{"title":"Negotiating Time: Design as Historical Practice","authors":"C. Lin, A. Moon","doi":"10.5130/PORTAL.V13I2.5030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I2.5030","url":null,"abstract":"In North Jakarta, the bulldozed remnants of the April 11 (2016) eviction of Kampung Pasar Ikan presented a site of radical transformation and urban planning. The eviction was in part motivated by a Dutch-Indonesian alliance, to construct a 40 billion USD sea wall and reclaimed islands to prevent the city from slowly sinking. In this text we start by asking, how are people living in Pasar Ikan responding to and enacting their own futures through repair? What does repair in a landscape of complete disrepair look like? And how is history both erased and enacted in this process? We then move to West Kalimantan where a DIY drone collective makes aerial drone technology and trains groups to map land that they say is vulnerable to incursions by resource developers. We ask, how is the forest located, recognized and constituted by these and other cartographic practices? Whose time and in what time are forest boundaries set and reset by mapping techniques in West Kalimantan? How do these cartographies become artifacts that travel and influence how history is thought and practiced?","PeriodicalId":35198,"journal":{"name":"PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I2.5030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70746241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Batik of Batang - A Design Story","authors":"J. Dunn","doi":"10.5130/PORTAL.V13I2.5064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I2.5064","url":null,"abstract":"During my time living in Central Java, Indonesia, I stayed in the family hom e of one of my Indonesian friends on multiple occasions. In my friend ’ s village, located in the district of Batang, along the north coast of Java, west of Semarang city, almos t every woman has the ability to produce exquisitely detailed hand-drawn batik fabric. A wal k up a lane or a peep into a neighbour ’ s house will often reveal a solo entrepreneur contributing their wares to a dynamic cottage industry. However, the lifestyle is hard and the reward almost not enough to justify the patience and hours required to produce fine batik cloth.","PeriodicalId":35198,"journal":{"name":"PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I2.5064","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70746384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Movements of Minorities: AusLankan Struggles for Transnational Justice","authors":"S. Sivanesan","doi":"10.5130/PORTAL.V13I2.4477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I2.4477","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reflects on arguments and positions put forth by Tamils in Sri Lanka, those in the diaspora and commentators in the ‘international community’ regarding the 2015 presidential elections in Sri Lanka. In particular it concerns the prospect of justice for those that suffered in the final stages of Sri Lanka’s civil war which concluded in May 2009. It is a self-reflexive account of my activities as a writer in residence at the University of Peradeniya in the lead-up to the election and the implications of those events upon my return to Sydney.","PeriodicalId":35198,"journal":{"name":"PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I2.4477","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70745743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design It Yourself Surabaya: Reflective Notes on Designing a Festival","authors":"Kathleen Azali, Andriew Budiman","doi":"10.5130/PORTAL.V13I2.5024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I2.5024","url":null,"abstract":"As a relatively new, imported word, the term desain (design) in Indonesian is still mostly understood within its relations to three common academic fields—graphic, interior, and product design—and thus tends to be viewed as belonging to the ‘merely’ visual. While local cultural events and festivals have proliferated in Indonesia, the scope for a conference or a festival that explicitly address design therefore tends to be rather limited. This is not to say that design exhibitions and festivals do not exist. In fact, they have flourished in the country, particularly among university students, reflecting the growth of university design programs and schools to meet contemporary demand. Yet visual-based, market-led development has not been accompanied by institutional development in research and outreach (in the form of dialogues or critical publications), particularly ones that connect that development across different fields. Attaching the word desain to an event in Indonesia invariably means it is associated with either design student exhibitions, or an industrial expo showcasing printers or interior furnitures. This curated piece emerges as our reflection on designing—cobbling up, and calibrating—a design conference-festival from Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia in light of the national context in which desain is received and made meaningful.","PeriodicalId":35198,"journal":{"name":"PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I2.5024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70746422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning to be Affected in Contemporary Art","authors":"Stephanie