Intersect: Kelvin Atmadibrata in conversation with selina bonelli

About the artists

Kelvin Atmadibrata (b.1988, Jakarta, Indonesia) recruits superpowers awakened by puberty and adolescent fantasy. Equipped with characters from shōnen manga, the notion of ‘kōhai’ in the context of hierarchical relationships, and macho ero-kawaii, Kelvin personifies power and strength into partially canon and fan fiction antiheroes to contest the masculine meta and erotica in Southeast Asia. He works primarily with performances, often accompanied by and translated into drawings, mixed media collages, and objects compiled as installations. Approached as bricolages, Kelvin translates narratives and recreates personifications based on RPGs (role-playing video games) theories and pop mythologies. He currently studies and explores queer abstraction and minimalist erotica in his illustration of the mecha and transhumanist fantasy, as well as image markings on the skin as a continuation of his attraction to living sculptures, breathing mannequins and bodies as pedestals.

In exploring abandoned post-conflict architecture through performance and sound, selina bonelli (UK/IT) aims to develop an evidential trail of affective, sensorial and embodied witnessing of traumatic experiences from marginalised bodies and abandoned ruins. Their work centres the weight and silence of the failed document in performance acts as a prosthesis to gestures that try and approximate an ethical sensitivity to what witnessing can be. selina co-delivers SITE, a bi-monthly event that invites artists to come together to generate site-responsive work in collaboration with others at locations of socio-historic, architectural, and ecological interest in rural areas across the UK and Europe. They are an associate artist of ]performance s p a c e [ and a current PhD candidate at Ulster University.