Initial Museum of Contemporary Art Myanmar (IMoCA)
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WELCOME TO OUR SPACE!
“Initial Museum of Contemporary Art Myanmar (IMoCA)” is a Virtual Museum for the forerunner of a physical one in the future. There is no modern or contemporary art museum in Myanmar/Burma, but there is a lot of interesting Myanmar artists. If there were to be an art museum, what would it be like? What types of art would it show to whom? Can those arts revive the rich heritage of Burmese art? What should be the sentiments and representations of Myanmar? Does Myanmar need a modern or contemporary art museum and how should be called it? This project addresses these questions.
IMoCA Myanmar is first endeavoring ideas for a virtual art museum and making a database archive of contemporary art practices in Myanmar while the country is under nationwide scattered situations and various challenging of social-upheavals. We wish to create a new platform and database for current local and diaspora artists of Myanmar, to re-introduce international art networks and to reunite for future collaborations.
IMoCA Myanmar is a non-profit institution to promote and to host the online exhibitions and making documentation of selected artists and artworks, from the local or diaspora artists, who created multimedia and multi disciplinary works in their temporary spaces. We will create various programs, like open-calls for artists, curator and educational programs to reshape local young artists who are enthusiastic in contemporary art, and to develop art professions such as Curators, Researchers, Writers and organizers to engage art into community.
IMoCA Myanmar is operated by the artist network of “School of Contemporary Art project Myanmar (SOCA)”, collaborated by the AURA Contemporary Art Foundation https://auraart-project.com/, with supervision of Sumitomo Lab: https://www.sumitomo.geidai.ac.jp/, Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Geidai. IMoCA is also a collaborative project of the “Association for Myanmar Contemporary Art (AMCA) https://www.amca.art, and we hope to work with local and regional art practicioners and international scholars and organizations.
We welcome you, to energize and support with the generosity and any kind of advices, donations and collaborations. We will be in touch all the time with you in online presentations.
Have a great New Year 2025! With Love.
Founding Committee
4 Jan 2025
A Printed book, 108 Pages, Burma Myanmar, Curating contemporary art
Myanmar/Burma’s first DVD Magazine on contemporary art focuses on selected local artists who working in current trends of arts to exploring essential questions and concerns of present time. The works presented, with statements from the artists themselves or others active in the arts, reflects of society, while at the same time reveal- ing the characteristic features and discourses of the art system in field of local arts. The DVD not only presents works of art, but also statements by their involving and understanding on the world of arts and culture. As the statement, contemporary art mirrors contemporary culture and society, offering art students and general people to consider current ideas and re-link to the world. Most of contemporary artists’ works is a new combination of methods, materials, subject and their concepts that in varied presentation. Artists give challenges to traditional boundaries with changing cultural identity, values and new aesthetic of arts. All of 20 participant artists in this program DVD Magazine will be interpreting their works of arts with open-ended methodology and inquiry based approach on the various subject. That may provoke strong responses, or even contradict personal belief or social values. All outcome of dialogue are important things for engaging with the works of today contemporary art. AUNG MYAT HTAY Artist/ Independent Curator
OUR VISION
The main purpose of this project is to create a platform to meet art with the community and to build an effective database of the new chapter of Myanmar Contemporary Art in current and for future. As artists and art professionals we see the situations of the young generations artists facing challenges of lack of infrastructure and common ground for showing their creativity. For these challenges, we will try to fill the gaps with the facilitated to be an art network of Myanmar for local and diaspora artists.
OUR PROGRAMS
Event
Event
AMCA 23, A Set of Curated exhibitions for the successful implementation of Artist Fund Circle-3, 2022
Documentation
Documentation
SILENCE IS GOLDEN: Contemporary Myanmar Art After Political Changes 2015-2019
Publication
Publication
MOMENTS: A Collaboration of UK-Myanmar Contemporary Art Workshop 2023
When Spirits Flow Backwards
When Spirits Flow Backwards
When Spirits Flow Backwards
Organized by: Myanmar Photo Archive and Goethe Institute Myanmar
ECHOES: Art x Tech, Experimentation
ECHOES, Art x Technologies Experimentation: A Collaboration of Multidisciplinary & Media Art
Exhibition at the Goethe Institute Myanmar, Yangon
CURIOSITY: SOCA Program#6
CURIOSITY: What is Contemporary Art, Result Presentation
Online Education Program.
Exhibition on the event page with VR exhibition room
Your generous donation is an invaluable artistic foundation for Myanmar.
OUR DESTINATIONS
We Myanmar Artists are based in various destination around the world and so, we will be update the locations and activities in the Map soon.
LOCAL MAP DIASPORA MAP
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