The curators for the 2nd Land Art Biennial Mongolia 360° are nominated.
Fumio Nanjo
Director Mori Art Museum Tokyo, Japan
Anja Brietzke
Free lanced curator Berlin, Germany
Rasha Ragab
Director Art Bridge Cairo, Egypt
Friday, January 20, 2012
Monday, November 7, 2011
MONGOLIA 360° 2nd Land Art Biennial Open Call 2012
ART & POLITICS
Global change in politics, the perspective of ecology in the 21st century and a new vision of diversity require a creative understanding. In order to develop a new chapter in Land Art and following the nomadic idea of the Walking Museum the Land Art Biennial in Mongolia was founded to be located in variously areas of Mongolia. In August 2012 with MONGOLIA 360° the 2nd international Mongolian Land Art Biennial will be take place in the very special location of Ikh GAZRIIN CHULUU Gobi. The Biennial will discuss a contemporary definition of what Land Art can reveal about Art & Politics.
During the residency (August 06-18th 2012) artists have the opportunity to realize side specific works. Artists are expected to interact with the environment of the nature reserve and free in the choice of materials and artistic expressions (installation/performance/earth art/organic art/sculpture etc.)
A final exhibition including a catalogue and an according Symposium will present a documentation of the realized works in the National Mongolian Modern Art Gallery in Ulaanbaatar.
Interested artists are asked to submit applications by the following way:
- Personal information, contact address, email
- Current CV
- Documentation of prior work, up to 10 jpgs (not more than 1mb each)
- General statement by the artist on their work practice.
- Typed 1 page proposal on work plan and approach to residency
Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Regulations:
Invited artists will be hosted during their stay in Mongolia and be supported with transportation within Mongolia and full accommodation during the stay in Ulaanbaatar and the Gobi desert. There is no fee for transportation to Mongolia. If needed, Artists must apply for travel grants at their national art councils.
Deadline for submissions is the 30th of January 2012.
Send email submissions to: proposal@landartmongolia.com
The Land Art Mongolia 360° Biennial Committee 2012
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
SAVE THE DATE
Art and Politics - Contemporary art as spatial politics in light of emerging urbanism in Mongolia
After the successful inauguration of the 1st Land Art Biennial Mongolia 360° in 2010, which explored the potential staging of a Biennial in Mongolia within the context of global art, an international symposium will be hosted to discuss, broaden, and consolidate the context and dialogue of contemporary Mongolian Art in a global perspective. The symposium serves to support bilateral communication and the discussion of accompanying aspects: Art in public spaces / free space – occupied space in an urban context. It will furthermore address questions of sustainability in a broader perspective of cultural change in Central Asia.
To fully grasp the subject matter of spatial politics in contemporary art a broadly interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of land use is necessary. Drawing on smart growth, public policy and development practices as well as conventions in architecture and landscape design, a new kind of art space arises: a virtual, discontinuous, shape-shifting terrain, more conceptual than architectural, with a scope that has already become global. Its conceptual “point of departure” for exploring the inner and outer landscape of the region intrinsically focuses on notions of the ecological sublime.
The organizers of the Mongolia 360° Symposium 2011 have therefore invited a wider circle of artists, researchers, and curators to reflect on different thematic insights into academic and artistic points of view from a geographical perspective. The symposium will structure these positions into thematic sessions that will provide the conceptual backdrop for the events of the Biennial in 2012. The predominant methodology will focus on developing a Central Asian perspective to thwart the implementation of representational conventions used in a Western tradition. In order to do so the curatorial panel will expressively seek a cross-cultural exchange of ideas.
Сэдэв: Урлаг ба Улс Төр – Монголын хотжилтын үүсэлд контемпорари урлаг өргөн уудам бодлого болох нь
Концепци:
Монголд Биннеалыг дэлхийн урлагийн хүрээллийн дор зохион байгуулах боломжийг нээсэн 2010 онд Анх
Monday, September 13, 2010
DW-TV short documentation from the Gobi
WATCH TV DOCUMENTATION IN ENG. OR GERMAN:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5869555,00.html (Engl.)
Monday, August 30, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Mongolia 360° Curatorial Statement
An importance of the Land Art Mongolia 360° project is found in the emphasis of a correlation of experimentation, spatial site-specific creation and environmentally sound practice. The biodiversity of the Mongolian landscape in one of relative fragility despite the initial appearance of rugged terrain and harsh desert horizons, a theoretical approach has been formulated in cohesion with an aesthetic and philosophical objective to achieve the realization of a project which serves to instigate contemporary art in a nation as vast as Mongolia with its free, democratic vision and engender new conceptions from an experiential discourse between individuals and nature herself.
