Rizq Naherta - ArtEZ Alumni Index

‘Project ITC’ is a long-term artistic initiative that goes into practicality, human relations, and community-building. The project creates a platform in the margins of institutions by reclaiming pre-existing space to recirculate queer production of knowledge. This pre-existing space is reclaimed and remade from a bootleg shop, specifically the ones in Jakarta, Indonesia. One part of the project is an installation and participatory work where it is redistributing majorly non-western queer films to the audience as they can exchange it with a queer story that relates to a network of pointers that describe what queerness can be, or they can exchange it with physical cash. With that, ‘Project ITC’ reclaims the circulation of a bootleg shop to be queer, and a space for an informal archive collection. In addition to films, the space will house archival materials from Queer Indonesia Archive which includes zines, photographs, and articles. This bootleg shop also has a traveling mini version where it is situated in a gerobak (Indonesian traveling cart) that travels around a certain location.

Another part of the project is the community building aspect, focusing on workshops, panel talks, learning through archives, film screenings, and gatherings for queer diaspora communities especially for Southeast-Asians and Indonesians. Further positioning the project as an in-between platform, and following the theme of a bootleg shop, it is also in the margins of institutions as a way of reclamation and connecting more to marginalized communities.

ARTIST BIO

Rizq Naherta (they/them/dia) is a Javanese-Minangnese transdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Arnhem, The Netherlands. They consider themselves as a spatial jockey, where their practice goes into different spatial mashups, being in-between places and context to create possibilities in the margins of institutions. Their works often present elements of archiving, sampling, reading, performing, administrating, writing, filming, lecturing, installing, researching, blasting, scripting, collaborating, and mundanity. They question how production of knowledge transmits and recirculates in the global age, as they often center around the transmissions, spaces, and perspectives in heterogeneous South-East Asian cities.