FOREVER HOME

• Main Author: Mahardani Safira, Syifa
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/87232
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The author views bed rotting as a significant contemporary cultural phenomenon that needs to be addressed and responded through the creation and the report-writing of this work of art. This work stands as a space for the author to express her personal ideas regarding the narrative of bed rotting as the kind of social phenomenon which in recent years has become widespread in society. Based on literature studies and also the author's personal perspective who has had directly experienced similar bed rotting-related experiences, the author represents the ideas that the author has contemplated regarding the topic of bed rotting through her work called Selama(-lamanya) di Rumah. Aside from highlighting and exploring a topic that the author has an interest in, the work’s creation is also intended to be a final conclusion of the entire artistic research process and personal experimentation with the clay medium that the author has carried out during her time at ITB ceramics art studio. During this work’s creation process, the author used several theories to base her artistic creation, such as the theory of the bed rotting phenomenon as a self-care trend used by the younger generation, the theory of the ‘ephemerality’ approach within the scope of contemporary ceramic art, and the theory of art as a multisensory experience. The subject matter of this art work is a bedroom object whose internal contents represent the impacts of bed rotting, since the author views a bedroom as the place where bed rotting experiences most commonly occur, therefore it is considered to be able to tell a story about the behavior and mental state of the owner of the room based on the specific arrangement of the contents and the state of the room. In terms of technical and media exploration, the author displays the artwork as a closed installation room that at the same time is situated in a public place as a way to show its site-specific characteristic. The visualization of the space within which depicts the atmosphere that would be likely to occur during bed rotting, where it would look unkempt and neglected. Additionally, the author also utilized materials like soil, worm microorganisms, and organic waste that are being processed as a growing media in this context and related to the perspective of ephemerality. This act of process a growing media displays a transient nature that is tied to the idea of ‘rotting’ when bed rotting takes place. Through the several chosen artistic approaches used here, the author then opens up a dialogue about how bed rotting creates conditions of being trapped and isolated which can be interpreted as a decaying process of the soul and the mental well-being of the sufferer.