Co-Research | Collective
Founders ······· Halar Soomro, Thu Van Nguyen
Mesin Slat, Lima Silitonga
Since ········· April 2022
Based In ······ Jakarta|Karachi|Saigon| Amsterdam
Mesin Slat, Lima Silitonga
Since ········· April 2022
Based In ······ Jakarta|Karachi|Saigon| Amsterdam
tu.la.lit
Made up of curious and filled with love queer, trans, internet-raised stray cats - drawn together by shared experiences of chaos and creative community. Our work responds to forms of resistance that relies on group choreographies and organizing.
With our identities rooted in the internet, music subcultures, collective remembrance archiving and postcoloniality. We operate with the understatement of unpredictability and that it naturally fills interactive spaces. We can’t deny that sometimes we are curious about the frictions. In fact, we invite them. It’s in the push and pull when different histories, bodies, and materials come into contact, we see space gets created.
Through our participatory installations we want these dramas to happen not only through people, but also sound, music, video, installation, gatherings, engagements - simultaneously promoting cultural expressions from Southeast and South Asia. Some might say we are giving Dance Moms or Jersey Shore producers, who let things spill onto other things until everything becomes messy because that’s where showbiz is.. But instead of framing messiness as a negative aspect to resolve, we embrace and encourage it as an opportunity to practice and reflect. We work to channel this reawakening energy with care from chaos towards ideas and practice.
Together, we create spaces that provoke uncensored moments to arise, utilizing and encouraging the force of friendship. We create space for the raw feelings and learn how to convert it into agency. We do this through what each of us contribute with our individual art practices, blending them into a collective melting pot for experiments and conversations.
Our areas of focus shift, as our group and the world around us evolve. At our core a whole lotta love and curiosity for other worlds within existing ones.





By exploring how memories, algorithms, dreams, and realities travel across nations, bodies, spaces,
and time, our project feeds off of resonance. We work with sound, light, and tactile objects to storytell
through an imaginary bedroom where memory, imagination, and the mundane come together in an
inviting and engaging installation.
We delve into the dimensions of our everyday lives, looking for moments of resistance and healing, which others can sense and bounce off of. Our own resonanceplay relies on our work resonating with others. We believe decoloniality is a tangible, real-time process. We sensationalize them 21st century style, aiming to contribute to a collective and positive intentionality. We find resonance in the way interactions happen when people gather, when ideas are exchanged, when friendship becomes its own form of art. We invite moments of hidden conversations, duality, and friction. We engage and embrace the chaos
We delve into the dimensions of our everyday lives, looking for moments of resistance and healing, which others can sense and bounce off of. Our own resonanceplay relies on our work resonating with others. We believe decoloniality is a tangible, real-time process. We sensationalize them 21st century style, aiming to contribute to a collective and positive intentionality. We find resonance in the way interactions happen when people gather, when ideas are exchanged, when friendship becomes its own form of art. We invite moments of hidden conversations, duality, and friction. We engage and embrace the chaos


We create multimedia installations of a functioning bedroom, a throbbing blend between memory and imagination. In this bedroom,we improvise with analog sound sampling and sound-driven visuals, orchestrating micro-historical references and social media documentation. Tulalit, since its inception has always held the need to combat emptiness within the under stimulation of the western world.
Our previous projects like the Bandonk conference and lineup:TULALIT represent the core values of resistance, solidarity and global south union. Our continuous method of working with these values has been to utilize our collective admiration for internet culture, metaphoric representation of pivotal historical moments (Like that of the Bandung Conference of 1955) and the introduction of sounds familiar to our diasporic brains (Funkot, Bollywood, and anthems).





