Saturday, 9 August 2025

5 - 6pm

Art Moments

The Program Room, Multifunction Hall

Agora Mall

Thamrin Nine, Jl. M.H. Thamrin

Jakarta

Moderator: Andini Effendi

W. J. T. Mitchell once argued that paintings, photographs and other images are not just signs which invite us to interpret their meanings and codes. Rather, their power to provoke, preoccupy and persuade — not to mention seduce or satisfy — comes from the reality that, not unlike us living viewers, they too are animated with desires, interests, needs, and drives of their own.

In this talk, Laksmi Pamuntjak shares her rich experience in writing about art, especially in her works of fiction.