Durga

Contemporary Indonesian studio work spanning hand-tapping and machine tattooing; Mentawai revival practice

Durga Tattoo, Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesien

Durga, recorded in scholarship as Aman Durga Sipatiti, is an Indonesian tattooer based in the Yogyakarta area who works in both machine tattooing and hand-tapping. He is a documented leading catalyst of the Mentawai Tattoo Revival, which he began in 2009 with the filmmaker Rahung Nasution.

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Durga · Key facts
Field	Detail
Subject	Durga
Type	Person
Æra	Nutidig
Sted	Durga Tattoo, Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesien
Dato	2009 CE
Style / Technique	Contemporary Indonesian studio work spanning hand-tapping and machine tattooing; Mentawai revival practice
Forbundet med	Polynesisk Tatau, Su'a Sulu'ape Alaiva'a Petelo, Mentawai Titi

Arkivnote

Durga grew up in Jakarta and studied design and visual communication in Yogyakarta at the Institut Seni Indonesia, then learned to tattoo while living in Los Angeles, where he apprenticed under the Samoan-tradition master Su'a Sulu'ape Freewind. He returned to Indonesia and established Durga Tattoo, which ran in Jakarta from around 2009, moved to Yogyakarta in 2014, operated from Berlin between roughly 2016 and 2022, and then returned to the Yogyakarta area. Since 2009, with Rahung Nasution, he has documented and worked to sustain Mentawai tattooing through workshops in Siberut and direct collaboration with Mentawai community members, and the tattoo anthropologist Lars Krutak has profiled him, including in the World Atlas of Tattoo, calling him the leading figure of the Indonesian new wave.

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trænet i den samoanske håndtap-tradition, den forankrer Polynesisk Tatau 1500 BCE · Tradition angiveligt udlært under su'a sulu'ape freewind af denne slægt Su'a Sulu'ape Alaiva'a Petelo 1985 CE · Person leads the revival of this Mentawai hand-tap tradition Mentawai Titi 1000 CE · Tradition