LIVING IMAGINARY LIFE: AN AMBIGOUS CORPOREALITY OF THE URBAN

Abstract

Abstract

To live into the fullest, as if, has became everyone’s purpose in living the live. Each of them has different ways to achieve and make it happened, yet some of them—especially urban people—have a similarity due to an existence of high technology and wide covered internet accessed; the similarity is living in a digital reality. It is occurred when they are connecting to another reality and creating their digital life. A moment they are engaging lives in incorporeal reality, at the same time they are disconnecting—temporarily and/or permanently—and recreating themselves in the corporeal live. Such phenomenon may cause them to have an imaginary and ambiguous life; and affecting their corporeal world where the body exists. However, the urban also tends to have fragmented lives in their corporeal world by making particular spaces, such as private and public transportation—as an alternative reality. Related to that, Seno Gumira Ajidharma (SGA) has successfully depicted these realities on his works “Tiada Ojek di Paris: Obrolan Urban†(2015) and can be discussed by using several approaches in order to be aware and comprehend the phenomenon. Methods used in this discussion are naturalistic observation and descriptive analytics which are aimed to identify, and give suggestion in comprehending an ambiguous corporeality life of the urban, mostly the youth.

Keywords: ambiguous, corporeality, imaginary, urban