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When the flood is over

2025-08-23T08:59:44Z

Rachelksurijata:

[[File:SSN - MON BWF 00027.jpeg|500px|right|thumb|Photo of artists working on the diorama in Monas (ca.1970). Courtesy of Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso]]

==About this articulation==
''When the flood is over'' begins with a question of conservation: how to conserve the extraordinary, vast cycle of dioramas at Museum Sejarah Nasional, located in the underground of Monumen Nasional. These dioramas were made under the supervision of Indonesia’s eminent sculptor Edhi Sunarso (1932-2016) during the 1960s and 1970s and narrate the coming into being of the Indonesian people, Sunarso’s diorama-making involved huge teams of young sculptors and prominent painters following elaborate textual guidance generated by a collective of historians. Pak Edhi himself had stated to President Sukarno that the materials he used to make the dioramas would only last for two decades.

In 2007, an attempt to revisit and revise the dioramas and their conservation was initiated by a collective of historians but nothing proceeded. Recently, an open call was made for architects to propose ‘an update’ of the Museum Sejarah Nasional, including a renewal of the dioramas. Anticipating a careless—or, even worse, ahistorical—move in the name of rejuvenation, ''When the flood is over'' is an independent attempt to conserve these dioramas made in the turmoil of a huge political shift in the mid 1960s. Initiated and worked on by a group of civilians working in solidarity, ''When the flood is over'' is also the realisation that it will be a long-term—if not never-ending—DIY process of copying the diorama figures by hand, one diorama at a time, to slowly generate sets of the dioramas to be stored in the Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, in Yogyakarta.

''When the flood is over'' is a meditation on histories. It is also a meditation on pedagogy – learning history, learning to make and re-make, learning to think across generations and archaeologies of time.''When the flood is over'' dwells on words: on proclamations, writing, speaking, re-telling, and on the processes of making, they precipitate. It follows the complex ways that these processes of making are also entanglements of imagining and re-imagining, within and beyond art.

==When the flood is over: No. 32==

[[File:SSN - Sesudah 32 at MACAN by Ary Jimged Sendy.jpeg|400px|right|thumb|Display at ''Voice against reason'', Museum MACAN (Jakarta). Photo by Ary "Jimged" Sendy]]

:2023
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, Hyphen—, Tom Nicholson with Ary “Jimged” Sendy, Aufa Ariaputra, Nasikin
:Installation comprising 23 dolls (cast resin figurines) on a table; two HD videos in colour; a second set of dolls for diorama no. 32 along with their moulds, stored at Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso

;Credit:
:[Speakers] Anusapati, Ari Sutondo, JJ Rizal, Mon Mudjiman
:[Sculptors] Telo Studio dan Ady Try Laksono, Andrea Gani Hidayat, Ari Sutondo, Baramasta Iid Ulfitra, Dirga Yudhistira Indrajaya, Hudalil Musttaqim, Mon Mudjiman, Qomari Hidayatulloh
:[Crew] Bagyo, Liemena Sapriya Putra (Teken), Muhamad Berri Mondigir, Sarah Aulia Rudiana, Sarino, Supriyanto (Ncang), Titis Sekar

:Commissioned by Museum MACAN through the support of the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
:Hyphen— acknowledges funding support from Foundation for Arts Initiatives (FfAI).

[[File:SSN - Workshop 32 photo by Julia Sarisetiati.jpeg|400px|right|thumb|Photo by Julia Sarisetiati]]

===When the flood is over No. 32, the workshop===
:Diorama 32. The proclamation of Indonesian independence, 17 August, 1945
:Figure-sculpting workshop
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
:25 September – 2 October 2023

===When the flood is over No. 32, presentations===
* 2023 '''[GROUP EXHIBITION]''' [https://www.museummacan.org/exhibition/voice-against-reason''Voice Against Reason''], MACAN Museum (Jakarta, Indonesia),18 November 2023 – 14 April 2024.

==When the flood is over: No. 44==
:[2025 ongoing project]
:Initiated by Tom Nicholson, Hyphen— and Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso.
:Supported by [https://henry-moore.org/ Henry Moore Foundation] and [https://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg/ Singapore Art Museum].

The second iteration of this project takes as its subject Diorama No. 44, titled ‘The liberation of Irian Jaya, May 1, 1963.’ In this depiction, figures like Emiria Sunassa—painter, royal heir of Tidore, and once-self-declared monarch—disappear into the background of official history, while others like Hurustiati Subandrio, cultural diplomat and early advocate of Indonesia’s anti-colonial positioning, and even Sriyani, both a painter and a diplomat, are absent altogether.

===When the flood is over No. 44, the workshop===

[[File:SSN-Poster open callWeb 44 FIN.jpeg|400px|right|thumb|Open call poster]]

:Diorama 44. The liberation of Irian Jaya, May 1, 1963
:Figure-sculpting workshop
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
:8 - 15 February 2025

More information about the workshop can be found in the booklet, available to download in [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yA_1YOVniyL072eKyjt9POqXpC4Bob-C/view?usp=sharing English] and [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yIXytMdW0g03xRf2rmFSmn2ITt11un-7/view?usp=drive_link Bahasa Indonesia]

File:SSN - MON BWF 00027.jpeg

2025-08-23T08:56:54Z

Rachelksurijata: Foto para seniman sedang menyiapkan patung untuk dipasang pada diorama di Monumen Nasional. Courtesy of Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso

== Summary ==
Foto para seniman sedang menyiapkan patung untuk dipasang pada diorama di Monumen Nasional. Courtesy of Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso

When the flood is over

2025-08-23T08:54:02Z

Rachelksurijata:

[[File:SSN - image from 19770312 KOMPAS Ruang diorama kebanjiran.png|300px|right|thumb|Image from "Ruang diorama kebanjiran, Kunjungan Presiden batal," ''Kompas'', 12 March 1977]]

==About this articulation==
''When the flood is over'' begins with a question of conservation: how to conserve the extraordinary, vast cycle of dioramas at Museum Sejarah Nasional, located in the underground of Monumen Nasional. These dioramas were made under the supervision of Indonesia’s eminent sculptor Edhi Sunarso (1932-2016) during the 1960s and 1970s and narrate the coming into being of the Indonesian people, Sunarso’s diorama-making involved huge teams of young sculptors and prominent painters following elaborate textual guidance generated by a collective of historians. Pak Edhi himself had stated to President Sukarno that the materials he used to make the dioramas would only last for two decades.

In 2007, an attempt to revisit and revise the dioramas and their conservation was initiated by a collective of historians but nothing proceeded. Recently, an open call was made for architects to propose ‘an update’ of the Museum Sejarah Nasional, including a renewal of the dioramas. Anticipating a careless—or, even worse, ahistorical—move in the name of rejuvenation, ''When the flood is over'' is an independent attempt to conserve these dioramas made in the turmoil of a huge political shift in the mid 1960s. Initiated and worked on by a group of civilians working in solidarity, ''When the flood is over'' is also the realisation that it will be a long-term—if not never-ending—DIY process of copying the diorama figures by hand, one diorama at a time, to slowly generate sets of the dioramas to be stored in the Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, in Yogyakarta.

''When the flood is over'' is a meditation on histories. It is also a meditation on pedagogy – learning history, learning to make and re-make, learning to think across generations and archaeologies of time.''When the flood is over'' dwells on words: on proclamations, writing, speaking, re-telling, and on the processes of making, they precipitate. It follows the complex ways that these processes of making are also entanglements of imagining and re-imagining, within and beyond art.

