Libro de la Biennale Jogja 17, celebrada del 6 de octubre al 25 de noviembre de 2023 en Yogyakarta (Indonesia).

“Titen: Embodied Knowledges-Shifting Grounds” is the title chosen to reflect diverse but shared movements around the global south practices and the historical connection to South-to-South trajectories. Borrowed from Javanese language, where the villages reside, and to bring this event closer to the local community, Titen or Niteni in Javanese interpret as an ability or sensitivity to read signs from nature. Titen science is usually used to read natural phenomena before a disaster occurs, or to decide an action needed to respond the nature. Titen science is based on a pattern of repeated observations of nature, so that this pattern will later become a reference for interpreting natural phenomena and to establish a particular scientific narrative from the local belief. Choosing this word has been underlining the curatorial framework on decolonizing knowledge production that operates as a resistance to dominant western methodologies.
Trans-Locality & Trans-Historicity. Through these two keywords, the Second Round of the Jogja Equator Biennale seeks to continue the shared ideal of being part of the rewriting of world art history and contributing to the decolonization project of art, especially those that focus on re-questioning world geopolitical definitions and frameworks. At the First Round of the Jogja Equator Biennale; the idea of ​​geopolitics and new internationalism clearly refers to a physical area on the map (23 degrees N and 23 degrees S), and has succeeded in gaining attention from various parties regarding the criticism it offers and its interpretation of the map of the new art world.

Texto en indonesio e inglés.