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Pugak unfolds through shared living and learning in Kebonsari Village, where bamboo groves reveal shoots that grow fully and others that stop midway. The state of pugak gestures toward knowledge that does not always regenerate, reflecting the conditions faced by bamboo-based practices amid shifting social and economic pressures. At the same time, bamboo’s life cycle, from sprouting and selection to processing, articulates a slower rhythm of making, insisting on attentiveness and presence within an increasingly accelerated everyday life.

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Woven forms, twisted fibres, and processed bamboo remnants carry traces of embodied ancestral knowledge embedded in daily practices. Engagements with Mbuduran houses recall ways of inhabiting space once closely attuned to surrounding ecologies, while also marking how social change continually reshapes relationships between people, dwellings, and material resources.

 

The work takes shape during a four-week residency in Kebonsari Village, developed through hands-on collaboration with local bamboo artisans and collective learning with Sanggar Kampung Dolanan Pring, holding space for uncertainty, incompleteness, and ongoing efforts to keep knowledge in motion rather than fixed or inherited intact.