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4TH ULAANBAATAR INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ART FESTIVAL MIGRATION Energy center, Dornogobi MN 17 Art gallery Centrel Museum of Playtime music festival Mongolian Dinosaurus 2019.06.21-23 2019.06.27-07.07 2019.07.05-07 2019.06.27 Organizer: Co-Organizer: Sponsors: Official partners: Supporters: Media partners: GREETING FROM ARTS COUNCIL OF MONGOLIA With high smartphone and internet users edition expands the festival’s scope with reaching 2.6 million in 2016 (Media Atlas. four different occasions being held over the Mongolia. 2016), Mongolia is considerably a course of the festival. The festival will open country with high technology consumers. with “Train Migration to Gobi” a mobile However, advancement of technology installation, performance and interactive and its use in the arts is underdeveloped. talks with 36 people on the train trip to Gobi Responding to this challenge, ACM initiated within the framework of Нүүдэл-movement Ulaanbaatar International Media Arts Festival aspect of migration. The idea is to focus on in 2016 with commitment to facilitating the movement part of migration and invite innovation, collaboration, strategic growth young artist, curators,and scholars to share and cultural impact for the media arts in their work and practice related to mobility. Mongolia and around the world and through Food migration will also be the main platform of forward-thinking and inclusive highlight of the journey and chef Kumar programs that hold space for a dynamic Bansal will share his story on food migration network of artists and organizations from India to Mongolia along with each committed to powerful creative storytelling participants story food migration. as an engine for transformation and the collective imagination. The festival aims to At the destination a site in Gobi-the energy- preserve and celebrate diverse expression ”Fireline” installation and performance as the common language of a democratic by Chinese artist Huang Huan, on two- society. piece journey of man and woman, East and West, past and future and unknown The 4th edition of UBIMAF reflects on the and the known and the resistance and theme of migration. Global events over acceptance of migration will take place. In the last decade make this an apt topic for addition, Sound migration performance artistic and scholarly engagement. The 4th by long singers will continue the artistic migration in Gobi. On the journey Mongolian artist place at the Central Museum of Dinosaurs on June and illustrator Naidandorj Enkhbaatar and a young 27, 2019 with expermental performance “Arrival” a filmmaker Ikhbayar Shagdarsuren will document joint work by Mongolian, Dutch and German artists. Train migration into illustration installation and The festival will organize contextual programs and video installation. series of workshop by curators, artists and researcher and ArtSee talk series throughout the festival. For Co-organized with Goethe Institut Mongolia and this edition of the festival, a young a Brooklyn- Seoul, Migration Narratives joint exhibition will take based film and virtual reality director, producer and place from June 27-July 7, 2019 at MN 17 Art Gallery. creative technologist Winslow Porter will conduct The main goal of the exhibition is representing untold a workshop for your young filmmakers and young story of migration from each participating country artists on vitual reality filmmaking during his visit including U.S, Thailand, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, from June 24, 2019-July 2, 2019. Honk Kong, Korea, and Sri Lanka and Mongolia. The exhibition is curated 9 young Asian curators with The festival will migrate to Playtime a live music contribution by Joseph Henry Bristley UK scholar festival one of the largest youth music event from who has developed a timeline that looks at the July 5-7 presenting DJs and audio-visual artist from migration practice and related timeline of Mongolia the Netherlands in partnership with TodaysArt in relation to all the participating curators’ countries Festival and Taiwan in partnership with Taiwanese including the U.S. The participating curators and curator Meiya Cheng. artist will be part of the Curator’s symposium on June 28, 2019 as well. The festival opening will take Odgerel Odonchimed Executive director, Arts Council of Mongolia GREETING FROM THE GOETHE-INSTITUT MIGRATION NARRATIVES IN EAST AND Several artistic works were commissioned SOUTHEAST ASIA und will be seen for the first time during the exhibitions. In an open, multilateral curatorial process, The first of these exhibitions is the the Goethe-Institutes from 9 countries in Ulaanbaatar International Media Art East and Southeast Asia brought together Festival. Besides the group exhibition on the curators