Weaving the World's Mane - Performance

Narandulam Altantsetseg and Onongua Enkhtur, two Mongolian visual artists, created several installation performances with a long song. The initial work is titled 'Weaving the World's Mane'.

They aim to celebrate and revalue Mother Earth's diversity through artistic expressions and profound singing voices inspired by nomadic wisdom.

"Del," translated into mane into Mongolian, expresses two meanings in our performance. First, the mane represents the spiritual communication between Mother Earth and human beings. The second meaning is a mane, the mane of the horse, often associated with our hair. Weaving represents conscious work, care, devotion, and righteous deeds.
Through weaving the mane, they want to express that everything neglected needs care and love. Weaving our hair reminds us about self-care, self-discipline, and conscious dedication to the earth. They also added hay or dried grass to communicate with the environment.

Process: They start to create a circle of dried grass. Then Narandulam sings (a Mongolian folk song) "Mother of the Deer."
While Narandulam sings, Onongua braids Narandulam's hair with grass to connect it to her hair. After that, they sit on the ground with each other's shoulders because our hair connects us to nature.
The work material is dried grass, 5 kilograms; make a circle of grass not exceeding 4-5 mtrs. (The Circle is referred to as the shape of the yurt.)
Creation time: 5-8 minutes