![]() ![]() Rosichon Ubaidillah, Dr Awit Suwito, Dr Amir Hamidy, Ir. The zoological specimens presented in the exhibition were selected in collaboration with Prof. The exhibition included artworks and contributions by Ari Bayuaji, Shannon Castleman, Lucy Davis, Mark Dion, Fred Langford Edwards, Sigrid Espelien & farid rakun (EQUANORTH), Theo Frids Hutabarat, Geraldine Juarez, Flora Lichtman & Sharon Shattuck, Cindy Lin & Lintang Radittya, Aprina Murwanti & Bharoto Yekti, Intan Prisanti, Edwin Scholes & Tim Laman, Ary Sendy, Andreas Siagian, Zenzi Suhadi (WALHI), Laleh Torab, Satrio Wicaksono (Towuti Drilling Project), Tintin Wulia, Mahardika Yudha, Robert Zhao Renhui. ![]() The exhibition presented works by 26 contributors-including ten newly created artworks by artists from Indonesia-alongside archival materials, historical objects, and zoological specimens from the Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Science (MZB/LIPI) at Bogor-Cibinong. The exhibition took place from August to September 2015 at the gallery of the multi-arts center Komunitas Salihara in Jakarta, Indonesia. In the context of his exploration, he also kept meticulous notebooks and journals, sent letters, and wrote numerous scientific articles and books, most notably the travel chronicle, The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise-A narrative of travel, with sketches of man and nature, published in 1869 after his return to England.īy inviting artists to retrace, re-appropriate, or reassess Wallace’s expedition, specimens, documents, and various artifacts, the exhibition 125.660 Spesimen Sejarah Alam explored how trans-cultural collaborative approaches to artistic and scientific practice can address urgent environmental questions. From 1854 to 1862, Wallace travelled the Malay Archipelago, documenting the region’s biodiversity and amassing a gigantic collection of 125,660 specimens for European museums. More specifically, the project engages with the contemporary legacy of the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), best known for co-discovering the theory of evolution by natural selection. ![]() The exhibition was the first iteration of the ongoing curatorial research project- Reassembling the Natural-which addresses colonial natural history collections through the environmental transformations they produced. As vestiges of 125,660 Specimens of Natural History, we have selected a number of images and photographs to relay some impressions of the exhibition 125.660 Spesimen Sejarah Alam, which we curated in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2015, and which Anna-Sophie also presented at the “Between the Discursive and the Immersive” conference, held at the Louisiana Museum later that year. ![]()
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