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SUMMARY:Mambang Kuneng: Listening to the Sea with Orang Laut
LOCATION:Cinema Room
DESCRIPTION:In recent years, extractive development has expanded into the c
 oastal zones and seas of Insular Southeast Asia, which are the primary doma
 in of sea nomads such as the Orang Laut. In the Riau Islands Province of In
 donesia, Orang Laut communities face mounting pressure from modernization, 
 squeezed from both land and sea. Industrial growth has reclaimed coasts, po
 lluted waters, cleared mangroves, and disrupted sacred geographies. These c
 onditions are not isolated but echo across Southeast Asia, where Indigenous
  maritime communities struggle with habitat loss, cultural erasure, and sys
 temic marginalization within land-based governance frameworks.\nThe film is
  born from a collaborative research trip uniting an artist, social scientis
 ts, Orang Laut knowledge holders, and a local journalist. The journey was b
 oth interdisciplinary and intersubjective — weaving facts, myths, and emoti
 ons into shared experiences that cannot be captured by academic writing alo
 ne. Through daily encounters, shared meals, and a co-led listening and reco
 rding workshop with Orang Laut friends, the film documents embodied Indigen
 ous knowledge and lived maritime cosmologies. It follows the Orang Laut to 
 traditional grounds now clashing with the industrial expansion of mining fa
 ctories, to households resisting encroachment while treasuring the sea as h
 ome, and to underwater sonic worlds near industrial zones, seeking to prese
 rve acoustic experiences on the verge of disappearance.\nMambang Kuneng is 
 known among the Orang Laut in Riau Islands as a sea spirit who teaches resp
 ect for the sea, the land, and other-than-human beings. This reverence perm
 eates their everyday lives and exemplifies an alternative way of coexisting
 —countering the dominant, extractive, and binary understanding of the human
 –nature relationship underpinning today’s planetary crisis.\nThis film is m
 ore than a record of struggle; it foregrounds the community’s fragile yet p
 rofound knowledge systems—wisdom that guides them through unpredictable sea
 s, coexistence with dangerous creatures, and migration across shifting wave
 s. These are not archives of the past but living, adaptive epistemologies t
 hat offer alternative ways of sensing and coexisting with the sea. In the f
 ace of accelerating modernization and flows of capital, how can such knowle
 dge and intangible heritage endure?\nThe film’s artistic approach also chal
 lenges conventional ethnographic representation by adopting a more-than-hum
 an perspective — told, imaginatively, through the eyes and movements of a c
 rocodile, a spiritual figure in local cosmology.\nThe 20 to 30-minute film 
 screening will be followed by a 60-minute moderated discussion on the topic
  Listening, Knowledge, and the Sea: Indigenous Epistemologies and Artistic 
 Fieldwork.
URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/mambang-kuneng-listening-to-the-sea-with-orang-laut
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