
Tellurian Drama
Riar Rizaldi
In the remains of a radio station of the Dutch colonial rulers of Java, the concept of linear time and local history, a mountain and dreams of geoengineering meet.
In 1923, the Dutch erected a radio station on Puntang Mountain on Java deploying indigenous forced labourers. 2,000 metres of wire between two mountain ridges were meant to transmit news from what was then the Dutch East Indies across the 12,000 kilometres to Europe. A speculative and poetic examination of the remains of Radio Malabar – in the earth, in the mountain, in dreams of geoengineering, in local history.
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