Timoteus Anggawan Kusno's 'Fever Dream' Exhibition Explores Indonesia's Colonial Hauntings

Timoteus Anggawan Kusno's exhibition titled 'Fever Dream' is being held at Kohesi Initiatives in Yogyakarta from 30 June to 25 August. This showcase confronts Indonesia's colonial trauma through a blend of fictional archives and ghostly visuals. Occupying two floors, it features a variety of artworks, including paintings, photographs, sculptures, and videos, accumulated over a decade. The ground floor presents a chaotic office-like environment with costumes, printed materials, and glass displays containing filmstrips from his Centre for Tanah Runcuk Studies (ctrs), which he founded in 2012. On the upper floor, viewers can find videos such as Tunggang Langgang (2024), which delves into the overlooked deaths of Indonesian Independence fighters, and the three-channel video Fever Dream (2024), intertwining history and fantasy to examine suppressed trauma, while critiquing the Dutch colonial past and collective memory.