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Dream of Peace in Persian Gulf
Our new environmental art festival focused on a campaign against war. Thanks go to my international friends Barbara Roux and Abigail Doan from the USA, who support us, share their experience and sent their designs. For me, the idea of having international artists participate or contribute is very important and symbolically could show the willingness and desire of world nations to work together towards peace. INTERVIEW with Abigail Doan: What is your impression about this festival? I feel that this festival was important to participate in regardless of the international exposure that it gets initially. It is vitally important for Americans and Iranians to become more sensitive towards each other's cultures and environmental issues. Why not highlight the things that unite us rather than divide us? Artists must work towards building up what the media and our geo-political agendas seem dead set on destroying. I chose to participate in this festival as I respect Ahmad Nadalian as an artist and his efforts and work, first and foremost. I also admire the spirit and goodwill of his students. For me this was a chance to connect with like-minded people, regardless of locale. I also trusted them to follow out my design suggestions without my even being there. This was a rare occasion for our two cultures to become one. What is the impact of war on environment? Total devastation of surroundings, spirit, and outlook. It takes years to recuperate from the damage created. War also keeps us from seeing the world as a linked ecosystem, as the acquisition of prized territory becomes the end goal. War prevents us from dreaming about or realizing paradise on earth, a conversation that Dr. Nadalian and I have had in the past. What we environmental artist can do for global peace? Be humble, sensitive to new opportunities for collaboration, and share our visions openly. Being an environmental artist is no longer about site-specificity, for example, but rather about acting in unison and trying to interpret the fragility of a region that might be foreign to you. It is the "foreign" that needs to become "familiar" and as cherished and protected as our own backyard. neighborhood, or village.
Persian Gulf Environmental Art Festival (December 2007)
Persian Gulf Environmental Art Festival (More Works) (December 2007)
Second section: Persian Gulf Environmental Art Festival
Environmental Art Festival on the Persian Gulf
Thanks to Cultural office of Hormozgan, Mohammad Jafar Behrad Homayoun Amiv Zadeh, Niromand, Mehdi Niromand Farah Amini, the head of plastic art center in Hormozgan, Khadijeh Khonjizadeh, one of the member of city canciel in Hormoz and Asgar Nik who kindly hosted artist at their homes. Thanks to Ahmad Kargaran , Mohammad Banoch and Mohammad Sayebani
Print on Sand in the Coast of Pesian Gulf Works By Ahmad Nadalian
Performance and Environmental Installations
Environmental Installation and Music with Garbage
More: Painting on fabric by colored Earth
Designs on Portraiture by Red Earth
Designs on Portraiture by Red Earth
New works by Nadalian in “Verdearte” 2006: Italy
Environmental Installations and Performance
Designs on Portraiture by Red Earth
Performance and Environmental Installations
Environmental Installation and Music with Garbage
More: Painting on fabric by colored Earth
Designs on Portraiture by Red Earth
Designs on Portraiture by Red Earth
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15th Environmental Art Festival in Iran at the Persian Gulf (January 2008) Report by Ahmad Nadalian Photos by Raheleh Zomorodinia, Mithra Soltani, Mohamad Saybani and Ahmad Nadalian. Flight 655
An example took place on Sunday July 3, 1988, Iran Air Flight 655 (IR655) which was a commercial flight operated by from Bandar Abbas, Iran to Dubai. The aircraft flying IR655 was shot down by the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes between Bandar Abbas and Dubai, killing all 290 passengers and crew aboard, including 38 non-Iranians and 66 children, 8 of them less than 2 years old. The Vincennes was inside Iranian territorial waters at the time of the shoot-down. According to the U.S. government, the Iranian aircraft was mistakenly identified as an attacking military fighter. Unfurtunetly the United States government however has, to date, never officially apologized to the Iranian People.
This is only one example which shows ordinary people pay the price of war. One of the collabrative projects show a refrence to this tragedy. The artists through collabrative projects designed the ariplane on the southern coast. The outline drawingis emphasised by the red earth of Homoz. With the flow of water the design washed and many artist who were located on diffrent locations saw and recorded the process of the vanishing airplane. The impression of red earth aginst dark blue revealed the tragedy of war in the Persian Gulf. Finally only this number was left, “Iran “IR 655”.
The red colour is pure earth from the same area
Raheleh Zomorodinia
The red colour is pure earth from the same area
The red colour is pure earth from the same area
The location suggested for the work IR 655 in Google Earth
The text news of this tragedy in two languages was also rolled and installed inside the bottle and released in the water of the Persian Gulf.
We didn’t take these plastic bottles to nature. We collected them by the beach. We change this garbage to a conceptual art object.
In the old times this tradition – releasing a message in bottle was a way of asking for help. For us symbolism is a media to react against war and express our dream of peace as obviously can be seen in Barbara Roux’s poem. In any case, ordinary and innocent people should not pay the price of war.
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