Activities Highlight #1 Pancaroba Residency – Lucas Heynes

It has been a third of the way through Lucas’ residency at Cemeti. Together with Piring Tirbing, he explores Yogyakarta and visits artists’ studios. Lucas sees things, be they objects or landscapes, in a unique way. He likes collecting items that we might often overlook, like tattered clothes from a dilapidated hut in the rice fields, or blue bricks with urn ornaments jug from the former Mataram cinema area. To him, these items hold memories and represent traces of the historical significance of the locations where he discovered them. He also filmed several locations he visited with unconventional perspectives, as if he’s trying to capture the moment where the place tells its story through its materiality.

A few days ago, Lucas met Octo Cornelius in his studio. Hearing Octo’s stories about collecting pieces of wood, stones, and building debris, conversations about the memories within objects, the interconnectedness of materials, and the mechanics of nature unfolded. At the end of their discussion, Lucas expressed his desire to learn from Octo to realise his plan to build a wooden tripod, which could automatically move the camera using the kinetic energy of the wind, rather than just serving as a camera support.

Lucas’s residency starts in October until the end of December and is co-organised with Piring Tirbing.