Do Not Prevent the Fertility of the Mind

Arahmaiani, (b.1961, Yogyakarta) is one of Indonesia’s most seminal and respected contemporary visual artists. She established herself in the 1980s as a pioneer in the Southeast Asia Performance Art scene, although her practice also incorporates a wide variety of media. Arahmaiani frequently uses art as a means of critical commentary on social, religious, and cultural issues. For the past 10 years, a particular focus of her work has been environmental issues in the Tibetan plateau region, where she has been actively collaborating on-site with Buddhist monks and villagers to foster greater environmental consciousness through an array of ongoing community projects.