In response to an unacknowledged mass grave site from Indonesia’s 1965-66 genocide, Leyla frames a video performance by poet and performance artist, Cok Sawitri, who chants a lament for the missing dead. It draws visibility to points of erasure in the landscape, where histories of violence register as gaps, fragments and present absences.
Leyla Stevens is an Australian-Balinese artist who works within a lens-based practice, informed by ongoing engagements with storied places, archives, cultural geographies, and performance lineages through a transcultural lens. She is guided by collaborative engagements with communities.
Screening as part of Counter Archives: On Acts of Resistance and Remembrance.
