Ari Tampubolon
b. Pekanbaru, Indonesia 1997
Ari Tampubolon is an artist living and working in Narrm/Birraranga working under a reconfiguring of the institutional critique “genre” of art, subject to institutional approval, of course.
Selected Works
UPCOMING
Hey Art Lovers Xx
Performance presented for Performance Review and Gertrude Contemporary’s Contact High
Gertrude Glasshouse (Collingwood)
Untitled
Part of West Space, Bus Projects, and Liquid Architecture’s Disorganising commissions.
Collingwood Yards (Collingwood)
2021
Intimate Partner
Short film for Melbourne Queer Film Festival’s Queer Lives in Isolation project
Written, directed, and edited by Ari Tampubolon
MUSEUM HIGHLIGHTS: THE A.R.I. WORLD TOUR 2020
Solo show
Blindside Gallery (Melbourne)
2020
Optics, or, an introductory post-structuralist study of cognition and looking at your reflection while your ass is getting slapped.
Online contributions for Live from the Field: Part 3
Facilitated by Katie Ryan
KINGS Artist-Run (North Melbourne)
MINI Audio Library
Audio library contribution part of MUMA Online collection
Curated by Emily Floyd, Amy Stuart and Ella Sutherland
Monash University Museum of Art (Caulfield)
Symposia: This show is dedicated to K-pop girl group, TWICE. I love you.
Solo show
SEVENTH Gallery (Fitzroy)
Symposia: On the curation of resistance.
Artist talk presented as part of Writing & Concept’s 2020 lecture series
Facilitated by Jan van Schaik and Fjorn Butler
Signal (Melbourne)
2019
MADA Now
Monash University Graduate Exhibition
Monash University (Caulfield)
Dis/location
Group show
Curated by Bea Rubio Gabriel
MPavilion (Clayton)
This show is dedicated to K-pop girl group TWICE. I love you.
Solo show
Intermission Gallery (Caulfield)
Safe Word
Physical Theatre
Performer; Ensemble Cast
Missing Persons (Melbourne)
Collectively
Group show
Curated by Amelia Wallin
Westspace (Melbourne)
The Answers You Need Are Right Where You Are
Group show
Intermission Gallery (Caulfield)
March 2018
Where Are You From?
Writer/participant
Blak Dot Gallery (Brunswick)
Part of an online journal and photographic storyboard curated by Sabina McKenna
November 2016
Raised in Captivity
Performer; Ensemble cast
Pasadena City College Theatre Company (Pasadena, CA)
September 2016
The Laramie Project
Performer; Ensemble cast
Pasadena City College Theatre Company (Pasadena, CA)
May 2015
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Performer; Chief Bromden
John Curtin College of the Arts (Fremantle, WA)
Press
2020MeMo Review
Review for Symposia: This show is dedicated to K-pop girl group, TWICE. I love you.
written by Amelia Winata
Education
2016 - 2020
Bachelor’s degree in sociology and fine art (BA/BFA double degree), Monash University (Clayton VIC)
2010 - 2015
Completed high school diploma, John Curtin College of Arts (Fremantle, WA)
Professional Experience
Current
West Space (Collingwood, VIC)
Gallery assistant
RISING Festival (Melbourne, VIC)
Lead producer and programming assistant (Golden Square)
We Are Here
Contemporary dance creative development choreographed by Jennifer Ma
Principal dramaturg and creative director
2021
We Never Asked For This
Short film by Ella Lawry
Costume designer
Deep Clean
Video work by Andy Butler for Artshouse’s Housewarming
Production assistant
Intimate Partner
Short film for Melbourne Queer Film Festival’s Queer Lives in Isolation
Director, producer, editor, and screenwriter
2020
Monash University (Caulfield, VIC)
Casual guest tutor/lecturor
2019
West Space (Melbourne, VIC)
Volunteer
A Study of Being
Contemporary dance show for Melbourne Fringe Festival 2019
Assistant director/dramaturg
Dancehouse (Carlton)
Awards
2020
Grant Recipient
Melbourne Queer Film Festival’s Queer Lives in Isolation
2015
Arts Ambassador Award
John Curtin College of the Arts