land art mongolia

LAND ART MONGOLIA

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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”. !A number of 20 international artists together with Mongolian artists will be invited for a work residency. During the residency artists have the opportunity to realize side 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 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 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 like to 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 and be supported with full accommodation during the stay in the Gobi desert. There is no fee for transportation to Mongolia. If needed, Artists must apply for travel grants at their national art councils. !The open call is published on the 1st October. Deadline for submissions is the 15th November 2010. Final selections will be published during December 2010. !

Send email submissions to:

proposal(at)landartmongolia.com

Specific inquiries:

quest(at)landartmongolia.com

The Land Art Biennial Organizing Committee, C.A.S. and DUBTSUN Mongolia.

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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 POSTED BY LANDARTMONGOLIA AT 1:04 PM 0 COMMENTS

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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 says Cuvaj, Head of the CAS Contemporary Art Society. 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 variously locations of Mongolia. The Biennial will discuss a contemporary definition of what Land Art can reveal!about the “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 360째 now the concept for the 1st international Land Art Biennial !was published 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 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 Contemporary Art Society (CAS - 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.!

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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, !had kindly accepted to be one of these specialists and the main curator.!

Working together in this way !we could, of course, appreciate his knowledge of Asian artists and his personal involvement in organizing important artistic events, yet furthermore !his capacity to link this knowledge 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 the occidental artistic situation, which Mr. R. Suri knows very well, having been in contact with many international artists and poets from all European countries.

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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Land Art Symposium 2009

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