GLOBAL NOMADIC ART PROJECT INDIA 2015
"NATURE RENAISSANCE” 17th Nov- 20th Dec 2015
Gujarat
DIRECTOR GLOBAL NOMADIC ART PROJECT OF INDIA: SOMU DESAI
Organized by: TRAINING AND RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL SCIENCES (TREES) Concept Global Nomadic art projects was designed to offer national/international Nature artists an opportunity to explore our country’s geography, environment, culture and history while travelling around, and to be directly inspired and respond through their visual language during the tour, by using the available found natural mediums from area using once own body and camera and moving further without living any trace like Nomads. This project intends to investigate the Global perspective on nature, its influence on lifestyles, and ultimately the way human nature as part of nature has shaped human life. This investigation will help artists understand how it is that Nature Art could have initiated and developed spontaneously, and examine its formative potential as a universal form of human expression, with consideration to how it can be relevant in everyday life. Participating artists was given time to research the areas they visited and discuss them with one another. The land and its culture was uniquely interpreted and reshaped by the artists as art forms to be displayed in the exhibiting space. The project had intended to help expand the horizons of the artists’ practices and particularly to provide the insights into various aspects of the heritage, art and culture.Additionally, the project aims to lead artists to consider how to renew the peaceful relationship between nature and humanity, distancing themselves from the violent methodologies of developing nature, and instead experiencing the ways that our ancestors lived with nature, which is retained in traditional lifestyles, houses and other facets of our cultural heritage.This was a process-based art project that involves preliminary visits, investigations, and field work and record-keeping, which therefore did not only focus on results. Creative ideas and interpretations were required throughout the project. The whole process is documented in written texts, photographs and videos.
Participants
International Artists:
DIANA RADAVICIUTE (Lithuania), EROSS ISTVAN (Hungary), HUR, KANG (Korea), FRED MARTIN (France), KANG, HEE-JOON (Korea), NICOLA GEAR (Scotland), ROY STAAB (USA), HA JUNG SU (Korea), KO, HYUN-HIE (Korea), SAULIUS VALIUS (Lithuania), RUMEN MIHOV DIMITROV (Bulgaria), YA-CHU KANG (Taiwan), KO, SEUNG-HYUN (Korea), Peter Alpar (Romania), KIM SEUNG EUN (Korea), MAHMOUD MAKTABI (Iran), CORNELIA KONRADS (Germany) RI EUNG WOO (KOREA)Indian Artist:SOMU DESAI, ALOK BAL, MEGHA JOSHI, SHIV KUMAR VERMA, SIKAN KUMAR PANDA, MANJOT KAUR, RINKU CHAUHAN, GUNJAN TYAGI, AARTI ZAVERI, PUJA BAHRI, MRUGEN RATHOD, BHAVIN MISTRYDirector, producer, photography of THE MAN AND THE NATURE documentary film on GNAP India: MAKAN ASHOURI, (Iran)
Documentation project manager: MAHMOUD MAKTABI, (Iran)
Edit: REYHANE OMIDGHAEMI, (Iran) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2oLgAu33CI&t=11s