Edwin Jurriëns
Biographic Data
| ID | 181673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edwin Jurriëns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Jurriëns |
| SIGNATURE | JURRIËNS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4207-4529 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The object of nature in Indonesian art: Reconnecting with the environment, reconfiguring the world of art
The challenges of dealing with the Anthropocene are not only environmental but also representational. They concern the lack of human mutuality with other-type ontologies, the extraordinary temporalities and scales of geological phenomena, and the socio-political power structures limiting access to and participation in climate debate and action, among others. This article focuses on artistic revaluations of material objects such as dead animals, r…
How creative art helps us understand & represent nature & climate change
Southeast Asian visual art, film, literature, photography and design help us grapple with the slow unfolding of crises such as rising sea levels, pollution and drought
The potential and risks of environmental storytelling in Southeast Asia
Deeper understanding of planetary crises requires the insights from the arts and Humanities and Social Sciences
Articulating Dayak Indigeneity through Gendered Media, Youth Activism, and Global Connectivities
This article focuses on the Ranu Welum foundation based in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan, an independent youth and media initiative that actively studies and reshapes notions of 'Dayakness'. The foundation seeks to connect with global networks of Indigenous communities and address its environmental, socio-political, and health concerns in the international domain. We pay special attention to the short documentaries directed or produced by its…
The politics of the participatory in Indonesian environmental documentary: The oeuvre of Dandhy Laksono
Indonesian documentary filmmaking has been riding the global wave of unprecedented interest in the creation, distribution and viewing of environmental documentaries. One of the frontrunners is investigative journalist and filmmaker Dandhy Laksono (b. 1976). With his production house, Watchdoc, and other collaborators since the late 2000s, he has created an extraordinary quantity of thought-provoking environmental and sociopolitical documentaries,…
The Art of Environmental Activism in Indonesia: Shifting Horizons
This book analyses the intersections between contemporary art and environmental activism in Indonesia. Exploring how the arts have promoted ecological awareness from the late 1960s to the early 2020s, the book shows how the arts have contributed to societal change and public and political responses to environmental crises. This period covers Indonesia’s rapid urban development under the totalitarian New Order regime (1967–1998) as well as the enh…
Sound Communities in the Asia Pacific: Music, Media, and Technology ed. by Lonán Ó Briain and Min Yen Ong (review)
Reviewed by: Sound Communities in the Asia Pacific: Music, Media, and Technology ed. by Lonán Ó Briain and Min Yen Ong Edwin Jurriëns (bio) Sound Communities in the Asia Pacific: Music, Media, and Technology. Edited by Lonán Ó Briain and Min Yen Ong. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. xiii + 258 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. ISBN: 9781501360053 (hardcover), $130.00; ISBN: 9781501360060 (e-book), $117.00. Sound Communities in th…
Reconnecting with the Urban Vernacular through Post-New Order Visual Art
Indonesia's urbanization and economic development projects during the New Order established regimes of visuality that ignored aspects of everyday urban life. Contemporary Indonesian artists attempt to share untold histories and stories of everyday life from the urban past or give expression to the social and creative challenges and opportunities of the urban present. This article focuses on multimedia artist Maryanto and new media art collective …
The Planet: A Lament for Environmentally Engaged Citizenship
This article focuses on Garin Nugroho’s stage play The Planet: A Lament, which combines song and dance, predominantly from Eastern Indonesia, with video and other visuals that bewail the human destruction of the natural environment. I argue that the performance embodies a call for planetary citizenship that bridges art and spirituality as well as aspects of deep ecology and political ecology. The combination of art and spirituality facilitates in…
Urban transition through Indonesian art: From the Generation of ‘66 to the Millennials
This article discusses the representation of Jakarta and other cities in the work of Indonesian visual artists. These artists document not only urban landscapes as such, but also the ideas, lifestyles and creative forms of expression of different generations of Indonesians, including artists themselves. I argue that the urban visualisations demonstrate the opportunities for and limits to social engagement in Indonesian art at different points in …
Strassler, Karen: Demanding Images. Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia
Anthropos is the international journal of anthropology and linguistics, founded in 1906 by Wilhelm Schmidt, missonary and member of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD). Its main purpose is the study of human societies in their cultural dimension. In honor of Wilhelm Schmidt‘s legacy, the cultivation of anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, and religious studies remain an essential component oft he Anthropos Institute – the organizational carrier…
