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Dr Tintin Wulia

Dr Tintin Wulia

Visiting Research Fellow

Department of International History

Languages
English
Key Expertise
Declassification, Cold War, Indonesian Massacres 1965-66,

About me

Dr Tintin Wulia is an internationally exhibiting and a at HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg. She is PI of the Swedish Research Council-funded  (until end of 2024), with several outputs providing insights that informed the framework of an SSHRC of Canada-funded project in collaboration with PI (2024-10). Wulia is also PI of the EU-/ERC-funded  (, 2023-28).

Dr Wulia’s interdisciplinary practice spans over two decades. Her artistic work ranks globally and has been acquired by prominent private and public collections, including the , , , and . As of late 2024, her portfolio includes over 50 invited talks across Europe, the Americas, and Asia Pacific, as well as nearly 100 sole-authored works featured in more than 200 peer-reviewed exhibitions and publications in 31 countries. Wulia’s recent notable publications include the solo pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), a chapter contribution to the award-winning Routledge publication (2022), and the retrospective exhibition —which explores a concept being developed as part of her ERC-funded project—at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2024-25). She also recently contributed to workshop at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Wulia was born in Denpasar, Bali, where she co-founded in 2002 (serving as director until 2010) after the Australian TV channel SBS began acquiring her short films in 2001. Prior to receiving her PhD in art (, 2014), Wulia's practice and research branched out of her trainings as a film composer (BMus, , 1997) and architecture engineer (BEng, , 1998). Her  (2014-16) expanded her work in diverse public spaces, focusing on a mobile ethnography of objects within urban environments. She was the  artist-in-residence (2015) at UCL The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK, and a artist (2016) at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, US. Her  (2018) at the , NMNH(SI), Washington DC, USA, explores mosquitoes and migration, and wartime specimen collection. Wulia is also a co-founder and member of transnational relay/research collective  (since 2015). She initiated the  during her Postdoctoral Fellowship in design, crafts and society with a focus on migration, working interdepartmentally with  and the , at the  (2018-20). She was also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL The Slade School of Fine Art (2022-23). Between 2015 and 2022 Wulia served on the editorial board of the American Association of Geographers journal, .

Expertise Details

Indonesia in the Global Cold War; the Indonesian Massacres 1965-66; Migration; the Chinese-Indonesians and Dutch Colonialism; Critical Cosmopolitanism; Art and Activism; Declassification.