When Gudskul Became Ucuy
When Dayu was only three years old, she could not yet pronounce “Gudskul” clearly, what came out of her mouth was “Ucuy”, a spontaneous pronunciation that sounded funny, but actually felt familiar to the ear. Without realizing it, “Ucuy” began to be used by Gudskul members as a new term for “Gudskul” in their daily […]
Short Course June – July 2025
Gudskul Short Course is a fun short learning program organized by Gudskul: Collective Studies and Contemporary Fine Art Ecosystem. The program offers various subjects to explore how to make art, from archival mediums, film, video, history to new media art; writing about art; introducing art at home, making comic works, music journalism managing creative spaces […]
14:00 bola kan lagi yuk!
“14:00 Let’s play football again!” This sentence almost always appears every Thursday morning in the Viva Gudskul WhatsApp group. A short invitation as a sign that it was time to play soccer that day.At 2pm some friends from Gudskul and local residents gathered at the DCM A.K.A mini soccer field, which is located right behind […]
Super Short Course: Speculative Collective
Open Call Collective Study 2024
GUDSKUL STUDI KOLEKTIF 6 2024 “Praktik Lumbung” Panggilan Terbuka: 11 Januari – 11 Februari 2024 Masa Studi : September 2024 – September 2026 (dua tahun) Panggilan terbuka untuk kolektif seni di Indonesia yang ingin bergabung dalam Studi Kolektif Gudskul 2024. Studi kolektif dengan format belajar yang berbasis inisiatif peserta Berintegrasi dengan de Appel’s Curatorial […]
Speech by Ade Darmawan (ruangrupa) in the Committee on Culture and Media, German Bundestag, July 6, 2022
Dear members of the Bundestag, My name is Ade Darmawan, and today I’m addressing you as part of ruangrupa. Let me start with a brief comment about history. In 1955, Arnold Bode established documenta in Kassel, Germany, to heal the wounds of the Second World War. A few months before, in that same year, a […]
Speech by Ade Darmawan (ruangrupa) in the Committee on Culture and Media, German Bundestag, July 6, 2022
Dear members of the Bundestag, my name is Ade Darmawan, and today I’m addressing you as part of ruangrupa. Let me start with a brief comment about history. In 1955, Arnold Bode established documenta in Kassel, Germany, to heal the wounds of the Second World War. A few months before, in that same year, a […]
Speech by Ade Darmawan (ruangrupa) in the Committee on Culture and Media, German Bundestag, July 6, 2022
Dear members of the Bundestag, my name is Ade Darmawan, and today I’m addressing you as part of ruangrupa. Let me start with a brief comment about history. In 1955, Arnold Bode established documenta in Kassel, Germany, to heal the wounds of the Second World War. A few months before, in that same year, a […]
Lahan Becek: Beyond Terraformation, Towards Wet Lands of Opportunity
Lahan Becek: Beyond Terraformation, Towards Wet Lands of Opportunity Lahan Becek is an ongoing collaborative research project convened by Gudskul, Failed Architecture and the Research Center of Material Culture (RCMC). It explores multiple critical imaginations on the notion of terraforming, specifically by intertwining large scale production of space such as land reclamations and everyday […]