Comments on: Viewing batik: From a local cultural space or global space?

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Anne — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:31:13 +0000

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By: Batik Cha

Batik Cha — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:00:06 +0000

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By: Wahyu Subiyantoro

Wahyu Subiyantoro — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:36:21 +0000

i’m currently resided in Pamekasan, one of less-known batik town in Indonesia. As batik Madura has always quite ‘rare’ thanks to their lack of industrial-scale batik maker, it also because of geographical boundaries. But even this condition couldn’t stop changes happened in pamekasan’s batik industry and its interpretation of what modern and attractive.
First known outside with the exclusive and rather expensive “Batik Kristal” depicting pond of multi-coloured flows with challenging technique, artisan and batik entrepreneurs has push design and imagination boundaries toward contemporary interpretation of old tradition.
No longer tightly bound to the past, new Contemporary Batik Madura has colors and pattern flows free directly to allure younger generation and attract new interest in batik, especially ones seek connection to this tradition but avoid the ‘old’ stereotype usually related with using batik as one’s outfit. One can find ‘Karjagad’ in almost every colors, new interpretation of ‘kawung’ with modern twist, and even ‘parang’ that hardly recognized from its former stiff-but-elegant rules. And it did succeeded ,attracting new wearer, younger and ‘outsider’ who usually not seen batik as medium of self-expression.
But some has push too far. While still follow the rules of hand-drawn batik process, the result is too contemporary, too ‘modern’ to be instantly recognized as batik. It’s like some ‘nice’ fabric’ with no history, no ‘philosophy’ within , just ‘light and easy’. It surely served one purpose of attracting younger generation and keeping this small industry afloat. But with pushing it too far, is it worth the gain?
(maybe this is one way to survive into another century, but i’m certainly attracted with contemporary as long as we can trace down to the original concept and technique).

Wahyu Subiyantoro