from Mongolia, China, Hong Kong, topic of migration with contributions from Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, all curators of the project, a train ride to the and Singapore to examine the relationship Gobi is part of the project – designed by the between art and migration. participating artists and curators as a mobile Who is talking about migration and when? performance and installation. What is being negotiated? What is the I would like to thank the Arts Council of relationship between art and migration? Are Mongolia for the successful cooperation, these works of art about migration, about especially Nomintuya Baasankhuu who migrants, or by migrants? Is art one of the curated the Mongolian contribution to the sites of migration, as a topic, a structure, or project “Migration Narratives in East and an attitude? Southeast Asia”. In 2018, the curators attended a number of The Goethe-Institut Mongolia has been a seminars and workshops in Germany and partner of the Ulaanbaatar International Korea where they exchanged ideas on these Media Art Festival since it started four years questions and discussed how the topic was ago. I hope that this new, innovative festival relevant for their countries, the curatorial will continue to thrive in the years to come. approach, and the role of art in this subject area. I wish all visitors an inspiring visit to the This international process resulted in exhibition! exhibitions that are presented in Ulaanbaatar, Michael Heinst Beijing, Hong Kong and Gwangju in 2019. Director, Goethe-Institut Mongolia MIGRATION IN MONGOLIA UBIMAF reflects on the theme of migration. Global abolition of internal passports for Mongolian citizens, events over the last decade make this an apt topic combined with worsening conditions for herders in for artistic and scholarly engagement. In 2019 the the countryside, have seen the capital’s population Office of the United Nations High Commissioner rise to 1,500,000. Approximately one in two for Refugees estimated that there are 68.5 million Mongolians now lives in the sprawling metropolis, forcibly displaced people worldwide. These figures which is haphazardly expanding outwards from – a statistical gloss of the human tragedies of war, its traditional centre and up the flanks of the four famines and revolution - are large indeed. But large mountains surrounding it. though they are, they do not include numbers of migrants who ‘voluntarily’ move from their homes If sustained rural-urban migration in Mongolia to other areas: in many cases in search of work that is relatively recent, other forms of movement in is precarious, dangerous or illegal. Mongol lands have much deeper temporal roots. Nomadic animal husbandry, established over Given the themes of UBMAF, it is appropriate that three thousand years ago in Inner Asia, is based this festival is held in Ulaanbaatar: a city whose on human herders moving with their livestock population has rapidly increased over the last between seasonal pastures. The foundation of the thirty years under the influence of significant Mongol Empire in the early thirteenth century internal migration. When Mongolia became the involved a widespread movement of peoples across world’s second socialist state in 1921, its capital was Eurasia as Mongol armies conquered as far West as essentially a Buddhist monastic community of Poland and Hungary. Moving from war to peace, the some sixty thousand inhabitants. Only after 1945 establishment of Mahayana Buddhism in Mongolia did Ulaanbaatar undergo urbanization to become in the late sixteenth century saw the establishment a modern socialist city adorned with a University, of a caste of lamas with significant personal mobility. Parliament House and Palace of Trade Unions. Pilgrimage routes, along which Mongols travelled After 1990 and the end of state socialism in Mongolia, to sacred Buddhist sites in China and Tibet, were the population of Ulaanbaatar increased again. The well established before their disruption by war and revolution during the middle of the twentieth context: that of labour migration. In the decades century. after 1990, Mongolia has completely reframed its relations to the wider world. Economically, its close Over the last century two patterns of international association with the former Soviet Union (as major mobility involving Mongolians stand out as trading partner, provider of technical assistance and particularly significant. During the heyday of funder of infrastructure projects) has been largely Mongolian socialism in the second half of the replaced with dependence on China. Politically, twentieth century, international migration by Mongolia has developed relations with countries Mongolians was firmly fixed within the communist outside the former Soviet bloc, and forged diplomatic world. A whole generation