Featured Writer
The Ubud Writers International Literary Festival 2006
October 2006
Ubud
Bali

Residency
Fall 2006
International Writing Program
University of Iowa
Iowa City
U.S.A.

http://iwp.uiowa.edu/writers/archive/2006bios.html

Featured Writer
Public Appearance (Talk/Reading)
Kuala Lumpur International Literary Festival
January 2007
Bangsar
Kuala Lumpur

Guest Lecturer
Yale University
February 2007
Luce Hall
Southeast Asian department
Yale University
New Haven, CT
USA

Featured Writer
The Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2007
March 2007
Hong Kong

Featured Writer
The Ubud Writers International Literary Festival 2007
October 2007
Ubud
Bali

International Observer
The New Yorker Festival
October 2007
New York
U.S.A.

Producer
Indonesian Art Performances
"Tony Prabowo in Concert" & "5 Pieces"
25 November - 4 December 2007
National Museum of Singapore (NMS)
produced by Laksmi Pamuntjak
Singapore

Guest Lecturer
Public Lecture/Reading
29 January 2008
Universiti of Malaya
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

The Launch of the Jakarta Good Food Guide 2008/2009
26 March 2008
Aksara Bookstore
Jakarta
Indonesia

Guest Poet
Reading
30 March 2008
Perdu
Amsterdam
Holland

Guest Lecturer
(with Goenawan Mohamad)
9 April 2008
College Francaise d'Extreme Orient
Paris, France

Featured Writer
The Australian Poetry Centre National Poetry Festival
25-27 April 2008
Castlemaine
Victoria, Australia

Guest Lecturer
1 May 2008
The University of Melbourne
Australia

Featured Writer
Wordstorm International Literary Festival
15 - 18 May 2008
Darwin
NTT, Australia

Guest Lecturer
9 July 2008
US Embassy
Jakarta

Officiating at FX Harsono's Exhibition Opening
26 July 2008
Koong Gallery
Jakarta, Indonesia

Guest Speaker
Speech on Indonesian Food
Indonesian Charity Dance and Food Event for IDF
9 September 2008
Singapore Residence
Jakarta, Indonesia

Featured Writer
Writing the Future Festival
18-23 October 2008
Sanskriti Kendra Museum & IIT
Delhi, India

Guest Lecturer
Indonesian Heritage Society Lecture Series
"Eating and Difference"
11 November 2008
Erasmus Huis
Jakarta, Indonesia

The Prince Claus Award Ceremony 2008
2-3 December 2008
Muziekgebouw and Mayor of Amsterdam's Official Residence
Amsterdam, Holland

Featured Writer
10-Hour Indonesian Literature Series
Roundtable Discussion
7 December 2008
Maison Des Cultures Du Monde
Paris, France

Featured Writer
Winternachten Literary Festival
15-18 December 2008
The Hague
Holland

Delegation Member
Australia-Indonesia Bilateral Relations Conference
19-21 February 2009
Sydney
NSW
Australia

Featured Writer
Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2009
The launch of "Not a Muse: World Poetry Anthology"
8 March 2009
(International Women's Day)
Fringe Theatre
Hong Kong

IMME
Text and performance for a project by Marij Nielen
Multimedia collaboration: Text-Music-Painting
23 April 2009
Teater Salihara
Jakarta

Imme is a person barely 30 centimeters tall. No one really knows if Imme is male or female and it is difficult to discover the native ground of this character. Imme’s age is also difficult to estimate. What is clear is that it is not an old person or a child. Imme looks strong and healthy with colored skin and short dark hair. A purple top and shorts leave Imme’s arms and legs uncovered. Imme goes barefoot round the world.

The production of Imme came into being from the desire to develop a character that as broad an audience as possible could identify with. Imme is “the human soul” of the 21st century and goes round in a fantasized world, which no one can say which country it is. The question here is whether the observers i.e. the audience from different countries and cultures (Holland, Indonesia, Ireland, Poland) also think this way. As such the project is also a study into the self-identification of people from different ethnic backgrounds with an imaginary figure outside the maker himself.

The Imme project in Jakarta—as part of the entire project that is to take place in several countries—consists of workshops, painting and audience interaction in public space, documentary making, and a performance involving visual artists, performers, writers, musicians, and a filmmaker. They are Marij Nielen, Jotja Bessems, Sylvia Volkert, Marleen van Geffen, and Laksmi Pamuntjak. The whole Imme project is organized by Maanzaad Foundation.