15-12-2025

KITLV and Framer Framed are delighted to announce Jay Afrisando as the new Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed Artist in Residence. The artist will develop a project in the intersections of activism, art, and archive. The Atelier Artist in Residence program aims to sponsor and support concrete, innovative, provocative and societally relevant projects. 

Artists in residence work on urgent topics at the intersection of art and culture, academic research, and scholarship in the field of Southeast Asian and/or Caribbean Studies, and in relation to (post)colonial theory and discourse.

Jay Afrisando

Jay Afrisando is a composer, multimedia artist, researcher, and educator. Through multisensory and antidisciplinary practices, he works on aural diversity, disability, accessibility, and decolonising arts manifested in music-theater, film, installation, witty storytelling, and other genre-bending experiences. Through collaborations with aurally diverse and disabled artists, curators, and communities, his work celebrates neurodivergent, Deaf, and disabled modes of hearing-listening. He treats access as an artistic resource and uses diverse methodologies to center crip practices. His lived experience as a neurodivergent has created intimate relationships that involve cross-media and cross-sensory listening practices.

Edition 2025-2026

For this edition of the KITLV-Framer Framed Residency, Jay will continue his longstanding research on disability justice in Indonesia. Through research in written and photographic archival collections, he expands his research into the influences of Dutch colonial rule on Indonesian discourses of disability, as well as current government policies affecting disabled people. Jay’s involvement of Indonesian disability communities in further conceptualisation of the project broadens the notion of ‘accessibility’ in the archive through social practice and political engagement.

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