Yogyakarta International Airport as Site-Specific New Space: Deterritorialisation, Reterritorialisation, and Spatial-Cultural Configuration

Bambang Witjaksono; Nadiyah Tunnikmah Tunnikmah; Ripase Nostanta Br Purba

doi:10.21834/e-bpj.v10iSI39.7676

Authors

Bambang Witjaksono Fine Arts Department, Indonesian Arts Institute Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Nadiyah Tunnikmah Tunnikmah Fine Arts Department, Indonesian Arts Institute Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Ripase Nostanta Br Purba Fine Arts Department, Indonesian Arts Institute Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v10iSI39.7676

Keywords:

YIA Airport, deterritorialisation, reterritorialisation,, geophilosophy

Abstract

This research examines the construction of Yogyakarta International Airport (YIA) in Kulon Progo as a new space that reshapes Yogyakarta’s spatial-cultural conception. Drawing on Lacan’s psychoanalytic framework and Deleuze’s geophilosophy, the study analyses the shift from Adisucipto Airport as object a (desire) to YIA as das Ding (drive), generating sublimation and new fantasies surrounding modern airport experiences. Using Deleuze’s concepts of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation, YIA appears not merely as physical infrastructure but as a concept that produces new constellations for Kulon Progo and the DIY Province, reflecting a dialectic between the local and the global.

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