Indonesia
Kadapat
Getting to know Kadapat means meeting millennial youth from the suburbs of Bali who were taught gamelan and its traditions from a young age. Not only technically skilled, they also perform gamelan for traditional and religious ceremonies in Banjar, a neighborhood authorised to regulate and manage the community, based on local tradition and manners. They work intensely within these conservative norms and its transcendental cosmology. As millennial entities, they are also embedded in urban culture, technology, and Balinese cosmopolitanism. These hybrid identities become increasingly complex when they experience the dimensions of formal art education with a Western pedagogical system.