Life writing and the Making of Companionable Objects: Reflections on Sunaryo's Titik Nadir

Ken George

doi:10.21313/hawaii/9780824837303.003.0003

Life writing and the Making of Companionable Objects: Reflections on Sunaryo's Titik Nadir

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This chapter explores some of the cultural, political, and ethical work of life writing that continues in national and transnational art worlds. In particular, it reviews acclaimed Indonesian artist Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo's Titik Nadir (The Low Point), which portrays the tragedies Indonesia had gone through in 1998. The work is intended to be a public display of the crisis of conscience and confidence. The remainder of the chapter discusses Sunaryo's other works such as: Tawaf, which involved a dramatic, iconoclastic obliteration of Sunaryo's past work as well as Ruang Luka, which alluded to the killings and rapes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Locating Life Stories: Beyond East-West binaries in (auto)biographical studies
Editors	Maureen Perkins
Place of Publication	Honolulu, USA
Publisher	University of Hawaii Press
Pages	35-54
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9780824837303
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824837303.003.0003
Publication status	Published - 2012

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