Taring Padi Reader: Tanah Tumpah Darah

Accompanying the Griffith University Art Museum exhibition ‘Taring Padi: Tanah Tumpah Darah’ (29 February – 25 May 2024), ‘Taring Padi Reader: Tanah Tumpah Darah’ takes the form of a broadsheet newspaper and features full colour images of Taring Padi’s recent works and focuses on the banner ‘Ngaliya Budjong Djarra’ made collaboratively by Taring Padi and proppaNOW during a month long residency in the lead up to the exhibition.
The publication also includes essays by Dr Alexander Supartono (Taring Padi/Edinburgh Napier University), GUAM Director Angela Goddard, Benjamin Seroussi (Executive Director, Casa do Povo, Brazil), and Dewi Laurente (Framer Framed, Amsterdam).

About Taring Padi
Taring Padi are a leading Indonesian art collective with a mission to understand the cultural and social history of Indonesia through a contemporary lens. Based in Yogyakarta, Taring Padi was established in 1998 by a group of progressive art students, in response to socio-political upheavals during the reformation era and fall of the Suharto regime. The collective use art as a tool to explore issues of sovereignty to overcome environmental destruction, violence, food shortages and unemployment. Taring Padi’s interdisciplinary practice spans art, music, and theatre and has seen them included in exhibitions internationally, including Tanah Merdeka at Framer Framed, in The Netherlands in 2023, and documenta fifteen in Germany in 2022.

About proppaNOW
proppaNOW are one of Australia’s most important Aboriginal art collectives, established in Brisbane in 2003. Combining both individual and collective practices, proppaNOW explore the politics of Aboriginal art and culture, re-thinking what it means to be a ‘contemporary Aboriginal artist’. Often imbedded with an ironic sense of humour, their works address issues of land rights, environmental destruction, visibility and political activism. Based in Brisbane, proppaNOW continue to have strong connections to Griffith University’s Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art program. Current members of proppaNOW include Vernon Ah Kee, Tony Albert, Richard Bell, Megan Cope, Jennifer Herd, Gordon Hookey, Shannon Brett, Lily Eather, and Warraba Weatherall.