We are eager to convene you to a public conversation with ruangrupa's member Iswanto Hartono, moderated by LE 18. Grounded in LE 18’s participation to Documenta fifteen and relating to the thematic research line currently developed through Undercurrents, this talk explores ruangrupa’s modes and politics of collective-making, drawing in particular from the practice of the lumbung and unpacking some of the core values at its foundation. While expanding on the hopes and plans for the lumbung beyond Documenta fifteen, the conversation will also be a time for LE 18 to offer reflections and accounts back to its local ecosystem around the learnings gathered through its participation in the lumbung.

Ruangrupa is a collective founded in 2000 and based in Jakarta, Indonesia. As a non-profit organization, ruangrupa promotes artistic ideas within urban and cultural contexts through the involvement of artists and other disciplines such as the social sciences, politics, technology or the media so as to open up critical reflections and perspectives on contemporary urban problems in Indonesia. ruangrupa runs an art space in the south of Jakarta. The collective has participated in numerous collaborative projects and exhibitions, including documentafifteen 2022, the Gwangju Biennial (2002 and 2018), Istanbul Biennial (2005), Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Brisbane, 2012), Singapore Biennial (2011), São Paulo Biennial (2014), Aichi Triennial (Nagoya, 2016) and Cosmopolis at the Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2017). 2016 saw ruangrupa curate transACTION: Sonsbeek 2016 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. In 2018, the collective (together with Serrum and Grafis Huru Hara, two other Jakarta-based collectives) founded GUDSKUL, an education and networking project for creatives based on collaborative work.