1. Friday, July 5, 201912 THE MONGOL MESSENGER ARTS & CULTURE
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Every year, the Culture
Naadam hosts over 20.000
Naadam festival goers on July
11 and July 12 at Khui Doloon
Khudag valley. It presents the
quintessence of Mongolian
cultural identity and the highlights
of its intangible cultural heritage.
The Culture Naadam will hold in
its 12th year, is mainly organized
by Arts Council of Mongolia
(ACM) and the Mongolian State
University of Arts and Culture
(MSUAC) with a team of over
200 persons of artists, intangible
cultural heritage practitioners,
students and volunteers.
The Culture Naadam 2019 is
made available by Rio Tinto, The
Sustainable Supporter of Cultural
Heritage in Mongolia.
How shall we understand &
enjoy the Naadam at fullest and
experience the nomadic traditions,
the authentic nomadic way of life
and the nomadic arts and culture?
The answer is the Culture
Naadam, the two-day event that
presents the unique aspects of
nomadic arts and culture in an
interactive way.
As the Culture Naadam is run
in the valley of the horserace, the
out of town spectators witness the
racing of horses, take a stroll in the
scent of pasture sage and thyme
and pay a visit to the ‘One Day
in Mongolia’ village of Culture
Naadam. It’s arts and crafts village
with several Mongol gers and pop-
up tents, where heritage bearers
and artists showcase distinct
nomadic culture.
It’s not only for watching, but
available for taking part in the
actions of calligraphy writing,
traditional painting, felt stitching
and wool processing. Holding a
brush, dipping it in ink and writing
on rice paper will definitely make
you feel like an ancient sage.
Or making felt out of wet wool,
sensing its tangled fibres will
bring you the warmth of the wool
and the warmth of the hearts of
Mongol peoples.
Try Mongolian traditional
costumes for selfie or witness the
deeply-rooted rituals and customs,
play the traditional games at the
‘Steppe Mongolia’ nomads’ camp.
You can even imagine yourself
being a Mongol warrior while
shooting with a bow and arrow or
while enjoying the horse-riding
show of ‘The Wonder of Horse-
riders’.
Since 2008, the Culture
Naadam has won the appreciation
of the Naadam revelers attracted
and has already become the most
successful public event that is a
part of the “Mongolian Naadam”
festival, a centuries-old tradition
of Mongolia inscribed on the
UNESCO Representative List of
the Intangible Cultural Heritage of
Humanity.
Every visitor at the Culture
Naadam becomes the envoy of
nomadic culture, contributing in
carrying out its aim to promote
Mongolia’s custom traditions, to
endorse the intangible nomadic
culture as a tool for strengthening
national cultural identity and to
raise nationwide awareness of
traditional cultural values.
See, Hear, Smell, Taste, Touch
and Feel the Nomadic Spirit at
Culture Naadam.Sense Yourself as
a True Nomad.
The 4th edition expands the
festival’s scope with four different
occasions being held over the
course of the festival. The festival
opened with “Train Migration
to Gobi” a mobile installation,
performance and session of
interactive talks with 36 people
on the train trip to Gobi within the
framework of Нүүдэл-movement
aspect of migration. The idea is
to focus on the movement part of
migration and invite young artist,
curators, and scholars to share
their work and practices related to
mobility. Food migration also was
the main highlight of the journey
and chef Kumar Bansal will share
his story on food migration from
India to Mongolia along with each
participant’s story about food
migration.
At the destination in Gobi
the “Fireline” installation and
performance by Chinese artist
Huang Huan took place which
focused on twofold journeys
of man and woman, East and
West, past and future, unknown
and known, and the resistance
to and acceptance of migration.
In addition, Sound migration
performance by long singers
Narandulam A. and Turbold
S. took place in Gobi. On the
journey Mongolian artist and
illustrator Naidandorj Enkhbaatar
and a young filmmaker Ikhbayar
Shagdarsuren documented Train
migration into an illustration
installation and video installation.
