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Kathmandu International Art Festival
The Kathmandu International Art Festival is the largest international art event held in Nepal and will be held as a nonprofit, noncommercial festival every three years by the Siddhartha Arts Foundation. Each edition of the festival is based on a particular theme. The festival is about bringing like-minded individuals together in a contemporary aesthetic experience. This is about art for a social cause.
Artist Gaynor O'Flynn, director of the beinghuman collective, who works across the disciplines of voice, music, performance, film & installation art has been invited to create two unique new works for Kathmandu International Art Festival 2012
Titled Earth l Body l Mind the festival addresses social concerns through the power of art. The festival will reach over 50,000 visitors, with 100 international artists exhibiting.
Gaynor is leading a series of master classes in partnership with the British Council in Nepal working with members of t.b.c. : the beinghuman collective : an award winning group of artists, musicians, technologists & film makers. She will be also working with local transmedia artists, musicians & technologists to create an interactive, cross cultural work on the Festival’s theme : Earth, Body, Mind. This work will incorporate soundscapes, interactive text, visuals & live performance to create a beautiful, symbolic, symbiotic work uniting British & Nepali artists through performance & digital art. This blend of cultures, imagery & interactive work will happen on the opening evening of The Festival & will take place in the illustrious historical setting of Patan Museum, one of the Royal Palaces of the former Malla Kings of the Kathmandu Valley.
On the 27th November, 2012 Gaynor will perform a second new work on Boudhanath Stupa, a UNESCO world heritage site in Kathmandu, Kora. Working with Tibetan nuns, creating a new composition on the festival theme of Mind l Body l Earth. The new composition incorporates traditional Tibetan chants & her respect for Buddhist belief & culture. Gaynor has filmed extensive in the Indian & Nepali Himalayas & worked in a media capacity for The Dalai Lama. Gaynor & the nuns will perform on the stupa as they sing, their voices will be turned into circles of light that then are then projected onto the sacred site. The Buddhist stupa of Boudhanath dominates the Kathmandu skyline. The ancient Stupa is one of the largest in the world & is one of the holiest Buddhist sites in Kathmandu. The influx of large populations of refugees from Tibet has seen the construction of over 50 Tibetan Gompas or Monasteries in Boudhanath, which since 1979 is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Gaynor’s vision for this work is for us to challenge our perceptions of reality, our mind, our body our earth by seeing sound & seeing the power of sound, seeing it affect our body, our earth & to send out a message from this sacred site of the power of art for social change the power of ancient wisdom in a modern world.
As well as creating her own work Gaynor is also curating the British Chapter of the Festival. Turner Prize Winner & internationally acclaimed artist Richard Long is patron of the event. The British artists chosen include Royal Academy artist David Nash OBE, land artist Chris Drury, award winning music photographer Anna Tully & there is also a possibility of a very special guest from the UK.
You can also find Gaynor representing the beinghuman collective at one of the symposiums, where she will be talking about her next major work, 108 uniting 108 artists globally who believe in fair trade for artists www.beinghuman.ning.com
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