Pychita Julinanda

Jules (they/he) is a Yogyakarta-based cultural and media worker. They have been involved in the Indonesian art scene and sociopolitical movement since 2018. Their practices revolve around arts and culture, film festivals and criticism, transformative curatorial practices, gender and queer epistemology, radical politics of collective care, decoloniality, labor movement, as well as translocal movement and solidarity.

They curated a Southeast Asian artivism initiative YUWANA #7 with exhibitions in Jakarta and Bangkok, tracing a cross-border intergenerational grief of Southeast Asian nations. They wrote film criticism and were appointed as Youth Jury for Minikino Film Week 10. Their fiction was featured in New Naratif's Flash Fiction 2022 and essay is out in the queer anthology In The Back of My Throat (Anamot Press, 2024). They received the SEED Award 2024 by Prince Claus Fund for their socially-engaged artistic and curatorial practices. As of late 2023, their practices are mostly channeled through an initiative of curatorial playground for radical imaginings at kurakurator.

As their cultural works are diverse in forms: curatorial, artistic, critics, they are also proud to claim that they also work in the reproductive sector of cultural works such as translating and editing, as well as transcribing, minutes, administrative, and organizing unions.