8 THE MONGOL MESSENGER

Art & culture

Friday, June 10, 2016

ARTS COUNCIL OF MONGOLIA

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council
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1st Ulaanbaatar International Media Art Festival-UBIMAF

The Arts Council of Mongolia, in

conjunction with its sponsors, is proud
to announce the opening of the inaugural
International Media Arts Festival in
Mongolia. Officially partnered by the
Goethe-Institut, the Festival is the first of its
kind to be held in Mongolia and will run for
a month: from June 9th to July 9th, 2016.
The International Media Festival will
feature 18 artists from 9 different nations in
a celebration of the diversity and innovation
integral to media art. The festival consists of
nine free events that will all take place at the
Fine Arts Zanabazar Museum.

The first is an exhibition titled Tradition

and Modernity and curated by You Mi,
a researcher and member of staff at the
Academy of Media Art, Cologne, Germany.
This exhibition will run for the duration of
the festival and display the works of six
Mongolian and international artists and the
students of the University of Culture and
Arts-School of Radio, Television and Media
Arts.
One of the festivals central aims is to
bring international experts to supplement
the education of media arts students in
Mongolia. We are, therefore, pleased to

Red Ger Artist Residency Program

announced

Mongolian universities educate more

than 100 professional visual artists per year.
In Mongolia it is hard for emerging young
artists to find or afford an art studio in order
to create works and become recognized
by the arts community. Therefore, for new
artists access to a work space or studio is
extremely important.
In order to support young talented artists,
the ACMs Red Ger Art Gallery with support
of Asian Art News initiated a project called
the Red Ger Artist Residency Program. The
aim of the residency is to support young
talents by providing them with a work space
and giving them the opportunity to transfer
their artistic concept ideas into art forms.
The Red Ger Art Gallery announced a
three-week open call for applications from
the 20th May until the 19th of June 2016
at the ACM office. Artists are considered
eligible if they are aged between 23 to 35
years old. They may be working in any
artistic genre, including experimental arts
and culture activities, and arts disciplines
such as painting, drawing, installation art,

land art, sculpture, media & mixed media

etc.
The Selection Committee is composed of
Asian Art News & ACM staff and will select
the final candidate based on the applicants
professional experience, artistic excellence
and the relevance of the residency to the
artists future professional goals.
The selected artist will be invited to stay
at the apartment studio for three months
from the 16th of August until the 16th of
November, 2016. During this time the artist
will create a new body of work which will
be then presented to the public in a solo
exhibition. The project will be opened for
applications three times a year to artists
from differing fine arts disciplines, and
may include those working in media, mixed
media and other creative forms.
So please join us in celebrating the
start of the ACMs Red Ger Residency
Program. For more information please visit
www.facebook/redgerartgallery or www.
artscouncil.mn

announce that Christian Faubel of the

Academy of Media Arts, Cologne will be
holding a series of workshops for the media
students at the University of Culture. The
workshops will revolve around the concepts
of game and play, two human universals that
combine narrative, pattern and technology
in distinctly social ways. The opening of the
festival on June 9th will feature the work
produced by these students in the previous
days workshop, and their training will
continue until the 13th of June.
Two dance events by the dancer and
choreographer Agnes Dru and her AD

Companie will be presented. The first is

the Edge dance and media arts project
premiere on the 9th of June, 8pm. The
second is Balans, a dance work on June
11th that explores the concept of being inbetween. Agnes will also be conducting a
two-day dance therapy workshop open to
local dancers starting on June 10th.
On June 25 at 7pm, a group of graffiti
and urban street artists from Mongolia,
Malaysia, Hong Kong and Korea will
come together to do a live painting of the
traditional Mongolian ox carriage outside
the Zanabazar Museum. This performance
will mark the opening of the NOMADINK
Installation street exhibition to be hosted at
the museum until the end of the festival.
Showcasing perhaps the most famous
of new media technologies: virtual reality,
Lynette Wallworth and Nicole Newman
have brought their new film Collisions to
the festival. The film is the first of its kind
to be screened in Mongolia and takes the
viewer on a virtual reality journey to the land
of the Martu people in the Western Desert of
Australia.
Finally, a series of ArtSee talks have
been organised for the 10th, 11th, 16th and
30th of June that will give participants the
chance to hear from the artists involved
in the festival and learn more about their
projects and processes.
This inaugural International Media
Festival is truly a ground-breaking event
for Mongolia and all are welcome to enjoy
the variety of performances, exhibitions and
talks. To make the festival accessible to as
many people as possible, all events are free.
Finally, we would like to take this
opportunity to thank official partners AsiaEurope Foundation (ASEF), Arts Network
Asia (ANA) through Creative Encounters,
Goethe-Institut
Mongolia,
Liaison
OfficeAcademy of Media Arts Cologne,
AD Compagnie, our official sponsors the
U.S Embassy and XacBank, and our kind
supporters Zanabazar Fine Arts Museum,
TumenEkh Traditional Song and Dance
Ensemble, University of Culture and ArtsSchool of Radio, Television and Media Arts
, TavanBogd Group, official media partner
VTV and other media partners our coorganizer Digital Ink and we look forward
together to a successful festival!

ACM Fellowship program successfully completed

The Art Council of Mongolia (ACM)
has successfully completed its ninemonth Fellowship Program that ran from
September 2015 to June 2016. With the
support and supervision of ACM-US and
Mr.Walter Jenkins, an ACM Board Member,
the program has implemented its eight
phases and worked to support 19 emerging
arts and cultural leaders out of 50 applicants.
The selected applicants who work in various
fields, including art history, visual arts,
performing arts (music, drama, dance),
film and journalism received guidance and
training in leadership, arts management
and marketing, project development,
and governance in order to deepen their
understanding of cultural policy, arts
advocacy, and fundraising. The fellows were
also provided with opportunities to attend
ACM activities and collaborate on joint

projects and events. Since 2008, the ACM

Fellowship alumni members have steadily
increased inboth number and diversity and,
to date, there are 160 ACM fellows.
As part of the program, fellows were
asked to initiate and implement a joint
community service project with a grant of
US $1,000. As such, the ACM announced a
$1,000 grant competition among the fellows
and two proposals were submitted from
fellows.
Upon the completion of the program,
the ACM organized a graduation ceremony
for ACM fellows on June 4th, 2016 at
Vineyard Restaurant, World Wine Center.
At the ceremony, the fellows recounted
the successes they achieved through their
participation in the program and presented
on the grant projects they produced in order
to promote the project to the community.

Arts and cultural leaders of Mongolia attended the Fellowship Program

Arts Council of Mongolia, Delta Foundation Center, IV floor, Tourists Street-38, Chingeltei District Tel/Fax: 976-11-319015 E-mail: education@artscouncil.mn Web: www.artscouncil.mn
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