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Ari Tampubolon








Ari Tampubolon (b. 1997, Pekanbaru, Indonesia) is an emerging artist based in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). Ari’s work considers the liminal voids she inhabits in transitioning and in diaspora as time-less sites of release, wherein she bends formal conventions of performance art and film to the unpredictable stasis of ‘island time’. Through a conscious framing of the body as cinematic medium, Ari’s practice tracks the legacy of cultural neo-imperialism, global soft power politics and its tangential impact on the body.



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Ari Tampubolon (b. 1997, Pekanbaru Indonesia) is an emerging artist based in Naarm (Melbourne).

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) [Video and performance art]
Monash University, 2023.

Bachelor of Art (Sociology)
Monash University, 2019.


UPCOMING WORKS
Ultra
11 November, 2023. 
Miscellania
Performance program.
Curated by Ari Tampubolon for Miscellania.
With artists Andrea Illés, Vixen 007, and Cerulean.

How do I let you die?
22 November - 26 November, 2023.
Arts House, North Melbourne.Short film and stage play.
by Michele Lee, directed for the stage by Sepideh Kian, directed for the screen by Ari Tampubolon.

Sinetron
March, 2024.
SEVENTH Gallery, Richmond.
Short film and stage play.
directed by Ari Tampubolon.

Night Trade
June, 2024.
RISING, Melbourne.
Performance art program.
Curated by Ari Tampubolon.

Living Truthfully in Invented Circumstances
June, 2024.
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
Video work.
by Andy Butler, produced by Ari Tampubolon.

Para penumpang yang terhormat.
July, 2024
Short film and video collage.
directed by Ari Tampubolon. commissioned by Composite (Melbourne), The Physics Room (Otautahi, NZ), CIRCUIT (NZ), Storage Art Space (Bangkok).

To Douse the Occipital Lobe in Bleach III
Late 2024
Short film
directed by Ari Tampubolon
commissioned in part by Multicultural Arts Victoria, and the City of Yarra.

SELECTED PAST WORKS
Queer PowerPoint
2 September, 2023.
Now or Never Festival, Melbourne. Performance lecture series.
curated by Xanthe Dobbie, Harriet Gillies, and Thom Smyth.

Night Trade
7-18 June, 2023.
RISING, Melbourne. Performance art program.
curated by Grace Herbert, Jay Rayner, and Ari Tampubolon.
with artists Ate Cheska; Blu Jay with IchikawaEdward; Debby Friday; Desire Marea; Esa’s Afro Synth Band; Izzi Selfe feat. Bugs Baschera, Guillaume Gentil, and Miki Duh; Jenn Ma & P.J.; Poncili Creación with Dale Gorfinkel and Peter Farrar.

TENS
23 March, 2023.
The Pavilion, Fitzroy Gardens. Performance art.
part of the group exhibition FAIRY.
curated by Mel Deerson and Spiros Panigirakis.

1293-1917_2000.23 The Last Judgment (southeastern detail)
2-12 February, 2023.
Immigration Museum, Melbourne.part of the group exhibition The Body is More than This.
curated by Kin Francis.


Sour Candy
11 November - 23 December, 2022.
The Substation, Newport. part of the group exhibition Woke in Fright.
curated by Nikki Lam and Mat Spisbah.

To Douse the Occipital Lobe in Bleach II: Trans-auto-theoretic approaches to the gusts of western cultural neo-imperialism blowing east into the horizon.
Online, May 2022.
Running Dog Journal
Long-form fiction.
edited by Diego Ramirez and Naomi Riddle.
commissioned by Running Dog Journal.

This show is dedicated to K-Pop girl group, TWICE. I love you.
22 January - 6 March, 2022.
Arts Projects Australia and West Space, Collingwood.
part of the group exhibition Sincerely Yours.
curated by Sophia Cai.

Xx
20 & 27 January, 2022.
Gertrude Glasshouse, Collingwood. part of the group performance art exhibition Contact High.
curated by Anador Walsh.

Intimate Partner
April, 2021. Short film.
directed by Ari Tampubolon
commissioned by Melbourne Queer Film Festival and Victoria Together.

This show is dedicated to K-Pop girl group, TWICE. I love you.
5-27 March, 2020.
SEVENTH Gallery, Richmond.
Solo exhibition.