Taring Padi: Learning and Working Together

Join us for a workshop with Ladija Triana Dewi from Taring Padi on how to run a collective.

How do we sustain a collective while holding on to shared ideas and political commitments? Drawing on Taring Padi's experiences, the session explores the everyday work involved in keeping a collective alive and moving.

From engaging in acts of solidarity, to producing artworks and organising projects and exhibitions, as well as maintaining relationships with other collectives and communities, much of what holds a collective together comes from the ongoing process of learning, working, and figuring things out together.

By sharing experiences and experiments, Taring Padi open up a conversation about how they share tasks and responsibilities, make decisions, and navigate the different forms of labour within a collective. They consider what counts as work, and how to acknowledge different forms of labour, including how they determine wages and distribute remuneration, while centring care in their collective practice.

Bringing together different experiences and ways of working, this workshop invites participants to reflect on their own practices and exchange ideas. The aim is to learn from each other, recognising that working collectively is never a finished process, but something that is continually built and negotiated.

This workshop is free and open to all but spaces are limited. Please email your name and a short note about why you'd like to participate to workshops@ibraaz.org by 19 November.

This event is part of the closing programme for Taring Padi's exhibition Rakyat Pasti Menang, organised with the support of the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), and the Arts, Communication and Culture research community, part of University of Westminster.

Image Credit: Taring Padi, 2025.