Workshop: Robusta and the Vacuum Landscape

On 17 April 2026, Framer Framed hosts the workshop Robusta and the Vacuum Landscape with artists Lo Yuen Ming, Chun-Yao Lin and Yee Ting Lau. The workshop invites participants to pour over Robusta, a coffee associated with working-class communities in Indonesia, exploring coffee tasting as a way to share embodied experience and reflect on the controversies of the plantation industry, passing on voices from local farmers and their protests.

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.

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Info & Credits

This event is in English. Admission is free, pay what you can. Do you also think art should be free and accessible? Please consider supporting us with a donation when registering or by becoming a Framer Framed Friend!

The event may be photographed and filmed. Kindly let us know in advance if you prefer not to have your picture taken. For seated programmes, places are always made available for wheelchair users. Please speak to the host before the programme begins.

Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.

Location

Framer Framed
Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71
1093 KS, Amsterdam