SPIRIT OF GOBI - CONSILIENCE
23 September - 07 November 2020
MN 17 Art Gallery
23 September - 07 November 2020
MN 17 Art Gallery
The works of 12 artists of electronic music and fine art were exhibited at “Spirit of Gobi” in Gobi near Tsugaan Suvarga, Ulziit soum-Dundgovi province on 5-8th, August 2020. The second part of the festival, the Spirit of Gobi Consilience, featuring more than 20 works by 17 artists showcased in exhibition hall of the gallery in Ulaanbaatar. It was the very first year of the festival and we are planning to expand its scale each year and bring together new artists from the arts and music fields, attracting young artists, promoting their work to the public. The festival will be held in 2 sessions (I, II) similar to this year and the goals for each session are as follows: I. At this time, without nature, there is no concept of culture, not even humanity. In this way, nature is the basis for the emergence and evolution of culture. Thus, the main goals of Part I are to translate Mongolian culture and human-nature relations into fine arts and music, and to create works in nature through contemporary art. II. The main goal of session II is to discover how traditional concepts, nomadic culture, and nature are reflected in the work of artists, showcase the video contents, documentary photographs on how artists work in nature, and to promote urban culture. Creating a work in nature, especially in the Gobi, not only clarifies the nature of the artist’s existence, but also brings him closer to understanding and feeling his inner awakening. Continuing to create the work in the gallery’s exhibition hall with that feeling is a conjunction of spiritual sense.
Uchral.B
Art Researcher
Uchral.B
Art Researcher
It feels that the artwork and life get closer when an artist works in designated space. One cannot create something which he did not experience in life, similarly for this particular exhibition when the artists worked on their works they managed to transmit vast natural space into their personal space based on their own feelings and memories. How artists are expressing the spiritual nature of Gobi through their work truly amazed me. When the shifting from vast Gobi space to urban limited space CROSSED, the way it is changing artists's feelings and ways to create the work proved that expectation from the artists as a curator in the given framework met.
Batsaikhan.S
Curator
To the east from the location where the Gobi Spirit Festival took place, In the outskirts of Del mountain there is a VII-V millennium BC early bronze age slab grave named thirty-two hunt, on one of its vertical slab stones there is an ancient engraving of 32 people in a row with celebration or dancing motif which echoes our ancestral belief in natural harmony, understanding of the universe, and their cultural characteristics using ritual imagery. In 2015 professor Dulam.S organised an ethnic ballet named “Inverted Triangle” at the site of Del mountain and later it has been performed at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Thus I believe that artists that have been selected for the Gobi Spirit Festival have stimulated their self-expression in the open environment using visual, sound, performative art mediums to resonate forgotten rites and opening up new dialogues.
Consilience is drawn from Latin com- “united” and silience as in resilience. The term consilience was first coined by William Whewell in his 1840 synthesis on Philosophy of Inductive Sciences 1840, it has come to our attention by Edward Wilson’s book Consilience - The Unity of Knowledge 1999.
All the artists participating in Consilience are united with their unique conceptual works in the Anthropocenic era, it is an attempt to reflect a new form of the art of thinking and to develop a sense of contemplation not only of environmental issues but also of our socio humanitarian crises. Most contemporary art is meant to cast doubt on accepted truths and offer alternative perspectives on our reality and its belief systems. Foremost gratitude goes to all the artists, organisers, and supporters both in the gobi and in the exhibition environment, this exhibition would not have realized if it wasn't for our collective drive.
Batjil.B
Curator
Batsaikhan.S
Curator
To the east from the location where the Gobi Spirit Festival took place, In the outskirts of Del mountain there is a VII-V millennium BC early bronze age slab grave named thirty-two hunt, on one of its vertical slab stones there is an ancient engraving of 32 people in a row with celebration or dancing motif which echoes our ancestral belief in natural harmony, understanding of the universe, and their cultural characteristics using ritual imagery. In 2015 professor Dulam.S organised an ethnic ballet named “Inverted Triangle” at the site of Del mountain and later it has been performed at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Thus I believe that artists that have been selected for the Gobi Spirit Festival have stimulated their self-expression in the open environment using visual, sound, performative art mediums to resonate forgotten rites and opening up new dialogues.
Consilience is drawn from Latin com- “united” and silience as in resilience. The term consilience was first coined by William Whewell in his 1840 synthesis on Philosophy of Inductive Sciences 1840, it has come to our attention by Edward Wilson’s book Consilience - The Unity of Knowledge 1999.
All the artists participating in Consilience are united with their unique conceptual works in the Anthropocenic era, it is an attempt to reflect a new form of the art of thinking and to develop a sense of contemplation not only of environmental issues but also of our socio humanitarian crises. Most contemporary art is meant to cast doubt on accepted truths and offer alternative perspectives on our reality and its belief systems. Foremost gratitude goes to all the artists, organisers, and supporters both in the gobi and in the exhibition environment, this exhibition would not have realized if it wasn't for our collective drive.
Batjil.B
Curator
Exhibition Details
Title: SPIRIT OF GOBI - CONSILIENCE
Address: MN17 Art Gallery, Independence square MN Tower 17th floor, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Dates: 23 September - 07 November 2020
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 5pm
Admission: 3000 MNT
Email: info@artavenue.mn
Title: SPIRIT OF GOBI - CONSILIENCE
Address: MN17 Art Gallery, Independence square MN Tower 17th floor, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Dates: 23 September - 07 November 2020
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 5pm
Admission: 3000 MNT
Email: info@artavenue.mn