one’s own room

Kunci Study Forum & Collective has since 2016 initiated School of Improper Education, a long-term collective learning process that works by exploring the historical remnants of various practices of study, in order to carve out an alternative form of collective and community based pedagogy. The school sustains “the alternative” by continuously questioning its reasons for existing and asking how we exist together, where we learn various vernacular vocabularies for studying together.
Members contributing to the score: Panca Lintang Dyah Paramitha (she/they) is a Philosophy student and artist rooted in Jakarta’s suburban life, exploring discourses on women and violence through writing, research, and performance-making. Riyadhus Shalihin (he/him) is an artist who operates an affective Marxism within the research of labor and landscape, with recent works at Atelier Automatique, Bochum, Hellerau, Dresden, Ufer Studios, Affect and Colonialism, Berlin, Owlspot Theater, Tokyo. Samuel Bonardo (dia/they) is an artist—a wanderer of aesthetics in mundane moments and imperfections, shaped by the life of Javanese urban landscapes. More

Ximena Alarcón-Díaz is a sound artist-researcher interested in listening and sounding our sonic migrations. She composes immersive listening collective experiences and creates Interfaces for Relational Listening, expanding people’s sense of place and telepresence for the emergence of aural territories of memory and emotion. Mentored by Pauline Oliveros, she is a Deep Listening® certified tutor at the Center for Deep Listening (RPI), and works as Coordinator of Postgraduate Degrees at the Faculty of Arts of the Universidad de Antioquia. Through postdoctoral awards she created Sounding Underground; the telematic improvisations Networked Migrations; and the embodied telematic system INTIMAL. More

Romy Rüegger was an artist and writer, friend of animals, plants and the extraterrestrial, rhythms and sounds of intersectional feminist languages and movements of confronting, unlearning and creating. In their work and writings language is being engaged as touch and encounters, as much as imaginations that document politics of memories, of unsettled lives and deaths. Shy published several monographs, including an artist record. Heir writings, scores, scripts, poetry and experimental prose has been published, translated, staged, collected and performed internationally, under shape shifting names.

Cannach MacBride is an artist. They make things with writing, sound, performance, installation, and video. Their focus is on the relations – and regimes of power – embedded within different listening practices and the ontological understandings of sound, time, and environment that various listening practices carry with them. They are doing a PhD, based at CRiSAP, UAL, and co-editing with Taraneh Fazeli «Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: For Access-Centered Practice».

Bint Mbareh is a sound artist with a focus on how listening and sounding (often in a cyclical feedback-laden way) can help erase borders between the past and the present, between our bodies and between geographies. She is interested in undermining the Israeli settler colony through her research into Palestinian sound and worship practices. Her work has been shown at the Tate Modern, The Lincoln Centre, Unsound Festival, the Sharjah Biennial and the Royal College of Art among others. More