Vacuum Landscape is an visual art collective grounded in decolonial research. Our practice engages broader postcolonial debates on resistance, social movements, and the politics of land in Asia. Through archives and ongoing protests, we unpack the notion of landscape beyond its definition as geographical territory, addressing both colonial land governance and its unresolved afterlives.
We approach landscape as a visual and epistemological system, one historically shaped by official archives, Western painting, and photography. Looking closely at how land has been recorded, classified, and framed, we ask what these systems leave out: the archival silences, and the displacement that continues to be obscured in postcolonial present.
Our work begins with archival research and investigation, then takes shape through photography, video, writing, and time-based workshops. Workshops are where we open the archive to others, identifying images together and questioning how they were made and for whom.
Across these forms, we work toward building inter-Asia solidarity for land-rights justice and social movements.
