Nessa Theo

Education

2021-2025

BA History, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, ID.

Award

Prince Claus Seed Award 2024

Exhibitions and Projects

2025

‘the other side of melancholia’, Mia Bustam: Melampaui Melankolia Kaum Kiri at Biennale Jogja 18, Yogyakarta, ID

‘Turbulence’, What is the Anti-Fascist Game?, London, UK

‘our love has never not been bordered’, Open Studio at Cemeti, Yogyakarta, ID

2024

‘Survival Guide for Chinese Indonesians’, workshop in Pontianak, West Borneo, ID

‘the kind of lent I long for,’ self-published in Yogyakarta, ID
2023

‘then, it all streams down into our lives,’ Jogja Fotografis Festival (JOFFIS), Yogyakarta, ID

‘Taste of Inheritance’, Asana Bina Seni, Biennale Yogyakarta, ID

Talks

2024

“Ketika Seni dan Sejarah Bertemu: Posisi Dua Disiplin dalam Pendekatan Interdispliner”, Oral History in Indonesia: Changing Practices in Unsettling Times, Universitas Gadjah Mada.

Book Launch: Media Baru Cara Lama 2023, ArtJog.

“Finding Love in The City: Romance of The Poor Chinese Men in Urban Centers of Java 1930s-1940s”, Urban Resillience Research Center.

Curatorial Projects

2023

Menyeduh Rayu, Kedai Ojo Megatan, Yogyakarta, ID.

Bibliography

2024

“Seni Meretas Keagungan Ilmu Sejarah?”, published in Senirupa.id

2023

“Begini, Bagaimana, Begini: Monumen, Kebebasan, dan Otoritas Bersuara dalam Karya Dicky Takndare dkk.”, in Media Baru Cara Lama 2023.