Garden Amidst the Flame
Synopsis
Garden Amidst the Flame continues an ongoing research into the ancient knowledge, technologies, and cosmology of the Minahasa, an Indigenous nation in the North Sulawesi province of Indonesia. In this most recent work, the artist emphasizes core Minahasa cultural beliefs in the all-encompassing equilibrium between the human and nonhuman. Drawing on her experience of karai, a ceremony that grants Minahasan warriors an armour of invincibility, the artist seeks to establish a queering approach towards gender, youth, and ecology.
Schedule
1st Screening
5 December 2023, 13:00 GMT+7
2nd Screening
8 December 2023, 18:40 GMT+7
Credits
Natasha Tontey
Natasha Tontey is an Indonesian artist. Her artistic practice predominantly explores the fictional accounts of the history and myths surrounding “manufactured fear”. In her practice, she observes any possibilities of other futures that are projected not from the perspective of major and established institutions, but a subtle and personal struggle of the outcasted entities and beings. Her recent exhibitions including solo show at Auto Italia, London (2022) and group shows at Singapore Biennale (2022), GHOST;2565 (2022), Protozone8 Queer Trust (2022), Arko Art Council Seoul (2022), Leeum Museum of Art (2022), transmediale (2021), Singapore International Film Festival (2021), and Asian Film Archive (2021).
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