Press Release Equator Symposium 2022 – “Kuat Akar Kuat Tanah: Trans-National Solidarity and Trans-Local Movements”
The idea of trans-local and trans-historical was raised to make room for another history with the same spirit, even though it is in a region outside the global south. Experience during the First Round of the Biennale Jogja Equator (BJE) showed how important it is to maintain local beliefs and knowledge, skills based on a […]
About Equator Symposium 2022: Kuat Akar Kuat Tanah
Background The Equator Symposium 2022 is vital to mark the shift in the working concept and theme of Biennale Jogja for the next few years. The symposium will facilitate a reflection on the first round of Biennale Jogja Equator series (2011–2021) from which the initial discussion on the second round of the series will be […]
Equator Symposium Online Series 2022
The world is changing, the art is changing. With the new imagination of world cartography that yearns for equality more, how can such a negotiation be read as an offer for a new, more egalitarian, and democratic collaboration between art institutions in various contexts? How do art festivals—biennales, documenta, festivals—respond and are responded to by […]