Aims & Scope

Jurnal Panggung aims to serve as a scholarly platform for the development, dissemination, and critical exchange of knowledge in the field of performing arts. The journal is dedicated to advancing theoretical, empirical, and practice-based research that engages with performing arts as artistic practice, cultural expression, and socio-historical discourse at local, national, and global levels.

The journal encourages rigorous and original contributions that bridge theory and practice, foster interdisciplinary perspectives, and critically examine the evolving dynamics of performing arts within diverse cultural contexts. Jurnal Panggung welcomes submissions from academics, researchers, artists, and arts practitioners whose works demonstrate methodological clarity, analytical depth, and scholarly relevance.

Jurnal Panggung publishes research articles, conceptual and theoretical studies, case studies, critical essays, and practice-based or artistic research that contribute to the advancement of performing arts scholarship.

Scope

The journal focuses on, but is not limited to, the following areas:

1. Performing arts and artistic practices, including music, theatre, dance, and contemporary or collaborative forms, with particular attention to traditional, local, and indigenous cultural contexts, especially in Indonesia;
2. Media, documentation, and recording studies, encompassing photography, film, television, and digital audio-visual media;
3. Anthropology and sociology of art, examining artistic practices within their cultural, social, historical, and ritual contexts;
4. Fine arts and design studies, including painting, sculpture, craft, visual communication design, interior design, product design, transmedia art, batik, and fashion.

Panggung encourages contributions that engage with Indonesian and Southeast Asian arts while offering comparative, theoretical, and global perspectives relevant to contemporary art and cultural studies.