TŪNA TRITUNGGAL
3 channel sound sculpture, 24 pages zine.
Comissioned by Jay Afrisando, supported by DAAD and Santa Cruz University, presented in Gallerie im Turm Berlin from 4 September - 23 November 2025.
From the ongoing series: Gurita Suara
TŪNA TRITUNGGAL is a trilogy installation that expands the discourse on disability beyond the biomedical or physical into the structural, social, and systemic. The title draws from the Indonesian word “tuna,” which refers to a state of lack or deprivation, reflecting the work’s critical lens on disability as shaped not only by physical conditions but also by social, legal, and systemic structures. Developed as a conceptual response to sound artist and composer Jay Afrisando’s exploration of disability and accessibility during his DAAD residency, the work approaches disability as a condition shaped by exclusion, legal status, labor precarity, and institutional design.
Composed of three interconnected works--Tragen, Terrorah, and Tūna—the installation draws from the artist’s lived experience as a parent, migrant, and independent artist of color navigating life in Germany.
🔺 Tragen
A sound-sculptural work centered around the embodied labor of caregiving. A diaper station—reimagined as a performative instrument—amplifies everyday acts of parenthood such as cleaning, carrying, and soothing. Here, care is both material and sonic, revealing the often-invisible work expected from those outside conventional employment structures.
🔺 Terrorah
This piece interrogates how systems of governance assign identity and control through documents, surveillance, and citizenship. Drawing from postcolonial and bureaucratic aesthetics, it reflects on the migration experience and the racialized body as a subject of both fascination and regulation.
🔺 Tūna
A zine-based text work, Tūna redefines “disability” as a condition of systemic exclusion. Referencing the Indonesian word for "loss" or "absence," it centers reflections on disenfranchisement—paying taxes without voting rights, navigating cultural work without stability, and parenting without structural support. Through personal narrative and political analysis, Tūna challenges dominant frameworks of ability, productivity, and participation.
TŪNA TRITUNGGAL invites audiences to reimagine disability not only as an embodied experience but also as a product of systemic design—one that disables through exclusion. It questions who gets to belong, who gets to create, and who is structurally silenced. Through care, critique, and creative labor, the trilogy reclaims disability as a lens for resistance, solidarity, and redefinition.
3 channel sound sculpture, 24 pages zine.
Comissioned by Jay Afrisando, supported by DAAD and Santa Cruz University, presented in Gallerie im Turm Berlin from 4 September - 23 November 2025.
From the ongoing series: Gurita Suara
TŪNA TRITUNGGAL is a trilogy installation that expands the discourse on disability beyond the biomedical or physical into the structural, social, and systemic. The title draws from the Indonesian word “tuna,” which refers to a state of lack or deprivation, reflecting the work’s critical lens on disability as shaped not only by physical conditions but also by social, legal, and systemic structures. Developed as a conceptual response to sound artist and composer Jay Afrisando’s exploration of disability and accessibility during his DAAD residency, the work approaches disability as a condition shaped by exclusion, legal status, labor precarity, and institutional design.
Composed of three interconnected works--Tragen, Terrorah, and Tūna—the installation draws from the artist’s lived experience as a parent, migrant, and independent artist of color navigating life in Germany.
🔺 Tragen
A sound-sculptural work centered around the embodied labor of caregiving. A diaper station—reimagined as a performative instrument—amplifies everyday acts of parenthood such as cleaning, carrying, and soothing. Here, care is both material and sonic, revealing the often-invisible work expected from those outside conventional employment structures.
🔺 Terrorah
This piece interrogates how systems of governance assign identity and control through documents, surveillance, and citizenship. Drawing from postcolonial and bureaucratic aesthetics, it reflects on the migration experience and the racialized body as a subject of both fascination and regulation.
🔺 Tūna
A zine-based text work, Tūna redefines “disability” as a condition of systemic exclusion. Referencing the Indonesian word for "loss" or "absence," it centers reflections on disenfranchisement—paying taxes without voting rights, navigating cultural work without stability, and parenting without structural support. Through personal narrative and political analysis, Tūna challenges dominant frameworks of ability, productivity, and participation.
TŪNA TRITUNGGAL invites audiences to reimagine disability not only as an embodied experience but also as a product of systemic design—one that disables through exclusion. It questions who gets to belong, who gets to create, and who is structurally silenced. Through care, critique, and creative labor, the trilogy reclaims disability as a lens for resistance, solidarity, and redefinition.
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