New physical vistas unique to the region challenge participants with the adaptation necessary in an intrinsic embrace with the distinct natural climate and selection intending to partially demarcate an equivalent diversity of cultural origins within the international body of guests. This hypothetical stance coupled with the actual aesthetic analysis of the proposals which include virtual reproduction, found organic materials, electro-static experiments and the transformation of natural hubris – occasionally fused with technology or industrial complementary or cosmetic alterations- act in service of the legacy of humankind and nature, recalls our past ignorance the destruction so prominent in the later generations of the first industrialized nations of the world. While the mission of the event does not intend to indict the past errors of modern society, LAM 360° does effect a examination of the practices which insinuate that we have erred to an extent of epic proportion, invites speculation that artistic discourse may be as providential as the supposed objectivity given to scientific enquiry.
Aesthetic approaches may no longer remain indifferent or detached from the actuality of experience in the context of nomadism, artistic invention and of a cultural heritage inextricably entwined with the sources of nature as that belonging to Mongolian people. Contextual subversion alongside conceptual deviations from original strategies are inevitable and organic, the individual artist and artistic intention subject to the greater intrinsic force of a land which most have never seen, one which is newly opened to the world with an orientation towards environmental protection and holding the promise of future ecological sustainability in the vision of this democratic nation. Prominence in an experiential context lies in the intimacy and proximity of the citizens of Mongolia with indigenous wildlife, the highest ratio of all nations and the vestige of raw nature in opposition to the urban confines of metropolis more commonly known amidst the situation of exhibiting contemporary art. The artists whom participate and artistic direction of the Land Art Mongolia project have been attentive to develop creative initiatives which prove to not only be highly originally and challenging as regards diversity and experimentation of form and the question of “open space” yet, deserve great merit in the collective sensitization of environment, nature and synthesis of the human experience.
R.A.Suri, Curator MNG 360°
Friday, March 26, 2010
Participating Artists 2010
Anibal Catalan Mexico
Asaki Kan Japan/UK
Batzorig Dugarsuen Mongolia
Beatrice Catanzaro Italy
Cheng Ran China
Chimeddorj Shagdarjav Mongolia
Dolgor Ser-Od Mongolia/Germany
Dagvadorj Sereeter Mongolia
Guido Canziani Jona Italy/Germany
Huang Rui China
Kim Young-ik South Korea
Lap Yip Wing China
Lea Rekow USA
Karin van der Molen Netherlands
Marc Schmitz Germany
Nicole Dextras Canada
Sabina Shikhlinskaya Azerbaijan
Su-Chen Hung Taiwan /USA
Michael Straub Germany
Shinji Turner Yamamoto Japan/USA
Tan Xun China
Tony Ng Hong Kong (China)
Michael Müller Germany
Yeşim Ağaoğlu Turkey
Megumi Shimizu Japan/China
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
We wish all interested followers of MONGOLIA 360° a happy 2010
We wish all interested followers of MONGOLIA 360° a happy 2010. We have had an unexpected and overwhelming response of applications for the residency from Azerbaijan, Alaska, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Denmark, China, Chile, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Island, Israel, India, Germany, Hungary, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, U.S.A., Japan and Russia (app. 300 entries) Due to the high number of relevant proposals and as the curatorial team is internationally based, the selection process has been delayed. A shortlist of pre-selected artists shall be published by the end of January 2010. Short listed artist shall be interviewed beginning February.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Biennial Manifesto
„ A twenty-first-century biennial will utilize calculated uncertainty and conscious incompleteness to produce a catalyst for invigorating change whilst always producing the harvest of the quiet eye.” –Cedric Price
„New biennials should invent new exhibition formats. The current multiplication of biennials means that rather than copying the formats of other biennials, the challenge is to provide new spaces and new temporalities. It is urgent to generate a situation that is receptive to interesting, more complex spaces combining the large and the small, the old and the new, accelerating and deceleration, noise and silence.” –Hans Ulrich Obrist
„..a new start is likely to take place beyond the European continent.“ –Daniel Birnbaum
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Call for proposals
MONGOLIA 360° 1st Land Art Biennial Open Call 2010
Questions like sustainability, the perspective of ecology in the 21st century and a new vision of diversity require a creative understanding. In order to develop a new chapter in Land Art and following the nomadic idea of the Walking Museum the Land Art Biennial in Mongolia was founded to be located in variously areas of Mongolia. In August 2010 with MONGOLIA 360° the 1st international Mongolian Land Art Biennial will be take place in the very special location of BAGA GAZRIIN CHULUU Gobi.
