Untold Movements – Act 2 (SPIRAL) "ChicagoDelos"
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Untold Movements – Act 2: When I Doubt My Insanity
"ChicagoDelos"
Tintin Wulia
1 second. (SPIRAL) Circular walk, slowly spiraling into the center.
A series of 'hidden' sounds in circular formation are located in Campo del Ghetto Nuovo (the world's first Jewish ghetto). At the center of the square is a longer sound work, which accompanies this circumambulation.
'Untold Movements' is a series of sound installations that casts light on the geopolitical border as a space imbued with a secret web of displaced lives. Following on from 'Untold Movements - Act 1', the original spoken-word poetry in 'Act 2: When I Doubt My Insanity' grew out of two characters in 1001 Martian Homes, Wulia's solo project at the Indonesian Pavilion, 2017. Tedjabayu and Hersri Setiawan were amongst the political prisoners of Buru Island, Indonesia, indefinitely detained without trial during the Suharto government. During incarceration, Tedjabayu wrote down any general knowledge he could recall to retain his sanity, and Hersri covertly buried his notebooks under a banana tree as writing was banned. This work, placed in Campo del Ghetto Nuovo – the world's first Jewish ghetto – needs to be activated through a journey by the trees in the square, spiraling towards the centre where memories are brought to life.
Voices: Tintin Wulia, Tedjabayu. Stories inspired by Memoar Pulau Buru I (Hersri Setiawan, 2004); Diburu di Pulau Buru (Hersri Setiawan, 2006); and Pearls in a Grass Land: Memoir of a Survivor (Tedjabayu, work in progress).
Tintin Wulia's practice is informed by critical geopolitics. Trained as a composer (BMus, Berklee 1997), architect (BEng, Parahyangan 1998) and artist (PhD, RMIT 2014), her Creative Australia Fellowship 2014-2016 focuses on things that traverse borders and link humans. Wulia represented Indonesia at the 57th Venice Biennale with an internetworked project.
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