic consciousness | knowledge and the visuals | the anthropocene | identity | Indonesia's Chineseness | Indonesia's 1965 | violence, distance, and accountability | warfare | secrecy | archives and declassification | imagination and institution | imagination, memory, and the future
[Profile photo courtesy of David Ramsey and Van Every/Smith Galleries of Davidson College, NC, USA]
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Context—after Kawara's Title,
1965
Tintin Wulia
Jakarta, Baik Art, 10 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 - 2024 -
Some Memory
Unfurls
Tintin Wulia
Jakarta, Baik Art, 10 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 - 2024 -
Liminal Death:
Assemblage
Tintin Wulia
Jakarta, Baik Art, 10 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 - 2024 -
Memory is Frail (and Truth Brittle) – performance
lecture
Tintin Wulia
Jakarta, MACAN Museum, 13 Jan 2024 - 2024 -
Tintin Wulia:
Disclosures
Tintin Wulia, Renjana Widyakirana
Jakarta, Baik Art, 10 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 - 2024 -
Aesthetic resistance: publicness, potentiality, and
plexus
Tintin Wulia
Journal of Political Power - 2023 -
Almost
Indestructible
Tintin Wulia
Artlink - 2023 -
(Re)Collection of Togetherness – stage
11
Tintin Wulia
Netherlands, Museum Arnhem, 15 July - 22 October 2023 - 2023 -
(Re)Collection of Togetherness – stage
12
Tintin Wulia
Melbourne, RMIT Gallery, 5 Dec 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 - 2023 -
Absence in Substantia:
Frequency
Tintin Wulia
Jakarta, Baik Art, 10 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 - 2023 -
Liminal
Death
Tintin Wulia
Melbourne, RMIT Gallery, 5 Dec 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 - 2023 -
Tintin Wulia:
Secrets
Andrew Tetzlaff, Tintin Wulia
Melbourne, RMIT Gallery, 5 Dec 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 - 2023 -
Absence in Substantia:
Density
Tintin Wulia
Melbourne, RMIT Gallery, 5 Dec 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 - 2023 -
Power, Resistance and Social
Change
Mona Lilja, Michael Schulz, Mikael Baaz, Sofia Barakate, Maria Clara Medina, Eric Boyd, Marie Widengård, Kristin Wiksell, Tintin Wulia, Philip Wade, Sofie Hellberg
Journal of Political Power - 2023 -
Memory is Frail (and Truth
Falters)
Tintin Wulia
Melbourne, RMIT Gallery, 5 Dec 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 - 2023 -
Episode 16: Tintin Wulia – Embracing process and trusting the
journey
B Winataputri, Tintin Wulia
Talking Contemporary Podcast - 2023 -
Make Your Own Passport
(2014)
Tintin Wulia
Sweden, Vetenskapsfestivalen, 4-6 May 2022 - 2022 -
The Most International Artist in the Universe
(2011)
Tintin Wulia
Netherlands, Greylight Projects, 28 Aug - 22 Oct 2022 - 2022 -
Making Worlds with Things: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism, Performance, and Iconic Objects from the
Border.
