Nine Dragon Heads 19th. Aug ~ 9th. Sept. 2013 Nomadic Party GER to GER Organization Boards Annelise Zwez Bruce Allan Denizhan Ozer Gabriel Adams Jessy Rahman Nandin Erdene. B Park Byoung-Uk Paul Donker Duyvis Susanne Muller Staff Goo So-Young Jeong Ji-Yoon Song-Wha 1 Nine Dragon Heads aspires to generate positive environmental and spiritual legacies for the future. This is in a context where humankind benefits from manipulating and dominating its natural surroundings; regarding the natural environment as a target and challenge for conquest, a test of its ability to transform and possess nature. Our desire and ingenuity to exploit and develop the natural environment through domination and control implies superiority. Reflecting on the history of the planet however, many species of all forms became extinct when the friendly environmental conditions that firstly nurtured their birth later changed and became hostile. The question of when will humankind disappear hangs over us. No matter how 'special' we Homo Sapiens think we may be, we have to realise we are a part of the greater natural world and the product of a unique environment that supports our life. How can we lead a life with understanding and respect for the world of nature? How can we maintain a life peacefully and fairly for the survival of mankind? Nine Dragon Heads changes ‘I’ into ‘we’, a community of artists, who explore and re-consider the relationship and equilibrium between people and the natural environment. Nine Dragon Heads joins with other communities to share their imagination, experience and ideas through creative art practices, to reveal and celebrate both diverse and common consciousness and to further co- operation. Nine Dragon Heads aims to further greater understanding of human nature and the world through restorative creative action and engagement and in so doing aims to leave a healthier environment - the heritage of the future - to posterity. 2 Photo. By Enrique Munoz Garcia Nine Dragon Heads Nine Dragon Heads brings together artists from many countries with the aim of stimulating creativity and mutual understanding through shared experience. Founded in 1995 Nine Dragon Heads is an on-going project with an international and transdisciplinary artistic character committed to exploratory and polemic forms of artistic expression. Over the past 18 years Nine Dragon Heads has established and maintained a multi-national community of creative practitioners who share and continue to develop the values of the project. Based on communication and cooperation, Nine Dragon Heads promotes the concept of an open and reciprocal structure for which all participants have a responsibility. Nine Dragon Heads 'Nomadic Party' 'Nomadic Party' is a collective action and journey planned by Nine Dragon Heads participants that explores and aims to find and extend the expressive layers derived from researching and networking of diverse environmental, city and community experiences through art interventions, performances, installations, notations etc. This embodies the value of genuine mutual communication in creative practice. 'Nomadic Party 2010' traversed the Seoul and Chinese Silk Road from Beijing to Tian Shan (Kazakh) 'Nomadic Party 2012' traversed the Istanbul and Uzbekistan Silk Road from Tashkent to Khiva (Karakalpakstan) and Aral Sea, Tbilisi, Georgia. Nine Dragon Heads 'Nomadic Party 2013' ‘Nomadic Party 2013’ will start with a Indoor Exhibition “ Ger to Ger ” in Ulaanbaatar National Art Gallery and then, take the Gobi Desert, Great Siberian Taiga Forests (called Khovsgol) through Mongolia, to Seoul, KOREA, exploring historical and social realities and experiencing rapidly changing landscapes imbued with human aspiration and exploitation. The underlying motivation and feeling for the future that brings each artist to engage with Nine Dragon Heads also encourages them to work together, learn from one another and seek new ecological models for a peaceful and respectful relationship with the natural environment through their different art practices. Along the journey small exhibition events, collaborations and interactions will take place both discretely and in public. Finally, in Korea, 'Nomadic Party 2013' will be completed and celebrated with an exhibition, performances, artists' talks and presentations; a culmination of the many 'pop up' events from Ulaanbaatar through Gobi Desert and Great Siberian Taiga Forests to Korea that together create a conceptual 'Nomadic Festival Plaza'. A catalogue publication will follow. 