“I feel like art [and] ideas are like seeds,” artist Bidhyaman Tamang began his presentation in late March at Taragaon Museum, one of five venues of Kathmandu Triennale 2077 (KT 2077). The talk program was part of a series of dynamic public engagements planned by the curatorial team—comprising director Sharareh Bajracharya, artistic director Cosmin Costinas, and cocurators Sheelasha Rajbhandari and Hit Man Gurung—of Nepal’s biggest art festival. For his commissioned project (2022), Tamang etched maps of realestate plots on the surfaces of small wooden boxes using golden ink and filled sections with a mixture of clay and various grains. Uprooted from his village in the eastern district of Ramechhap, Tamang joked that the mechanic sounds emanating from a factory close to his rented flat in
