Natasha Tontey is an artist living and working in Yogyakarta. Her artistic practice predominantly explores the fictional accounts of the history and myths surrounding “manufactured fear”. In her practice, she observes possibilities of other futures that are projected not from the perspective of major established institutions, but from that of subtle and personal struggles of outcasted entities and beings. In 2021 alone her work was shown at Asian Art Bienniale, Taiwan; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin; transmediale, Berlin; Performance Space, Sydney; Other Futures, Amsterdam; Singapore International Film Festival; Kyoto Experiment; and Asian Film Archive, Singapore among others. In 2020 she received the HASH Award from ZKM and Akademie Schloss-Solitude and is now a Human Machine fellow atl the Junge Akademie of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2021–23).