On April 17, 2026, Framer Framed hosts the workshop Robusta and the Vacuum Landscape, which invites participants to dive into Robusta, a coffee bean associated with working-class communities in Indonesia. The workshop uses this coffee tasting experience to stimulate reflection on the colonial histories, land and resistance. This event is in English.
Interwoven with a curated selection of archival landscape photographs and the launch of a publication, the workshop explores how images of landscapes reveal histories of colonialism while unfold absent and suppressed narratives. Unpacks the notion of landscape, opening discussions on how to reclaim realities of displacement in post(de)colonial time.
The Vacuum Landscape is an art research collective initiated by artists Lo Yuen Ming and Chun-Yao Lin, in publishing collaboration with Yee Ting Lau. Grounded in decolonial research, their practice engages broader postcolonial debates on resistance, social movements, and the politics of land in Asia. Through archives and ongoing protests, their work unpacks the notion of “landscape” beyond its definition as geographical territory, addressing both colonial land governance and its unresolved afterlives.
The project began in 2023 with the unearthing of archival images across various Dutch institutions. Together with artists and researchers from Asia, the collective traced landscapes shaped by colonialism over time, focusing particularly on the suppressed histories of plantation regions in Indonesia.