==When the flood is over: No. 32==

[[File:SSN - Sesudah 32 at MACAN by Ary Jimged Sendy.jpeg|400px|right|thumb|Display at ''Voice against reason'', Museum MACAN (Jakarta). Photo by Ary "Jimged" Sendy]]

:2023
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, Hyphen—, Tom Nicholson with Ary “Jimged” Sendy, Aufa Ariaputra, Nasikin
:Installation comprising 23 dolls (cast resin figurines) on a table; two HD videos in colour; a second set of dolls for diorama no. 32 along with their moulds, stored at Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso

;Credit:
:[Speakers] Anusapati, Ari Sutondo, JJ Rizal, Mon Mudjiman
:[Sculptors] Telo Studio dan Ady Try Laksono, Andrea Gani Hidayat, Ari Sutondo, Baramasta Iid Ulfitra, Dirga Yudhistira Indrajaya, Hudalil Musttaqim, Mon Mudjiman, Qomari Hidayatulloh
:[Crew] Bagyo, Liemena Sapriya Putra (Teken), Muhamad Berri Mondigir, Sarah Aulia Rudiana, Sarino, Supriyanto (Ncang), Titis Sekar

:Commissioned by Museum MACAN through the support of the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
:Hyphen— acknowledges funding support from Foundation for Arts Initiatives (FfAI).

[[File:SSN - Workshop 32 photo by Julia Sarisetiati.jpeg|400px|right|thumb|Photo by Julia Sarisetiati]]

===When the flood is over No. 32, the workshop===
:Diorama 32. The proclamation of Indonesian independence, 17 August, 1945
:Figure-sculpting workshop
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
:25 September – 2 October 2023

===When the flood is over No. 32, presentations===
* 2023 '''[GROUP EXHIBITION]''' [https://www.museummacan.org/exhibition/voice-against-reason''Voice Against Reason''], MACAN Museum (Jakarta, Indonesia),18 November 2023 – 14 April 2024.

==When the flood is over: No. 44==
:[2025 ongoing project]
:Initiated by Tom Nicholson, Hyphen— and Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso.
:Supported by [https://henry-moore.org/ Henry Moore Foundation] and [https://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg/ Singapore Art Museum].

The second iteration of this project takes as its subject Diorama No. 44, titled ‘The liberation of Irian Jaya, May 1, 1963.’ In this depiction, figures like Emiria Sunassa—painter, royal heir of Tidore, and once-self-declared monarch—disappear into the background of official history, while others like Hurustiati Subandrio, cultural diplomat and early advocate of Indonesia’s anti-colonial positioning, and even Sriyani, both a painter and a diplomat, are absent altogether.

===When the flood is over No. 44, the workshop===

[[File:SSN-Poster open callWeb 44 FIN.jpeg|400px|right|thumb|Open call poster]]

:Diorama 44. The liberation of Irian Jaya, May 1, 1963
:Figure-sculpting workshop
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
:8 - 15 February 2025

More information about the workshop can be found in the booklet, available to download in [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yA_1YOVniyL072eKyjt9POqXpC4Bob-C/view?usp=sharing English] and [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yIXytMdW0g03xRf2rmFSmn2ITt11un-7/view?usp=drive_link Bahasa Indonesia]

When the flood is over

2025-08-23T08:45:54Z

Rachelksurijata:

[[File:SSN - image from 19770312 KOMPAS Ruang diorama kebanjiran.png|300px|right|thumb|Image from "Ruang diorama kebanjiran, Kunjungan Presiden batal," ''Kompas'', 12 March 1977]]

==About this articulation==
''When the flood is over'' begins with a question of conservation: how to conserve the extraordinary, vast cycle of dioramas at Museum Sejarah Nasional, located in the underground of Monumen Nasional. These dioramas were made under the supervision of Indonesia’s eminent sculptor Edhi Sunarso (1932-2016) during the 1960s and 1970s and narrate the coming into being of the Indonesian people, Sunarso’s diorama-making involved huge teams of young sculptors and prominent painters following elaborate textual guidance generated by a collective of historians. Pak Edhi himself had stated to President Sukarno that the materials he used to make the dioramas would only last for two decades.

In 2007, an attempt to revisit and revise the dioramas and their conservation was initiated by a collective of historians but nothing proceeded. Recently, an open call was made for architects to propose ‘an update’ of the Museum Sejarah Nasional, including a renewal of the dioramas. Anticipating a careless—or, even worse, ahistorical—move in the name of rejuvenation, ''When the flood is over'' is an independent attempt to conserve these dioramas made in the turmoil of a huge political shift in the mid 1960s. Initiated and worked on by a group of civilians working in solidarity, ''When the flood is over'' is also the realisation that it will be a long-term—if not never-ending—DIY process of copying the diorama figures by hand, one diorama at a time, to slowly generate sets of the dioramas to be stored in the Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, in Yogyakarta.

''When the flood is over'' is a meditation on histories. It is also a meditation on pedagogy – learning history, learning to make and re-make, learning to think across generations and archaeologies of time.''When the flood is over'' dwells on words: on proclamations, writing, speaking, re-telling, and on the processes of making, they precipitate. It follows the complex ways that these processes of making are also entanglements of imagining and re-imagining, within and beyond art.

==Iterations==

===When the flood is over: No. 32===

[[File:SSN - Sesudah 32 at MACAN by Ary Jimged Sendy.jpeg|400px|right|thumb|Display at ''Voice against reason'', Museum MACAN (Jakarta). Photo by Ary "Jimged" Sendy]]

:2023
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, Hyphen—, Tom Nicholson with Ary “Jimged” Sendy, Aufa Ariaputra, Nasikin
:Installation comprising 23 dolls (cast resin figurines) on a table; two HD videos in colour; a second set of dolls for diorama no. 32 along with their moulds, stored at Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso

;Credit:
:[Speakers] Anusapati, Ari Sutondo, JJ Rizal, Mon Mudjiman
:[Sculptors] Telo Studio dan Ady Try Laksono, Andrea Gani Hidayat, Ari Sutondo, Baramasta Iid Ulfitra, Dirga Yudhistira Indrajaya, Hudalil Musttaqim, Mon Mudjiman, Qomari Hidayatulloh
:[Crew] Bagyo, Liemena Sapriya Putra (Teken), Muhamad Berri Mondigir, Sarah Aulia Rudiana, Sarino, Supriyanto (Ncang), Titis Sekar

:Commissioned by Museum MACAN through the support of the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
:Hyphen— acknowledges funding support from Foundation for Arts Initiatives (FfAI).

[[File:SSN - Workshop 32 photo by Julia Sarisetiati.jpeg|400px|right|thumb|Photo by Julia Sarisetiati]]

====When the flood is over No. 32, the workshop====
:Diorama 32. The proclamation of Indonesian independence, 17 August, 1945
:Figure-sculpting workshop
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
:25 September – 2 October 2023

====When the flood is over No. 32, presentations====
* 2023 '''[GROUP EXHIBITION]''' [https://www.museummacan.org/exhibition/voice-against-reason''Voice Against Reason''], MACAN Museum (Jakarta, Indonesia),18 November 2023 – 14 April 2024.

