“Who is the Society?”: A Critical Look on the Constituent of Creative-Community through Artepolis Papers 2006-2012

The bi-annual International Conference Arte-Polis in Bandung Indonesia has been representing an academic venue for the discourse of creative culture, creative city, creative industry and creative community since 2006. This of this paper is to reflexively examine the constituent of “creative community, in Indonesia context. This paper explored the assumption about society and their nature of involvement by reading the Artepolis papers collection as published in the proceeding of Artepolis 1 (2006), 2 (2008), 3 (2010) and 4 (2012). The object of study is the selected papers written by Indonesian authors. Overall the reading and examinations concluded that the notion of the creative community varied and proved deviations or differentiation from the original reference - Creative Class. At last, there were three kind of understanding identified in the text of Artepolis: Creative Class, Creative Milieu, and Creative Survivor.