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Friday, June 10, 20168THE MONGOL MESSENGER

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ART & CULTURE

Arts and cultural leaders of Mongolia attended the Fellowship Program

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The Arts Council of Mongolia, inconjunction with its sponsors, is proudto announce the opening of the inauguralInternational Media Arts Festival inMongolia. Ofcially partnered by theGoethe-Institut, the Festival is the rst of itskind to be held in Mongolia and will run fora month: from June 9th to July 9th, 2016.

The International Media Festival will

feature 18 artists from 9 different nations ina celebration of the diversity and innovationintegral to media art. The festival consists ofnine free events that will all take place at theFine Arts Zanabazar Museum.

The rst is an exhibition titled Traditionand Modernity and curated by You Mi,a researcher and member of staff at theAcademy of Media Art, Cologne, Germany.This exhibition will run for the duration ofthe festival and display the works of sixMongolian and international artists and thestudents of the University of Culture andArts-School of Radio, Television and Media

Arts.One of the festivals central aims is tobring international experts to supplementthe education of media arts students inMongolia. We are, therefore, pleased to

announce that Christian Faubel of theAcademy of Media Arts, Cologne will beholding a series of workshops for the mediastudents at the University of Culture. Theworkshops will revolve around the conceptsof game and play, two human universals thatcombine narrative, pattern and technologyin distinctly social ways. The opening of thefestival on June 9th will feature the work

produced by these students in the previousdays workshop, and their training willcontinue until the 13th of June.

Two dance events by the dancer andchoreographer Agnes Dru and her AD

1st Ulaanbaatar International Media Art Festival-UBIMAFCompanie will be presented. The rst isthe Edge dance and media arts projectpremiere on the 9th of June, 8pm. Thesecond is Balans, a dance work on June11th that explores the concept of being in-between. Agnes will also be conducting atwo-day dance therapy workshop open tolocal dancers starting on June 10th.

On June 25 at 7pm, a group of graftiand urban street artists from Mongolia,Malaysia, Hong Kong and Korea willcome together to do a live painting of thetraditional Mongolian ox carriage outsidethe Zanabazar Museum. This performancewill mark the opening of the NOMADINKInstallation street exhibition to be hosted atthe museum until the end of the festival.

Showcasing perhaps the most famousof new media technologies: virtual reality,Lynette Wallworth and Nicole Newmanhave brought their new lm Collisions tothe festival. The lm is the rst of its kindto be screened in Mongolia and takes theviewer on a virtual reality journey to the landof the Martu people in the Western Desert ofAustralia.

Finally, a series of ArtSee talks havebeen organised for the 10th, 11th, 16th and30th of June that will give participants thechance to hear from the artists involvedin the festival and learn more about theirprojects and processes.

This inaugural International MediaFestival is truly a ground-breaking eventfor Mongolia and all are welcome to enjoythe variety of performances, exhibitions andtalks. To make the festival accessible to asmany people as possible, all events are free.

Finally, we would like to take thisopportunity to thank ofcial partners Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), Arts NetworkAsia (ANA) through Creative Encounters,Goethe-Institut Mongolia, LiaisonOfceAcademy of Media Arts Cologne,AD Compagnie, our ofcial sponsors theU.S Embassy and XacBank, and our kindsupporters Zanabazar Fine Arts Museum,TumenEkh Traditional Song and DanceEnsemble, University of Culture and Arts-

School of Radio, Television and Media Arts, TavanBogd Group, ofcial media partnerVTV and other media partners our co-organizer Digital Ink and we look forwardtogether to a successful festival!

The Art Council of Mongolia (ACM)has successfully completed its nine-month Fellowship Program that ran fromSeptember 2015 to June 2016. With thesupport and supervision of ACM-US andMr.Walter Jenkins, an ACM Board Member,the program has implemented its eightphases and worked to support 19 emergingarts and cultural leaders out of 50 applicants.The selected applicants who work in variouselds, including art history, visual arts,performing arts (music, drama, dance),

lm and journalism received guidance andtraining in leadership, arts managementand marketing, project development,and governance in order to deepen theirunderstanding of cultural policy, artsadvocacy, and fundraising. The fellows werealso provided with opportunities to attendACM activities and collaborate on joint

projects and events. Since 2008, the ACMFellowship alumni members have steadilyincreased inboth number and diversity and,to date, there are 160 ACM fellows.

As part of the program, fellows wereasked to initiate and implement a jointcommunity service project with a grant ofUS $1,000. As such, the ACM announced a$1,000 grant competition among the fellowsand two proposals were submitted fromfellows.

Upon the completion of the program,

the ACM organized a graduation ceremonyfor ACM fellows on June 4th, 2016 atVineyard Restaurant, World Wine Center.At the ceremony, the fellows recountedthe successes they achieved through theirparticipation in the program and presentedon the grant projects they produced in orderto promote the project to the community.

Mongolian universities educate morethan 100 professional visual artists per year.In Mongolia it is hard for emerging youngartists to nd or afford an art studio in orderto create works and become recognizedby the arts community. Therefore, for newartists access to a work space or studio isextremely important.

In order to support young talented artists,the ACMs Red Ger Art Gallery with supportof Asian Art News initiated a project calledthe Red Ger Artist Residency Program. Theaim of the residency is to support youngtalents by providing them with a work spaceand giving them the opportunity to transfertheir artistic concept ideas into art forms.

The Red Ger Art Gallery announced athree-week open call for applications fromthe 20th May until the 19th of June 2016

at the ACM ofce. Artists are consideredeligible if they are aged between 23 to 35years old. They may be working in anyartistic genre, including experimental artsand culture activities, and arts disciplinessuch as painting, drawing, installation art,

land art, sculpture, media & mixed mediaetc.

The Selection Committee is composed ofAsian Art News & ACM staff and will selectthe nal candidate based on the applicantsprofessional experience, artistic excellenceand the relevance of the residency to theartists future professional goals.

The selected artist will be invited to stayat the apartment studio for three monthsfrom the 16th of August until the 16th ofNovember, 2016. During this time the artistwill create a new body of work which willbe then presented to the public in a soloexhibition. The project will be opened forapplications three times a year to artistsfrom differing ne arts disciplines, andmay include those working in media, mixedmedia and other creative forms.

So please join us in celebrating thestart of the ACMs Red Ger ResidencyProgram. For more information please visitwww.facebook/redgerartgallery or www.artscouncil.mn

Red Ger Artist Residency Programannounced

ACM Fellowship program successfully completed