Tintin Wulia
About Tintin Wulia
Dr Tintin Wulia is a Senior Researcher at HDK-Valand/Academy of Art and Design. She is Principal Investigator of Protocols of Killings: 1965, distance, and the ethics of future warfare (Swedish Research Council-funded, 2021-2023). For her project Things for Politics’ Sake: Aesthetic Objects and Social Change she received the highly competitive ERC Starting Grant (ERC, THINGSTIGATE, 101041284, 2023-2028).
As a transnationally practicing artist/researcher, Wulia has been examining the complexities of borders for more than two decades. She sees the world as an interconnected system – not a borderless world, but a world where entities interface with one another contiguously. Her works through video, sound, paintings, drawings, dance, texts, installation, performance, and public interventions 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).
Her 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 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 urban materiality. 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, liminal death (deaths during mosquitoes' larval and pupal emergence), and wartime specimen collection.
Wulia is a member of the editorial board of the AAG journal GeoHumanities; initiator and member of the Make Your Own Passport network at the Centre on Global Migration, University of Gothenburg; co-founder of 1965 Setiap Hari; member of the research group Power, Resistance and Social Change at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg; Resident Adjunct at the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research; Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Slade School of Fine Art; Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey; and an interlocutor for an SNF-funded research project led by Patricia Spyer, Images, (In)visibilities, and Work on Appearances at the Graduate Institute (IHEID).
Research areas and interests
• materiality • socially engaged art • public art and participatory performance • critical play • migration and the border • aesthetic cosmopolitanism • critical geopolitics • human geography • resistance studies • mobile ethnography • political ecology • peace and development studies • science and technology studies • Indonesian studies
• motifs: passports | mosquitoes (and insects) | maps | death | geometry | cardboard waste | machines
• themes: inclusive citizenship | mobility | chance | iconic consciousness | the anthropocene | identity | Indonesia's Chineseness | Indonesia's 1965 | violence, distance, and accountability | warfare | secrecy | imagination and institution | imagination, memory, and the future
[Profile photo courtesy of Davidson College Art Galleries, NC, USA
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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 -
Arts & Conversation "On
Borders"
Katerina Valdivia Bruch, Alex Brahim, Tintin Wulia
Rethinking Conceptualism - 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 -
The Most International Artist in the Universe
(2011)
Tintin Wulia
Netherlands, Greylight Projects, 28 Aug - 22 Oct 2022 - 2022 -
Make Your Own Passport
(2014)
Tintin Wulia
Sweden, Vetenskapsfestivalen, 4-6 May 2022 - 2022 -
Memory is Frail (and Truth Brittle)
(2019)
Tintin Wulia
Jakarta, Baik Art Jakarta, 16 Nov 2022 - 18 Jan 2023 - 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 -
December
Tintin Wulia
Chicago, 6018North, 4th Chicago Architecture Biennial, 17 Sep - 18 Dec 2021 - 2021 -
Writing 1965 from Memory: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism and the Expanding Spheres of
Citizenship
Tintin Wulia
109th CAA Annual Conference - 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 -
Art and
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 -
Subtext - after Kawara’s Title,
1965
Tintin Wulia
Baik Art Residency Exhibition Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, NC, USA. - 2019 -
Some Memory
Prevails
Tintin Wulia
Tintin Wulia: Memory is Frail (and Truth Brittle), Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, 29 November – 21 December 2019 - 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 -
855 Kilograms of Homes in Another
State
Tintin Wulia
Bruised: Art Action and Ecology in Asia, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 12 Apr 2019-01 Jun 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 -
Make Your Own
Passport
Tintin Wulia
Brisbane, Institute of Modern Art, 2018 - 2018 -
Proposal for a Film: Within the Leaves, a Sight of the
Forest
Tintin Wulia
Hong Kong, Art Basel Hong Kong, 2016 - 2018 -
Dos
Cachuchas
Tintin Wulia
8 September - 11 November 2018 Exhibition Language is the only homeland at Nest, Den Haag, the Netherlands - 2018 -
Memory is Frail (and Truth
Brittle)
Tintin Wulia
PRŌTOCOLLUM - 2018 -
Make Your Own
Passport
Tintin Wulia
Gothenburg, Vetenskapsfestivalen, 4-6 May 2022 - 2014