Program

Friday, November 27

Saturday, November 28

Macho Mystic Meltdown: In a Muscle Mood

10:00 - 18:00

Saturday, November 28th

The Baroque Room, Katoomba

Visual Art
Natasha Tontey

Part of Strange Stranger

The acclaimed Minahasan artist brings a major new commissioned video installation titled Macho Mystic Meltdown Chapter 4: In a Muscle Mood to the Mountains – immersive, speculative, rooted in indigenous cosmology and ancestral myth.

Duration 20 mins, running on a looo.

Presented in partnership with 1646 Experimental Art Space (The Netherlands) and the Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement – BIM’26 (Switzerland and Tunisia).

Loud sounds, flashing lights.

Featuring

Natasha Tontey

Indonesia

Natasha Tontey is a Minahasan artist based in between Jakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Her artistic practice predominantly explores the fictional accounts of the history and myths surrounding ‘manufactured fear.’ In her practice, she observes any possibilities of other futures that are projected not from the perspective of major and established institutions, but a subtle and personal struggle of the outcasted entities and beings. Her recent exhibitions include solo show at Auto Italia, London, UK (2022). And selected group shows and screening at 34th Singapore International Film Festival, 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Fesival (2023), Singapore Biennale (2022); De Stroom Den Haag (2022); GHOST;2565, Bangkok, Thailand (2022); Protozone8 Queer Trust, Zürich, Switzerland (2022); Arko Art Council, Seoul, Korea (2022), Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (2022); Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2021); transmediale, Berlin (2021); Performance Space 2021, Sydney; Other Futures, Amsterdam (2021); Singapore International Film Festival (2021), Kyoto Experiment 2021; Asian Film Archive, Singapore (2021). In 2020, she received the HASH Award from the ZKM, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and Akademie Schloss-Solitude. She was a fellow for Human Machine of the Junge Akademie at Akademie der Künste Berlin 2021-2023.

Katoomba

The Baroque Room

15 Katoomba St, Katoomba