Wayang Ajen: Cultural Media Diplomated Culture

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200321.044How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Wayang Ajen, art communication sociology, cross-cultural diplomacy media

Abstract

Wayang Ajen is one of the Indonesian’s contemporary puppets. More than 20 years, Wayang Ajen has traveled in many countries, such as: Greece, India, Egypt, Turkey, China, Korea, Iran, and others. Wayang Ajen show, chose “carangan” play created by the puppeteer based on the story of Mahabharata and Ramayana. This research is based on direct observation in a various occasion, including seeing the audience’s response on the stage and understanding the human values of the audience. This study aims to give an overview of the creative interpretations done by a puppeteer who develops a creative economy at the same time in the contemporary Indonesian puppet shows. This study runs a qualitative methods by means the research involved. This study uses the sociological theory communication approach initiated by Nina W. Syam. Wayang Ajen as a contemporary Indonesian puppet has shown its existence proportionally in the form of contemporary and professional performing arts in the development of the creative economy. Wayang Ajen shows to the world as a diplomacy media of cross-cultural among the nations in the world.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Arthur Supardan Nalan
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/24
TI  - Wayang Ajen: Cultural Media Diplomated Culture
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Arts and Design Education (ICADE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 181
EP  - 183
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200321.044
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200321.044
ID  - Nalan2020
ER  -