Julia Sarisetiati
Born 1981 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Graduated from the Arts and Design Faculty of Trisakti
University with a photography degree. She is part of ruangrupa, an artist collective established
in 2000 in Jakarta. The collective co-runs Gudskul, an informal educational
platform for art practitioners, in which Sari teaches a course entitled ‘Collective Sustainability.’
A major focus of her artistic practice is the ecosystem of the Indonesian migrant
workforce and the sustainability thereof.
Some of her major exhibits / projects include:
Siasat (Jakarta Biennale, 2013); Hacking Urban
Reality Series, (Copenhagen, 2016); We’re
in this, together (The Factory Contemporary
Art Space, Saigon, 2018); Migration: Speaking
Nearby (Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, 2019)
and Choreographed Knowledges (Cemeti Institute
for Art and Society, Yogyakarta, 2019).
In 2017, she became a curator of the media
art festival OK.Video, exhibiting works on the
theme of ‘pangan’ (food), which developed ideas into laboratory-based research projects
to demonstrate and explore their economic
and social sustainability.
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