Springgay","doi":"10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4790","url":null,"abstract":"The Canadian artist Diane Borsato has explored a number of different projects with bees and beekeepers, mushrooms and mychologists, and with plants. Much of Borsato’s practice is concerned with ‘learning’ through affective, bodily, and intimate gestures. She often works with specific groups of people – mycologists, astronomers, physicists, tea sommeliers, ikebana practitioners and beekeepers – in order to think about the mobility of thought, about ethical-political encounters, and the affective dimensions to embodied knowing.","PeriodicalId":35198,"journal":{"name":"PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4790","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70746007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Transcultural Edge","authors":"Ilaria Vanni","doi":"10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4829","url":null,"abstract":"Critical writing about transculturation has a long history in Latin American studies, and more recently the concept has been used to analyse the effects of globalization. This article takes as its point of departure the Latin American genealogy of the idea, and brings it together with the ecological notion of ‘edge’ intended as a transition area between different systems. By bringing transculturation and edge together this paper seeks to understand transculturation as a process in which human and non-human entities participate. It does so curating five cultural works written at the edge of academic practices, and spanning several countries, cultural formations and genres.","PeriodicalId":35198,"journal":{"name":"PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4829","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70745682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"City Performance: Chinese New Year in West Kalimantan","authors":"F. Prasetyo","doi":"10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4789","url":null,"abstract":"Frans Ari Prasetyo is a scholar working at the Bandung Institute of Technology whose work focuses on etnography, visual anthropology, urban-rural planning and histories.","PeriodicalId":35198,"journal":{"name":"PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4789","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70745753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solstice Hart-Seer: Recordando ‘La Chascona’ y ‘La Sebastiana’ Crónica (Hart-Seer Solstice: Remembering ‘La Chascona’ and ‘La Sebastiana’ Chronicle)","authors":"Susana Chávez-Silverman","doi":"10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4794","url":null,"abstract":"Cuando vi el headline ayer, de una nota de la escritora Joyce Maynard en la Travel section del New York Times (diario que—a contracorriente—I’ve recently started taking los domingos), “Where Pablo Neruda Lived and Loved,” and especially when my eye scrolled down to the words donde la autora explica que esta en Tsile con su marido Jim, queriendo dedicar “some time to our Spanish. That, and romance,” confieso que mi primera reaccion fue un giant eye-roll, followed closely by the exclamation— igringa huevona! al leer la frase siguiente: “Who better to fan the flames than Neruda?”","PeriodicalId":35198,"journal":{"name":"PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4794","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70745910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abundance, Excess, Waste","authors":"R. Luca","doi":"10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4793","url":null,"abstract":"Rox De Luca is a visual artist based in Sydney, Australia. Her recent work focuses on the concepts of abundance, excess and waste. These concerns translate directly into vibrant and colourful garlands that she constructs from discarded plastics collected on Bondi Beach where she lives. The process of collecting is fastidious, as is the process of sorting and grading the plastics by colour and size. This initial gathering and sorting process is followed by threading the components onto strings of wire. When completed, these assemblages stand in stark contrast to the ease of disposability associated with the materials that arrive on the shoreline as evidence of our collective human neglect and destruction of the environment around us. The contrast is heightened by the fact that the constructed garlands embody the paradoxical beauty of our plastic waste byproducts, while also evoking the ways by which those byproducts similarly accumulate in randomly assorted patterns across the oceans and beaches of the planet.","PeriodicalId":35198,"journal":{"name":"PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4793","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70745891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yoko Ono's Magical Thinking","authors":"V. Mackie","doi":"10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4779","url":null,"abstract":"In this piece I analyse Yoko Ono's recent artwork Mended Cups and link this to other creative works concerned with grief and mourning.","PeriodicalId":35198,"journal":{"name":"PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5130/PORTAL.V13I1.4779","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70745658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}