3 Nomadic Party Ger to Ger Selecting List Aleksandra Janik (Poland) Annelise Zwez (Swiss) Bruce Allan (UK) Channa Boon (Holland) Daniela De Maddalena (Swiss) Denizhan Ozer (Turkey) Gabriel Adams (USA) Iliko Zautashvili (Georgia) Jang Dong-Kwang (Korea) Jayne Dyer (Australia) Jessy Rahman (Surinam) Magda Guruli (Georgia) Magdalena Hlawacz (Poland) Nandia Erdene. B (Mongolia) Park Byoung-Uk (Korea) Paul Donker Duyvis (Holland) Sim Jae-Bun (Korea) Susanne Muller (Swiss) Thom Vink (Finland) Yoko Kajio (Japan) Yoo Joung-Hye (Korea) 4 Ger to Ger - Outdoor Exhibition Period: 22th. August ~31th. August Venue : Gobi Desert - Khovsgol Coordinator: Bruce Allan, Denizhan Ozer, Gabriel Adams, Park Byoung-Uk. Liaision: Song Wha Participants : Responsible for their own art works and can choose the working area freely during on journey. Artist might works impromptu at the trail trip because In the circumstances it would be difficult to find enough time to prepare work Ger to Ger – Indoor Exhibition Period 1: 21th ~ 31th. August. National Art Gallery ( Ulaanbaatar. MONGOLIA ) http://eng.art-gallery.mn/ Period 2: 3rd ~16th. September. Gwangju Contemporay Museum http://www.mdmoca.com/ Coordinator: Denizhan Ozer, Gabriel Adams, Nandin Erdene B. Liaision: Goo So-Young, Jeong Ji-Yoon Participation : Artists responsible for bringing suitable works ( Installation, Objects, Video ..etc) and setting up their own art works , also you can make an art work or installation directly in exhibition hall during period 5 Performance Period 1: 3th. Sept Gwangju Contemporay Museum http://www.mdmoca.com/ Period 2: 7th. Sept. ARKO ( Korea Art Council) http://www.arkoartcenter.or.kr/ Coordinator : Jessy Rahman, Susanne Muller Participation : Opened to anybody invited to the 2013 Nomadic Party who wishes to participate Presentation - Screening & Artists Talk Period :. 7th. Sept 11:00 ~ 19:00 ARKO ( Korea Art Council. Seoul ) Coordinator: Bruce Allan, Paul Donker Duyvis Liaision: Goo So-Young Difference Screen – by Bruce Allan & Ben Eastop Artist Talk : Artist responsible for presentation by own developed works from the Journey Conference- Round Table & Panel Discussion Period :. 7th. Sept 17:00 ~ 19:00 ARKO - Arts Council Korea ( Seoul. KOREA ) http://www.arkoartcenter.or.kr/ Coordinator: Annelise Zwez, Liaision: Goo So-Young Panel : Annelise Zwez, Bruce Allan, Jessy Rahman, Park Byoung-Uk, Paul Donker Duyvis Partricipation : Opened to anybody invited to the Nine Dragon Heads 2013 Nomadic Party who wishes to participate. 6 Main Sites Along The Route – Nomadic Party 2013 Nine Dragon Heads 2013 Nomadic Party Trip Overview Mongolia ( Ulaanbaatar – Khovsgol – Govi Desert ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia Korea ( Gwangju, Jeju Island, ARKO Seoul ) History of the Silk Road – Mongolian Period Genghis Khan whose plans were to conquer the Silk Road realized that with the impressive military power of Mongols it would be impossible to control all the routes for long. Therefore, having occupied the northern route Genghis Khan began to methodically destroy Arabian and Turkic cities standing on the southern route. Doing so Genghis Khan tried to stop the intense commodity exchange beyond his control. In the middle of the 13th – 15th centuries when Central Asia, Iran and the steppes of Eurasia were governed by the successors of Genghis Khan, active trade between the East and the West continued and intensified. The Mongol Golden Horde (the territory from Siberia to Eastern Europe governed by the grandson of Genghis Khan, Berke) with the capital in Serai Berk dominated all over the northern intercontinental caravan road going from China via Otrar and Khoresm, the bottom Volga region, Azov, the Crimea and Europe - the huge part of international trade in the 14th – 15th centuries. Mongolian domination stimulated caravan trade between China and the Mediterranean countries. But all benefits from that trade were gained by the Golden Horde. Most caravans followed round Transoxiana, going directly to the Volga to the north from the Caspian Sea, and moved to the Black Sea from there. Khoresm was the southern sector o that northern route continuing to play the role of the link in the chain of regional and intercontinental goods exchange. Urgench was another major center of trade whose markets wee oversaturated. 7 Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire: Significance to Global History The year was 1275. The Italian explorer Marco Polo had just arrived in Xanadu, the summer-capital of Kublai Khan’s vast empire. Marco Polo and his companions were astounded at the wealth and culture of the Eastern peoples. Polo’s entourage subsequently spent over 15 years as guests and participants in the Khan’s court. When they returned to Venice in 1292, the stories they brought set the collective European curiosity on fire. The Books of the Marvels of the World set the travel stories and observations of Marco Polo down in words. These books stoked the interest of Europe and played an integral role in fomenting the explosion of