PRESENTATIONS, SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS

2012

9 Jan, Contemporary Art Practice and Its Current Issues, Institute of Fine Art (IFA), University of Art and Culture of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The seminar was organised in conjunction with the Department of Traditional Painting and attended by current undergraduate, postgraduate students, graduates and lecturers at the University.

2010

22 June, Place, Space and Identity, Leeds Met Annual Postgraduate Research Student Conference 2010, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK

Somewhere to Belong: Welcome to Mama’s Garden!

Abstract

In this paper, I will talk about the last chapter of my practice-based PhD, which explores the concept of ‘belonging’ and the use of the artistic methodologies of creating a space and performing in that created space for a fixed period of time. One’s identity is formed from hundreds of particles of memories and continues to re-shape itself in reaction to different personal experiences. And the most significant of all changes in one’s life is, relocation from a place one call it as a home. The fundamental element of the concept of ‘belonging’ is based on a complex dimension of a feeling of a ‘displaced’ individual. The act of re-enacting the feeling of ‘belonging’ temporarily provokes the hidden emotions of the individual who is engaged in it. This particular behaviour of seeking for somewhere to belong is a constant but subtle process of a shaping of a new identity.

I will take an example of my recent public art installation titled ‘Mama’s Garden: Words of Love’ as an evidence of the methods mentioned above. As part of the preparation of the project, I carried out two performances and produced series of self-portraits wearing handmade dress and my mother’s garments. After that I created a site-specific art installation inspired by my mother’s dream to have a garden and I performed as a hostess of the garden for 8 days wearing my mother’s garment and engaged with public directly.

keywords: belonging; identity; art installation; performance; public art

2009

27January, Research Student Presentation, The Leeds School of Contemporary Art & Graphic Design, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK

2008

18-20July, Cultures in Transit, Research Conference, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK

2 July, Communication and Participation, Leeds Met Annual Postgraduate Research Student Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK

2007

June, Do/ Be/ Do/Do/ Be, Research Symposium, The Leeds School of Contemporary Art & Graphic Design, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK

2006

24February, Space – Location / Mapping – Networks, Research symposium, The Leeds School of Contemporary Art & Graphic Design, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK

PUBLICATIONS/ REVIEWS

2010

‘A Change of Art’ by Rod McPhee, an article published in the Yorkshire Evening Post (YEP). Published date: 9 April 2010.

2008-2010

SILKHIGHWAY project blog, critical writings, English-Mongolian-English translation of artists’ profiles and communication on www.silkhighway-dialogue.blogspot.com

2007

ODOO/ CURRENT: An exhibition of work 12 UK based artists, an exhibition catalogue, main essay by Jill Morgan, Leeds Metropolitan University publication (ISBN 978-0955501715)

2005

WORK: POSTGRADUATE & DESIGN, a compilation of works by postgraduate students, Leeds Metropolitan University publication

2005

FROM THE ORDINARY, a group exhibition catalogue and leaflet, main text by Moira Innes, Curator of LeedsMet Art Gallery