Pushing Against the Roof of the World: Ruangrupa’s Prospects for Documenta Fifteen

• Main Author: Cristobal, Geronimo
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: ruangrupa; documenta 15; sukarno; lumbung; partai komunis indonesia; museum friedricanium; curator; Fine Arts; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/fine-arts-faculty-pubs/7; http://thirdtext.org/cristobal-ruangrupa
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Mythology offers a way to understand the implications of a Southeast Asian group organising such a touchstone event in contemporary art. George McT Kahin wrote with great resolve in his Introduction to Benedict Anderson’s Mythology and the Tolerance of the Javanese (1965) that ‘anyone interested in...