MEKONG comme Le NIL ..................!:
Le COMITE du MEKONG
Le COMITE du MEKONG a été FONDE en I957
par les GOUVERNEMENTS du
CAMBODGE *
du LAOS
de La THAÏLANDE
et du VIET - NAM
en vue d' EXPLORER et de DEVELOPPER le POTENTIEL ECONOMIQUE du FLEUVE
, GRACE à LA COOPERATION des GOUVERNEMENTS PARTICIPANTS
Dans Le Domaine de L' ENERGIE HYDRAULIQUE , de L ' IRRIGATION
du CONTRÔLE des INONDATIONS
et des COMMUNICATIONS FLUVIALES
etc ...............
LA VIDEO / INSTALLATION au PALAIS de TOKYO .................Sa Iere MONOGRAPHIE en FRANCE de PHAN NGUYEN THAO
BECOMING ALLUVIUM
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..........................The MEKONG RIVER that BRINGS ALLUVIUM and SEDIMENT To THE DELTA and WASHES AWAY the The IMPURITIES From CHEMICALS and INDUSTRIALS ACTIVITIES .
BECOMING ALLUVIUM Is My CONTEMPLATION of The GLORY and The TRAGEDY of The MEKONG RIVER and The CIVILISATION of The NATIONS That ARE NURTURED by IT .
The MEKONG CIVILISATIONS can be SUMMARIZED in terms of MATERIALY : The RIVER of WET RICE . CIVILISATION
and In Term of SPIRITUALITY , The RIVER of BUDDHISM .
ORIGINATING in TIBET
, The MEKONG gones THROUGH
CHINA
BURMA
THAILAND
LAOS
CAMBODIA
and VIET - NAM
THROUGH IT JOURNEY , IT WITNESSESThe FLOURISHMENT of
TIBETAN BUDDHISM
THERAVADA BUDDHISM
and MAHAYANA BUDDHISM
HOWEVER , UNLIKE THE TEACHINGS of COMPASSION and MINDFULNESS
that ARE TAUGHT By The BUDDHA ,
IN REALITY , The LAND That The MEKONG FLOWS THROUGH EXPERIENCE
EXTREME TURBULENCE and CONFLICTS , , on a
HUMAN SCALE and a BIOLOGICAL SCALE .
In RECENT DECADES , HUMAN INTERVENTIONS on The RIVER
BODY HAS BEEN SO VIOLENT That IT HAS FOREVER TRANSFORMED
The NATURE of ITS FLOW
and The FATE of ITS HABITAT .
Through PAINTING and MOVING IMAGES
: BECOMING ALLUVIUM IS MY HUMBLE GITANJALI
Of The TRAGIC ALLEGORY of This GRAND RIVER
, My ATTEMPT To COLLECT TESTIMONIES For The CAPTURED SEDIMENTS
and The VARIETY of SPECIES That ARE SACRIFIED For HUMAN ' S CONSTANT
SEEKING of PERPETUAL BRIGHTNESS
PHAN NGUYEN THAO SEPTEMBER 2OI9
song des BROTHERS FOUR : GREENFIELS
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