Mira Asriningtyas
Mira Asriningtyas works as an independent curator and writer. She completed RAW Academie 6: CURA (2019) in Dakar and the De Appel Curatorial Program (2016/2017) in Amsterdam. The idea of learning from magic, ghosts and polycentric knowledge rooted in local contexts as an attempt to decolonise the knowledge system, promote ecological sustainability and further investigate the remaining trace of colonialism have been central to her current research practice.
She has curated exhibitions and public programmes off-site and in art institutions such as De Appel Art Center (Amsterdam), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), KKF (Yogyakarta), ISCP (New York), MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum (Chiang Mai) and Our Museum (Taipei), among others. Her writing has been published in books, online publications, exhibition catalogues, monographs and magazines from Indonesia, The Netherlands, Italy, Belgium and Australia.
In 2011, she co‐founded LIR Space, an art space that turned nomadic into LIR (curator collective), characterised by multidisciplinary collaboration to foster continuous transgenerational transmission of knowledge, memory and history. In 2017, she started a biennial site‐specific project titled “900mdpl” in Kaliurang, an ageing resort village under Mt.Merapi volcano. The programme invites local and international artists for a research residency and creates a socially engaged archive of the space presented as a multi-site exhibition and a transient museum. See www.miraasriningtyas.com, www.900mdpl.com and www.lirspace.net.