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Laut Loud’s fourth and fifth seasons were filmed during last year’s voyage across Sulawesi and Maluku. Then Arka Kinari sailed directly to Australia instead of taking the usual monsoon break, delaying the editing and release. Welcome to the first episode, and Laut Loud is going weirder than ever. I think of Laut Loud as the opposite of TikTok. It is a strike against short attention spans,…

After moving this ship sixty-thousand nautical miles, stopping in twenty-five nations, from the tropics towards both poles, our ragged sails could no longer hold up to the wind and had to be replaced. But they will instead keep on traveling as massive works of visual art.

The six sails will be painted by artists…

On our voyage, every invitation is a ‘rezeki’, a blessing and material abundance. As Javanese, we should not refuse a rezeki. We express this in our daily lives, such as considering dust as a rezeki. That means, when sweeping our house, we don’t sweep them outward, instead, we sweep them inward to honor the rezeki that has entered our house.

Three years ago, while sailing in the difficult…

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…

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…

Introduction to FoAM's edited reader and guide to the wabi-sabi route, which dwells with the transient, incomplete, and unnoticed.

This route allows you to wander and observe. Watching, abiding, it’s a chance to defer the temptation to intervene, and let things unfold. An invitation to seek out places of…

The northern tip of Sulawesi island was a zenith of both geography and intensity. It was here that we experienced both the warmest welcome and the worst corruption.

I didn’t want to share this story. Thinking about what happened that morning still contorts my stomach into knots. But I should at least salvage a story from this wreck.

First, let’s rewind to this paragraph from from my earlier writing on Makassar:

"The first twenty-five nautical miles of the route from Makassar to Pare-Pare is a minefield of tiny islands, sandbars and submerged coral…

Design Decode "shares the stories of people that genuinely disrupt existing, broken systems or services acting as positive agents of change." This week we had two inspiring conversations with their Founder & Editor-in-Chief Michela Ventin:

Interview with Maja & Nik: FoAM's Founders on Cultivating Transdisciplinary Futures: A Journey into Speculative Cultures.

Interview with Theun: From unseen…

One day, I was sleeping in front of the television beside my grandma from my mom's side. In the middle of the night, somebody came to our house; it was her younger brother from the island of the boogeyman, Sulawesi. I heard he was a womanizer, yet he had a twin brother who was a crocodile that was very loyal to his lifetime partner. Completely opposite personalities.

Whoever hears this…