Young Soeharto Megan Bradley The narrative urge is encoded

The narrative urge is encoded in our DNA

From legendary photographer Diane Arbus and conceptual artist Hans Haacke to avant-garde theater pioneers like Joe Chaikin and Gloria Miguel

combine original archival and/or field research with innovative historiographical perspectives

unlike almost any other American figure

via Lasting Power of Attorney

Young Soeharto Megan Bradley The narrative urge is encodedWhen a reluctant President Sukarno gave Lt Gen Soeharto full executive authority in March 1966, Indonesia was a deeply divided nation, fractured along ideological, class, religious and ethnic lines. Soeharto took a country in chaos, the largest in Southeast Asia, and transformed it into one of the 'Asian miracle' economies only to leave it back on the brink of ruin when he was forced from office thirty two years later. Drawing on his astonishing range