Asian video cultures: In the penumbra of the global, edited by Joshua Neves & Bhaskar Sarkar
Penumbra, the semi-dark belt that emerges during an eclipse, refers in this book to Asian video ideas and practices that have been ignored, rejected or misunderstood in international academic, lega
The Countryside in Indonesian Contemporary Art and Media: From Distant Horizons to Traversing Drones
This article analyses explorations of social and environmental problems and solutions in artistic representations of the Indonesian countryside and rural society, culture, and wisdom. It focuses on urban-rural creative collaborations that combine traditional culture and knowledge with modern technology and media, such as drones and the Internet, to empower local communities, promote artistic innovation, and enhance environmental sustainability. I…
Art, image and environment: Revisualizing Bali in the Plastiliticum
This article deals with environmental activism in Balinese contemporary art. I demonstrate how young Balinese artists have used their creativity to give visibility and/or audibility to some of the main threats to Bali’s natural, social and cultural environments, including land reclamation projects and plastic waste pollution. I argue that their work is not to be narrowly interpreted as a heuristic device of the environmentalist movement or waste …
Intertwined Ecologies: Environmental Aesthetics in Indonesian Contemporary Art
This article examines engagements with the natural environment in Indonesian contemporary art, with a specific focus on Yogyakarta-based multimedia artist Setu Legi. After discussing various historical models of Indonesian creative engagements with the environment, I argue that Legi’s work deals with environmental problems by personalising the political as well as highlighting political aspects of the personal. Using the work of Félix Guattari an…
Digital Indonesia: Connectivity and Divergence
This book places Indonesia at the forefront of the global debate about the impact of ‘disruptive’ digital technologies. Digital technology is fast becoming the core of life, work, culture and identity. Yet, while the number of Indonesians using the Internet has followed the upward global trend, some groups — the poor, the elderly, women, the less well-educated, people living in remote communities — are disadvantaged. This interdisciplinary collec…
Visual Media in Indonesia: Video Vanguard
In the age of digital communication and global capitalism, people’s mental, social and natural environments are interconnected in complex and often unpredictable ways. This book focuses on the visual media, one of the key factors in shaping the contemporary ecology of colliding environments. Case-studies include video artists, community media activists, television programme makers and literary authors in the fourth most populous country in the wo…
TV or Not TV: Spelling the Indonesian Media with Veven Sp. Wardhana
This article focuses on the oeuvre of Indonesian journalist, essayist, and literary author Veven Sp. Wardhana (1959–2013). This oeuvre constitutes a critical and creative documentation of the role of the media, particularly television, in Indonesia’s transition from authoritarianism to democracy. The article will contextualize Wardhana’s work by comparing it with the activities of the independent Indonesian Broadcasting Commission and the broader…
Jalanan: A Music Documentary
Intimate video? Creative bodies in the age of the selfie
This article critically examines and reinterprets the key characteristics associated with the contemporary medium of video, such as accessibility, connectivity and reflexivity. By analyzing various video genres and developments in the specific context of Indonesia, it explores to what extent local video users obtain a sense of agency and intimacy in dealing with the medium. It specifically focusses on the way in which the medium enables or obstru…
Disaster Relief in the Asia Pacific: Agency and Resilience
Introduction 1. Coping with Disaster: Agency and resilience in the Asia-Pacific context, Edwin Jurriens, Minako Sakai, Alec Thornton and Jian Zhang Part I: Civil society 2. Responding to Disasters in the Asia-Pacific Region: State and civil society relationships, David W. Lovell 3. Key Factors for Capacity-Building of Disaster Relief Operations: Indonesian examples, Minako Sakai and Amelia Fauzia 4. Fostering Civil Society Organizations for Disas…
Radio Komunitas di Indonesia: ‘New Brechtian Theatre’ di Era Reformasi
This article is about community radio in Indonesia. This type of radio developed as an alternative to both public radio and commercial radio after the fall of Soeharto in 1998. Two important features of community radio are that it provides all community members with equal access to information, and also enables them to participate actively in management and production. Both features enhance people's self-awareness and sense of belonging to a comm…
Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia
Between Utopia and Real World: Indonesia's avant-garde new media art
This article seeks to balance and counter Indonesian and international critiques of new media art by examining to what extent this type of art can be considered avant-garde. It focuses on the Indonesian new media art community, The House of Natural Fiber (HONF), as a historically and socially specific interpretation of four key avant-garde principles: to break with the autonomy of art, engage with the praxis of life, provide utopian visions, and …
