Hybridity in Contemporary Craft Art in Yogyakarta: Negotiating Local Identity in a Global Context
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https://doi.org/10.48048/ajac.2027.97Keywords:
Hybrid aesthetics, Contemporary craft art, Cultural identity, Art globalizationAbstract
This study analyzes hybrid aesthetics in contemporary craft art in Yogyakarta through a descriptive qualitative approach and contextual analysis. The study focused on how visual and material hybridity is formed, negotiated, and interpreted by artisan-artists as a strategy to maintain local identity amid the mobility of ideas and values in the global art scene. The findings show that hybridity does not end with the combination of traditional and modern idioms but serves as a space for articulating ideas, spirituality, and layered cultural awareness. The artists’ creative process reveals patterns of recontextualizing local values, producing new aesthetic forms that resonate with the discourse of international contemporary art. This research contributes to understanding craft as a material-cultural practice that actively responds to global changes through subtle, reflective identity-negotiation strategies. By positioning hybrid aesthetics as a process rather than merely a visual product, this study expands the discourse on the role of craft in building a dialogue between locality and globality in the contemporary art ecology.
Highlights
Hybridity functions as a process of cultural value negotiation that strengthens and rearticulates local identity in a contemporary context. Positioning craft art as a practice of material and cultural knowledge plays an active role in local-global dialogue in the realm of contemporary art.
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