Taking anti-civilization movement, anarcho-primitivism, jungle radio, and also the aesthetics of denial as a starting point, and motivated by the kind of alienation produced by primordial changes in experiencing the world of technology and the future, Feral Autonomy is a research, a science fiction, an installation that includes photography and audio works about a group of people who organize an amateur radio station in the middle of the forest as an effort to reject the future. An exploration of the ideas of withdrawal, negation, anti-progress, as well as reconfiguring the role of technology in everyday life, this project attempts to depict and dissect the aesthetics of resistance by presenting a story that is on the verge of fiction and non-fiction, while observing anti-fiction ideologies. technology as catharsis for an accelerating future.

Riar Rizaldi works as an artist and filmmaker. His artistic practice focuses largely on the relationship between technology, labor, and nature, worldview, genre cinema, and the possibilities of theoretical fiction. His work has been shown at various international film festivals (including Locarno, IFFR, FID Marseille, Viennale, BFI London, Cinema du Reel, Vancouver, etc.) as well as at the Center Pompidou Paris (2021), The Museum of Modern Art (2024), Whitney Biennial (2024), Taipei Biennial (2023), Istanbul Biennial (2023), Venice Architecture Biennale (2021), Jogja Biennale (2021), National Gallery of Indonesia (2019), and other venues and institutions. In addition, solo exhibitions and focused programs of his work have been held at Gasworks London (2024), Z33 Hasselt (2024), Center de la photographie Geneve (2023), and Batalha Centro de Cinema Porto (2023), among others.