ABOUT
Nuraini Juliastuti is a trans-local practising researcher and writer focusing on art organisation, activism, illegality, and alternative cultural production.
Juliastuti co-founded Kunci Study Forum & Collective in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 1999. She obtained a PhD from Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University.
In 2020, she joined University of Amsterdam with a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Worlding Public Cultures at The Arts and Social Innovation at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis. Juliastuti also develops Domestic Notes, a publication-based project that uses domestic and migrant spaces as sites to discuss everyday politics, organisation of makeshift support systems, and alternative cultural production.
With her family, she runs a small press, Reading Sideways Press, to publish works and translations on arts, sports, and literature.
EDUCATION
PhD in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, May 2019, Leiden University (The Netherlands). Dissertation: Commons People: Managing Music and Culture in Contemporary Yogyakarta.
MSc in Contemporary Asian Studies, 2008, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Thesis: Understanding Movie Piracy in Indonesia: Knowledge and Practices of Piracy.
BA in Communication Studies, 2001, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta (Indonesia).
EMPLOYMENT
Universiteit van Amsterdam:
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL
2020 – Present
Postdoctoral Researcher “Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation” (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis)
KUNCI Study Forum & Collective,
Yogyakarta-Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1999 – Present
Co-Director
Wereld Museum
Research Center for Material Culture
2024.01.01 – 2024.06.31
RCMC Reseach Fellow
Universiteit van Amsterdam:
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL
2020 – 2023
Academic (ASCA (FGw))
Asia Culture Center:
Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, KR
2019.07.10 to 2019.12.09
Principal investigator at Inter-Malay Popular Music Archiving Project, “Imperfect authenticity: Indonesian popular music discourse and sound, 1960s-1990s” (Asia Culture Institute)
The University of Melbourne Victorian College
of the Arts: Melbourne, VIC, AU
2019.04.12 to 2019.07.30
Guest lecturer (Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honors) Social Practices and Community Engagements)
RMIT University: Melbourne, VIC, AU
2018.12.05 to 2018.12.15
Mentor, “Different shapes of archives: Nepali migrant workers and their families”, in Doing Visual Politics workshop (organized by RMIT University, Melbourne), Kathmandu (School of Art)
The University of Melbourne Victorian College
of the Arts: Melbourne, VIC, AU
2017.05.01 to 2017.09.01
Guest lecturer (Master of Art and Community Practices, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music)
Engage Media: Melbourne, Victoria, AU
2009 to 2009
Principal investigator with Ferdiansyah Thajib, Andrew Lowenthal, and Alexandra Crosby, “Videochronic: Video Activism and Online Video Distribution in Indonesia”, commissioned by EngageMedia, Australia