Report: Ahmad
Nadalian, RiverArt
Photos by Raheleh
Zomorodinia, Mithra
Soltani, Mohamad Saybani and Ahmad Nadalian.
Thanks to Mohamd Saybani, Mohammad Banoj, Tarta
Ghodarzi, Raheleh Zomorodinia, Atefeh Khas, Mahmood Maktabi, Shahrnaz Zarkesh
and Zahra Shafiabadi.
In
December
2007, we held an
environmental art festival in the Persian Gulf.
This festival had no
sponsors. The young artists paid for the cost of their trip, food, and supplies
they needed to create their art works.
In the past
two years there has been a great demand for environmental art in Iran. Many
young artists from different parts of Iran invite me to be part of different
environmental events and realize their art works in nature. They are many and I
can not have all of them in one occasion, but I have been pleased to organize
different events and respond to this essential need of our society.
Environmental art is the art of the future. We can learn how to behave with
nature. I wish in the future we could have one environmental art event per day.
For the
occasion of this festival, my American friend Barbara Roux sent her
new poem. I suggested printing her poem on paper and role them, put them
inside of plastic bottles available on the coast and leave them in the water of
the sea.
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.
In
many occasions, mostly during the night, we had performances and
dances related to local ritual.
Work by Hojat Amani -
Photo by Raheleh Zomorodinia
Collaborative work by
Tarta Ghodarzi, Atefeh Khas, Raheleh Zomorodinia, Behrang
Abasspour, Hassan Daryapeima, Hesam Al din Mohamadian, Mithra
Soltani, Ahmad Nadalian, and artists who made audio -
Photo by Raheleh
Zomorodinia
Work
by Mohamad Banj and other local artists
Young artists also depicted patterns of living creatures that lost
their life due to pollution, which was caused by war.
Collabrative works by Zohreh Riyahi, Zohreh
Deldadeh- Photo by Raheleh Zomorodinia
Collaborative work by
Tarta Ghodarzi, Atefeh Khas, Zahra Shafiabadi, Mahmood MAktabi,
Shahrnaz Zarkesh and Raheleh Zomorodinia
Zohreh Deldadeh
Work
by Shahnaz Zarkesh
Zahra Shafiabadi
Collaborative work by
Tarta Ghodarzi, Atefeh Khas, Raheleh Zomorodinia, Behrang
Abasspour, Hassan Daryapeima, Hesam Al din Mohamadian, Mithra
Soltani, Ahmad Nadalian, and artists who made audio -
Photo by Raheleh
Zomorodinia
Work
by Atefeh Khas
Work
by Maryam Amini
During these wars a
million gallons of oil
released into the Persian Gulf causing the largest oil spill in
history.
Only in one occasion amount of oil released was categorized as 20
times larger than the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska and twice as
large as the previous world record oil spill. Now at least more than
80 ships were sunk to the bottom of the Persian Gulf during the Gulf
War, many of which carried oil and munitions.
In 1999, some 400 to 500 tons of
fish died in the Persian Gulf, a problem traced to a lack of oxygen
in the water and the growth of phytoplanktons.
I continued a
project that I started last month
(January 2008).
In recent years on this island some of the deer died. I used sand
stone to make deer feet and printed them on the sand of beach.
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The oil released into the Persian
Gulf produced devastating consequences on the marine wildlife of the
area, including the endangered hawksbill and green turtles.
Thousands of cormorants (a type of marine bird) died as a result of
exposure to oil or polluted water. Many Karan Island green turtles
developed lesions.
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About Ahmad
Nadalian
Ahmad Nadalian is
internationally known as one of the most active environmental artists. He has
been supported and sponsored by many different organizations in many countries
throughout the world, where he has performed numerous environmental art projects
in countries such as; Italy, Germany, USA, UK, Spain, France, China,
Netherlands, Greece, Russia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Bangladesh, Finland,
Lebanon, Syria, Azerbaijan, Sweden, Denmark, United Arab Emirates, Qatar,
Kuwait, Turkey, Switzerland, Serbia ….and his homeland Iran.
Also he has been invited as a
guest lecturer to different universities, organizations and art centers, during
his visits he has given talks and workshops on a variety of relevant art issues
such as Environmental and Interactive arts
He also organized many major
environmental art festivals in his native country Iran, and has helped to
supervise young environmental artists around
the globe.
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