The uncertain seas

The Uncertain Seas is a wayang performance that aims to spark conversations about the identity and belonging of Chinese-Indonesians. The project involves an investigation into the process of negotiating the Chinese-Indonesian identity in Indonesia, in relation to periods of racial discrimination and...

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Main Author: Arman, Adrian
Other Authors: Vladimir Todorovic
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2018
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-744582019-12-10T13:42:00Z The uncertain seas Arman, Adrian Vladimir Todorovic School of Art, Design and Media DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Visual arts The Uncertain Seas is a wayang performance that aims to spark conversations about the identity and belonging of Chinese-Indonesians. The project involves an investigation into the process of negotiating the Chinese-Indonesian identity in Indonesia, in relation to periods of racial discrimination and forced assimilation. It seeks to approach the issue by: (1) Identifying the cultural artefacts that are significant to the Chinese-Indonesian communities in Indonesia, and (2) weaving these elements into a medium that is characteristic of Indonesia’s national identity. This will be achieved through incorporating Chinese-Indonesian figures and iconography into a classical Indonesian medium, namely the Javanese wayang kulit purwa shadow puppets, therefore reinventing a medium that is greatly considered to be Indonesian. The project’s output will take the form of three reinvented wayang puppets, designed as historical Chinese-Indonesian figures with Chinese-Indonesian attributes, as well as a wayang performance film, depicting a fictional story of a chance meeting between Liem Koen Hian and Lie Tjeng Tjoan, two Chinese-Indonesian figures who played important roles in the 1947 Indonesian National Revolution. Bachelor of Fine Arts 2018-05-18T03:21:53Z 2018-05-18T03:21:53Z 2018 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/74458 en Nanyang Technological University 18 p. application/pdf
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The uncertain seas
description The Uncertain Seas is a wayang performance that aims to spark conversations about the identity and belonging of Chinese-Indonesians. The project involves an investigation into the process of negotiating the Chinese-Indonesian identity in Indonesia, in relation to periods of racial discrimination and forced assimilation. It seeks to approach the issue by: (1) Identifying the cultural artefacts that are significant to the Chinese-Indonesian communities in Indonesia, and (2) weaving these elements into a medium that is characteristic of Indonesia’s national identity. This will be achieved through incorporating Chinese-Indonesian figures and iconography into a classical Indonesian medium, namely the Javanese wayang kulit purwa shadow puppets, therefore reinventing a medium that is greatly considered to be Indonesian. The project’s output will take the form of three reinvented wayang puppets, designed as historical Chinese-Indonesian figures with Chinese-Indonesian attributes, as well as a wayang performance film, depicting a fictional story of a chance meeting between Liem Koen Hian and Lie Tjeng Tjoan, two Chinese-Indonesian figures who played important roles in the 1947 Indonesian National Revolution.
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