----

===When the flood is over: No. 44===
:[2025 ongoing project]
:Initiated by Tom Nicholson, Hyphen— and Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso.
:Supported by [https://henry-moore.org/ Henry Moore Foundation] and [https://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg/ Singapore Art Museum].

The second iteration of this project takes as its subject Diorama No. 44, titled ‘The liberation of Irian Jaya, May 1, 1963.’ In this depiction, figures like Emiria Sunassa—painter, royal heir of Tidore, and once-self-declared monarch—disappear into the background of official history, while others like Hurustiati Subandrio, cultural diplomat and early advocate of Indonesia’s anti-colonial positioning, and even Sriyani, both a painter and a diplomat, are absent altogether.

====When the flood is over No. 44, the workshop====

[[File:SSN-Poster open callWeb 44 FIN.jpeg|400px|right|thumb|Open call poster]]

:Diorama 44. The liberation of Irian Jaya, May 1, 1963
:Figure-sculpting workshop
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
:8 - 15 February 2025

More information about the workshop can be found in the booklet, available to download in [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yA_1YOVniyL072eKyjt9POqXpC4Bob-C/view?usp=sharing English] and [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yIXytMdW0g03xRf2rmFSmn2ITt11un-7/view?usp=drive_link Bahasa Indonesia]

When the flood is over

2025-08-23T08:44:35Z

Rachelksurijata:

[[File:SSN - image from 19770312 KOMPAS Ruang diorama kebanjiran.png|300px|right|thumb|Image from "Ruang diorama kebanjiran, Kunjungan Presiden batal," ''Kompas'', 12 March 1977]]

==About this articulation==
''When the flood is over'' begins with a question of conservation: how to conserve the extraordinary, vast cycle of dioramas at Museum Sejarah Nasional, located in the underground of Monumen Nasional. These dioramas were made under the supervision of Indonesia’s eminent sculptor Edhi Sunarso (1932-2016) during the 1960s and 1970s and narrate the coming into being of the Indonesian people, Sunarso’s diorama-making involved huge teams of young sculptors and prominent painters following elaborate textual guidance generated by a collective of historians. Pak Edhi himself had stated to President Sukarno that the materials he used to make the dioramas would only last for two decades.

In 2007, an attempt to revisit and revise the dioramas and their conservation was initiated by a collective of historians but nothing proceeded. Recently, an open call was made for architects to propose ‘an update’ of the Museum Sejarah Nasional, including a renewal of the dioramas. Anticipating a careless—or, even worse, ahistorical—move in the name of rejuvenation, ''When the flood is over'' is an independent attempt to conserve these dioramas made in the turmoil of a huge political shift in the mid 1960s. Initiated and worked on by a group of civilians working in solidarity, ''When the flood is over'' is also the realisation that it will be a long-term—if not never-ending—DIY process of copying the diorama figures by hand, one diorama at a time, to slowly generate sets of the dioramas to be stored in the Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, in Yogyakarta.

''When the flood is over'' is a meditation on histories. It is also a meditation on pedagogy – learning history, learning to make and re-make, learning to think across generations and archaeologies of time.''When the flood is over'' dwells on words: on proclamations, writing, speaking, re-telling, and on the processes of making, they precipitate. It follows the complex ways that these processes of making are also entanglements of imagining and re-imagining, within and beyond art.

==Iterations==

===When the flood is over: No. 32===

[[File:SSN - Sesudah 32 at MACAN by Ary Jimged Sendy.jpeg|400px|right|thumb|Display at ''Voice against reason'', Museum MACAN (Jakarta). Photo by Ary "Jimged" Sendy]]

:2023
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, Hyphen—, Tom Nicholson with Ary “Jimged” Sendy, Aufa Ariaputra, Nasikin
:Installation comprising 23 dolls (cast resin figurines) on a table; two HD videos in colour; a second set of dolls for diorama no. 32 along with their moulds, stored at Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso

;Credit:
:[Speakers] Anusapati, Ari Sutondo, JJ Rizal, Mon Mudjiman
:[Sculptors] Telo Studio dan Ady Try Laksono, Andrea Gani Hidayat, Ari Sutondo, Baramasta Iid Ulfitra, Dirga Yudhistira Indrajaya, Hudalil Musttaqim, Mon Mudjiman, Qomari Hidayatulloh
:[Crew] Bagyo, Liemena Sapriya Putra (Teken), Muhamad Berri Mondigir, Sarah Aulia Rudiana, Sarino, Supriyanto (Ncang), Titis Sekar

:Commissioned by Museum MACAN through the support of the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
:Hyphen— acknowledges funding support from Foundation for Arts Initiatives (FfAI).

[[File:SSN-PosterLokakaryaDioramaProklamasiFIN Large.jpeg|330px|right|thumb|Open call poster]]
[[File:SSN - Workshop 32 photo by Julia Sarisetiati.jpeg|400px|right|thumb|Photo by Julia Sarisetiati]]

====When the flood is over No. 32, the workshop====
:Diorama 32. The proclamation of Indonesian independence, 17 August, 1945
:Figure-sculpting workshop
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
:25 September – 2 October 2023

====When the flood is over No. 32, presentations====
* 2023 '''[GROUP EXHIBITION]''' [https://www.museummacan.org/exhibition/voice-against-reason''Voice Against Reason''], MACAN Museum (Jakarta, Indonesia),18 November 2023 – 14 April 2024.

----

===When the flood is over: No. 44===
:[2025 ongoing project]
:Initiated by Tom Nicholson, Hyphen— and Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso.
:Supported by [https://henry-moore.org/ Henry Moore Foundation] and [https://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg/ Singapore Art Museum].

The second iteration of this project takes as its subject Diorama No. 44, titled ‘The liberation of Irian Jaya, May 1, 1963.’ In this depiction, figures like Emiria Sunassa—painter, royal heir of Tidore, and once-self-declared monarch—disappear into the background of official history, while others like Hurustiati Subandrio, cultural diplomat and early advocate of Indonesia’s anti-colonial positioning, and even Sriyani, both a painter and a diplomat, are absent altogether.

====When the flood is over No. 44, the workshop====

[[File:SSN-Poster open callWeb 44 FIN.jpeg|400px|right|thumb|Open call poster]]

:Diorama 44. The liberation of Irian Jaya, May 1, 1963
:Figure-sculpting workshop
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
:8 - 15 February 2025

More information about the workshop can be found in the booklet, available to download in [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yA_1YOVniyL072eKyjt9POqXpC4Bob-C/view?usp=sharing English] and [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yIXytMdW0g03xRf2rmFSmn2ITt11un-7/view?usp=drive_link Bahasa Indonesia]

File:SSN-Poster open callWeb 44 FIN.jpeg

2025-08-23T08:43:52Z

Rachelksurijata:

When the flood is over

2025-08-23T08:41:20Z

Rachelksurijata:

[[File:SSN - image from 19770312 KOMPAS Ruang diorama kebanjiran.png|300px|right|thumb|Image from "Ruang diorama kebanjiran, Kunjungan Presiden batal," ''Kompas'', 12 March 1977]]

==About this articulation==
''When the flood is over'' begins with a question of conservation: how to conserve the extraordinary, vast cycle of dioramas at Museum Sejarah Nasional, located in the underground of Monumen Nasional. These dioramas were made under the supervision of Indonesia’s eminent sculptor Edhi Sunarso (1932-2016) during the 1960s and 1970s and narrate the coming into being of the Indonesian people, Sunarso’s diorama-making involved huge teams of young sculptors and prominent painters following elaborate textual guidance generated by a collective of historians. Pak Edhi himself had stated to President Sukarno that the materials he used to make the dioramas would only last for two decades.

