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Annina Ocken

Annina Ocken

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Projekt: Contemporary art in Indonesia – a case study of everyday life in the Yogyakarta art scene

The proposed PhD project on “Contemporary art in Indonesia – a case study of everyday life in the Yogyakarta art scene” aims to detail the understanding of the art scene in Yogyakarta – the main art and cultural node of Indonesia.  To that end, 12 months of ethnographic research is planned in the city  of Yogyakarta, a district of the semi-autonomous region of Daerah  Istimewa Yogyakarta (DIY), "Yogyakarta Special Region".

The  puzzle is to answer the question how the internationalisation of  contemporary art challenges and changes contemporary Art in Yogyakarta.  In doing so I will focus primarily on individual artists, to give a  grassroots perspective of the current development and the transformation of art in Indonesia'  and thus, provide a deep insight into the intersection of contemporary  Indonesian art in Yogyakarta. During the fieldwork I will conduct the  methods of participant observations, writing fieldnotes and informal  interviews. The methods will constantly narrow down my research  questions and allow me to frame questions for semi-structured interviews  with experts.

This  ethnography will not only provide insights into one of the rising art  centres of the world but also contribute to two bodies of existing  scholarship within anthropology. The first contribution will provide a  theoretical conceptualisation of the projects drawn from anthropological  literature helpful in understanding local and global art worlds and its  actors. Secondly, it will moreover contribute to the growing field of  Southeast Asian Studies, specifically to the ongoing construction of  Southeast Asian art history from a social anthropological perspective.


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