Tintin Wulia
Postdoktor
Om Tintin Wulia
Tintin Wulia is an internationally practising artist/researcher who joined the University of Gothenburg in 2018 with a Postdoctoral Fellowship in design, craft and society with a focus on migration at the Centre on Global Migration (CGM). During the postdoc she worked interdepartmentally with HDK-Valand/Academy of Art and Design and the School of Global Studies (2018-2020). She currently works with HDK-Valand as a Research Project Leader of the Swedish Research Council funded Protocols of Killings: 1965, distance, and the ethics of future warfare (2021-2023). Protocols of Killings probes the connection between violence, distance and accountability by linking the protocols surrounding the Indonesian 1965-66 massacres – as a form of hyperdistant killings – with drone warfare’s technologies of the future.
Links to current web presence and publications
Research areas
• 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 | 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
Wulia's practice-based research pivots on the complexities of borders. Initially trained as a musician/film composer and architectural engineer in the USA and Indonesia, she works with video, installation, telematics, drawing, painting, sound, dance, text, performance and public interventions, often engaging the audience as participants in her works.
Wulia is a member of the editorial board of the AAG journal GeoHumanities; a peer assessor for Arts Queensland; initiator and member of the Make Your Own Passport network at CGM; co-founder of 1965 Setiap Hari; member of the research group Power, Resistance and Social Change; and an interlocutor for the project Images, (In)visibilities, and Work on Appearances at the Graduate Institute (IHEID).
Publications overview and other fellowships
Wulia has exhibited in major international exhibitions such as Istanbul Biennale (2005), Jakarta Biennale (2009), Moscow Biennale (2011), and Sharjah Biennale (2013) amongst others. Her works are part of significant collections worldwide including at He Xiangning Art Museum, China, and the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, the Netherlands. Wulia represented Indonesia at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017) with a solo pavilion on atrocity and secrecy.
Wulia's PhD (RMIT University, 2014) Aleatoric Geopolitics: art, chance and critical play on the border focused on iconic objects from the border. 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.
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Migration: Editorial
Introduction
Erling Björgvinsson, Nicholas De Genova, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Tintin Wulia
PARSE Journal - 2020-01-01 -
Art &
Migration
Erling Björgvinsson, Nicholas De Genova, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Tintin Wulia
PARSE Journal - 2020-01-01 -
Subtext - after Kawara’s Title,
1965
Tintin Wulia
Baik Art Residency Exhibition Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, NC, USA. - 2019-01-01 -
Some Memory
Prevails
Tintin Wulia
Tintin Wulia: Memory is Frail (and Truth Brittle), Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, 29 November – 21 December 2019 - 2019-01-01 -
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 - 2019-01-01 -
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 - 2019-01-01 -
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 - 2019-01-01 -
Make Your Own
Passport
Tintin Wulia
27 October 2018 at Gothenburg Design Festival, Sweden 6 December 2018 at First Thursdays: Tintin Wulia, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia - 2018-01-01 -
Dos
Cachuchas
Tintin Wulia
8 September - 11 November 2018 Exhibition Language is the only homeland at Nest, Den Haag, the Netherlands - 2018-01-01 -
Proposal for a Film: Within the Leaves, a Sight of the
Forest
Tintin Wulia
13-28 October 2018, at Festival for the People, Philadelphia Contemporary, USA (4th exhibition). Art Basel Hong Kong 2016 (1st exhibition). - 2018-01-01 -
Memory is Frail (and Truth
Brittle)
Tintin Wulia
PRŌTOCOLLUM - 2018-01-01