In 2007, an attempt to revisit and revise the dioramas and their conservation was initiated by a collective of historians but nothing proceeded. Recently, an open call was made for architects to propose ‘an update’ of the Museum Sejarah Nasional, including a renewal of the dioramas. Anticipating a careless—or, even worse, ahistorical—move in the name of rejuvenation, ''When the flood is over'' is an independent attempt to conserve these dioramas made in the turmoil of a huge political shift in the mid 1960s. Initiated and worked on by a group of civilians working in solidarity, ''When the flood is over'' is also the realisation that it will be a long-term—if not never-ending—DIY process of copying the diorama figures by hand, one diorama at a time, to slowly generate sets of the dioramas to be stored in the Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, in Yogyakarta.

''When the flood is over'' is a meditation on histories. It is also a meditation on pedagogy – learning history, learning to make and re-make, learning to think across generations and archaeologies of time.''When the flood is over'' dwells on words: on proclamations, writing, speaking, re-telling, and on the processes of making, they precipitate. It follows the complex ways that these processes of making are also entanglements of imagining and re-imagining, within and beyond art.

==Iterations==

===When the flood is over: No. 32===

[[File:SSN - Sesudah 32 at MACAN by Ary Jimged Sendy.jpeg|400px|right|thumb|Display at ''Voice against reason'', Museum MACAN (Jakarta). Photo by Ary "Jimged" Sendy]]

:2023
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, Hyphen—, Tom Nicholson with Ary “Jimged” Sendy, Aufa Ariaputra, Nasikin
:Installation comprising 23 dolls (cast resin figurines) on a table; two HD videos in colour; a second set of dolls for diorama no. 32 along with their moulds, stored at Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso

;Credit:
:[Speakers] Anusapati, Ari Sutondo, JJ Rizal, Mon Mudjiman
:[Sculptors] Telo Studio dan Ady Try Laksono, Andrea Gani Hidayat, Ari Sutondo, Baramasta Iid Ulfitra, Dirga Yudhistira Indrajaya, Hudalil Musttaqim, Mon Mudjiman, Qomari Hidayatulloh
:[Crew] Bagyo, Liemena Sapriya Putra (Teken), Muhamad Berri Mondigir, Sarah Aulia Rudiana, Sarino, Supriyanto (Ncang), Titis Sekar

:Commissioned by Museum MACAN through the support of the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
:Hyphen— acknowledges funding support from Foundation for Arts Initiatives (FfAI).

[[File:SSN-PosterLokakaryaDioramaProklamasiFIN Large.jpeg|330px|right|thumb|Open call poster]]
[[File:SSN - Workshop 32 photo by Julia Sarisetiati.jpeg|400px|right|thumb|Photo by Julia Sarisetiati]]

====When the flood is over No. 32, the workshop====
:Diorama 32. The proclamation of Indonesian independence, 17 August, 1945
:Figure-sculpting workshop
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
:25 September – 2 October 2023

====When the flood is over No. 32, presentations====
* 2023 '''[GROUP EXHIBITION]''' [https://www.museummacan.org/exhibition/voice-against-reason''Voice Against Reason''], MACAN Museum (Jakarta, Indonesia),18 November 2023 – 14 April 2024.

----

===When the flood is over: No. 44===
:[2025 ongoing project]
:Initiated by Tom Nicholson, Hyphen— and Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso.
:Supported by [https://henry-moore.org/ Henry Moore Foundation] and [https://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg/ Singapore Art Museum].

The second iteration of this project takes as its subject Diorama No. 44, titled ‘The liberation of Irian Jaya, May 1, 1963.’ In this depiction, figures like Emiria Sunassa—painter, royal heir of Tidore, and once-self-declared monarch—disappear into the background of official history, while others like Hurustiati Subandrio, cultural diplomat and early advocate of Indonesia’s anti-colonial positioning, and even Sriyani, both a painter and a diplomat, are absent altogether.

;When the flood is over No. 44, the workshop
:Diorama 44. The liberation of Irian Jaya, May 1, 1963
:Figure-sculpting workshop
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
:8 - 15 February 2025

More information about the workshop can be found in the booklet, available to download in [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yA_1YOVniyL072eKyjt9POqXpC4Bob-C/view?usp=sharing English] and [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yIXytMdW0g03xRf2rmFSmn2ITt11un-7/view?usp=drive_link Bahasa Indonesia]

File:SSN-PosterLokakaryaDioramaProklamasiFIN Large.jpeg

2025-08-23T08:38:38Z

Rachelksurijata:

When the flood is over

2025-08-23T08:28:47Z

Rachelksurijata:

[[File:SSN - image from 19770312 KOMPAS Ruang diorama kebanjiran.png|300px|right|thumb|Image from "Ruang diorama kebanjiran, Kunjungan Presiden batal," ''Kompas'', 12 March 1977]]

==About this articulation==
''When the flood is over'' begins with a question of conservation: how to conserve the extraordinary, vast cycle of dioramas at Museum Sejarah Nasional, located in the underground of Monumen Nasional. These dioramas were made under the supervision of Indonesia’s eminent sculptor Edhi Sunarso (1932-2016) during the 1960s and 1970s and narrate the coming into being of the Indonesian people, Sunarso’s diorama-making involved huge teams of young sculptors and prominent painters following elaborate textual guidance generated by a collective of historians. Pak Edhi himself had stated to President Sukarno that the materials he used to make the dioramas would only last for two decades.

In 2007, an attempt to revisit and revise the dioramas and their conservation was initiated by a collective of historians but nothing proceeded. Recently, an open call was made for architects to propose ‘an update’ of the Museum Sejarah Nasional, including a renewal of the dioramas. Anticipating a careless—or, even worse, ahistorical—move in the name of rejuvenation, ''When the flood is over'' is an independent attempt to conserve these dioramas made in the turmoil of a huge political shift in the mid 1960s. Initiated and worked on by a group of civilians working in solidarity, ''When the flood is over'' is also the realisation that it will be a long-term—if not never-ending—DIY process of copying the diorama figures by hand, one diorama at a time, to slowly generate sets of the dioramas to be stored in the Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, in Yogyakarta.

''When the flood is over'' is a meditation on histories. It is also a meditation on pedagogy – learning history, learning to make and re-make, learning to think across generations and archaeologies of time.''When the flood is over'' dwells on words: on proclamations, writing, speaking, re-telling, and on the processes of making, they precipitate. It follows the complex ways that these processes of making are also entanglements of imagining and re-imagining, within and beyond art.

==Iterations==

===When the flood is over: No. 32===

[[File:SSN - Sesudah 32 at MACAN by Ary Jimged Sendy.jpeg|400px|right|thumb|Display at ''Voice against reason'', Museum MACAN (Jakarta). Photo by Ary "Jimged" Sendy]]

:2023
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, Hyphen—, Tom Nicholson with Ary “Jimged” Sendy, Aufa Ariaputra, Nasikin
:Installation comprising 23 dolls (cast resin figurines) on a table; two HD videos in colour; a second set of dolls for diorama no. 32 along with their moulds, stored at Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso

;Credit:
:[Speakers] Anusapati, Ari Sutondo, JJ Rizal, Mon Mudjiman
:[Sculptors] Telo Studio dan Ady Try Laksono, Andrea Gani Hidayat, Ari Sutondo, Baramasta Iid Ulfitra, Dirga Yudhistira Indrajaya, Hudalil Musttaqim, Mon Mudjiman, Qomari Hidayatulloh
:[Crew] Bagyo, Liemena Sapriya Putra (Teken), Muhamad Berri Mondigir, Sarah Aulia Rudiana, Sarino, Supriyanto (Ncang), Titis Sekar

:Commissioned by Museum MACAN through the support of the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
:Hyphen— acknowledges funding support from Foundation for Arts Initiatives (FfAI).

