About the talk:
Myanmar contemporary art has grown up stubbornly and savagely in an exceptionally difficult social environment. Myanmar's artists have developed a new art form through years of tireless struggle: the art of protest and civil disobedience. This collective art-activism strategy has stunned the world, as it has given Myanmar contemporary art its true power. Myanmar's visual and performing arts scene, long subterranean in the past, has proliferated with democratization, and spaces such as New Zero Art Space and Myanm/art continue to provide platforms for emerging artists to express their politics of difference.
Contemporary Myanmar women artists play an integral role in challenging the taboos of Myanmar society by creating works that transcend barriers of gender, ethnicity, politics, and social class. These women artists use new materials and forms to express their fears and hopes for the future. Through contemporary art forms such as video, installation, and performance art, they strive to make their voices heard.
About artists:
PANDA:
PANDA was born in 1990. She is very interested in art since she was young. And she also makes painting, photography, design, and other kinds of art. It's never happened to attend the art class in her childhood. But in 2015, she joined the 8th art class of New Zero Art Space for her first art study. Then she more interested in Performance Art. And she started Performance Art in 2017 and participated in (Performance, Photo, Painting, and Installation Art) group art events, programs and festivals locally and internationally. She makes the laws of the world in which opposites coexist. For her, all opposites coexist. She loves the truth and hates the opposite of the truth.
Thyitar:
Thyitar was born in Yangon in 1988. She is working as a multidisciplinary artist. She finished her art study at New Zero Art Space in 2010. Furthermore, she had a diploma in fine art at the National University of Art and Culter in 2019. She was an executive editor of Fashion and Hlaing Thit art and ideological Magazine from 2011 to 2019. Her family is an Islamic family. She was growing in Islamic family types, so She approaches individual perception upon feminism and religious issues and composes her options to the artist creations. She's also a performance artist. Likewise, she started performance art in 2011 and has won several artistic awards.
Ursula Maria Probst:
The Zero Platform International Performance Festival took place for the third time in Yangon, Myanmar in December 2019. A total of 15 international artists and 22 national artists presented their work at the Thakin Mya. Ursula Maria Probst was one of the participants. She involved the other artists in her performance and formulated with them a manifesto. The conceptual focus of her performative act includes the use of one's own body, the surrounding nature as well as gender-specific, political, and social issues. At the beginning of February 2021, the military put itself back into power in Myanmar. Their seizure of power ends a phase of democratization that began in 2015 with the electoral success of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy.
Artist talk with:
PANDA (Myanmar)
Thyitar (Myanmar)
Ursula Maria Probst (Austria)
Title: Finding Laughter