Semiotic Study in the Kirab of Tuk Si Bedug Traditional Ceremony

Abstract

This study aimed to examine the signs in the Kirab of Tuk Si Bedug traditional ceremony in the current hyperreality age. Kirab is a part in the series of Tuk Si Bedug traditional ceremony at Margodadi village, Seyegan, Sleman. This study employed Jean Francois Lyotard's semiotics which unravels fragmentations in a small narrative deeper, playing between language and art. This study also offers information on the facts behind the Kirab tradition in the millennial or current hyperreality age involving media to share information and consumptive behavior in the traditional ceremony.