dokyu: Intersections of History, Creative Writing, and Arts Practice / Hilmi Johandi

These materials are part of the dossier Dokyu: Intersections of History, Creative Writing, and Arts Practice, published in ASAP/Journal volume 8, number 3, January 2024. Spanning multiple locations of research including Singapore, the Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong, the U.S., and Switzerland, Dokyu’s participants draw from varied fields such as documentary poetics, environmental and community-based art and history practices, performance art, and painting, among others, in order to expand the ways in which we approach, understand, and interact with historical documents. Ultimately, Dokyu aims to establish an experimental space that fosters interdisciplinary dialogue, transforms artistic and scholarly methodology, and informs the ways the interdisciplinary in the humanities is both practiced and taught. 

Contents: 

1. Chan Yi Qian (artist & writer)
2. Martin Dusinberre (historian)
3. James Jack (artist)
4. Hilmi Johandi (artist)
5. Collier Nogues (writer)
6. Siddharta Perez (curator)
7. Aki Sasamoto (artist)
8. Lawrence Lacambra Ypil (writer)

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Image featured in Dokyu workshop presentation with Naoko Shimazu, “An Artists Talk” on slide #9, 5 March 2022.

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  Hilmi Johandi

  Primarily working with painting, Hilmi Johandi explores various interventions to expand his image-making process. His practice has seen a constant inquiry into his intuitive response with each medium. Hilmi makes paintings, installations, works on paper and films depicting familiar environments, often revealing the constructedness of representation. Images from archival footage as well as images, old films and photographs produced for mass consumption are reconstructed into a fragmented montage that encourages the viewer to reflect on existing historical narratives within the context of Singapore. In 2018, Hilmi was a recipient of the Young Artist Award presented by the National Arts Council, Singapore. His recent solo exhibitions include Landscapes and Paradise: Poolscapes, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan (2021) and Painting Archives, Rumah Lukis, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2019).