Digital connections

KATHMANDU, OCT 30 –
Broadcast under the name The Digital Tribe: Understanding Who We Are in the Age of Hyper Connectivity, the Siddhartha Art Gallery’s next exhibition will showcase a project that explores how people connect in a digital world.
A collaboration of the Siddhartha Art Gallery and art ist duo, Sofia Burchardi (from Denmark) and Plamen Bontchev (from Bulgaria), the exhibition is the result of their work with 11 students from the Centre for Art and Design at the Kathmandu University. The art ists have all tried to “elaborate on the various notions of how digital connectedness changes cultural values, reorganises social structures” in their works. They also explore how this “ultimately transforms the individual and global definitions of who and what we are.”

According to the thedigitaltribe.wordpress.com, “The exhibition’s content will be structured as a contrasting visual dialogue “between the invited art ists and the students: Saran Tandukar, Roshan Sakha. Pramesh Sherchan, Bhawana Ghimire, Karma Gurung, Suresh Maharjan, Shiva Prasad, Upadhayaya, Rabindra Shrestha, Rabin Maharjan, Shreejana Shakya, and Nhooja Tuladhar.

Through working together, the p art icipants hope to “enable a far more detailed and outreaching view on the (suggested) issues.”

The exhibition will open on November 2 at 5:30pm at the Siddhartha Art Gallery, and will continue till November 15
(The Kathmandu Post)