Area XV - And The Great Bell Tolls

Existing between the relic and mythic realm, the Great Bell of Dhammazedi has been the object of fascination and obsession of Myanmar people. Conceived in 1490 by Mon King Dhammazedi, the Great Bell went through different hands from holy ground of Shwedagon Pagoda to the battlefield of Thanlyin until its watery catacomb at Yangon River. Over the decades, people of power have struggled to salvage the Great Bell according to the belief that the country will prosper again under the rightful ruler when the Great Bell of Dhammazedi re-emerges.

'And The Great Bell Tolls' intends to reimagine the historical site at Yangon River as a sacred place where the collective hope manifests and to recreate and reclaim the national treasure and give it back to the people to whom it truly belongs. In this work, a 3D replica of the Great Bell of Dhammazedi will be projected, accompanied by a series of video sequences and the imagined soundscapes of the Great Bell.

This work was also featured as an Augmented Reality art hosted on Instagram as a part of (Re)Imagine City First Edition. The AR is still available to view on Instagram at @re_imagine_city.

Artist Bio

For 3D Sculpture and Visuals
ZUNE also known as Thoughtform is a multidisciplinary designer and visual artist, working across physical and digital media. She graduated from Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore with BA (Hons) in Design Communication and has been working as a designer, art director and 3D artist ever since.

Immensely inspired by nature, science fiction and mythology, she conjures fantastical landscapes of the unfamiliar and unknown through evocative visual narrative in the form of 3D art, motion graphics, and live projections. Traversing across different mediums, her bodies of work range from graphic art such as album artworks, publications and logo identities to designing spaces in both physical and virtual forms existing as film
sets and exhibition spaces. Currently, she is exploring virtual spaces and creative coding, and drawing occasionally.
Instagram: @i.am.zune
Website: https://www.iamzune.com/

For Soundscape
Ivory is a musician, noisician and experimental artist working to refine modern spiritualities with technologies. By breaking traditions, tweaking some rules, he is on the pursuit of modern machine learning, coding and at the same time anomalous technologies like sigils, insigma, patterns, herb, glyph and spells. His goal was to achieve utopia for all humans and other life forms, to travel and help the expedition in space and other dimensions by the convergence of anomalous technologies.
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Hosted on top of a waterscape, befitting the myth of a bell submerged under water for centuries, experience the Great Bell and the audiovisual story of it by ZUNE (Thoughtform) & Ivory inside this space.

Virtual Space designed by Phoo Myat Thwe.

Hosted on top of a waterscape, befitting the myth of a bell submerged under water for centuries, experience the Great Bell and the audiovisual story of it by ZUNE (Thoughtform) & Ivory inside this space.

Virtual Space designed by Phoo Myat Thwe.