Talk:Alia Swastika

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Alia Swastika is the leading contemporary art curator in Indonesia.

Alia Swastika was born in Yogyakarta, 1980. She graduated from Communication Department Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta. In 2000, she joined KUNCI Cultural Studies Center to promote and to emerge cultural studies discourses in Indonesia. Within 2000 - 2004, Alia was actively published her essays in academic journals and presented her research in seminars and workshop. In 2002-2004, she worked as associate editor for SURAT newsletter, a magazine for visual art published by Cemeti Art Foundation, that encouraged her to work as a curator in Cemeti Art House. As a artistic manager, she was a member of curatorial team in this well-known alternative space, and organize most of the exhibitions in recent two years. Until now, she is still writing for many mass media with the main interests on arts, gender and identity.

In 2005, with a grant from Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF), she joined staff exchange programme in UfaFabrik, Berlin, Germany. In 2006, she received a grant from Asian Cultural Council to conduct a research and internship at The Asia Society, New York. During 4 years working at the Cemeti Art House, she has curated at least 11 exhibition each year.

Swastika co-curated the first Biennale Jogja XI with Suman Gopinath (India). The Biennale Jogja XI / Equator # 1, was the first in a series of five international biennales to take place in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, aimed at exploring Indonesia’s cultural engagement with the participating countries. Shadow Lines, the first edition, included forty artists from Indonesia and India collaborating in the exhibition that opens on 26 November 2011. Shadow Lines suggests imaginary lines that draw people together and pull them apart; it also refers to geo-political borders and the creation of modern states in South Asia. With its overarching theme of ‘religiosity, spirituality and belief’ will attempt to present ways in which artists from the two countries address and interpret their contemporary conditions, informed by their personal experiences, as also by the political structures of the countries they live in. The Biennale Jogja XI, aimed to open up new perspectives and develop confrontations that engage convention and the establishment by examining similar situations all over the world.

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As a German reader, I flinch when I read her name. Is this her true name, or is this some sort of stage name, does anyone know? If the former, obviously it's no fault of hers and not much she can do about it; it may be a totally harmless word in the language of her country. If the latter, I would like to know more about the background of her decision to choose this name, and how she was able to do an exchange program to Germany with that name. --2003:C0:8F34:B800:419D:3523:207B:FC3D (talk) 10:47, 24 February 2021 (UTC)