Ari Angkasa
Ari Angkasa is an Indonesian artist based in Naarm (Melbourne, AU). Ari’s multi-disciplinary work creates images through experiments with the persistence of sound, or, the histories that reverberate in our present. Through convergences across film, theatre, music, dance, installation, and writing, Ari’s work unearths the invisible affects that entwine our humanity together.
Ari has exhibited widely with recent showings at Dance Base Yokohama (JP), Queer East Film Festival (UK), Gertrude Contemporary (AU), and Bangkok Kunsthalle (TH). Ari is a curator and booker at Miscellania, a staple in the Naarm nightlife scene, and she serves as a creative producer for Soft Centre, an experimental music festival in Eora (Sydney, AU). Ari has upcoming showings and exhibitions with Shadowplay (TH), Dark Mofo (AU), and Taipei Performing Arts Centre (TW).
Program
Etymology of a Siren Sound
2026
Performance and sound installation
Karaoke microphones, field recordings, and air traffic control radio transmissions
Loop duration: 12 minutes 35 seconds; performance duration: 45 minutes
Incorporating field recordings, air traffic control radio transmissions, sonic feedback techniques, karaoke microphones, and vocal demos of death growls reminiscent of aircraft engines, Ari traces the haunting echoes of a traumatic air crash that imprinted on her family–intertwined with her experience of a trans woman–to examine the reverberations that stay with us, and the generative potential of resonance in shaping embodiment.
Friday, September 26, 1997. An Airbus A300B4-220 operating Garuda Indonesia flight GA152 tumbles into mountainous terrain near Sibolangit, Northern Sumatra. The event goes on to become one of the deadliest in Indonesian aviation history, killing all 222 passengers on board, and seeding a deep fear of flying in the artist’s family. Using this event as an impetus for the work, the artist creates a sonic environment which excavates a synaesthetic relationship to movement. What sounds from the past resonate in our psyche? How do they play a part in shaping who we are today?
Etymology of a Siren Sound is part of a collaboration between Rare Sea and Cót Két. The performance was taken place at Rare Sea on Tuesday, June 9, from 19:00 to 20:00.
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