bio

Labtek Apung (roughly means: Floating Tech-Lab) is an artistic research collective that aims to amplify the unheard voices and unseen actions of nonhumans who live alongside and together with humans, and participate in maintaining planetary sustainabilities. The members are Endira F. Julianda (art producer/artist), Gusmiati (water, sanitation and hygiene engineer), Indrawan Prabaharyaka (anthropologist), Kamil Muhammad (architect), and Novita Anggraini (chemist and environmental analyst). To make the knowledge public, the collective co-produces texts as well as more than textual artifacts.

@ Labtek Apung headquarter.

Endira studied Visual Communication Design and Visual Art Practice for her master degree at Bandung Institute of Technology. She co-founded arts and culture Rakarsa Foundation and is a sessional lecturer at Sekolah Tinggi Desain Indonesia. Her individual and collective art projects have been exhibited across Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Taiwan, Germany, Brasil, and Sweden.

Indrawan studied European Ethnology at Humboldt University of Berlin for his doctoral degree. He then worked as a researcher in the research consortium SFB-1265 Re-Figuration of Spaces. He has ethnographic fieldwork experiences in Indonesia and Germany, in which he has studied conflicts in the making of sanitation infrastructures and climate urbanism in Jakarta and Stuttgart respectively. His latest publication is Planning Miseducation (co-authored with Ignacio Farías, Mennatullah Hendawy and Jörg Stollman, published by dpr-Barcelona).

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method

Inspired by Michel Serres’ conceptualisation of parasite, the collective operates with an awareness of parasitic relations it is part of. Such awareness is to make a case against cynical reason: since one is inevitably parasiting another, it does not mean that there is no hope at all. Instead the collective strives to cultivate alternative spaces of hope–another meaning of para-site, located in the in between–and experiment with quasi-objects.