About the programme
Suara Yang Hilang
What can the voice hold when a language, a landscape, a tradition, or a way of life begins to disappear?
Conceived by Garin Nugroho as part of Kepulauan Ingatan, his 45-year creative journey, Mimbar Suara is a vocal forum where songs, chants, spoken narratives, movement, and personal experience become ways of telling stories and exchanging perspectives.
Rather than a conventional discussion, each artist takes the stage through their own vocal practice. Songs and chants become the starting point for stories of research, history, lived experience, and cultural memory, followed by conversations with the audience.
For its first edition, Mimbar Suara: Suara Yang Hilang looks at cultural heritage through the things gradually disappearing around us: languages, land, flora and fauna, agricultural traditions, and the cultural spaces increasingly displaced by modern life.
Across three days, three artists from Papua, Surabaya, and Bali bring three distinct perspectives on what it means to lose something—and what might still be remembered, retold, and found again.
Movies in this programme
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‘Aku’ yang Hilang
by Garin Nugroho (2026) 60 min
Balinese choreographer, dancer, and educator Dayu Ani turns inward to examine the gradual disappearance of Bali’s agricultural landscape—and the cultural knowledge disappearing with it. Beginning with her own memories of rice fields slowly giving way to homes...
