Wulan Dirgantoro is a researcher of modern and contemporary Indonesian art. She is currently a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne, Australia. Wulan is the author of Feminisms and Contemporary Art in Indonesia: Defining Experiences (Amsterdam University Press, 2017). Her research interests are on feminism, gender, memory and trauma in Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art. Her writings have been published in various publications in Indonesia, Australia, Japan and Europe. Together with Michelle Antoinette, Wulan co-curated the exhibition “Shaping Geographies: Art I Women I Southeast Asia” (2019-2020) that highlighted recent contemporary art practices by Southeast Asian women artists.
Stop by our Colloquium page for our much anticipated interview with Wulan, as she joins us for a discussion on plant life, Contemporary Indonesian art, and Political prisoner Mia Bustam.