Indeks

Waypoints and Crossings: Mapping Art and Contexts Across Indonesia and the Philippines is a collaborative timeline-mapping workshop developed by Bea Belen-Ferrer, Indeks, and Universitas Katolik Parahyangan. Bringing participants together to trace key movements and artistic formations, the session explores how visual cultures in both countries have evolved from modernism to the present, reflecting on parallels, differences, and moments of encounter.

Monday, 4 May 2026 | 14:00 WIB - end
Studio Integrated Arts, Gedung 11 UNPAR - Jl. Aceh No. 53, Bandung

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Bea Belen-Ferrer is a Philippine-based visual artist and cultural worker whose practice merges text and image as an archival exploration of memory, everyday life, and local narratives in Southeast Asia. Her residency is supported through a partnership between Ateneo Art Gallery and Indeks, as part of the Ateneo Art Awards 2025.

Methods & Matters is a long-term initiative dedicated to capacity building within the arts ecosystem through workshops, masterclasses, internships, and other knowledge-sharing formats.

“Soft Structures: The Artist-Parent Condition” considers how artistic practice is shaped by the conditions of care, attending to parenting as a form of labor that reorganizes time, attention, and modes of production. Rather than positioning parenthood in opposition to artistic work, the session approaches it as a generative framework through which new rhythms, constraints, and forms of knowledge emerge. Accompanied by a screening of Kidlat Tahimik’s Orbit 50: Letters to My Three Sons (1992), the discussion situates artist-parenthood within broader questions of visibility, support, and the infrastructures that sustain both life and practice. This session will be facilitated by Bea Belen-Ferrer.

Friday, 1 May 2026 - 10:30am onwards
Indeks Project Space, Jl. Pangampaan No. 37 Bandung

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Bea Belen-Ferrer is a Philippine-based visual artist and cultural worker whose practice merges text and image as an archival exploration of memory, everyday life, and local narratives within Southeast Asia. Belen-Ferrer’s residency was made possible through a partnership between Ateneo Art Gallery and Indeks, as part of the Ateneo Art Awards 2025: Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism.

Bandung Kyodo Karuta
Workshop by Kona Eguchi

Sunday, 1 March 2026 — 16:00 WIB
at Indeks Project Space, Jl. Pangampaan no. 37, Bandung

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(Karuta is a traditional Japanese card game that relies on memory, speed, and responsiveness to spoken text. One voice reads a fragment, while players search for the corresponding card. The text becomes something active—mobile, contested, and never final.

In this workshop, karuta is used as a device to play with parikan / sisindiran, traditional Indonesian poetic forms structured in two layers: the first two lines evoke a landscape or situation, while the last two lines reveal the core meaning. These verses are translated into cards, then shuffled, reread, and rearranged. The approach resonates with the oral narrative tradition of Wayang Beber, where text is animated through voice, rhythm, and performative delivery. Narrative moves across visual form, sound, and play.

The workshop invites participants to recompose their urban experiences into poetry, and to reconstruct them as “playable narratives.” The city is not positioned as an object of observation, but as something that can be sung again. Personal fragments become part of a living archive—constantly shifting through collective reading and gameplay.

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Kona Eguchi (1998) is a Japan-based artist working across text, drawing, game structures, and performance. She begins from spontaneous gestures and impulses, then excavates their context through reflection and dialogue. Her works do not propose fixed messages; instead, they open interpretive space that grows through the body, material encounters, and shared experience.

A (not-so) small adjustment in how our spaces work.
The library now sits closer to what’s happening in the Project Space, allowing reading and exhibitions to exist side by side.

Meanwhile, our Pangarang space continues its role through the Learning Atlas program, supporting learning and community-based activities.

Drop by when you have the time! Our ongoing show, Langgam, is running until 22 February. We are open Wed-Sun, 13:00-20:00.

“Ecologies of Practice” traces the art spaces that emerged and evolved in Bandung. The word ecologies reflects the belief that artistic practice is interlinked with the many contexts and conditions surrounding it. Meanwhile, practice expands the idea of art spaces beyond management and operations, acknowledging their role in shaping discourse, methods, and artistic explorations across Bandung.

More than a mapping of artistic developments, this exhibition offers a point of reference for emerging practitioners stepping into the field. The exhibition also features works by Alrezky Caesaria, Budi Adi Nugroho, Rega Rahman, Radhinal Indra, and Wildan Indra Sugara.

As Ecologies of Practice is intended to continue grow over the span of the exhibition duration, we invite visitors to share their memories, experiences, and stories connected to these art spaces. We are also open if you have books, documents, or archival materials you wish to lend or contribute to enrich our growing references.