Threading Time. Archiving Traces: Cripping Disability Narratives through an Archival and Counter-Archival Exhibition
Jay Afrisando
Lecture
Sat., 14.11.2026
12:00–13:00
Angie Stardust Foyer
Free entry
In English with simultaneous translation into German and German Sign Language (DGS)
Despite advocacy at institutional and societal levels, disability in Indonesia continues to be stigmatized, medicalized, and treated as an object of pity or a segregated identity. While legal, academic, and social interventions have sought to challenge these perceptions, artistic practices have played a distinctive role in contributing to structural change. The archival and counter-archival exhibition Menaut Waktu. Merekam Jejak. (Threading Time. Archiving Traces.), curated by Jay Afrisando, Ba(WA)yang Production, Teater Braille, and Sedikit Terlibat, explores how disability has been understood and represented in Indonesia, from the pre-colonial period to independence and the present. (Threading Time. Archiving Traces.), initiated by Jay Afrisando in collaboration with Ba(WA)yang Production, Teater Braille, SAPDA, and Sedikit Terlibat, explores how disability has been understood and represented in Indonesia, from the pre-colonial period to independence and the present.