“THE INVENTED”: A CRITICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE GENDER CATEGORY MAINTENANCE THROUGH INSTALLATION

• Main Author: Nabilah, Ismi
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/80148
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Gender category maintenance is a social demonstration that maintains the western definition of "femininity" and "masculinity" along with their rigid binary gender expectations. Using an installation consisting of popular toys on the market, this final work entitled "The Invented" represents its rejection of the gender category maintenance by emphasizing that the binary gender is a performance and that the binary gender creates an imbalance of power in society. This work also argues that the control over gender expressions, which often leads to discriminatory habits, especially due to power imbalances in society, is the result of society's dichotomous conventions embedded in popular items in everyday life, conventions which are in fact plural and tentative. “The Invented” therefore aims to represent the irony of how protective society is of their masculinity and femininity which are in fact manmade