Khairani Barokka

Khairani Barokka is a Minang-Javanese writer and artist from Jakarta, whose work has been presented widely internationally, in 17 countries, and centers disability justice as anticolonial praxis. She’s currently UK Associate Artist at Delfina Foundation, and a practice-based Research Fellow at the University of the Arts London. Among her honors, Okka was the first non-British Associate Artist at the National Centre for Writing (UK, 2020-2021), Modern Poetry in Translation’s Inaugural Poet-in-Residence, an Artforum Must-See, an NYU Tisch Departmental Fellow, and a UNFPA Young Leader Driving Social Change for arts practice and research. Her most recent artistic commissions were for the Wellcome Collection and Jakarta Biennale, and Okka’s books are Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis), Rope (Nine Arches), and co-edited volumes including Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches), as well as, most recently, poetry collection Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches, 2021).