====When the flood is over No. 32, the workshop====
:Diorama 32. The proclamation of Indonesian independence, 17 August, 1945
:Figure-sculpting workshop
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
:25 September – 2 October 2023

<gallery widths=300 heights=200">
File:SSN - Workshop 32 photo by Julia Sarisetiati.jpeg
File:SSN - Workshop 32 docu 2 - courtesy of Hyphen—.jpeg
</gallery>

<gallery widths=300 heights=200">
File:SSN - Workshop 32 docu 3 - courtesy of Hyphen—.jpeg
File:SSN - Workshop 32 docu 1 - courtesy of Hyphen—.jpeg
</gallery>

====When the flood is over No. 32, presentations====
* 2023 '''[GROUP EXHIBITION]''' [https://www.museummacan.org/exhibition/voice-against-reason''Voice Against Reason''], MACAN Museum (Jakarta, Indonesia),18 November 2023 – 14 April 2024.

----

===When the flood is over: No. 44===
:[2025 ongoing project]
:Initiated by Tom Nicholson, Hyphen— and Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso.
:Supported by [https://henry-moore.org/ Henry Moore Foundation] and [https://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg/ Singapore Art Museum].

The second iteration of this project takes as its subject Diorama No. 44, titled ‘The liberation of Irian Jaya, May 1, 1963.’ In this depiction, figures like Emiria Sunassa—painter, royal heir of Tidore, and once-self-declared monarch—disappear into the background of official history, while others like Hurustiati Subandrio, cultural diplomat and early advocate of Indonesia’s anti-colonial positioning, and even Sriyani, both a painter and a diplomat, are absent altogether.

;When the flood is over No. 44, the workshop
:Diorama 44. The liberation of Irian Jaya, May 1, 1963
:Figure-sculpting workshop
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
:8 - 15 February 2025

More information about the workshop can be found in the booklet, available to download in [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yA_1YOVniyL072eKyjt9POqXpC4Bob-C/view?usp=sharing English] and [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yIXytMdW0g03xRf2rmFSmn2ITt11un-7/view?usp=drive_link Bahasa Indonesia]

When the flood is over

2025-08-23T08:18:29Z

Rachelksurijata:

[[File:SSN - image from 19770312 KOMPAS Ruang diorama kebanjiran.png|300px|right|thumb|Image from "Ruang diorama kebanjiran, Kunjungan Presiden batal," ''Kompas'', 12 March 1977]]

==About this articulation==
''When the flood is over'' begins with a question of conservation: how to conserve the extraordinary, vast cycle of dioramas at Museum Sejarah Nasional, located in the underground of Monumen Nasional. These dioramas were made under the supervision of Indonesia’s eminent sculptor Edhi Sunarso (1932-2016) during the 1960s and 1970s and narrate the coming into being of the Indonesian people, Sunarso’s diorama-making involved huge teams of young sculptors and prominent painters following elaborate textual guidance generated by a collective of historians. Pak Edhi himself had stated to President Sukarno that the materials he used to make the dioramas would only last for two decades.

In 2007, an attempt to revisit and revise the dioramas and their conservation was initiated by a collective of historians but nothing proceeded. Recently, an open call was made for architects to propose ‘an update’ of the Museum Sejarah Nasional, including a renewal of the dioramas. Anticipating a careless—or, even worse, ahistorical—move in the name of rejuvenation, ''When the flood is over'' is an independent attempt to conserve these dioramas made in the turmoil of a huge political shift in the mid 1960s. Initiated and worked on by a group of civilians working in solidarity, ''When the flood is over'' is also the realisation that it will be a long-term—if not never-ending—DIY process of copying the diorama figures by hand, one diorama at a time, to slowly generate sets of the dioramas to be stored in the Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, in Yogyakarta.

''When the flood is over'' is a meditation on histories. It is also a meditation on pedagogy – learning history, learning to make and re-make, learning to think across generations and archaeologies of time.''When the flood is over'' dwells on words: on proclamations, writing, speaking, re-telling, and on the processes of making, they precipitate. It follows the complex ways that these processes of making are also entanglements of imagining and re-imagining, within and beyond art.

==Iterations==

===When the flood is over: No. 32===

[[File:SSN - Sesudah 32 at MACAN by Ary Jimged Sendy.jpeg|500px|right|thumb|Display at ''Voice against reason'', Museum MACAN (Jakarta). Photo by Ary "Jimged" Sendy]]

:2023
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, Hyphen—, Tom Nicholson with Ary “Jimged” Sendy, Aufa Ariaputra, Nasikin
:Installation comprising 23 dolls (cast resin figurines) on a table; two HD videos in colour; a second set of dolls for diorama no. 32 along with their moulds, stored at Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso

;Credit:
:[Speakers] Anusapati, Ari Sutondo, JJ Rizal, Mon Mudjiman
:[Sculptors] Telo Studio dan Ady Try Laksono, Andrea Gani Hidayat, Ari Sutondo, Baramasta Iid Ulfitra, Dirga Yudhistira Indrajaya, Hudalil Musttaqim, Mon Mudjiman, Qomari Hidayatulloh
:[Crew] Bagyo, Liemena Sapriya Putra (Teken), Muhamad Berri Mondigir, Sarah Aulia Rudiana, Sarino, Supriyanto (Ncang), Titis Sekar

:Commissioned by Museum MACAN through the support of the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
:Hyphen— acknowledges funding support from Foundation for Arts Initiatives (FfAI).

;When the flood is over No. 32, the workshop
:Diorama 32. The proclamation of Indonesian independence, 17 August, 1945
:Figure-sculpting workshop
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
:25 September – 2 October 2023

<gallery widths=300 heights=200>
File:SSN - Workshop 32 photo by Julia Sarisetiati.jpeg
File:SSN - Workshop 32 docu 3 - courtesy of Hyphen—.jpeg
File:SSN - Workshop 32 docu 2 - courtesy of Hyphen—.jpeg
File:SSN - Workshop 32 docu 1 - courtesy of Hyphen—.jpeg
</gallery>

;When the flood is over No. 32, presentations
* 2023 '''[GROUP EXHIBITION]''' [https://www.museummacan.org/exhibition/voice-against-reason''Voice Against Reason''], MACAN Museum (Jakarta, Indonesia),18 November 2023 – 14 April 2024.

----

===When the flood is over: No. 44===
:[2025 ongoing project]
:Initiated by Tom Nicholson, Hyphen— and Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso.
:Supported by [https://henry-moore.org/ Henry Moore Foundation] and [https://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg/ Singapore Art Museum].

