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Shambala Sculpture Gallery Videos
Regong Thangka 笔尖佛堂 【Looking China 看中国】
CAS Speaker Series: Campus Visit of Contemporary Tibetan Artist Gonkar Gyatso, April 5, 2016
Gonkar Gyatso presents Buddha in the Bathroom: Appropriation and Pop Culture in Contemporary Tibetan Art. Widely considered the father of contemporary Tibetan art, Gonkar Gyatso was one of a number of young Tibetans seeking new vehicles for creative expression and co-founded the Sweet Tea House artists’ collective in Lhasa in in 1984. Later he left Tibet first for the exile community in Dharamsala and then to pursue further studies in the UK. Throughout his career, Gonkar has produced mixed media works that disrupt traditional Tibetan art, referencing conceptual frameworks ranging from Kandinsky to Cubism as well as drawing on Buddhist symbols. Controversial to some, Gonkar’s works emphasize questions of identity performance, displacement and exile, and the commodification of Tibetan Buddhism.
Workshop on Tibetan Cultural-Heritage, Buddhism and Language for Tibetan Youth
Workshop on Tibetan Cultural-heritage as well as Buddhism and Tibetan Language specifically for the youth of Tibetan origin.
Organized by The Tibetan Canadian Cultural Centre & Canadian Tibetan Association of Ontario, Canada with resource person as renowned as Dr. Thupten Jinpa la.