The Biennial will discuss a contemporary definition of what Land Art can reveal about the “today’s questions”.
Twenty international artists together with Mongolian artists will be invited for a work residency. During the residency artists have the opportunity to realize site specific works. Artists are suggested to use natural materials of the area but as well any materials and artistic expressions are welcome (installation/performance/earth art/organic art/sculpture etc.)
A final exhibition including a catalogue and a Symposium will present a documentation of the realized works in the National Mongolian Modern Art Gallery in Ulaanbaatar.
Interested artists are asked to submit applications by the following way:
- Personal information, contact address, email
- Current CV
- Documentation of work, up to 10 jpgs (not more than 1mb each)
- General statement by the artist on their work practice.
- Typed 1 page proposal on approach to residency
Artists who apply should send a clear proposal including their work plan. Incompletely applications will not be considered.
Regulations:
Invited artists will be hosted in Ger Camps. They will be supported with full accommodation during their stay in the Gobi desert. However, artists will be responsible for their own return transportation costs to Mongolia. If necessary, artists must apply for travel grants through their national art councils.
The open call is published on the 1st October. Deadline for submissions is the 15th November 2009. Final selections will be published during December 2009.
Send email submissions to: proposal(at)landartmongolia.com
The Land Art Biennial Organizing Committee, C.A.S. and DUBTSUN Mongolia.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=101239479050061263009.00045bd4abaeb2e549ea8
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Open call for artistic proposals
Open call for artistic proposals will be published October 05th 2009. Deadline for submissions is the 15th of November 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
MONGOLIA 360°
Perspectives in Land Art. The new challenges we face mean we're going to have to rethink our connections to the planet and to each other. When it comes to creating a new space for building new relationships, the arts are uniquely powerful. Land Art is arising as a new kind of art space: a virtual, discontinuous, shape-shifting terrain, more conceptual than architectural, with a reach that has already become global in scope.
Questions like Sustainability, the perspective of ecology and a new vision of diversity require a creative understanding beside the common white cube art spaces where the arts become more and more condensed by economical force. In order to develop a new chapter in the Land Art tradition since the beginning in the American West in the late 60th and following the nomadic idea of the Walking Museum - the Land Art Biennial in Mongolia was founded to be located in various locations of Mongolia. The Biennial is a forum in search of contemporary definitions of what Land Art can reveal about “today’s questions”. In order to open a free space of artistic interaction they decided not to restrict the definition of land art by any presets.
With MONGOLIA 360° the concept for the 1st international Land Art Biennial will be hosted in the Gobi desert in August 2010 .
As is common for organic processes, the Land Art Mongolia project took years to coalesce. Inspired by a Land Art Symposium in the Gobi Village Bor Undur in 2006 the concept of a collaborative land-art exhibition series was first envisioned by the Mongolian Artists Dagvadorj Sereeter and Chimedorj and the Berlin based Artist Marc Schmitz. In early meetings, members of the Society discussed a much smaller, simpler effort to facilitate a partnership between the team in Berlin and one of Ulaanbaatar two major art institutions: the UMA (Union of Mongolian Artists) and DUBTSUN (Fine Art Collectors Association).
But lacking a single coordinating entity, the concept didn't get off the ground until June 2009, when Puntsag Tsegmid , executive director of DUBTSUN, stepped in to take over the practical coordination in Mongolia, and an international team joined the Land Art committee with the tasks of curating, fundraising, marketing, and much of the program development. By the unanimous decision to nominate R.A. Suri as the main Curator of the Biennial in 2010 the axis Ulaanbaatar, Shanghai and Berlin established an international framework of creative development.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
R.A. Suri has been nominated as the curator for Land Art Mongolia 2010
The Shanghai based curator R.A. Suri has been nominated to curate the Land Art Biennial Mongolia 2010. Working for this project we soon came to experience and understood that it was absolutely necessary to find Asian experienced specialists. Mr. R.A. Suri, has kindly accepted to be one of these specialists and the main curator.
Working together in this way we came, of course, to appreciate his knowledge of Asian artists and his personal involvement in organizing important artistic events. As well, he brings a capacity to link this experience to a larger point of view, helping us to find the way to present the Art works without betraying their cultural context, yet in reference to Occidental modes of artistic expression, as Mr. R. Suri has developed contacts with many international artists and poets from across Europe.
So, for us it is evident that Mr. Rajath Suri is the “right man” to be called on for all artistic projects which aim to construct this manner of international relation and intercultural exchange.
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