Collective
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Co-Research
Jakarta | Karachi | Saigon | Rotterdam | Maastricht
Formed - April 2022
Formed - April 2022
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.
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.
Photos from
Bandonk Conference Rave
April 2024
April 2024
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. 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. 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.
Founders - Halar Soomro, Thu Van Nguyen,
Lima Silitonga & Mesin Slat
Lima Silitonga & Mesin Slat
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.
Photos from tulalit: Can I crash on ur couch
tn (Multimedia Installation) at VOX-POP Amsterdam
October 2024
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).October 2024