Diffability (with Audio and Description)
An animated video (with audio description) by Reva Adhitama highlights the multiple experiences of people with diffabilities living in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. It explores their everyday lives their experiences of the 2018 earthquake. These stories are drawn from a series of creative workshops facilitated by GENERATE with people with diffabilities in the city of Mataram in October 2022.
This video was produced after extensive consultation with people with diffabilities to ensure that it not only reflects their experiences and multiple challenges of living in an ableist world, but to ensure that regardless of their diffability, they can watch it as well
Artworks by Reva Adhitama Still illustrations captured from our animated film ‘Diffabilties’ by Reva Adhitama. The film brings to life stories collected as part of research with communities living with diffabilities in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara. It highlights their lived experiences of the 2018 earthquake.
Mataram, Indonesia, January 2024.
Fishing Community in Lombok
These sketches by Reva Adhitama capture moments from a workshop exploring the lived experiences of fishing communities who live on the small island of Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara. Fishers spoke of waves drawing closer while fish disappeared further away, the increasing precarities of fishing livelihoods, the physical and mental costs of lifetimes as fishers, and what it is to age in the face of climate change.
Mataram, Indonesia, August 2022.
Women Heads of Household and Former Migrant Workers
These sketches by Reva Adhitama capture moments from a workshop exploring the lived experiences of women heads of household and former migrant workers living in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. Their stories reveal how poverty, gender inequalities, discrimination and stereotypes interweave not just during disasters but in their everyday lives.
Mataram, Indonesia, August 2022.
