Hawé Setiawan

(1968) was born in Subang, West Java. He finished his studies at the faculty of Arts and Design at the Bandung technikon. Since 2003 he has worked as editor-in-chief of the Sundanese magazine 'Cupumanik' and writes columns for the daily newspaper 'Pikiran Rakyat' in Bandung.

Hawé Setiawan
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Past events

11 January 2007 22:55-23:45 hrs Theater aan het Spui - grote zaal

Sonologic landscape

Languages clash and mingle in the new country. Composer Jos Janssen put poems by the famous Sundanese author Ajip Rosidi to wonderful electronic sounds. The Sundanese journalist and editor Hawé Setiawan talks to Rosidi and the Sundanese/Dutch art historian Alit Djajasoebrata about language, decolonisation and alienation of the mother tongue. Dutch/Sundanese/Indonesian spoken.