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East to West
Just now Here we go again. In Arka Kinari's longest and final route through the Indonesian archipelago, this year's voyage follows the trade winds steadily from east to west, and includes neighboring islands outside of Indonesia's borders, starting with Timor Leste, whose name literally means "east-east" when translated from Malay & Portuguese. You might remember Timor Leste from it's twenty-five year civil war ending in 1999. But then maybe not, since that conflict ended another twenty-five years ago. It remains the poorest nation in Southeast Asia, and also the proudest. If independence didn't come easy, maintaining autonomy from bigger and bellicose nations might be even harder. We had big plans for Timor Leste, and succeed with most of it. A storytelling performance at the Fundacao Oriente was packed des
By the Means at Hand
Our work, Tumbleweed diaspore , has been included in ‘ By the Means at Hand ’, Vlatka Horvat ’s project for the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale . "Engaging with the theme of Adriano Pedrosa’s main exhibition for La Biennale di Venezia, Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere , the project exists as an accumulative exhibition of artworks by a wide-ranging group of international artists living “as foreigners,” reflecting on questions and urgencies of the diasporic experience." The package travelled with us for nearly a month – from Belgium via Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and Italy – until we hand-delivered it to the lovely people at Fabbrica 33 in Canareggio at the end of May. "The title of the project – By the Means at Hand – refers to the improvised transport systems whereby individuals activate informal networks of friends, acquaintances, and even strangers to deliver letters, parcels, documents, money, and other material goods to family members and others who liv