KUNCI Study Forum & Collective

Setiap praktik merupakan hasil dari tumpukan konteks, kebiasaan, dan referensi yang membentuk pola-pola tertentu. Di Seri 2: “Dekonstruksi Praktik, Cara Berpikir, dan Studi Kasus”, kita akan mencoba membaca ulang dan membongkar kembali apa yang selama ini kita anggap “biasa” dalam berkarya. Sesi ini mengajak kita untuk mendekonstruksi Praktik, menggeser fokus ke proses, dan mengenali titik balik. Melalui diskusi ini, kita tidak hanya melihat karya sebagai objek jadi, tetapi sebagai proses yang terus bergerak dan dipengaruhi oleh konteks sosial serta kultural di sekitar kita. Mari berhenti sejenak untuk mempertanyakan kembali: apakah cara kerja kita selama ini memang pilihan sadar, atau sekadar pola yang belum sempat kita bongkar? Jadwal Sesi: 🗓️ Rabu, 13 Mei 2026 🕖 19:00 - 21:00 WIB 📍 Zoom Meeting Narasumber: Gatari Surya Kusuma, Nuraini Juliastuti, dan Rifki Akbar Pratama (KUNCI Study Forum & Collective) Daftar sekarang melalui: bit.ly/WebinarbersamaKunci

Sering kali kita terjebak pada hasil akhir tanpa sempat berhenti dan bertanya: dari mana sebenarnya titik berangkat kita? Berkarya bukan sekadar urusan teknis atau estetika, melainkan sebuah bentuk reproduksi pengetahuan yang berakar pada posisi dan motivasi personal. Di Seri 1: “Kerangka Berpikir dan Kesadaran Awal”, kita akan menelusuri fondasi paling mendasar dalam praktik kreatif. Sesi ini dirancang untuk mengajak kita membangun kerangka berpikir, mengidentifikasi motivasi, dan membongkar pola linear. Melalui studi kasus dari praktik KUNCI Study Forum & Collective, kita akan melihat bagaimana pengalaman personal pembicara menjadi titik masuk untuk membaca berbagai kemungkinan pendekatan dalam berkarya. Ini adalah ruang untuk mengajukan satu pertanyaan mendasar namun esensial: “Mengapa saya berkarya dengan cara ini?” 🗓️ Rabu, 6 Mei 2026 🕖 19:00 - 21:00 WIB 📍 Zoom Meeting 💵 Rp100.000,-/seri Narasumber: Gatari Surya Kusuma, Nuraini Juliastuti, dan Rifki Akbar Pratama (KUNCI Study Forum & Collective) Daftar sekarang melalui: bit.ly/WebinarbersamaKunci

@cikunci 's new contribution: 'Being Slow and Tender: Becoming KUNCI Through Times and Generations' will come out soon as a part of @framerframed publication 'Notes to Other Futures' marking their more than 15 years of existing and thriving! This contribution engages with KUNCI's institutional recollection and memory as a mirroring process between the becoming of KUNCI and Framer Framed. Conducted in 2022, this piece is a dialogue among five individuals representing the five generations that constitute the collective’s membership: @daulaylama @generalworks_project @chill.walls @staticshelf (former member) and myself. 'Notes to Other Futures' will be launched at Framer Framed's book fair, 23 May 2026. Come by if you happen to be in Amsterdam!

Berkarya sering kali dianggap sebagai tujuan akhir, padahal ia adalah sebuah proses belajar yang tidak pernah benar-benar selesai. Seni bukan sekadar memproduksi objek, melainkan sebuah cara untuk merakit penelitian, tulisan, dan refleksi menjadi sebuah produksi pengetahuan yang lebih luas. Dalam rangkaian webinar bersama KUNCI Study Forum & Collective, kita akan mengeksplorasi serumpun metode alternatif untuk melihat kembali bagaimana pengalaman personal dan narasi yang kita jalani bisa menjadi sumber ilmu yang valid. Berangkat dari praktik di Sekolah Salah Didik, seri ini mengajak kita untuk memikirkan kembali makna “belajar” dan melihat pengetahuan sebagai sesuatu yang terus dinegosiasikan, bukan sekadar diterima. Kita akan membedah proses di balik cara berpikir kritis, memeriksa pengalaman sebagai fondasi karya, dan mempercayai kekuatan narasi yang dijalani secara jujur. Seri Webinar: Seri 1: Kerangka Berpikir dan Kesadaran Awal (6 Mei 2026) Seri 2: Dekonstruksi Praktik, Cara Berpikir, dan Studi Kasus (13 Mei 2026) Seri 3: Artikulasi, Reflektif, dan Spesifikasi Praktik (20 Mei 2026) Narasumber: Gatari Surya Kusuma, Nuraini Juliastuti, dan Rifki Akbar Pratama (KUNCI Study Forum & Collective) 🕖 19:00–21:00 WIB 📍 Zoom Meeting 💵 Rp100.000,-/seri 💵 Rp300.000,-/3 seri Daftar sekarang: bit.ly/WebinarbersamaKunci