The second iteration of this project takes as its subject Diorama No. 44, titled ‘The liberation of Irian Jaya, May 1, 1963.’ In this depiction, figures like Emiria Sunassa—painter, royal heir of Tidore, and once-self-declared monarch—disappear into the background of official history, while others like Hurustiati Subandrio, cultural diplomat and early advocate of Indonesia’s anti-colonial positioning, and even Sriyani, both a painter and a diplomat, are absent altogether.

;When the flood is over No. 44, the workshop
:Diorama 44. The liberation of Irian Jaya, May 1, 1963
:Figure-sculpting workshop
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
:8 - 15 February 2025

More information about the workshop can be found in the booklet, available to download in [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yA_1YOVniyL072eKyjt9POqXpC4Bob-C/view?usp=sharing English] and [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yIXytMdW0g03xRf2rmFSmn2ITt11un-7/view?usp=drive_link Bahasa Indonesia]

File:SSN - Workshop 32 docu 3 - courtesy of Hyphen—.jpeg

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File:SSN - Workshop 32 photo by Julia Sarisetiati.jpeg

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When the flood is over

2025-08-23T07:17:18Z

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==About this articulation==
''When the flood is over'' begins with a question of conservation: how to conserve the extraordinary, vast cycle of dioramas at Museum Sejarah Nasional, located in the underground of Monumen Nasional. These dioramas were made under the supervision of Indonesia’s eminent sculptor Edhi Sunarso (1932-2016) during the 1960s and 1970s and narrate the coming into being of the Indonesian people, Sunarso’s diorama-making involved huge teams of young sculptors and prominent painters following elaborate textual guidance generated by a collective of historians. Pak Edhi himself had stated to President Sukarno that the materials he used to make the dioramas would only last for two decades.

In 2007, an attempt to revisit and revise the dioramas and their conservation was initiated by a collective of historians but nothing proceeded. Recently, an open call was made for architects to propose ‘an update’ of the Museum Sejarah Nasional, including a renewal of the dioramas. Anticipating a careless—or, even worse, ahistorical—move in the name of rejuvenation, ''When the flood is over'' is an independent attempt to conserve these dioramas made in the turmoil of a huge political shift in the mid 1960s. Initiated and worked on by a group of civilians working in solidarity, ''When the flood is over'' is also the realisation that it will be a long-term—if not never-ending—DIY process of copying the diorama figures by hand, one diorama at a time, to slowly generate sets of the dioramas to be stored in the Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, in Yogyakarta.

''When the flood is over'' is a meditation on histories. It is also a meditation on pedagogy – learning history, learning to make and re-make, learning to think across generations and archaeologies of time.''When the flood is over'' dwells on words: on proclamations, writing, speaking, re-telling, and on the processes of making, they precipitate. It follows the complex ways that these processes of making are also entanglements of imagining and re-imagining, within and beyond art.

==Iterations==

===When the flood is over: No. 32===
:2023
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, Hyphen—, Tom Nicholson with Ary “Jimged” Sendy, Aufa Ariaputra, Nasikin
:Installation comprising 23 dolls (cast resin figurines) on a table; two HD videos in colour; a second set of dolls for diorama no. 32 along with their moulds, stored at Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso

;Credit:
:[Speakers] Anusapati, Ari Sutondo, JJ Rizal, Mon Mudjiman
:[Sculptors] Telo Studio dan Ady Try Laksono, Andrea Gani Hidayat, Ari Sutondo, Baramasta Iid Ulfitra, Dirga Yudhistira Indrajaya, Hudalil Musttaqim, Mon Mudjiman, Qomari Hidayatulloh
:[Crew] Bagyo, Liemena Sapriya Putra (Teken), Muhamad Berri Mondigir, Sarah Aulia Rudiana, Sarino, Supriyanto (Ncang), Titis Sekar

:Commissioned by Museum MACAN through the support of the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
:Hyphen— acknowledges funding support from Foundation for Arts Initiatives (FfAI).

;When the flood is over No. 32, the workshop
:Diorama 32. The proclamation of Indonesian independence, 17 August, 1945
:Figure-sculpting workshop
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
:25 September – 2 October 2023

;When the flood is over No. 32, presentations
* 2023 '''[GROUP EXHIBITION]''' [https://www.museummacan.org/exhibition/voice-against-reason''Voice Against Reason''], MACAN Museum (Jakarta, Indonesia),18 November 2023 – 14 April 2024.

----

===When the flood is over: No. 44===
:[2025 ongoing project]
:Initiated by Tom Nicholson, Hyphen— and Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso.
:Supported by [https://henry-moore.org/ Henry Moore Foundation] and [https://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg/ Singapore Art Museum].

The second iteration of this project takes as its subject Diorama No. 44, titled ‘The liberation of Irian Jaya, May 1, 1963.’ In this depiction, figures like Emiria Sunassa—painter, royal heir of Tidore, and once-self-declared monarch—disappear into the background of official history, while others like Hurustiati Subandrio, cultural diplomat and early advocate of Indonesia’s anti-colonial positioning, and even Sriyani, both a painter and a diplomat, are absent altogether.

;When the flood is over No. 44, the workshop
:Diorama 44. The liberation of Irian Jaya, May 1, 1963
:Figure-sculpting workshop
:Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
:8 - 15 February 2025

More information about the workshop can be found in the booklet, available to download in [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yA_1YOVniyL072eKyjt9POqXpC4Bob-C/view?usp=sharing English] and [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yIXytMdW0g03xRf2rmFSmn2ITt11un-7/view?usp=drive_link Bahasa Indonesia]

Sketches, stitches, and negotiations: Unravelling Indonesia’s national history through its visual representations

2025-08-23T05:00:58Z

Rachelksurijata:

[[File:SSN-Museum-Monas-2.jpg|500px|right|thumb|Museum Monas, Jakarta, 2014. Taken by Ary “Jimged” Sendy. Collection of Hyphen— and the artist.]]

==About the research==
[[File:SSN-Van-Lith-School-Jakarta.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Van Lith School, Jakarta, ca. 1960s. Scanned and archived by Hyphen— from the collection of Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso.]]
[[Edhi Sunarso]] may well be the only artist who worked with all regimes, all throughout the time, including after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Suharto_era_in_Indonesia Reformasi]. Artists from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukarno Sukarno]’s era are generally attached, or associated in whatever ways, to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Indonesia Indonesia Communist Party] or its cultural under-bow, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lembaga_Kebudajaan_Rakjat LEKRA]. This means that during [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto Soeharto]’s regime, they would have been either annihilated, silenced, or put in prison, at the very least. Right after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Suharto_era_in_Indonesia Reformasi], artists who worked under the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto Soeharto]: regime would have been skipped from the public reference, as they’d be considered allies to the oppressive and cruel government. So, how could [[Edhi Sunarso|Pak Edhi]] work with all these regimes? While we were chatting with [[Edhi Sunarso|Pak Edhi]], the artisans in his studio were building two state- commissioned monuments. The first was of the nationally acknowledged hero, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diponegoro Diponegoro]; and second, two horses interacting in joy. Both monuments were for the city government of Makassar. Mind you, this was 2014, so almost two decades after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Suharto_era_in_Indonesia Reformasi] and at the fourth president after the military regime was over.

“I made almost all of the dioramas in Indonesia. I made almost all of the dioramas in Indonesia. Firstly, of course, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Monument_(Indonesia) Monas] [Museum Sejarah Nasional/National History Museum in Monumen Nasional/National Monument, in Jakarta],” [[Edhi Sunarso|Pak Edhi]] began his story. Two hours of conversation was not enough. We kept coming back to Pak Edhi with more and more questions and eventually he allowed us to unpack all of his photo albums and boxes of documents. Naturally, we started organizing them to make sense of things. Everything else slowly follows.

