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Final conference of ImageApp Project
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Flotsam Jetsam Event

Flotsam & Jetsam: ImageApp Project final conference

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Maison de la paix, Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2

Flotsam & Jetsam is the concluding conference of the “Images, (In)visibilities, and Work on Appearances (ImageApp)” project centered around visual artists in port cities and towns across eastern Indonesia, especially Banda and Ternate in Central and North Maluku.

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Flotsam & Jetsam is the concluding conference of the SNSF-funded project Images, (In)visibilities, and Work on Appearances (ImageApp). It centers the work of visual artists, filmmakers, and photographers engaged with port cities in eastern Indonesia, especially Banda and Ternate. From spices to nickel, colonial maps to contemporary activism, the event explores how places marked by extraction and violence speak through image, material, and movement.

The program features exhibitions, film screenings, artist tours, and three roundtables focused on materialities, spaces of encounter, and alternative historicities, culminating in a collective reflection on the theme of “decolonizing the image.”

Program

 

Tuesday, 13 May 2025

10:00 – 12:00: Tour of the artworks with participating artists at the FAB and Salon Davis (IHEID).

14:15 – 16:00: First Session: Materialities – Auditorium A2

This session explores artistic craft and visual experimentation through work that repurposes materials from till paper, spices, and discarded wood to archival footage and photography.

 

Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Second Session: Spaces of Encounter – Auditorium A2

10:00 – 12:30: Sensing the Environment: Fire & Nickel
Film screenings and discussion with Aryo Danusiri & Muhammad Fadli on environmental crises in Indonesia.

14:00 – 15:30: Encountering Histories
Presentations by Nancy Jouwe (Mapping Slavery), Wim Manuhutu (colonial maps of Banda), Tintin Wulia (Thingstigate), and reflections on artist-led initiatives in Ternate and Banda.

15:30 – 16:00: Roundtable Discussion

16:30 – 18:00: Dance as Evidence: On Origin, Belonging, and Ownership (2024) – Tintin Wulia

 

Thursday, 15 May 2025

Third Session: Everyday Archives / Alternative Historicities – Auditorium A2

14:15 – 16:00: Film screenings by Timoteus A. Kusno.

16:00 – 18:00: Concluding roundtable and collective reflection on "Decolonizing the Image?"

 

Participants Include

Karen Strassler, Carla Jones, Wim Manuhutu, Nancy Jouwe, Lee Douglas, Tintin Wulia, Laura Coppens, Aryo Danusiri, Muhammad Fadli, Fadriah Syuaib, Ratih Prebatasari, M.S Alwi, Timoteus A. Kusno, Patricia Spyer

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