The project, Lomba Merpati, is a series of photographs and video works documenting pigeon racing in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Associated as a lower socio-economic class sport and tied up with expressions of Javanese masculinity, pigeon racing occupies a central position within much of the daily social activity of Javanese villages. The project explores the significance of pigeon training grounds as communal gathering points for young men in Yogyakarta. Comprising short video and photographic portraits, the series focuses on the performative gestures enacted by pigeon fanciers as they train their pigeons for short distance sprinting.
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Stevens, L. (2016). Lomba Merpati: Place-making and Communal Signalling within Javanese Pigeon Racing. PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.5130/portal.v13i1.4799
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