On Monkey Fire Losar, my prayers are with my near and far brothers and sisters who are in prison, in pain, and in suppression for their expression of human dignity. My wishes are for all living beings to be released from pain and closed dark places to green pasture under the blue sky, where they can feel fresh air and drink pure water. In another word, freedom. Peaceful wishes on Losar.
In the winter of 2015, I had worked on a short art video piece which is titled 'Eyes Water Fire'. The first draft will be screened for the first time @NOT SENT LETTERS & GUESTS organised by Jeremy Todd( please see the detailed info below).
Much gratitude to Jeremy for including me in his event, to Jose and Mona for editing the video, and my Tibetan art sister who agreed to perform for me in this event.
I would like to share the poem that I composed for the video instead of describing the content. I hope once it is complete, I can share this with wider audience.
Eyes Water Fire
Thousands
of Eyes
Shedding
tears
Vessels
floating
On
rough water
Legs crossing glaciers half frozen
In
the snow mountains
Keep
flames burning to show
That
we are here and we have here to live
To
reach the light
Tears
of light
Note:The
title ‘Eyes Water Fire” can be three nouns or water as a verb as if Eyes
shedding tears to calm the flame.
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NOT SENT
LETTERS & GUESTS
interdisciplinary
works by
STEPHANE
BERNARD
TOMOYO IHAYA
w/ KUNSANG CHOEKYI
AHMAD
TABRIZI
DAMLA TAMER
& JEREMY TODD
digital
shorts by
LAURA BUCCI
FILIP
GORECKI
GRAHAM
MEISNER
RAFAEL
ALBERTO ARGUELLO RUIZ
a not sent
letters set by
JEREMY TODD,
BEN WILSON, ERIN SIDDALL, SARAH SHAMASH & CYNTHIA FLEUR BRONAUGH
@ Dynamo
Arts Association,
30 East 6th
Avenue, Vancouver
Saturday
Night, March 5, 2016
$5-$20
suggested sliding scale donation
(toward
event production costs)
No one will
be turned away due to lack of funds.
The
programme begins at 8pm
"TOMOYO IHAYA (井早、智代), a Vancouver-based artist often working abroad, presents a
letter written to a friend living in a politically sensitive place. The letter can’t be sent without compromising
the addressee’s safety and will be read aloud at NSL&G by KUNSANG CHOEKYI.
The first draft of a new animated short will be screened immediately
following the reading, dedicated by the artist to everyone caught up in similar
circumstances."
NOT SENT
LETTERS & GUESTS form public constellations of engaged interdisciplinary
practice, unmediated by the realpolitik conditions of contemporary art as a competitive
professional sphere. The interrelatedness of art, society and everyday life is
critically explored amongst a diverse plurality of artists and publics. Jeremy
Todd instigates each event as an extension of his ongoing Not Sent Letters
Project, an entanglement with the production of meaning, self and cultural
memory, involving image/text epistolary detours online (since 2005), digital
shorts, interdisciplinary performance works and cooperatively realized public
events. This is the twentieth NOT SENT
LETTERS & GUESTS event.
