Timoteus Anggawan Kusno

kohesi Initiatives is pleased to present Siluman Macan (Weretiger), a special presentation by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno. The presentation offers a glimpse into an ongoing development of the artist’s latest film project, Siluman Macan.

The presentation unfolds as an expanded process notebook. Field notes, sketches, writing fragments, design studies, technical drawings, and traces of cinematic research, these materials reveal the evolving ecology of ideas, references, and experiments that shape the project, while highlighting a recurring motif within the artist’s practice: the tiger and the weretiger as figures of ambivalence, transformation, otherness, and return. Across the works, these figures emerge as shifting metaphors through which questions of power, memory, and historical imagination are explored.

Takusno’s practice has occupied the unstable terrain between dream, memory, and history. In Siluman Macan, these concerns return through the figure of the weretiger and the entanglements it generates between myth, cinema, the unknown, and embodied experience. ‘Drawing’ functions not simply as a preparatory tool but as a method of thinking, allowing the work to remain open, provisional, and in the process of becoming.

Situated between contemporary art and cinema, Siluman Macan traces speculative futures shaped by unresolved historical residues and collective anxieties toward the unknown. These forces emerge not through direct representation but as atmospheres, gestures, rumours, protocols, and inherited ways of seeing that quietly structure social experience. The project ultimately considers how fear circulates through cultural memory, producing forms of violence long before they are recognised as such.