Elia Nurvista born in Yogyakarta in 1983, completed a Bachelor of Interior Design from Indonesian Institute of Art Yogyakarta in 2010. Elia Nurvista is an interdisciplinary artist who is interested in exploring various art media with an interdisciplinary approach and focus on food discourse. Apart from the food medium itself, Elia is also active in working with installations, videos, performances, and other performative forms. In 2015, together with a colleague, Elia initiated the Bakudapan Food Study Group. With the format of a collective study, they conducted research on food using various methods, such as ethnography, art, and others. She has participated in several residencies including Koganecho Bazaar Artist in Residence, Yokohama (2012), “Politics of Food” at Delfina Foundation, London (2014), Taipei Artist Village, Taipei (2014), Choreographer’s LAB at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main (2016) and one year long residency program at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2018 – 2019) among others. In addition, Elia also works as a facilitator for community development in the AKSILARASI program conducted by the Indonesian Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy in Labuan Bajo in 2020.
Ayos Purwoaji is a writer and curator working at the intersection of history, architecture and fine arts. Since 2015, he has worked on a number of exhibitions and curatorial projects, among others, Almost There (2017) at Vargas Museum, Manila; Lecture on Cities (2017) at Bozar Center for Fine Arts, Brussels; Némor / Southeast Monsoon (2019) at Cemeti Institute for Art and Society, Yogyakarta; and Segar Bugar (2019) at the Bank Indonesia Museum, Jakarta. Part of them represents his special interest in the practice of vernacular archiving and collective memory. Together with several friends, he founded the Surabaya Contemporary Heritage Council (SCHC), a multidisciplinary group that explores critical discourses on cultural heritage, especially in Southeast Asia. He is also part of the Kelompok Kurator Kampung (KKK), a curatorial collective that experiments around the idea of socially engaged art and encourages curatorial practices within the peripheral society. Currently he teaches cultural studies at Ciputra University, Surabaya.