Symposium “Thinking about tomorrow’s landscapes” Date: August 30, Friday, 3pm Venue: Red Ger Gallery (Khan Bank head office, Seoul street-25Ulaanbaatar-44) Panelist: Chihiro MINATO (Writer, Photographer), Kunihiko KATSUMATA (Artist, Photographer)
Landscape is a book, a great book written by everyone in the universe. The earth, sand, water, wind and fire shaped its body. Trees, flowers, bees and birds slowly but steadily covered the entire body of our land. Human as a writer of the book appeared long after these genius of the Nature. We know that our body and our mind were shaped by this great book.
If the landscape is the oldest epic of Nature, human has just added some lines at the end of the book. Last but not least, as we often say, the recent human activity is becoming a serious intervention to the entire history of the landscape. Global economy and its environmental effect is actually changing the shape and meaning of landscape elsewhere in the world.
Landscape shaped our Mind and our Mind is now changing the landscape. The concept of Thinking Landscapes in Mongolia (TLM) is to explore the wide range of creation around this theme. In Japanese tradition the landscape was always an important source for the poem and literature. In Mongolia the landscape is the base for everyday life. We’re both concerned with the geography and vegetation in our living world .At the same time we also live in the imaginary landscape, of the future or of the ancient mythology.
TLM will be the fruitful meeting of various artists and thinkers. Through modern artist’s works, painting, photography, video art, installation or performance, we will find a number of fascinating stories both real and imaginary from Japan, Mongolia and elsewhere. I hope this exhibition is the first step of our long journey toward the unseen shapes of our Land and of our Mind.(Chihiro MINATO, Chief curator, June 2013)
Organizer: Arts Council of Mongolia Co-Organizer: Executive Committee of Thinking Landscapes in Japan, Tama Art University Sponsor: Japan Foundation, Asahi Shinbun Foundation Supported by: Embassy of Japan in Mongolia, Embassy of Mongolia in Japan, Satoshi Koyama Gallery