Social Participation in Indonesian Media and Art: Echoes from the Past, Visions for the Future
This article uses a critical and historical perspective to examine some of the achievements of Indonesian community media, the problems they have encountered, as well as the solutions they are offering. It analyses the similarities and differences with earlier genres with an explicit participatory agenda, including certain forms of LEKRA literature and art of the 1950s and 1960s, 'people's theatre' since the 1970s, and 'conscientization art' sinc…
From Monologue to Dialogue: Radio and Reform in Indonesia
V the actors of interactive radio journalism 77 the genre of the audience participation programme 79 Hosts addressing their audiences 81 the authority of experts 89 editors and gatekeepers 92 Vi the activity of interactive radio journalism 97 multi-sided journalism 98 'news-interaktif-solutif'; from practical solutions to sustainable development 102 'Wandering around the city'; Virtual travel and regional awareness 106 talk-back radio and the ref…
Cultural Travel and Migrancy: The Artistic Representation of Globalization in the Electronic Media of West Java
Cultural travel and migrancy examines how people in West Java use modern media such as radio, television, and cassettes to give expression to their thoughts and feelings about problems of contemporary life. It describes artistic approaches to globalization, one of the problems that has been felt most pressing during the late New Order and early Reformation. Situating itself at this remarkable turning-point in Indonesian history, it shows that loc…
From monologue to dialogue; Radio and reform in Indonesia: Radio and reform in Indonesia
From Monologue to Dialogue: Radio and Reform in Indonesia analyses how radio journalism since the late 1990s has been shaped by and contributed to Reformasi, or the ambition of democratizing Indonesian politics, economy and society. The book examines ideas and practices such as independent journalism, peace journalism, meta-journalism, virtual interactivity, talk-back radio and community radio, which have all been designed to renew audience inter…
Video spa: Krisna Murti's treatment of the senses
This article discusses Indonesian artist Krisna Murti, whose video art and other creative work can be seen as a form of televisual metadiscourse. Murti's artistic type of televisual metadiscourse provides insight into the commercial and ideological mechanisms behind the mass media industry; the cultural-technological features of various media; the historical dimensions of different genres of representation; the position of the artist and audience…
Social Participation in Indonesian Media and Art: Echoes from the Past, Visions for the Future
This article uses a critical and historical perspective to examine some of the achievements of Indonesian community media, the problems they have encountered, as well as the solutions they are offering. It analyses the similarities and differences with earlier genres with an explicit participatory agenda, including certain forms of LEKRA literature and art of the 1950s and 1960s, 'people's theatre' since the 1970s, and 'conscientization art' sinc…
Reconnecting with the Urban Vernacular through Post-New Order Visual Art
Indonesia's urbanization and economic development projects during the New Order established regimes of visuality that ignored aspects of everyday urban life. Contemporary Indonesian artists attempt to share untold histories and stories of everyday life from the urban past or give expression to the social and creative challenges and opportunities of the urban present. This article focuses on multimedia artist Maryanto and new media art collective …
The Countryside in Indonesian Contemporary Art and Media: From Distant Horizons to Traversing Drones
This article analyses explorations of social and environmental problems and solutions in artistic representations of the Indonesian countryside and rural society, culture, and wisdom. It focuses on urban-rural creative collaborations that combine traditional culture and knowledge with modern technology and media, such as drones and the Internet, to empower local communities, promote artistic innovation, and enhance environmental sustainability. I…
Art, image and environment: Revisualizing Bali in the Plastiliticum
This article deals with environmental activism in Balinese contemporary art. I demonstrate how young Balinese artists have used their creativity to give visibility and/or audibility to some of the main threats to Bali’s natural, social and cultural environments, including land reclamation projects and plastic waste pollution. I argue that their work is not to be narrowly interpreted as a heuristic device of the environmentalist movement or waste …
Intimate video? Creative bodies in the age of the selfie
This article critically examines and reinterprets the key characteristics associated with the contemporary medium of video, such as accessibility, connectivity and reflexivity. By analyzing various video genres and developments in the specific context of Indonesia, it explores to what extent local video users obtain a sense of agency and intimacy in dealing with the medium. It specifically focusses on the way in which the medium enables or obstru…
Cultural Travel and Migrancy: The Artistic Representation of Globalization in the Electronic Media of West Java
