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ANU School of Art
& Design
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Archiving the Bandung School
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Pedagogy, Politics, and Postcolonial Knowledge-Making
Tuesday 18 Aug 2026
1 to 2 pm
School of Art & Design Lecture Theatre
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Established in 1947, the Bandung Institute of Technology’s (ITB) Faculty of Art and Design played a pivotal role in shaping modern art education
in Indonesia. Emerging in the aftermath of the Japanese occupation (1942-1945) and shortly after the proclamation of Indonesian independence on 17 August 1945, the foundation of the institution reflected a broad national desire to formalise higher education
and cultural development in the newly sovereign republic. However, due to continued involvement of Dutch educators and the institutional inheritance of European art academies, Bandung’s pedagogical orientation remained deeply rooted in Western formalism. This
close association led to longstanding critiques, particularly the 1954 claim by Trisno Sumardjo that Bandung functioned as a "Western laboratory” (Laboratorium Barat), which, in Sumardjo’s critique, was a space where imported modernist styles were replicated
without sufficient grounding in Indonesian sociocultural realities.
Image:
Bandung Institute of Technology’s (ITB) Faculty of Art and Design (Image supplied).
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Kiki Rizky Soetisna Putri
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2026 'Sir William Dobell Fellow' at the Australian National University.
A researcher and lecturer based in Bandung, Indonesia. She currently teaches at the Faculty of Art and Design, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), and is the co-founder of the Center for Indonesian Visual Art Studies (CIVAS ITB), a center dedicated to preserving
and studying archives related to the history of the Bandung School—an intellectual and artistic movement rooted in the Faculty of Art and Design, ITB.
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Canberra
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