Art does not merely articulate an artist’s personal expression but is often inseparable from a larger historical, political, and geographical context.

To kick off the 2024 Museum MACAN public programs, artist/researcher Tintin Wulia presents a performance lecture and discussion session, Memory is Frail (and Truth Brittle).

Exhibited as 115 illustrations drawn with charcoal and graphite, Memory is Frail (and Truth Brittle) presents a connection between major world events scattered across different times and places, and how these events are recollected by humans.

As the subject navigates through ideas surrounding reality, frailty of memory, and human geography and history, Wulia interrogates what we believe to be reality is constructed largely from our sensory perception, state-sanctioned histories, and fragile memories of humans.

Saturday, 13 January 2024 at 02.00–03.30 PM at Ruang Gagasan Museum MACAN-ERHA

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The performance lecture will also be available for livestreaming through Museum MACAN's YouTube channel.

This discussion will be conducted in English.

Tintin Wulia is an Indonesian/Australian artist/researcher at HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Practicing transnationally, she has been examining the complexities of borders for more than two decades. Tintin Wulia 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.

Tintin has contributed to over 200 international exhibitions and publications, including Istanbul Biennale (2005), Moscow Biennale (2011), Gwangju Biennale (2012), Sharjah Biennale (2013), and Chicago Architecture Biennial (2021). Her works are also part of prominent public collections worldwide including the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, and He Xiangning Art Museum. In 2017, Tintin represented Indonesia with a solo pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale.