WAHUIMA multidisciplinary art project
Multilingual poetry finds its voice on Trans physcydelic rock music - redefining the sound of indigenous instruments,performance poetry and cultural practices.
वाहुइमा
(राई भाषी)
सिहे कहाँ छ ? कता गो ?
चुलोको आगो निभि'गो ?
रगत बगेर कहाँ जाने हो !
"थाङ्पा मो ! थाङ्पा मो !"
वाहुइमा आँसु भिज्ने हो !
चोम्मेत्मा बुइचाम्,
धिमा ने सेचाम् !
कठै ! मातिरहे—
तुप्तिन्ने बानुहाङ् !
'दे टामेङासे, ङेन् ! कानुङ् खामो दे काङ् ?'
खाइसात्निमोहात्नि ? यलम्बर् काङा हाङ्
The core theme of the project is to help artists mix different textures of tribal instruments, poetry and sketches, theatrical acts into one place and practice the culture of exchange. In this particular collaborative project.The artist will work on the Audio,visual and performance art framing the Multilingual poetry titled "Waihuma" penned by Milson rai. Four artists from the same ethnic cultures and the remaining from different poles.The exchange of cultural knowledge has been up most priority to be focused during collaboration.
The enlightening knowledge that our culture holds is something not be missed. "Sihe"commonly known as untimely/unwanted death has different conspiring theories in diverse ethnic cultures of the Nation. This collaboration will give distinct insights to all artists about "Kirat mundum". Subtle beauty to Multilingual poetry "wahuima" has many insights to offer regarding kirat mundum: Artists will interact with Dr. Chandra Kumar Sherma in close session to understand the vastness of kirat culture and traditions. Dr.Chandra Kumar Sherma is an author and cultural practitioner largely advocating the cultural dignity.
The whole endeavour of this collaboration project is to jumble different sounds towards literature.To blend with ethnic cultural fusion band, performance art and dispense new methodology to transport poetry among unheard.
Selected artists:::::
Stotram स्तोत्रम् - Stotram is a ethnic cultural fusion band formed in Gorakhnath, Kathmandu, Nepal in 2020. Their music is based on Mantras and Stories, ethno- folk songs, world music and indigenous spiritual quotes fused with traditional musical instruments and modern western musical instruments.
Subash poudel : Subash Poudel is a Nepal Based guitarist, music producer,and bassist of the indie folk fusion group Wayam and Bassist of Band Urjaa and White. His skillset includes music composing, arranging, producing, recording, editing, mixing, mastering and recording spot sound for movie and live sessions.
His band Wayam is Planning to come up with an album in mid of 2022 with eight songs in total.
Sara Tunich Koinch : Sara is kathmandu based visual artist. She has participated in different workshops like Botanical illustrations 2014; Save elephant, save the earth organized by Apple international education 2016; Theobject artist and the project vs subject creativity by (Theory and praxis with nexus culture) 2017.
Dhe-Raaz magar : Dhe raaz is a theatrical performer who has been engaged with sarwanam theater since 2018.
Milson rai : Milson Rai, he's the winner of All Nepal Poetry '2019' and has been writing poetry in free verse (गद्य), and classical metric verse (पद्य), & also a unique form of poetry known as Champu (चम्पू)
Curated by saugat upreti
Artist from WAHUIMA
WAHUIMA - the return of home
Supporting partner : Himalayan light culture house
