Contributors

Chris Bond is a contemporary artist who creates handmade facsimiles of books, magazines, exhibition catalogs, and correspondence that become the documentary materials for his installations, which hijack the conventions of the museum display. His narrative scenarios construct uncannily real worlds in which fictional artists, writers, and organizations are the subjects of fantastic stories that hover on the edge of possibility.Rex Butler teaches in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University, Melbourne.Wulan Dirgantoro is an art historian and curator based in Melbourne, Australia. She teaches at the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Her publications include Feminisms and Indonesian Contemporary Art: Defining Experiences (2017) and “After 1965: Historical Violence and Strategies of Representation in Indonesian Visual Arts,” in Living Art: Indonesian Artists Engage Politics, Society and History (2022). Her current research focuses on the impact of political violence on aesthetic practices in modern and contemporary art in Indonesia and Timor-Leste.A. D. S. Donaldson is an artist and independent scholar. Together with Rex Butler he authored UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History (2023).Jane Eckett teaches in the art history and curatorship program at the University of Melbourne. She is the coauthor and coeditor of On Bunurong Country: Art and Design in Frankston (2023). Curatorial projects include Melbourne Modern: European Art and Design at RMIT since 1945 (2019) and Centre Five: Bridging the Gap (2022). She is currently guest-editing a special issue of Index Journal on Australian art colonies (2025) in tandem with this special issue of ARTMargins.Iñaki Estella teaches in the Art History department at Complutense University in Madrid, Spain. He is the author of George Maciunas: Historia, burcracia y colectividad (2020). He was also involved in the collective research project Desacuerdos: Sobre arte, políticas y esfera pública en el Estado español (2003-7).Harriet Parsons works with artists and historians to explore the nature of artistic practice in historical context. As an artist she is best known for a series of exhibitions entitled Call Signs (2001-2011) that explored Australia’s place in the world as a Pacific nation. The final exhibition in this series initiated her research into Captain Cook’s claim to the possession of New South Wales in 1770. She continues this investigation in articles and collaborative projects that explore the use of drawing in the documentation of the expedition’s discoveries.Pfunzo Sidogi teaches in the Department of Fine and Studio Arts at the Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. He coedited, together with Denis Ekpo, The De-Africanization of African Art: Towards Post-African Aesthetics (2022), and authored Mihloti Ya Ntsako: Journeys with the Bongi Dhlomo Collection (Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria, 2022).Kiki Rizky Soetisna Putri is a researcher and lecturer based in Bandung, Indonesia She currently teaches at the Faculty of Art and Design, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), and is the cofounder of the Center for Indonesian Visual Art Studies (CIVAS ITB), a research laboratory dedicated to preserving and studying archives related to the history of the Bandung School, an intellectual and artistic movement rooted in the Faculty of Art and Design, ITB.Gloria Sutton teaches contemporary art history and women, gender, and sexuality studies at Northeastern University and is a research affiliate in the Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Adrian Tan teaches at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore. He is currently completing a Digital Research Fellowship with the National Library Board and the National Archives of Singapore. He recently curated Rust: Echoes of Memory (2025) at Prestige Art Gallery and OPEN END: Resonate, Re-Read and Re-Trace the Substation Archive (2024) at the Rotunda Library & Archive, National Gallery Singapore.