TAMLAGA
Nomin Bold & Baatarzorig Batjargal
14 - 22 September, 2019
Zanabazar Fine Art Museum
Supreme khan eternal heaven of all
Supreme blue eternal heaven of all that moves
Supreme ancient eternal heaven of all that is absolute
Sovereign eternal heaven that created himself without a creator
TAMLAGA
In the shamanic practice tamlaga is an invocation chant that
presents certain ongod’s (spirit) and tenger’s (heaven)
origin story, power, hierarchy, skill, experience, knowledge, duty and goal.
To invite and welcome a particular ongod or tenger in rituals
shamans or celebrants recite its tamlaga.
Tamlaga is an instrument that
connects the celebrant to the world of ongod and tenger,
and ongod and tenger to the world of man.
ARTISTS’ TAMLAGA
Human life has been intensely worshipping consumerism and material substances
and for that much departing from the spiritual substances and
the world of ongods and tengers.
This exhibition is an artists’ tamlaga to invoke
the spiritual world and its substances that
are drifting apart from man.
A MONGOL WITH TAMLAGA
Tamlaga is many of those substances what makes Mongols a Mongol.
The sense that connects the visible and the invisible worlds is Mongolian.
With these exhibits, artists have invoked the Mongol knowledge that has been lost.
Have invoked the Mongol tamlaga that makes Mongols a Mongol.
Please welcome!
Text by Bum-Ochir Dulam
Supreme blue eternal heaven of all that moves
Supreme ancient eternal heaven of all that is absolute
Sovereign eternal heaven that created himself without a creator
TAMLAGA
In the shamanic practice tamlaga is an invocation chant that
presents certain ongod’s (spirit) and tenger’s (heaven)
origin story, power, hierarchy, skill, experience, knowledge, duty and goal.
To invite and welcome a particular ongod or tenger in rituals
shamans or celebrants recite its tamlaga.
Tamlaga is an instrument that
connects the celebrant to the world of ongod and tenger,
and ongod and tenger to the world of man.
ARTISTS’ TAMLAGA
Human life has been intensely worshipping consumerism and material substances
and for that much departing from the spiritual substances and
the world of ongods and tengers.
This exhibition is an artists’ tamlaga to invoke
the spiritual world and its substances that
are drifting apart from man.
A MONGOL WITH TAMLAGA
Tamlaga is many of those substances what makes Mongols a Mongol.
The sense that connects the visible and the invisible worlds is Mongolian.
With these exhibits, artists have invoked the Mongol knowledge that has been lost.
Have invoked the Mongol tamlaga that makes Mongols a Mongol.
Please welcome!
Text by Bum-Ochir Dulam
“TAMLAGA,” or calling, is an expression that conjures notions of the shamanistic invocation, while simultaneously implying the connection with past present and future, such as connection, origin, and intermediate act, that is linked to a non-physical. The artistic couple in this exhibition were invited to consider such gestures as a performative fashion, one that might work to subvert, undo, transform, and reimagine the body and language, both real and imagined. Featuring fourteen new works specifically for this project, the exhibition aims to question, challenge, and complicate the ethical and moral boundaries of “our actions” and how the so-called “pathologized” body might be considered in contemporary social and cultural contexts. The exhibition is co-organised with The Zanabazar Fine Arts Museum, Bodhi Dharma Foundation and ArtAvenue.mn. It will run open for all public until 22 September 2019.
Co-curated by Dulguun Batbold and Batjil Bayar
Exhibition Details
Title: TAMLAGA - by Nomin Bold & Baatarzorig Batjargal
Address: The Fine Arts Zanabazar Museum, Juulchid Street, Chingeltei district, Ulaanbaatar.
Dates: 14 - 22 September, 2019
Opening Hours: Monday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm
Admission: Free
Travel: Left side from Construction Workers Square.
For press information and images please contact:
Email: info@artavenue.mn
Title: TAMLAGA - by Nomin Bold & Baatarzorig Batjargal
Address: The Fine Arts Zanabazar Museum, Juulchid Street, Chingeltei district, Ulaanbaatar.
Dates: 14 - 22 September, 2019
Opening Hours: Monday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm
Admission: Free
Travel: Left side from Construction Workers Square.
For press information and images please contact:
Email: info@artavenue.mn