Tintin Wulia
Migrating Minds: Theories and Practices of Cultural Cosmopolitanism - 2022 -
Arts & Conversation "On
Borders"
Katerina Valdivia Bruch, Alex Brahim, Tintin Wulia
Rethinking Conceptualism - 2022 -
Swarm Drones and the Protocols of Killings: engaging civil societies in conversations on
warfare
Tintin Wulia
Drones, Governance and Civil Society in Southeast Asia | Panel at EUROSEAS 2022 - 2022 -
December
(2021)
Tintin Wulia
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Photography, 3 Mar - 26 Jun 2022 - 2022 -
Book Launch: "Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in
Indonesia"
Patricia Spyer, Carla Jones, Karen Strassler, Webb Keane, Tintin Wulia
Geneva, Anthropology and Sociology Department (ANSO) and the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy (AHCD), IHEID/Graduate Institute, 2 Jun 2022 - 2022 -
The
Shore
Tintin Wulia
Röhsska Museet konsthantverksdagar: Materiality and Migration - 2022 -
Art, Aesthetics and
Activism
Tintin Wulia, Mi You, Ben Laksana, Alia Swastika
Equator Symposium - Online Series "Kuat Akar Kuat Tanah", 29 Nov 2022 - 2022 -
Memory is Frail (and Truth Brittle)
(2019)
Tintin Wulia
Jakarta, Baik Art Jakarta, 16 Nov 2022 - 18 Jan 2023 - 2022 -
Writing 1965 from Memory: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism and the Expanding Spheres of
Citizenship
Tintin Wulia
109th CAA Annual Conference - 2021 -
December
Tintin Wulia
Chicago, 6018North, 4th Chicago Architecture Biennial, 17 Sep - 18 Dec 2021 - 2021 -
Lecture by Tintin Wulia: Behind the (Art) Scene
Series
Sonja Ng, Tintin Wulia
Behind the (Art) Scene Mini Zoom Series - 2021 -
RAISIN episode 7 – 4 December
2021
Asha Iman Veal, Kyle Bellucci Johanson, Tintin Wulia
Lumpen Radio - 2021 -
A Thousand and One Martian Nights Screening with Tintin
Wulia
Tintin Wulia, Karen Strassler, Jane DeBevoise
Asia Art Archive in America - 2021 -
More than Useful: Aesthetics Objects and Social
Change
Tintin Wulia
RAISIN, 6018North at Chicago Architecture Biennial: The Available City - 2021 -
Film Screening and Debate: "A Thousand and One Martian
Nights"
Tintin Wulia, Patricia Spyer, Karen Strassler
Albert Hirschmann Centre on Democracy: Geneva Democracy Week (Image App project) - 2021 -
Some Memory Prevails: affective thinking on the border, death, and the
future
Tintin Wulia
School of Blogal Studies: Making sense of the world - 2021 -
Boundary Objects, Things-in-common, and Future
Hybridity
Tintin Wulia
Nordic Science and Technology Studies Conference 2021: STS and the future as a matter of collective concern - 2021 -
Living Waste: a roundtable on material performance and ecology amidst the climate
crisis
Tintin Wulia, Gabriel Levine, Denise Rogers Valenzuela, Marlon Griffith, Annie Katsura Rollins, Poncili Creación
Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR/ACRT) Conference 2021 - 2021 -
How things-in-common hold us
together
Tintin Wulia
Antennae: the Journal of Nature in Visual Culture - 2021 -
Migration
Erling Björgvinsson, Nicholas De Genova, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Tintin Wulia
PARSE Journal - 2020 -
Migration: Editorial
Introduction
Erling Björgvinsson, Nicholas De Genova, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Tintin Wulia
PARSE Journal - 2020 -
Some Memory
Prevails
Tintin Wulia
Brisbane, Milani Gallery, 2019 - 2019 -
855 Kilograms of Homes in Another
State
Tintin Wulia
Melbourne, RMIT Gallery, 2019 - 2019 -
Subtext - after Kawara’s Title,
1965
Tintin Wulia
Baik Art Residency Exhibition Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, NC, USA. - 2019 -
Memory is Frail (and Truth
Brittle)
Tintin Wulia
Tintin Wulia: Memory is Frail (and Truth Brittle), Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, 29 November – 21 December 2019 - 2019 -
Things-in-common and the Aesthetic Reassembling of
Identities
Tintin Wulia
"Chinese-Indonesians: Identities and Histories" conference. 1-3 October 2019. Monash Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia - 2019 -
Proposal for a Film: Within the Leaves, a Sight of the
Forest
Tintin Wulia
Hong Kong, Art Basel Hong Kong, 2016 - 2018 -
Make Your Own
Passport
Tintin Wulia
Brisbane, Institute of Modern Art, 2018 - 2018 -
Dos
Cachuchas
Tintin Wulia
The Hague, Nest, 2018 - 2018 -
Memory is Frail (and Truth
Brittle)
Tintin Wulia
PRŌTOCOLLUM - 2018 -
Make Your Own
Passport
Tintin Wulia
Gothenburg, Vetenskapsfestivalen, 4-6 May 2022 - 2014