10/03/2015 8:32 am The name game - Inside Indonesia Page 1 of 10 http://www.insideindonesia.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=arti…game&catid=210&Itemid=101&tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default&page= Written by Tintin Wulia The name game The name game ! Print Tintin Wulia Tintin Wulia Train (Tintin Wulia, 2007), detail from Have a Cup of Tea/Meet My Dead Train (Tintin Wulia, 2007), detail from Have a Cup of Tea/Meet My Dead Grandfather (Gyora Glupczynski/Tintin Wulia, 2007), webpage, flash Grandfather (Gyora Glupczynski/Tintin Wulia, 2007), webpage, flash animation and digital print. Various dimension (browser-dependant) and animation and digital print. Various dimension (browser-dependant) and 6x6 grid of A4-sized type C print 6x6 grid of A4-sized type C print The discrepancies between the personal and the political have been central to my practice as an artist. I think this is because I was born and bred in a Chinese-Balinese family that survived 1965. Recounting the past ten years of my artistic research, in this essay I will illustrate how I have found the experiences which accompanied the regime change of 1998 to be complementary to the traumatic events and mass killings of alleged communists in 1965. I have also found that reflecting on 1965 can help us re-contextualise the newly revived ‘Chinese-Indonesian’ identity within ‘Indonesian’ identity. This is because we can see the experiences of 1965 as a common ground shared by many ‘Chinese’ and ‘non-Chinese’ Indonesians. The name game