Marintan Sirait

Marintan Sirait (born 1960) is a prominent female transdisciplinary performance artist based in Bandung, Indonesia. Recognised as one of Indonesia's pioneer female performance artist,

Sirait graduated from the Ceramics Department of Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia in 1987, but was already working as a ceramist-artist before graduation. She found national and international prominence as a performance artist in the 1990s, took a hiatus from the arts in the early 2000s, but returned in 2012 to stage performances again. For the body to be such a conduit, it has to first be transformed, disciplined and its imposes subjugated. In so doing, the body's mind and psyche can then be expanded, allowing her and her audience or collaborators to connect in ritual, and transgress bodily and psycho-spiritual limitations. She would also sometimes incorporate sound recordings of crickets, dripping water and experimental live music to bring about a visual art/sound/body movement constellation.

Sound of the Body (1993-1994) Sound of the Body was a performance artwork created in response to her husband, Andar Manik's artwork, Crackling. co-founded Jendela Ide (Window of Ideas) in 1995, a non-profit arts institute and special cultural institution catering to children and youth. They also created an artist-musician family compound, called the Dalemwangi Art Space, which is akin to a laboratory space that seeks collaborations across art forms, and develop shared experiences with them, their participants and audience.

Sirait also started Rumpun Indonesia Foundation, a women's media centre focusing on social change, as well as the Kalyana Learning Centre in 2020.