Artist Talk: Nomin Bold & Ochirbold Ayurzana

Nomin Bold and Ochirbold Ayurzana / Sukhbaatar Province, Mongolia, b.1976, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, b.1982 / Life cup 2023 / Metal and aluminium / 1967 skulls: 13 x 10.5 x 6.5cm (each, approx.); 400 x 1400cm (installed) / Courtesy: The artists /

Nomin Bold and Ochirbold Ayurzana / Sukhbaatar Province, Mongolia, b.1976, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, b.1982 / Life cup 2023 / Metal and aluminium / 1967 skulls: 13 x 10.5 x 6.5cm (each, approx.); 400 x 1400cm (installed) / Courtesy: The artists / / View full image

When

12.00 – 12.30 pm, Sun 1 Dec 2024
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Where

Gallery of Modern Art & Gallery 1.1 (The Fairfax Gallery)

Accessibility

  • Wheelchair Accessible

What to Expect

Admission

Free

About

Join Triennial artists, Nomin Bold and Ochirbold Ayurzana for a talk about their installation, Life Cup 2023, consisting of 1967 suspended cast-metal skulls. For the artists, skulls are ‘life cups’: vessels for human souls and consciousness that are arranged in rhythmic arrangement of morse code, transliterated from four stanzas of ‘Hymn to the universe’, a nineteenth-century poem invoking karmic cyclical states.

Hosted by Reuben Keehan, Curator, Contemporary Asian Art, QAGOMA.

Nomin Bold and Ochirbold Ayurzana / Sukhbaatar Province, Mongolia, b.1976, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, b.1982 / Life cup 2023 / Metal and aluminium / 1967 skulls: 13 x 10.5 x 6.5cm (each, approx.); 400 x 1400cm (installed) / Courtesy: The artists / View full image

Nomin Bold and Ochirbold Ayurzana / Sukhbaatar Province, Mongolia, b.1976, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, b.1982 / Life cup 2023 / Metal and aluminium / 1967 skulls: 13 x 10.5 x 6.5cm (each, approx.); 400 x 1400cm (installed) / Courtesy: The artists / View full image / View full image

About the artists: Nomin Bold and Ochirbold Ayurzana

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What to Expect

Here’s what to expect at this event.

Everyone is welcome! Please contact events.plus@qagoma.qld.gov.au in advance of the program if you have any access needs or queries about the event. Find out more about Accessibility at QAGOMA and planning your visit.

Participation and content

  • You are welcome to come with a friend or by yourself. Many people attend the Gallery solo.
  • We ask all attendees to be kind, respectful, and courteous to all participants, speakers and staff at this event. This program will be monitored by QAGOMA staff to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our attendees, speakers and staff.

Sensory aspects

  • To find your way to the event, access a map of the galleries.
  • Speakers will use an amplified microphone. Please let us know in advance if you are hard of hearing so we can make this talk accessible for you.
  • We try our best to minimise sound in the space, but sometimes there might be low level noise from a nearby artwork or the sounds of the Gallery.
  • Chairs without backs will be available. Please let staff know if you require a chair with a back.
  • The Gallery air conditioning is set to 21°C to conserve the artworks.
  • This event may be photographed/filmed by QAGOMA staff. If you do not wish to be photographed or filmed, please advise a QAGOMA staff member on arrival.
GOMA Turns 10 Opening Weekend / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane / December 2016 / Photography: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

GOMA Turns 10 Opening Weekend / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane / December 2016 / Photography: J Ruckli, QAGOMA / View full image

Asia Pacific Triennial Opening Weekend

Saturday 30 November & Sunday 1 December

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