Uniting Beliefs

"Nuga Mikha" International art Workshop 2004, Nepal

Religious conviction is deeply rooted inside human beings from the beginning of the human civilization. The geographical features have played a vital role in shaping up the religions. Therefore, we have various religious beliefs across the world. Though the process and practices of every religion differs from one another, its ultimate aim is to attain spirituality. To display such concept I erected paper tubes of various sizes, all of them mounting towards the sky. Hear, the sky symbolized spirituality and the paper tubs depict different religions. I also had a performance to support the idea of religion and spirituality.

Urban Life

Theertha International Artist workshop, Sri Lanka 2010

Organized by Treertha

GIFT FROM FIRST WORLD

International Artist Workshop Bangladesh 2008

Organized by: Porapara A Space for Artist

“Gift from First World” was done by three glass boxes. The cotton buds that were attached with pins were kept in one box, the second box was full with band aid leaves that were fixed by the thump pins, while the real acid inside the eye drop bottles were put in 3rd box. I rapped the 3 boxes with red ribbons and represent them as the gift boxes adding flowers that I made with ribbons as well. I showed my dissatisfaction through a satire way to the rich and powerful countries that look down to the poor countries and try to show that they provide help to the poor which is to me a big contradiction.

Portrait of Devilal'

(Nepali worker Devi Lal in Banglore)

http://1shanthiroad.blogspot.com/2010/05/khoj1shanthiroad-india-nepal.html

India Nepal Collaborative Workshop 2010

Bangalore, India

Organize by Khoj at 1shanthiroad

150 Photos of Devi lal taken from Gallery's small window, Devi Lal's shirt & one concrete block raping with Band-Aid.

Eco of Pain

Installation in Prison Room, International Human Rights Workshop 2008

Green Island, Taiwan

Sunil Sigdel,  Eco of Pain

The government of Taiwan conducted a workshop in Green Island commemorating the well over 2000 political prisoners that consisted of writers, painters and artists amongst others. The organizers summoned 20 artists that included the local and the foreign art practitioners. In the present day this prison house in Green Island has been turned into a museum.

I worked in one of the prison rooms where I created three different art works that were interconnected with one another. In one of my installation I selected eight names out of 2000 prisoners and wrote them on the wall. Then I covered it with eight fishing net. Since it was an island and our materials to create artworks were limited therefore I incorporated a fishing net that was easily available there. My

intension of using fishing net was because I wanted to represent suffocation since the harsh fishing net is used to capture and kill fishes. Here, as I stated above, the eight fishing nets contained names of the eight prisoners. On the exact opposed wall of this installation I arrangied eight of my color photographs that were covered with the fishing net.

In my second presentation I used the same photos but this time in b/w which I pasted all over the tiles of the toilet. I came to know from the museum personnel that the prisoners were extremely tortured. The Green Island prison is located in the island which is surrounded by the sea; therefore, the prisoners could see the vast sea but when it came to using water to take shower or drink they had to use the water from the toilet. This created an everlasting torture in the mind of the prisoners. By manipulating such sentiments I arranged my portrait in the hole of the toilet, as if a prisoner is trying to come out of it.

My third work consisted of barb wire that was placed on the window. The prisoners could see the open space outside; however, that was the only solace that they could get. Other than that, their freedom was not only snatched away from them, but toping that, they were extremely tortured by using various methods. I also came to know that there were 16 different methods to torture these prisoners. Few of these methods were by making them take dog shit, drink urine, pressing their fingers, taking off their finger nails, locking them in the ice room, excessively beating one of the prisoners and make the others see or hear the painful scream etc. I wrote these methods of torturing in the wall and then placed the barb wire below the window overlapping the writings. In this presentation my intention was to compare the outer open expansive view from the prison window and the inward torturous and grim cell.



















Today’s news to the History

Performance (10min)

South Asian exhibition Bangladesh 2008
Organize by Britto

Sunil Sigdel, Today’s news to the History

We read history to get knowledge about our past. War is a large part of world history. We have learnt from our civilization that many of the big wars were begin by the egoistic thoughts and attitude of few people. During each war, there were a huge loses of innocent lives and always many people suffered by it years after years, from what we yet experience pain while we read or hear about those stories. Present days as well when we are having a civilized life, because of few leaders of the Globe we still have been passing through the similar situation and suffering directly or indirectly in some way by the effect of the war.

For this performance, I have collected images of different war victims, fighters and related people from internet and newspapers. I also recorded relevant news regarding war, terrorists etc. from BBC. I pasted many band aid leaves on my body and tried to lightening the images with small cigarette lighters. The speaker was fixed with my mouth that was talking about war. The people from the history were seemed to be listening to the present war situation of this Globe from BBC via my mouth.















Globalization & Border

Installation based performance
Little Moment in Town 2008

Organize by Bindu

Sunil Sigdel, Globalization & Border

The world we live today has given many definitions to a human being. At the same time it has also taken so much from us. The common belief of globalization has seemingly ready a parson with boundless possibilities as we can get in touch with every development or weakening around the world. However the world seems a tiny nut shell which is quite difficult to crack. Thought we can know everything that is happening, we often can not directly impact these situations. This has happened because we are bounded by the political and geographical border

The installation based performance that I have presented here is the combination of my various social and materialistic beliefs. Here I have adjusted myself on the ground partitioning my body with a wall created by bricks. Then I have placed nails and chilli on the ground of the lower side of my body and on the upper side I scattered sweets on the ground. We basically experience pain but we perceive solace; because that is what we are made to see. Furthermore, I have also arranged two cameras capturing both the sides of my body, which is continuously being telecasted live on the two televisions on the performance site. I have incorporated television because it is one of the hi-tech devices that link us with the globe, promoting the concept of globalization. Therefore, my work is about the primordial pain that is hidden underneath the scientific complexion of human beings.

Sunil Sigdel, Globalization & Border

Sunil Sigdel, Globalization & Border

Sunil Sigdel, Globalization & Border

Sunil Sigdel, Globalization & Border

Sunil Sigdel, Globalization & Border

Sunil Sigdel, Globalization & Border