Pillars of Arts and Culture

Art and culture

Culture is a knowledge system that includes a system of ideas or ideas contained in the human mind. Cultural embodiments are objects created by humans as cultured beings, in the form of behavior and objects that are real, such as patterns of behavior, language, tools of life, social organizations, religion, art, and so on, which aim to help humans in social life. Culture is the embodiment of human responses to the challenges faced in the process of adjusting to the environment.

1.Cultural Conservation

• Religious Culture

Religious culture is an attitude, behavior and habits of a society based on religious values that are carried out as a whole. Religious values can be realized in various aspects of human life. There are various sides or dimensions in a person’s diversity to carry out religious values, namely (1) the dimension of belief (ideological), (2) the dimension of worship/religious practice (ritualistic), (3) the dimension of appreciation/experience (experiential), ( 4) knowledge dimension (intellectual), (5) experience dimension (consequential).

• Traditional Culture

Indonesian national culture is an accumulation of traditional culture in Indonesia. In the daily life practices of UNNES residents, there are several national cultures that are preserved by UNNES residents. These cultures include (1) mutual cooperation, (2) deliberation, and (3) solidarity. These three cultures have become important cultures known as the national identity of the Indonesian people.

• Local language

Even though the diversity of regional languages at UNNES continues to increase, Javanese is the language that receives attention in the regional language conservation program. The following are several Javanese language conservation programs in the UNNES campus environment.

1. Thursday in Javanese
2. Tuesday Legend
3. Java Language Application Development
4. Ceremony in Javanese
5. Javanese Drama Festival
6. Javanese Language Film Festival

• Traditional Sports
• Karawitan

UNNES has Karawitan UKM which has many activities both on campus and off campus. For the sake of nurturing Javanese culture which is increasingly being erased by the times, UKM Karawitan is trying to revive it through its songs.

• Traditional Snacks
• Parikan Conservation

UNNES organizes public lectures that focus on making and reading parikan. It aims to introduce and preserve parikan as a form of culture.

• Conservation Dance and Gymnastics

Conservation dance is a dance about the idea of a conservation university, UNNES. This dance contains seven pillars of conservation and eight conservation values. The same thing is also related to conservation gymnastics, which is a gymnastic that contains seven pillars of conservation and eight conservation values.

• Traditional Clothing and Fashion Shows

The use of traditional clothing is a form of cultural conservation. This has become an integral part of UNNES, such as the use of batik on certain days. This has become a habit as well as conservation of the culture and work of the nation’s children.

2.Art Conservation

• Art Conservation and the Urgency of Art Conservation

According to the Asia-Pacific Cultural Center for UNESCO (ACCU) report, there are several types of art conditions that must be conserved:

1. Art must have an exceptional and extraordinary human creative value
2. Art that is unique and exceptional and contributes to history and cultural traditions
3. It has the potential to disappear because: the number of practitioners begins to decrease, historical authenticity begins to disappear, cultural significance begins to disappear and art is lost due to the threat of modern rules and regulations.

According to UNESCO, art conservation is an attempt to slow down or prevent the death of certain arts. Traditional arts passed down from one generation to another can be cut off and die. UNNES’s obligation is to prevent the death of a traditional art by making a conscious effort to document and teach traditional art to the next generation.

• Mechanisms and Limitations of Art Conservation conducted by UNNES

To limit the types of art that are conserved, UNNES focuses on conserving four types of works of art:

1. Traditional dance art
2. Traditional performing arts
3. Traditional music arts
4. Traditional craft art

The mechanism used by UNNES to conserve these arts is by:

1. Doing research related to traditional arts
2. Perform services related to traditional arts
3. Documenting traditional art in the form of books and audio-visual media
4. Conduct traditional arts training for teachers and the younger generation
5. Opening and maintaining study programs and courses that are closely related to the maintenance of traditional arts
6. Also provide input to legislators regarding traditional arts
7. Build infrastructure and procure tools that contribute to maintaining traditional arts
8. Ensuring the existence of students who write theses, theses, dissertations and other scientific works on traditional arts
9. Increase the volume of international publications related to traditional arts
10. Routinely hold cultural events or exhibitions featuring traditional arts

The boundaries or limitations of art being conserved by UNNES are as follows.

1. Coastal traditional art, both north and south coast
2. Traditional art based around the campus area
3. Coastal batik craft art, both the north and south coasts
4. Traditional arts of the Chinese community in Java
5. Traditional arts education and training for early childhood and youth
6. Traditional art education and training for art teachers and general teachers