Watching: lemas semangat

Overview

This video explores these lost keramat, attempting to surface them from various ghost topographies, archival fragments, conversations, and memories. Meditating on the lemas – or weak – semangat, the artist wonders if the accumulation and distribution of the archives can have the same effect as the original keramat; if it can function as resistance against the treatment of the land and its inhabitants. “How does one locate an absence?” a voice asks early in the video. “How does one reclaim amorphous earth slipping through temporalities into ghosts and silences [...]?”