The empty steps to the top of Phousi, normally packed with tourists on a Saturday evening before sunset. © Rob Cole

Elly Kent - 10 Mar, 2021

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Elly Kent
Dr Elly Kent is the editor of New Mandala's ARTSEA series on art, design and architecture in Southeast Asia, and a former editor of New Mandala (2020–2022). She is Deputy Director of the ANU Indonesia Institute and a member of the Asia: Innovation and Transformation Research Hub in the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University. She has worked as a researcher, writer, translator, artist, teacher and intercultural professional over 20 years in academia and the arts in Indonesia and Australia. Elly is the author of Artists and the People: Ideologies of Indonesian Art (2022) NUS Press, and co-editor (with Virginia Hooker and Caroline Turner) of Living Art: Indonesian Artists Engage Politics, Society and History (2022) ANU Press.
New Mandala is supported by the Australian National University (ANU), a world-leading centre of research and teaching on Southeast Asia that has hosted the site since its founding in 2006. New Mandala's editors make editorial decisions independently of the ANU, and the views expressed at New Mandala are solely those of contributors and do not represent the institutional position(s) of the ANU or any of its constituent parts.
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