Thursday, October 22 – Sunday, October 25 | Festival Hours | Grand Gallery, American Museum of Natural History
When New York-based Mongolian artist and RU alum Tuguldur Yondonjamts encountered the Tyrannosaurus rex skull on display at the Museum, he thought that from behind the dinosaur skull looked like the movie monster King Kong. This revelation inspired a creative exploration of opposites: the top and bottom of the world, the front and back of a face, fact and fiction. Tuguldur created large-scale drawings of the skull from both sides and worked with designer Batmunkh Bataa, who is also his wife, to develop King Kong and T. rex costumes, which he then took to Mongolia and Chile with his son, Tuguldur Mergen. In our 2015 festival installation, Tuguldur Yondonjamts presents a video about that journey, alongside the costumes and drawings, and invites viewers to question how different realities are played out in physical and psychological space and between tamed and untamed worlds.
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