The INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE aims to promote an understanding of and explore national and international contemporary art scenario. The conference aims to sensitize, empower and educate bureaucracy, planners, policy makers, artists and intellectuals to work together to develop strategies for a common shared vision and understanding of art and artivism.
‘Glocalization of Art: Contemporary Art Practices’
On Tuesday, 30 November 2010, at the Hotel Himalaya in Kathmandu, a daylong international art conference was successfully organized with the theme “Glocalization of Art: Contemporary Art Practices” for artists and others interested in the development of a new art movement. The conference aimed to promote conceptual understandings of the national and international contemporary art scenario. The main objectives of this conference were to sensitize, educate and empower artists, intellectuals, bureaucrats and policy makers to important concepts of contemporary art, to generate synergy toward promoting contemporary art in Nepal, and to promote understandings of art and artivism.
During the conference, four national and international papers were presented on different art subjects. For the conference participants, the conference articulated new concepts, alternate media and approaches in contemporary art and opened up possibilities for creativity and innovation in the Nepali contemporary art arena. The conference was divided into three sections. First session was the inaugural session and the second twosessions were devoted to paper presentations. After every paper presentation, the forum was open for comments, questioning and dialogue among paper presenters, interlocutors and participants. The conference was an important opportunity for artists, participants, intellectuals, academicians, bureaucrats, and policy makers because it helped them to learn about multiple dimensions of contemporary art practice and think about possibilities for art and artivist expressions of contemporary art in Nepal. Also emerging from the conference was national and international affirmation that the Live Art Hub project can play important roles both conceptually and physically. Discussions focused on the important role as a think tank, and as a laboratory not confined to specific space, even while affirming the importance of developing a specific space that will be the Live Art Hub.
Ashmina Ranjit, Directoer/coordinator of LASANAA welcoming the guest at the Conference.
His Excellency, Chancelor of Fine Arts Academy and NPC member inaugurating the Conference
Conference Participants and Presentators
List of Papers Presented
- Critical Analysis & Prospect of Contemporary Art Practice: The Southeast Asian Context
- Network Building and its Impact: The South Asian context
- The Lure of the East in the Eyes of the West: An American Perspective
- Breaking the boundaries in the armed conflict & post-armed conflict: Contemporary Art Practice in Nepali Context
KEY NOTE SPEAKERS:
- Ms. Kathryn Hagy, Senior Fulbright Scholar/Professor of Arts Mount Mercy College, IOWA, USA
- Ms. Gridthiya Gaweewong, Art Curator / Coordinator Project 304, THAILAND
- Ms. Archana Thapa, Independent Scholar, NEPAL
- Ms. Pooja Sood, Art Historian/Coordinator KHOJ, INDIA
INTER-LOCUTORS:
- Mr. Satish Sharma, Photographer/Art Critic/Curator, INDIA/AUSTRALIA
- MR. Sanjeev Upprety, Writer/Actor/Professor of English Literature, Tribhuwan University, Nepal
CHAIRS:
- Mr. Sujan Chitrakar, Program Coordinator, Department of Arts and Design, Kathmandu University, Nepal
- Mr. Salil Subedi ‘ KANIKA’, Artist/Independent Writer, NEPAL
CHIEF GUESTS:
- Dr. Ganesh Gurung, Member, National Planning Commission
- Mr. Kiran Mamandhar, Councilor, Nepal Academy of Fine Art
- HE Morten Jespersen, Ambassador for Royal Danish Embassy in Kathmandu
OBSERVER: Ms Barbara Miltsky, Art Curator, USA