documenta fifteen: Dreaming of a New Cartography
about 19 months ago (09/27/2022)
documenta fifteen: Dreaming of a New Cartography | ArtsEquator Skip to content Alia Swastika, the Director of the Jogja Biennale, offers a bold analysis of ruangrupa’s documenta fifteen, one that frames their artistic direction as an opening of new pathways that are long overdue. Indonesian collective ruangrupa successfully introduced the global art world to the value of resource sharing and collective imagination through lumbung , the core curatorial concept at documenta fifteen, which opened on 18 June 2022, and ended two days ago, after it’s 100 day run. Lumbung is positioned as the metaphor for a community’s self-sufficiency—the local knowledge produced and practiced long before colonialism and modernisation—that had been threatened by various parties, including state and religious institutions.