[[File:SSN-Jembatan-Merah-Surabaya.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Jembatan Merah, Surabaya, ca. 1960s. Scanned and archived by Hyphen— from the collection of Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso.]]
==Articulations and public encounters==
* 2025 '''[WORKSHOP]''' ''Sesudah banjir itu No. 44'' ([[When the flood is over]] No. 44 ), organised by [[Tom Nicholson]], Hyphen— and Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta), 8 - 15 February. Supported by [https://henry-moore.org Henry Moore Foundation] and [https://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg Singapore Art Museum]
* 2023 '''[GROUP EXHIBITION]''' ''Voice Against Reason'', MACAN Museum (Jakarta, Indonesia),18 November 2023 – 14 April 2024. More information about the exhibition can be found [https://www.museummacan.org/exhibition/voice-against-reason here]
* 2023 '''[WORKSHOP]''' ''Sesudah banjir itu No. 32'' ([[When the flood is over]] No. 32 ), organised by [[Tom Nicholson]], Hyphen— and Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta), 25 September - 2 October.

==Publications==
* 2010 '''[MONOGRAPH]''' ''Edhi Sunarso: Seniman Pejuang'' (''Edhi Sunarso: The Fighter Artist'', in English & bahasa Indonesia), edited by Mikke Susanto, published by CV Hasta Kreatifa Manunggal, Yogyakarta. 320 pp., color, illus., ISBN 9786029704204. [https://opac.isi.ac.id/index.php?p=show_detail&id=43217&keywords=#gsc.tab=0 https://opac.isi.ac.id/index.php?p=show_detail&id=43217&keywords=#gsc.tab=0]

* 2017 '''[JOURNAL]''' ''Towards figures of dedication, and a flood by [[Tom Nicholson]] with [[Grace Samboh]]'', in Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia Volume 1, Number 1, March 2017, NUS Press Pte Ltd. Online ISSN 2425-0147, Print ISSN 2424-9947. Also accessible online, [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/646484#img02 here].

* 2020 '''[MONOGRAPH]''' ''Edhi Sunarso: Penggubah Monumen Bangsa'' (Edhi Sunarso: The nation’s monument-maker), written by [[Grace Samboh]] & [[Ratna Mufida]], published by Pusaka Seni Rupa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Jakarta, Indonesia. Also accesible online, [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zMhGd17pscECe1teTOT-lAP2jcUEAqqW&usp=drive_fs here].

* 2021 '''[GUIDE BOOK]''' ''Truly national: A look to forward to an Indonesian past'', [[Grace Samboh]] & [[Rachel K. Surijata]] (eds.), published by [[Project:About|Hyphen—]], 66 pp., color, illus., ISBN 978-623-96401-1-8. Downloadable [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OjPZ5L28cuL3JiH1rCvIgpQkQLusNQgY&usp=drive_fs here].

* 2021 '''[CATALOGUE]''' ''A nation across the windows that display the national'', [[Grace Samboh]] & [[Rachel K. Surijata]] (eds.), published by [[Project:About|Hyphen—]], 70 pp., color, illus., ISBN 978-623-96401-0-1. Downloadable [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Xv7v_N09c3igyqMdun6d4aysFGrAMBqW&usp=drive_fs here].

==Further reading==
[[File:SSN-Museum-Monas-1.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Museum Monas, Jakarta, 2014. Taken by Ary “Jimged” Sendy. Collection of Hyphen— and the artist.]]
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Sketches, stitches, and negotiations: Unravelling Indonesia’s national history through its visual representations

2025-08-23T05:00:02Z

Rachelksurijata:

[[File:SSN-Museum-Monas-2.jpg|500px|right|thumb|Museum Monas, Jakarta, 2014. Taken by Ary “Jimged” Sendy. Collection of Hyphen— and the artist.]]

==About the research==
[[File:SSN-Van-Lith-School-Jakarta.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Van Lith School, Jakarta, ca. 1960s. Scanned and archived by Hyphen— from the collection of Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso.]]
[[Edhi Sunarso]] may well be the only artist who worked with all regimes, all throughout the time, including after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Suharto_era_in_Indonesia Reformasi]. Artists from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukarno Sukarno]’s era are generally attached, or associated in whatever ways, to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Indonesia Indonesia Communist Party] or its cultural under-bow, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lembaga_Kebudajaan_Rakjat LEKRA]. This means that during [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto Soeharto]’s regime, they would have been either annihilated, silenced, or put in prison, at the very least. Right after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Suharto_era_in_Indonesia Reformasi], artists who worked under the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto Soeharto]: regime would have been skipped from the public reference, as they’d be considered allies to the oppressive and cruel government. So, how could [[Edhi Sunarso|Pak Edhi]] work with all these regimes? While we were chatting with [[Edhi Sunarso|Pak Edhi]], the artisans in his studio were building two state- commissioned monuments. The first was of the nationally acknowledged hero, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diponegoro Diponegoro]; and second, two horses interacting in joy. Both monuments were for the city government of Makassar. Mind you, this was 2014, so almost two decades after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Suharto_era_in_Indonesia Reformasi] and at the fourth president after the military regime was over.

“I made almost all of the dioramas in Indonesia. I made almost all of the dioramas in Indonesia. Firstly, of course, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Monument_(Indonesia) Monas] [Museum Sejarah Nasional/National History Museum in Monumen Nasional/National Monument, in Jakarta],” [[Edhi Sunarso|Pak Edhi]] began his story. Two hours of conversation was not enough. We kept coming back to Pak Edhi with more and more questions and eventually he allowed us to unpack all of his photo albums and boxes of documents. Naturally, we started organizing them to make sense of things. Everything else slowly follows.

[[File:SSN-Jembatan-Merah-Surabaya.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Jembatan Merah, Surabaya, ca. 1960s. Scanned and archived by Hyphen— from the collection of Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso.]]
==Articulations and public encounters==
* 2025 '''[WORKSHOP]''' ''[[Sesudah banjir itu No. 44]]'' (When the flood is over No. 44 ), organised by [[Tom Nicholson]], Hyphen— and Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta), 8 - 15 February. Supported by [https://henry-moore.org Henry Moore Foundation] and [https://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg Singapore Art Museum]
* 2023 '''[GROUP EXHIBITION]''' ''Voice Against Reason'', MACAN Museum (Jakarta, Indonesia),18 November 2023 – 14 April 2024. More information about the exhibition can be found [https://www.museummacan.org/exhibition/voice-against-reason here]
* 2023 '''[WORKSHOP]''' ''Sesudah banjir itu No. 32'' (When the flood is over No. 32 ), organised by [[Tom Nicholson]], Hyphen— and Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta), 25 September - 2 October.

==Publications==
* 2010 '''[MONOGRAPH]''' ''Edhi Sunarso: Seniman Pejuang'' (''Edhi Sunarso: The Fighter Artist'', in English & bahasa Indonesia), edited by Mikke Susanto, published by CV Hasta Kreatifa Manunggal, Yogyakarta. 320 pp., color, illus., ISBN 9786029704204. [https://opac.isi.ac.id/index.php?p=show_detail&id=43217&keywords=#gsc.tab=0 https://opac.isi.ac.id/index.php?p=show_detail&id=43217&keywords=#gsc.tab=0]

* 2017 '''[JOURNAL]''' ''Towards figures of dedication, and a flood by [[Tom Nicholson]] with [[Grace Samboh]]'', in Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia Volume 1, Number 1, March 2017, NUS Press Pte Ltd. Online ISSN 2425-0147, Print ISSN 2424-9947. Also accessible online, [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/646484#img02 here].

