Episode 2: Family to Nation

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For Episode 2 we travel to Indonesia and revisit a conversation between Arif Furquan and Akshay Mahajan which was recorded during the 3rd edition of the Jakarta International Photo Festival(JIPFEST). Arif takes us through his exhibition ‘Family to Nation’ and his collaborative project with Reza Kutjh titled ‘Unhistoried’ which aims to activate the Indonesian family archive, as a means to re-examine, challenge, and decenter history writing.

About Arif Furqan

Arif Furqan, educator and researcher working with photography and visual art. He has been experimenting various approaches utilizing photography and other mediums exploring the issue of family, memory, history, and mobility. He is also a part of Flock Project, a collective exploring the possibilities of photographic works through printed matters. In 2021, he received the Prince Claus Seed Award on the project Unhistoried—an archive-based project on Indonesian family photograph and archive during the New Order Regime (1960-1990s). Now, he is currently doing research and artistic project on the vernacular memory and memory landscape on Indonesian New Order era.

2:05

Dori and People of Clay 

3:52

Arif Furqan 

 4:04

 JIPFEST

4:49

Family to Nation

5:22

President Sukarno's speech at the Bandung Conference (1955) 

13:18

Indonesian Massacre and Coup of 1965

15:44

Abri Masuk Desa - Endang S Taurina (1982)

22:09

Vernacular Social Club

22:20

Photo Vault Podcast

22.36

JOJO Library

 23:12

Indonesian Embassy's video letter to the United States (1955)

Hosted by
Adira Thekkuveettil - https://www.adirathekkuveettil.com
Akshay Mahajan - https://akshaymahajan.in
Kaamna Patel - https://kaamna.com 

Supported by PhotoSouthAsia and Art South Asia Project 
Produced by Editions JOJO

Special thanks to Dayanita Singh 

This podcast is meant to serve as an educational resource and all the recordings used in the episodes are for the purpose of supporting the research.