Fitriani Dwi Kurniasih (born 1981), Yogyakarta
Fitri DK is an art worker from Yogyakarta. She is also a visual artist who uses graphic art techniques such as hardboard cuts and etchings to critique and dialogue on social and environmental issues. Fitri is committed to raising women's issues through art and music and consistently provides a strong female voice in an extremely patriarchal culture. Fitri is a member of the SURVIVE!Garage community and the Taring Padi art collective, and vocalist of the band Dendang Kampungan.
Prihatmoko Moki (born 1982), Yogyakarta
Moki obtained his BFA from Indonesian Institute of Fine-Art (ISI) in 2009, majoring in printmaking. He works with painting, drawing, comics, murals and music, but his focus is silkscreen printmaking because of its ability to produce works in editions, and its effectiveness in exploring notions of originality and copies. In recent work he uses historical events and myths to explore and understand contemporary social situations, preferring to approach the issues in satirical, controversial and darkly humorous ways.
In 2013 together with Malcolm Smith, Rudi Hermawan and Sukma Smitha he founded the printmaking studio and gallery KRACK! in Yogyakarta. In the same year he began organizing and curating LELAGU, an annual art event combining acoustic music and responses with live drawing in Kedai Kebun Gallery, Yogyakarta. Since 2006 he has been a member of multidisciplinary art project PUNKASILA, initiated by Danius Kesminas, which has performed in Indonesia, Australian, Lithuania and Cuba.
Sekarputri Sidhiawati (born 1986), Bali
Born in Jakarta, Puti relocated to Bandung to study in the Ceramic Art studio in the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). She decided to take ceramics, she says, because “when I entered college I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to be an artist or an entrepreneur. The only studio that accommodated this doubt was ceramic arts.” Her interest in both areas led her to start Derau, a brand of home-made ceramics that could be sold in shops, while also developing a solo practice built around exhibition pieces. In 2018 she and her family relocated to Bali to set up a ceramics studio to expand her production. Asked what inspires her work, Puti says: “Girls – women of all ages, ethnicities and tendencies. Their stories, politics and powers. Their magic, beauty and sins”. She was included in the exhibition Termasuk: Contemporary art from Indonesia at Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, in early 2019.