FoAM

03.03.25

My research with FRICTIONS engages with the regulatory frictions encountered by small, sustainably-minded cultural organisations from the standpoint of emancipatory administrative practice. It's the kind of research…

17.10.24 Brave New Alps welcomed Kate Rich as its first Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-2027). Securing the Fellowship represents a significant administrative achievement for Brave New Alps, demonstrating its capabilities to physically host and carry out high-level research as a small non-profit organisation. Fittingly, Kate's…

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, in fact many of this year’s videos don’t demand your visual attention at all. Put them on and let your mind…

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 from each of the six continents that the ship has visited, in a process that brings artists onto the sea and into collaboration with coastal peoples. The completed works can tour and…

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 times of the pandemic, we were welcomed by a man named Om Yance. The son of East Timorese regent during the…

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…

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…

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 enchantment and seclusion, it can support reflection on transitions, liminality, and the often neglected art of bringing things to an end.

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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 reefs. There are three known routes, in descending order of complexity, an inner, a middle, and an outer, - the…