Sal Murgiyanto
Co-curator IDF 2022
River Lin
Working with live arts, dance, and queer culture, Paris-based Taiwanese artist River Lin is curator of the Taipei Arts Festival, ADAM, Camping Asia and Curatoké: Performance Curator Academy at the Taipei Performing Arts Center. He is also co-curator of the Indonesian Dance Festival, guest-curator of the 2025 Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, and guest co-editor for the OnCurating's special issue.
Nia Agustina
Nia Agustina has been involved in nurturing young talents in the Indonesian dance scene through writing, curating, and dramaturgy practices since she founded Paradance Platform in 2014. She maintains a dance and performing arts critique and review site gelaran.id with her husband, Ahmad Jalidu, since 2017. Nia is also active in discussions and studies around gender equality and inclusivity through her activities in several institutions which influences her approach in performing arts.
Hartati
Co-curator IDF 2022
The Spectres of Choreography: Reading Dancing Body, Identity, Space, Throughout IDF’s 30 Years Journey
The spectres of choreography in the context of this archive exhibition has nothing to do with the astral concept where psychic phenomena take place. The spectres here, in contrast, is closely related to the history of materialism concept, where various cultural and artistic dance practices are formed. This exhibition archive is put together to mark and get to know the spectres of choreography that shadowed our past dance practices, ones that we inherit today.
Arco Renz
Arco Renz works as choreographer, director, dancer, dramaturge, curator, lecturer. As artistic director of Brussels based dance company Kobalt Works he has during 25 years created a profuse oeuvre of choreographies in Europe and Asia, in parallel developed a practice in dramaturgy for contemporary dance in a transcultural context. His body of work particularly cares about elaborating the intersection of research, exchange and knowledge through performance practice.