1. How do you know when something is “finished”?
When I remember how I started, how I can do it all over again, and how I can add an obscenely perfect standing double corkscrew backflip in there somehow.
2. What is your objective in your work for 月を見る夜 Moongazing?
I want to bring light and levity to the wrought infrastructure we rely on to make sense of our social lives. Complex kinship systems, blood-related or not, that test our humanity through cut fruit offerings, movie Monday rituals, and other selfless affective expressions of unconditional love.
3. What is your lens and how do you apply it?
Etymology suggests that the media around us has always had a gentrifying effect on language, and consequently, intimacy. New ways of communicating in our digital age render passive engagement as grounded affirmation and replace total candour with complex irony. Through the lens of new media as language, I want to push how far our communicative affects and receptive instincts can stretch. Applying this lens through a screen-based investigation, I explore how our essence contorts amidst reductive forms of expression to become totally animal-imperceptible, and how our humanity, at its core, depends on intimacy to continue living.
Ari Angkasa is an Indonesian artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work across screen, performance, and sound explores our complex technological entanglements with the post-human. Her recent work has exhibited widely with institutions such as Gertrude Contemporary, Institute of Modern Art, Liquid Architecture, Bangkok Kunsthalle, and Queer East London. She is the performance curator at Miscellania, and a current studio artist resident at West Space. Her film ‘The Overwoman’ was shortlisted for the Incinerator Gallery Art Award for Social Change.
Image: 3 Fates Media, Angel Leggas
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4-22 February 2026
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月を見る夜 Moongazing was previously developed as part of Antipodes Theatre Company's 2025 Winter Lab and received a 2025 La Mama Residency. This project is supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants, the Hansen Little Foundation and VCA Foundation, and The Ian Potter Cultural Trust.