Episode 2: Family to Nation

Send us Fan MailFor Episode 2 we travel to Indonesia and revisit a conversation between Arif Furquan and Akshay Mahajan which was recorded during the 3rd edition of the Jakarta International Photo Festival(JIPFEST). Arif takes us through his exhibition ‘Family to Nation’ and his collaborative project with Reza Kutjh titled ‘Unhistoried’ which aims to activate the Indonesian family archive, as a means to re-examine, challenge, and decenter history writing.About Arif FurqanArif Furqan, educator and researcher working with photography and visual art. He has been experimenting various approaches utilizing photography and other mediums exploring the issue of family, memory, history, and mobility. He is also a part of Flock Project, a collective exploring the possibilities of photographic works through printed matters. In 2021, he received the Prince Claus Seed Award on the project Unhistoried—an archive-based project on Indonesian family photograph and archive during the New Order Regime (1960-1990s). Now, he is currently doing research and artistic project on the vernacular memory and memory landscape on Indonesian New Order era.2:05Dori and People of Clay 3:52Arif Furqan  4:04 JIPFEST4:49Family to Nation5:22President Sukarno's speech at the Bandung Conference (1955) 13:18Indonesian Massacre and Coup of 196515:44Abri Masuk Desa - Endang S Taurina (1982)22:09Vernacular Social Club22:20Photo Vault Podcast22.36JOJO Library 23:12Indonesian Embassy's video letter to the United States (1955)Hosted by Adira Thekkuveettil - https://www.adirathekkuveettil.com Akshay Mahajan - https://akshaymahajan.in Kaamna Patel - https://kaamna.com Supported by PhotoSouthAsia and Art South Asia Project Produced by Editions JOJOSpecial thanks to Dayanita Singh This podcast is meant to serve as an educational resource and all the recordings used in the episodes are for the purpose of supporting the research.