Performing contemporary Indonesia : : celebrating identity, constructing community / / edited by Barbara Hatley with Brett Hough.

• Superior document: Southeast Asia Mediated ; Volume 6
• TeilnehmendeR: Hatley, Barbara,; Hough, Brett,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Southeast Asia mediated ; Volume 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Performance events have long had a central place in Indonesian societies in displaying power, affirming social relations, celebrating shared values, and at times conveying potent political critique. How have they responded to the momentous social and political changes of recent years - the dismantling of the centralised, authoritarian Suharto regime and its replacement with a more open, regionally-focused political system, the rapid expansion of global cultural influence? Investigations of diverse performance genres from different regions illustrate the way general socio-political processes play out locally, and how particular groups are responding. Exploring performed understandings of identity and community, such studies expand knowledge of a complex, contested period of change in Indonesia and the workings of contemporary performance in giving it expression. With contributions by Chua Beng Huat, Alexandra Crosby, Barbara Hatley, Ariel Heryanto, Brett Hough, Rachmah Ida, Reza Idria, Edwin Jurriens, Yoshi Fajar Kresno Murti, Neneng Yanti K Lahpan, Ugoran Prasad, Wawan Sofwan, Aline Scott-Maxwell, Fridus Steijlen, Alia Swastika, Denise Varney.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Barbara Hatley and Brett Hough -- Introduction: Performance in Contemporary Indonesia – Surveying the Scene / Barbara Hatley -- Contemporary Performance in Central Java – Staging Identities, Constructing Communities / Barbara Hatley -- Babad Kampung’: Celebrating History and Neighbourhood Identity in Yogyakarta / Yoshi Fajar Kresno Murti -- Relocating Kampung, Rethinking Community: Salatiga’s ‘Festival Mata Air’ / Alexandra Crosby -- Imagining Community in Contemporary Surabaya / Rachmah Ida -- Shaping Spaces: Video Art Communities in Indonesia / Edwin Jurriëns -- Balinese Cultural Communities and Scenes / Brett Hough -- The Sundanese-language Drama Festival: Celebrating Local Cultural Identity in West Java / Neneng Lahpan and Wawan Sofwan -- Two Stages for Performance in Aceh: From State Conflict to Syariah Politics / Reza Idria -- Representing Indonesia in Australia through Performance: Communities, Collaborations, Identities / Aline Scott-Maxwell -- Indo-European Pasar Malam, Identity and Performance in the Netherlands / Fridus Steijlen -- Audiences and Arts Spaces in Jakarta Post-1998 / Alia Swastika -- Notes from the 2009 Symposium on Performance in Indonesia / Ugoran Prasad -- Concluding Comments: Identity, Community and the Marketplace in Contemporary Indonesian Performance / Ariel Heryanto , Chua Beng Huat and Denise Varney -- Index / Barbara Hatley and Brett Hough.