Program Conversation ini hadir sebagai agenda satelit dari Yogyakarta Art Book Fair menjelang YKABF 2026: booound. Melanjutkan sesi-sesi tahun lalu, Conversation menciptakan ruang bagi praktisi penerbitan artistik juga penerbit yang diundang untuk berbagi proyek mereka, termasuk proses di balik layar serta refleksi atasnya. Kali ini kami bersama KUNCI Study Forum and Collective menjamu Sungil Noh dari Sojanggak dan Yunji Gong dari Proyek Wallace Line untuk berbagi bersama. Catat tanggalnya dan bergabunglah bersama kami! #YKABF2026 #booound #satelitteprogram #ykabf

Deriving from the assemblages of archival praxis within the Southeast Asian-based Under The Banana Tree Archival Network, the inaugural zine, 'Archival Fragments' brings together multiple contributions in the forms of illustrations, texts, printed materials, images, and objects. The publication also reflects on a practical podcast-making process, community-based engagements and offers tools for collective learning that evoke the idea of the archive as methodology. Through these fragments, the zine invites readers to engage with archives not merely as repositories, but as living practices of knowledge-making and exchange. Kindly disseminate the zine (Link is also in the bio): 🔗 /?p=1685 Zine layout by @mokamochaink & Cover Design by @syarifahnadhirah .

‼️ For those in Bangkok, mark your schedule 📅 Saturday. 28 Feb 2026 Join us for a public seminar entitled 'Records of Resistance: Looking Through writing of Political Prisoners and Stories of Torture Survivors' alongside fellow panellists: i) @tyrellcaroline (Plaenert-Bascom Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison) ii) Anchana Heemmina (Duayjai Association for Humanitarian Affairs, Thailand) iii) @fatianadia (@ruas.indonesia , Indonesia). The session will be moderated by Anon Chawalawan (@museum_of_popular_history ) ℹ️ In drawing attention to multiple forms of archival resources: from letters, writing materials, testimonials and lived experiences of political detainees and torture survivors, how does such materials provide transnational insights to the socio-political contexts in the region? What goes behind the process of confronting the traumatic past, present and future in the region? How do we perceive the challenges in disseminating such materials in the struggle for truth and reconciliation? ℹ️ Also, join us for an archival showcase from the members of Under The Banana Tree Archival Network from 15:00 - 17:00. 🕡 i) Archival Showcase: 15:00 - 17:00 ii) Public Seminar: 17:30 PM (Bangkok Time) 🏠 Location — In-person at Student Christian Centre: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Qv41jzVpXeJTuqR8A

𝒯𝑜 𝒜𝓇𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒫𝓇𝑒𝓈𝑒𝓃𝓉, 𝒲𝑒 𝒩𝑒𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝐻𝑜𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝐹𝓊𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒫𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝒮𝒾𝓂𝓊𝓁𝓉𝒶𝓃𝑒𝑜𝓊𝓈𝓁𝓎: Community History Projects and KUNCI’s Collective Editorial Process ⏰Wednesday, 25th February, 4 pm to 6 pm 📍Infra•Practice, Chiang Mai, Thailand (DM for address) By: Syafiatudina (on site) and Nuraini Juliastuti (via Zoom) Since its establishment in 1999, Kunci, together with other alternative spaces, has developed many community history projects in direct response to the flourishing of civil society spaces in post-authoritarian Indonesia. This was especially important because history lessons in schools were heavily regulated under the New Order regime. Seizing the means of historicization has become part of a larger project of self-determination, autonomy, and the decentralization of knowledge production. More than 25 years later, the government has echoed a similar authoritative tendency to control historical narratives by soon publishing a “correct” history book that would erase many cases of state violence in Indonesia. What needs to be done differently this time? We would like to open this discussion with attendees while reflecting on Kunci’s selected past projects. We also invite others to share past work on historicization from below and community history. *** ᴀᴄᴄᴇꜱꜱɪʙɪʟɪᴛʏ: ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴘᴀᴄᴇ ɪꜱ ᴏɴ ɢʀᴏᴜɴᴅ ꜰʟᴏᴏʀ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀ ᴡʜᴇᴇʟᴄʜᴀɪʀ ꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅʟʏ ʀᴀᴍᴘ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ᴏᴜᴛᴅᴏᴏʀ ᴜᴘ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰʀᴏɴᴛ ᴅᴏᴏʀ. ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ’ꜱ ᴀ ꜱʜᴏʀᴛ ᴘᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ɢrᴀꜱꜱ ᴘᴀᴛʜᴡᴀʏ ʟᴇᴀᴅɪɴɢ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴀɪɴ ᴇɴᴛʀᴀɴᴄᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴅɪɴɢ.