* 2020 '''[MONOGRAPH]''' ''Edhi Sunarso: Penggubah Monumen Bangsa'' (Edhi Sunarso: The nation’s monument-maker), written by [[Grace Samboh]] & [[Ratna Mufida]], published by Pusaka Seni Rupa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Jakarta, Indonesia. Also accesible online, [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zMhGd17pscECe1teTOT-lAP2jcUEAqqW&usp=drive_fs here].

* 2021 '''[GUIDE BOOK]''' ''Truly national: A look to forward to an Indonesian past'', [[Grace Samboh]] & [[Rachel K. Surijata]] (eds.), published by [[Project:About|Hyphen—]], 66 pp., color, illus., ISBN 978-623-96401-1-8. Downloadable [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OjPZ5L28cuL3JiH1rCvIgpQkQLusNQgY&usp=drive_fs here].

* 2021 '''[CATALOGUE]''' ''A nation across the windows that display the national'', [[Grace Samboh]] & [[Rachel K. Surijata]] (eds.), published by [[Project:About|Hyphen—]], 70 pp., color, illus., ISBN 978-623-96401-0-1. Downloadable [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Xv7v_N09c3igyqMdun6d4aysFGrAMBqW&usp=drive_fs here].

==Further reading==
[[File:SSN-Museum-Monas-1.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Museum Monas, Jakarta, 2014. Taken by Ary “Jimged” Sendy. Collection of Hyphen— and the artist.]]
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[[File:SSN-Museum-Monas-2.jpg|500px|right|thumb|Museum Monas, Jakarta, 2014. Taken by Ary “Jimged” Sendy. Collection of Hyphen— and the artist.]]

==About the research==
[[File:SSN-Van-Lith-School-Jakarta.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Van Lith School, Jakarta, ca. 1960s. Scanned and archived by Hyphen— from the collection of Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso.]]
[[Edhi Sunarso]] may well be the only artist who worked with all regimes, all throughout the time, including after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Suharto_era_in_Indonesia Reformasi]. Artists from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukarno Sukarno]’s era are generally attached, or associated in whatever ways, to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Indonesia Indonesia Communist Party] or its cultural under-bow, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lembaga_Kebudajaan_Rakjat LEKRA]. This means that during [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto Soeharto]’s regime, they would have been either annihilated, silenced, or put in prison, at the very least. Right after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Suharto_era_in_Indonesia Reformasi], artists who worked under the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto Soeharto]: regime would have been skipped from the public reference, as they’d be considered allies to the oppressive and cruel government. So, how could [[Edhi Sunarso|Pak Edhi]] work with all these regimes? While we were chatting with [[Edhi Sunarso|Pak Edhi]], the artisans in his studio were building two state- commissioned monuments. The first was of the nationally acknowledged hero, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diponegoro Diponegoro]; and second, two horses interacting in joy. Both monuments were for the city government of Makassar. Mind you, this was 2014, so almost two decades after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Suharto_era_in_Indonesia Reformasi] and at the fourth president after the military regime was over.

“I made almost all of the dioramas in Indonesia. I made almost all of the dioramas in Indonesia. Firstly, of course, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Monument_(Indonesia) Monas] [Museum Sejarah Nasional/National History Museum in Monumen Nasional/National Monument, in Jakarta],” [[Edhi Sunarso|Pak Edhi]] began his story. Two hours of conversation was not enough. We kept coming back to Pak Edhi with more and more questions and eventually he allowed us to unpack all of his photo albums and boxes of documents. Naturally, we started organizing them to make sense of things. Everything else slowly follows.

[[File:SSN-Jembatan-Merah-Surabaya.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Jembatan Merah, Surabaya, ca. 1960s. Scanned and archived by Hyphen— from the collection of Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso.]]
==Articulations and public encounters==
* 2025 '''[WORKSHOP]''' ''Sesudah banjir itu No. 44'' (When the flood is over No. 44 ), organised by [[Tom Nicholson]], Hyphen— and Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta), 8 - 15 February. Supported by [https://henry-moore.org Henry Moore Foundation] and [https://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg Singapore Art Museum]
* 2023 '''[GROUP EXHIBITION]''' ''Voice Against Reason'', MACAN Museum (Jakarta, Indonesia),18 November 2023 – 14 April 2024. More information about the exhibition can be found [https://www.museummacan.org/exhibition/voice-against-reason here]
* 2023 '''[WORKSHOP]''' ''Sesudah banjir itu No. 32'' (When the flood is over No. 32 ), organised by [[Tom Nicholson]], Hyphen— and Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso (Yogyakarta), 25 September - 2 October.

==Publications==
* 2010 '''[MONOGRAPH]''' ''Edhi Sunarso: Seniman Pejuang'' (''Edhi Sunarso: The Fighter Artist'', in English & bahasa Indonesia), edited by Mikke Susanto, published by CV Hasta Kreatifa Manunggal, Yogyakarta. 320 pp., color, illus., ISBN 9786029704204. [https://opac.isi.ac.id/index.php?p=show_detail&id=43217&keywords=#gsc.tab=0 https://opac.isi.ac.id/index.php?p=show_detail&id=43217&keywords=#gsc.tab=0]

* 2017 '''[JOURNAL]''' ''Towards figures of dedication, and a flood by [[Tom Nicholson]] with [[Grace Samboh]]'', in Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia Volume 1, Number 1, March 2017, NUS Press Pte Ltd. Online ISSN 2425-0147, Print ISSN 2424-9947. Also accessible online, [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/646484#img02 here].

* 2020 '''[MONOGRAPH]''' ''Edhi Sunarso: Penggubah Monumen Bangsa'' (Edhi Sunarso: The nation’s monument-maker), written by [[Grace Samboh]] & [[Ratna Mufida]], published by Pusaka Seni Rupa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Jakarta, Indonesia. Also accesible online, [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zMhGd17pscECe1teTOT-lAP2jcUEAqqW&usp=drive_fs here].

* 2021 '''[GUIDE BOOK]''' ''Truly national: A look to forward to an Indonesian past'', [[Grace Samboh]] & [[Rachel K. Surijata]] (eds.), published by [[Project:About|Hyphen—]], 66 pp., color, illus., ISBN 978-623-96401-1-8. Downloadable [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OjPZ5L28cuL3JiH1rCvIgpQkQLusNQgY&usp=drive_fs here].

* 2021 '''[CATALOGUE]''' ''A nation across the windows that display the national'', [[Grace Samboh]] & [[Rachel K. Surijata]] (eds.), published by [[Project:About|Hyphen—]], 70 pp., color, illus., ISBN 978-623-96401-0-1. Downloadable [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Xv7v_N09c3igyqMdun6d4aysFGrAMBqW&usp=drive_fs here].

==Further reading==
[[File:SSN-Museum-Monas-1.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Museum Monas, Jakarta, 2014. Taken by Ary “Jimged” Sendy. Collection of Hyphen— and the artist.]]
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