Cultural travel and migrancy examines how people in West Java use modern media such as radio, television, and cassettes to give expression to their thoughts and feelings about problems of contemporary life. It describes artistic approaches to globalization, one of the problems that has been felt most pressing during the late New Order and early Reformation. Situating itself at this remarkable turning-point in Indonesian history, it shows that loc…
Radio awards and the dialogic contestation of Indonesian journalism1
Reformasi-style radio journalism in Indonesia has been shaped by a desire to be dialogical and to involve the audience as producers or engaged consumers of current affairs. This is a break from the monologism of the New Order's official culture which excluded any serious audience participation. This article focuses on two competitions used by radio institutions for exploring different ‘dialogical’ strategies – the Balinese commercial radio statio…
Cosmopatriots: On Distant Belongings and Close Encounters
Motion and Distortion: The media in the art of jompet and tintin∗
Jompet Kuswidananto and Tintin Wulia are two young Indonesian artists who create art installations consisting of a rich variety of media, ranging from video and sound to kites, passports, masks and bicycles. While many other young video makers create slick short films in the style of MTV video clips, Jompet and Tintin usually integrate their videos into art installations to give a multimedia and multilayered critique on processes of mediation and…
From Monologue to Dialogue: Radio and Reform in Indonesia
V the actors of interactive radio journalism 77 the genre of the audience participation programme 79 Hosts addressing their audiences 81 the authority of experts 89 editors and gatekeepers 92 Vi the activity of interactive radio journalism 97 multi-sided journalism 98 'news-interaktif-solutif'; from practical solutions to sustainable development 102 'Wandering around the city'; Virtual travel and regional awareness 106 talk-back radio and the ref…
From monologue to dialogue; Radio and reform in Indonesia: Radio and reform in Indonesia
From Monologue to Dialogue: Radio and Reform in Indonesia analyses how radio journalism since the late 1990s has been shaped by and contributed to Reformasi, or the ambition of democratizing Indonesian politics, economy and society. The book examines ideas and practices such as independent journalism, peace journalism, meta-journalism, virtual interactivity, talk-back radio and community radio, which have all been designed to renew audience inter…
Video spa: Krisna Murti's treatment of the senses
This article discusses Indonesian artist Krisna Murti, whose video art and other creative work can be seen as a form of televisual metadiscourse. Murti's artistic type of televisual metadiscourse provides insight into the commercial and ideological mechanisms behind the mass media industry; the cultural-technological features of various media; the historical dimensions of different genres of representation; the position of the artist and audience…
A Call for Media Ecology: The study of Indonesian popular culture revisited
This article attempts to reinvigorate the concept of media ecology, specifically in reference to the study of Indonesian popular culture. It contains a critique of a Cultural Studies strand that focuses predominantly on audience interpretations of popular culture. The proposed media ecology also makes evaluative statements about and/or presents possible alternatives to popular culture ideas and practices
Loven, Klarijn: Watching Si Doel. Television, Language, and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Indonesia
Anthropos , Seite 277 - 278
Between Utopia and Real World: Indonesia's avant-garde new media art
This article seeks to balance and counter Indonesian and international critiques of new media art by examining to what extent this type of art can be considered avant-garde. It focuses on the Indonesian new media art community, The House of Natural Fiber (HONF), as a historically and socially specific interpretation of four key avant-garde principles: to break with the autonomy of art, engage with the praxis of life, provide utopian visions, and …
Social Participation in Indonesian Media and Art: Echoes from the Past, Visions for the Future
This article uses a critical and historical perspective to examine some of the achievements of Indonesian community media, the problems they have encountered, as well as the solutions they are offering. It analyses the similarities and differences with earlier genres with an explicit participatory agenda, including certain forms of LEKRA literature and art of the 1950s and 1960s, 'people's theatre' since the 1970s, and 'conscientization art' sinc…
Disaster Relief in the Asia Pacific: Agency and Resilience
Introduction 1. Coping with Disaster: Agency and resilience in the Asia-Pacific context, Edwin Jurriens, Minako Sakai, Alec Thornton and Jian Zhang Part I: Civil society 2. Responding to Disasters in the Asia-Pacific Region: State and civil society relationships, David W. Lovell 3. Key Factors for Capacity-Building of Disaster Relief Operations: Indonesian examples, Minako Sakai and Amelia Fauzia 4. Fostering Civil Society Organizations for Disas…
Radio Komunitas di Indonesia: ‘New Brechtian Theatre’ di Era Reformasi
This article is about community radio in Indonesia. This type of radio developed as an alternative to both public radio and commercial radio after the fall of Soeharto in 1998. Two important features of community radio are that it provides all community members with equal access to information, and also enables them to participate actively in management and production. Both features enhance people's self-awareness and sense of belonging to a comm…
Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia
Jalanan: A Music Documentary
Intimate video? Creative bodies in the age of the selfie
This article critically examines and reinterprets the key characteristics associated with the contemporary medium of video, such as accessibility, connectivity and reflexivity. By analyzing various video genres and developments in the specific context of Indonesia, it explores to what extent local video users obtain a sense of agency and intimacy in dealing with the medium. It specifically focusses on the way in which the medium enables or obstru…
TV or Not TV: Spelling the Indonesian Media with Veven Sp. Wardhana
This article focuses on the oeuvre of Indonesian journalist, essayist, and literary author Veven Sp. Wardhana (1959–2013). This oeuvre constitutes a critical and creative documentation of the role of the media, particularly television, in Indonesia’s transition from authoritarianism to democracy. The article will contextualize Wardhana’s work by comparing it with the activities of the independent Indonesian Broadcasting Commission and the broader…
Digital Indonesia: Connectivity and Divergence
This book places Indonesia at the forefront of the global debate about the impact of ‘disruptive’ digital technologies. Digital technology is fast becoming the core of life, work, culture and identity. Yet, while the number of Indonesians using the Internet has followed the upward global trend, some groups — the poor, the elderly, women, the less well-educated, people living in remote communities — are disadvantaged. This interdisciplinary collec…
Visual Media in Indonesia: Video Vanguard
In the age of digital communication and global capitalism, people’s mental, social and natural environments are interconnected in complex and often unpredictable ways. This book focuses on the visual media, one of the key factors in shaping the contemporary ecology of colliding environments. Case-studies include video artists, community media activists, television programme makers and literary authors in the fourth most populous country in the wo…
Art, image and environment: Revisualizing Bali in the Plastiliticum
This article deals with environmental activism in Balinese contemporary art. I demonstrate how young Balinese artists have used their creativity to give visibility and/or audibility to some of the main threats to Bali’s natural, social and cultural environments, including land reclamation projects and plastic waste pollution. I argue that their work is not to be narrowly interpreted as a heuristic device of the environmentalist movement or waste …
Intertwined Ecologies: Environmental Aesthetics in Indonesian Contemporary Art
This article examines engagements with the natural environment in Indonesian contemporary art, with a specific focus on Yogyakarta-based multimedia artist Setu Legi. After discussing various historical models of Indonesian creative engagements with the environment, I argue that Legi’s work deals with environmental problems by personalising the political as well as highlighting political aspects of the personal. Using the work of Félix Guattari an…
Asian video cultures: In the penumbra of the global, edited by Joshua Neves & Bhaskar Sarkar
Penumbra, the semi-dark belt that emerges during an eclipse, refers in this book to Asian video ideas and practices that have been ignored, rejected or misunderstood in international academic, lega
The Countryside in Indonesian Contemporary Art and Media: From Distant Horizons to Traversing Drones
This article analyses explorations of social and environmental problems and solutions in artistic representations of the Indonesian countryside and rural society, culture, and wisdom. It focuses on urban-rural creative collaborations that combine traditional culture and knowledge with modern technology and media, such as drones and the Internet, to empower local communities, promote artistic innovation, and enhance environmental sustainability. I…
Urban transition through Indonesian art: From the Generation of ‘66 to the Millennials
This article discusses the representation of Jakarta and other cities in the work of Indonesian visual artists. These artists document not only urban landscapes as such, but also the ideas, lifestyles and creative forms of expression of different generations of Indonesians, including artists themselves. I argue that the urban visualisations demonstrate the opportunities for and limits to social engagement in Indonesian art at different points in …
Strassler, Karen: Demanding Images. Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia
Anthropos is the international journal of anthropology and linguistics, founded in 1906 by Wilhelm Schmidt, missonary and member of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD). Its main purpose is the study of human societies in their cultural dimension. In honor of Wilhelm Schmidt‘s legacy, the cultivation of anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, and religious studies remain an essential component oft he Anthropos Institute – the organizational carrier…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (21 works) · Art (17 works) · Law (17 works) · Media studies (16 works) · Indonesian (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · Asian Studies and History (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Aesthetics (11 works)