Co-organized with Goethe
Institut Mongolia and Seoul,
Migration Narratives joint
exhibition opening on June 27,
2019 and will continue until July
7, 2019 at MN 17 Art Gallery.
The main goal of the exhibition
is representing untold stories of
migration from each participating
country including the U.S,
Thailand, Indonesia, China,
Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, and
Sri Lanka and Mongolia. The
exhibition is curated by 9 young
Asian curators with contribution
by Joseph Henry Bristley, a UK
scholar, who has developed a
timeline that looks at Mongolian
migration practices in relation
to all the participating curators’
countries including the U.S. The
participating curators and artists
were presented their project and
artists at the Curators’ symposium
on June 28, 2019. The festival
opening held at the Central
Museum of Dinosaurs on June
27, 2019 with the experimental
performance “Arrival”: a joint
work by long singers Narandulam
A. and Turbold S, circus
performer and dancer Enkhbayar
A., and German artist Sara Orlafi
and Maarten van der Glas from
the Netherlands.
The festival organized
contextual programs and series of
workshop by curators, artists and
researchers and ArtSee talk series
throughout the festival including
“Workshop on VR Film making”
by young Brooklyn-based film
and virtual reality director,
producer and creative technologist
Winslow Porter on June 29, 2019
for local filmmakers and Olof van
Winden, director of TodaysArt
Festival, the strategic partner of
the UBIMAF.
The festival will migrate to
Playtime, a live music festival,
one of the largest youth music
events, from July 5-7 with
UBIMAF tent and on Naaglikhats
stage on July 6, 2019 presenting
DJs and audio-visual artist from
the Netherlands, Taiwan, Canada
and Mongolia in partnership with
TodaysArt Festival, Embassy of
Canada and Ministry of Culture
of Taiwan.
Ulaanbaatarinternationalmediaartfestival
Culturenaadam2019takesplaceathorseraisingsite-khuidolookhudag
With an aim to
preserve the historical
buildings which are the
symbol of national value
and cultural heritage, the
Arts Council of Mongolia
has implemented the
“Cultural Treasure”
project funded by the
MCS Holding LLC since
January 2019.
As part of this program,
ACM has been running a
project developing the two-
hectare land use plan for
the Choijin Lama Temple
Museum approved by the
Metropolitan Urban Planning
and Development Authority.
According to the analysis and
review of an expert panel for
monitoring and analysis of
restoring historical buildings
at the National Center
for Cultural Heritage, the
landscaping work inside the
brick wall of Choijin Lama
Temple Museum was finished
in June.
While performing the
landscaping, there was
gardening work completed in
a 4800 square meter area with
the planting of new suitable
shrubs based on the study of
“The Institute of General and
Experimental Biology”. Also
“The Institute of History and
Archaeology” conducted an
archaeological test study to
identify the old walkways,
temples and stone monuments
and suggested some of the
findings to make as exhibits.
Furthermore, the old
walkways in the museum were
not meeting the standards and
therefore 600 square meters
of new symmetric walkway
has been upgraded at the site.
A facade lighting system has
been installed to increase the
uniqueness of the architecture
of the Choijin Lama Temple
museum and enhance the
charm of the capital city.
As a result of the
“Cultural Treasure” grant
project of Arts Council of
Mongolia and MCS Holding
LLC, the historical building
of Choijin Lama Temple
museum has been renowned
for their walkway that meets
the needs of visitors and
improves the green park
areas in the city, providing a
pleasant environment for the
public. More over this project
has contributed significantly
to improve conservation
and protection of cultural
monuments.
Landuseplanningandlandscapedesigningprojectatchoijinlamatemple
museumhasbeensuccessfullyimplemented
The 4th edition of Ulaanbaatar International Media Art
Festival reflects on the theme of migration. Global events over
the last decade make this an apt topic for artistic and scholarly
engagement.