Hi! This event is postponed due to health reasons. soso has unfortunately been living with a herniated disc in her lower back for some years, the nature of this long term injury is never knowing when a flare up will happen which happens to take place now. New date coming soon. Thank you for understanding. // Hai! Acara ini ditunda karena alasan kesehatan. Selama ini soso memiliki kondisi hernia diskus atau saraf terjepit dengan rasa sakit yang dapat muncul sewaktu-waktu, seperti saat ini. Tanggal dan waktu baru akan segera diumumkan. Terima kasih atas pengertiannya.

[Acara ditunda. Cek post setelah ini untuk informasi lebih lanjut.] Jumat, 13 Februari, pukul 15.30 - 18.00 WIB di KUNCI Study Forum & Collective Ngadinegaran MJ 3/100, Mantrijeron, Yogyakarta Bagaimana "berkumpul" menjadi bersama-sama? Apa yang dipertaruhkan ketika berkumpul menjadi sebuah metode? Kita akan merefleksikan pertanyaan-pertanyaan ini dan banyak lagi melalui karya-karya soso brafield. soso brafield adalah seniman, pendidik, dan penulis yang berbasis di Bergen, Norwegia. Berkumpul adalah tema menyeluruh dalam praktiknya. Dari yang fisik seperti membuat ruang berkumpul hingga yang bersifat sementara yaitu mengumpulkan orang. Praktiknya mendorong audiens melalui partisipasi untuk merefleksikan masyarakat, interaksi dan proses di mana individu dan dan sekitarnya saling membentuk. Untuk residensi soso di Jogja, yang diselenggarakan bersama Syafiatudina dan KUNCI, ia saat ini sedang mengeksplorasi jalur air dan kehidupan di sekitarnya melalui suara dan percakapan. Dalam presentasi di KUNCI ini, soso akan berbagi proyek-proyek sebelumnya sembari membahas pertanyaan-pertanyaan dari proses penelitiannya saat ini. Diskusi akan dilakukan dalam Bahasa Inggris dan dipandu oleh Syafiatudina. Terjemahan ke/dari Bahasa Indonesia akan tersedia, untuk merangkum presentasi dan sesi tanya jawab.

𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘆𝗮 𝗞𝘂𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗮 / 𝗞𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗜 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘂𝗺 & 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲, 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗧𝗠 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝘅𝘁𝗵 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗞𝗧𝗠! Gatari Surya Kusuma, often called Gatari, lives and works in Bali. After graduating from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in 2016, she has been actively involved in research and curation. Most of her research and curation practices focus on issues of food, collectivism, art criticism, and archives. She explores collaborative learning experiments and action research methods with her collective, KUNCI Study Forum & Collective. She is also a member of the Bakudapan Food Study Group collective, working and learning about food issues, ecology, and artistic practices. Additionally, she serves as part of the curatorial team for Struggles for Sovereignty, a curatorial platform focused on ecology and activist art. In 2023, she launched an artistic research platform called Seaweed Etcetera, documenting ecological changes in coastal areas. KUNCI experiments with methods in producing and sharing knowledge through the acts of studying together at the intersections between affective, manual and intellectual labor. Since its founding in 1999 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, KUNCI has been continuously transforming its structure, ways and medium of working. Initially formed as a cultural studies study group, at present KUNCI’s practices emphasize on collectivizing study, by way of making-space, discussion, library, research, publishing, press and school-organizing. KUNCI traverses and connects institutional, disciplinary and local boundaries. KUNCI’S membership is based on friendship and informality, as well as self-organized and collaborative principles. 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟭𝟰 - 𝗗𝗲𝗰 𝟭𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

Our recent ‘Care and Repair’ research took us to Yogyakarta as part of our wider Southeast Asia research, where we were privileged to collaborate with three artist collectives @bakudapan , @cikunci and sejawat merawat, in a workshop about the significance of rest and regeneration practices in sustaining artist collectives. Together, we reflected on the different meanings, contexts, and politics of ‘rest as care’. We unpacked what it means to rest individually and collectively, the way different spaces can condition possibilities for care, , how we show care, and why it matters. Sharing a quote from our friends @bakudapan @cikunci and sejawat merawat: “To care is to move slowly, humbly—to allow mistakes and hold space for them. It often acts in silence, yet it is as revolutionary as the quiet dream of a sustainable, inclusive, creative and just world.”