18 November 2013

Warmth


© Nick Mangafas
Libretto & Composition: Tamara Friebel
Video: Nathalie Latham
Musicians: Kaoko Amano (soprano) with PHACE ensemble
@ Wien Modern

Last performance tonight... 19 Nov 2013


07 November 2013

WARME


Rehearsals in Vienna for Wien Modern

working with composer, Tamara Friebel

My contribution is the video images on the wall + floor 
(the text of Tamara's libretto)

This is the first artwork commission since my cancer treatment ... so a huge step in life taking place... 

Premiere is next week.




for  Programme Times : 

11 September 2013

a young artist






I found this photo on a memory card from last year... 
the moment -  
I was speaking to Ramesh, principal of Narayani Vidyalaya. 
It was the end of the school day and children were waiting for tuk-tuks to pick them up to take them home. 
This young boy came up to show Ramesh his very wonderful drawing... full of gods... even the lion to the right has a third eye...

24 August 2013

monk's verse from 12th century for 21st century living


This is a very wonderful and powerful affirmation written by monks in the 12th Century...
with a few added tweaks for today's living

I AM... 
INEXHAUSTIBLE ENERGY
IRRESISTIBLE DIVINE LOVE 
INVINCIBLE PROTECTION 
INDESTRUCTIBLE HEALTH 
INESCAPABLE PROSPERITY
ETERNAL ECSTASY AND LIGHT 
IMMEASURABLY GRATEFUL
NOW AND FOREVER 

use it + share it around..
I will be making posters of these drawings
 so more people can live with these precious thoughts
 



15 June 2013

space to play





the oil pastels are out again

26 May 2013

shake zebra love goat jive fish dive






my drawings have turned a corner..

feel finally that the book is coming to an end...

some music-filled ecstatic movement + healing took place in New Orleans...

and after four years of feeling frozen... my pelvis has finally felt movement + laughter again !

03 May 2013

MU - IN THE CORNER

This is my brother's band - their sound has got to a good place...