We organised a panel at AMRO festival, that took place in Linz May 13th until May 17th, 2026
With an intervention and panel, Selena Savic and me tried to start a conversation with Purpel Code rebel and Peretas in Indonesia. Dhyta of Purpel Code and Pitra of Peretas gave us the honor of contributing their experience and insights.
The meeting lived up to the conference title „Becoming Unreadable“ and lead to a breakout room session at AFO in Linz, with international participation.
PANEL PARTICIPANTS:
PERETAS Collective
Peretas, short for perempuan lintas batas (literal translation: women crossing boundaries) works through ands toward the politics of feminist solidarity among women art workers in Indonesia and beyond. The Indonesian word “peretas” means hacker, which renders our spirit to socially hack the stereotypical definition and hegemonic construction that confine women.
(from their website, 2026)
DHYTA / purple rebell of the Purple Code Collective
PurpleCode Collective is a feminist collective focusing on the intersectionality of feminism, human rights, and technology that centres around the people. We put forward our work towards feminist technology that will create a safe, brave, and accountable space for women and other oppressed groups to get together, express, organise, and mobilise. Anchoring our practices in feminist values of intersectionality, we publish original research, build conversations, and gather womxn and queer communities to challenge dominant discourses that shape our technology.
„We are living in the times of rising fascism; techno-fascists’ monopolist platforms take over public services and infrastructures; around the world, we are facing state capitalism + surveillance with patriarchal and neoliberal technologies; we witness the transformation of democratic institutions into corporate feuds. On this panel, we will discuss tactics of continuing, ongoing struggle for equality, recognition and collective survival. Solidarity is more important than ever.
After an initial conversation among the panellists who introduce their perspectives, we will invite the audience to give inputs and take an active part in the debate. The following questions could serve as starting points for a deeper exchange: How does our artistic practice, grounded in local resistance cultures, become (un)readable and/or fruitful for people in other contexts?
How will we connect trans feminist hack networks internationally to become more visible, readable and accountable to each other? How do the Indonesian collectives become unreadable to (and protected from) the extractive practices of Eurocentred companies, corporations and institutions? How can we unlearn extractivist patterns of production in the art world and beyond?“
Text by Selena Savic and Stefanie Wuschitz
