PILGRIM (RECONCILIATION POSTMEMORY AFTER TRAGEDY SAMBAS1999)

• Main Author: Wahyudianto, Suvi
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/75948
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

In 1999 in Sambas, West Kalimantan, there was a tragedy of conflict involving ethnic groups in Indonesia, the ethnic groups involved were Madurese and a combination of Dayak-Malays. The conflict occurred several months after the fall of Soehato's New Order power. The horizontal conflicts that occurred were due to social tensions and economic disparities between ethnic groups. Through the medium of performance art and using postmemory theory, it is an attempt to see and dismantle the process of traumatic memories from the first generation to the next, these traumatic feelings are passed down from the generation directly involved to the next. In Ziarah's work, the involvement of bodies and events as well as political territorial landscapes are important in works of art that are used as a medium of reconciliation.The creation of Ziarah's works uses the medium of performance art, which is recorded in the form of works of art in the form of documentary photography and documentary videos, as well as artifacts that are used or produced when performance art events take place. The performance art took place throughout the journey, starting from Madura, crossing the Java Sea, then heading to Pontianak and continuing the overland journey to Sambas. The journey is entitled "Pilgrimage". One method of postmemory is carried out by means of a returning journey, a journey to revisit sites that are considered important in an event, in this case Madura Sambas, this journey is an attempt to find answers from fearful ghosts, traumatic ghosts that are inherited.