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Open Studio Day at Istanbul Residency Program

Saturday, November 07
1 p.m.-6 p.m.

Platform Garanti CAC hosts an open studio day to share the work of current Istanbul Residency Program artists: Jesper Alvaer, Vangelis Vlahos, Witte van Hulzen & Sander Breure, Francesco Mattuzzi, Kalle Brolin, İnci Furni, Barbara Musil, Atılkunst, Soren Thilo Funder, and Sofie van der Linden.

Jesper Alvaer
Platform Garanti 3rd floor, Studio 4
1 p.m.-1:20 p.m.

Jesper Alvaer will present his ongoing project “From Zagros to Zagreb”, which is an attempt to present a guitar-string theory based on the Iranian origin of the Croats. The project includes the apparent lines that separate earth from sky, etnogenesis and acousticecology in spacetime.

Jesper Alvaer studied at the University of Oslo, in History of Ideas (91-93); then Cooper Union School of Art, NY (00-01), University of Oslo, Development Studies (08-09). He has participated in various group exhibitions in Oslo, Prague, Vienna and Miami. He recently had a solo presentation of his work at Galerie Jeleni, Prague.

Vangelis Vlahos
Platform Garanti 3rd floor, Studio 5
1:30 p.m.-1:50 p.m.

Vlahos’ recent work, focusing on different fragments of recent history and using archival material from various sources, questions the relevance of this material as a tool to rethink historical concepts that still seem to influence and shape the way we understand our present. For the open studios Vhalos will present “The differences between the parts are the subject of the composition”. The work is part of a series of projects realised under the same title that is again based on found images.

Vangelis Vlahos was born in Athens, Greece, where he lives and works. Recent exhibitions include: 11th Istanbul Biennial (2009); Monument to Transformation, City Gallery Prague (2009); After Architecture, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona (2009); ISLANDS+GHETTOS, NGBK & Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (2009). Vlahos has also held solo exhibitions at Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan and Blow de la Barra Gallery, London, both in 2008.

Witte van Hulzen & Sander Breure
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 1
2:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.

Witte van Hulzen & Sander Breure are working on a script for a new film based on the lives of the members of their own family. The story of their family will be mixed with stories that they have discovered in Istanbul after talking to many people and the resulting interviews are mixed with fictional elements of their own imagination.

Witte van Hulzen graduated from the Academy of Fine arts and design at Artez Arnhem in the Netherlands in 2009. Sander Breure has been studying at the composition department of the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. They have participated in group exhibitions including Made in Arnhem, Modern Museum of Art, Arnhem the Netherlands; Altijd Bewegen, Gemak, the Hague, Netherlands this year. They have worked collaboratively together since 2006.

Francesco Mattuzzi
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 2
2:30 p.m.-2:50 p.m.

Francesco Mattuzzi will present his ongoing project “Startrucks”. The project concentrates on the lives of truck drivers who spend most of their lives on the road travelling the regions that border the Mediterranean. Mattuzi considers how to explore such a symbolic and cultural aspect of the “travel experience” within East and West freight transport and has continued research on this topic in Istanbul.

Francesco Mattuzzi graduated from Arts in Design at University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy. He has participated in group exhibitions in Israel, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands. An early version of “Startrucks” was shown at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, Italy this year.

Kalle Brolin
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 3
3:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.

Kalle Brolin will present two recent works: the first features a wall of posters and a performance on child labor unions in America (O! Children!); the other is a video that pitches Swedish skinheads and immigrants against each other on stage through the act of reading insulting poetry (Battla 2010). He will also talk about his project in Istanbul, which consists of two connected videos, both featuring deaf actors that speak in sign language (Mafiya). The videos reconstruct some events Kalle was involved in while staying in Moscow in 2003.

Kalle Brolin is an artist from Sweden. He works with both documentary material, in video, installation, and social projects. He is a board member of gallery Box in Gothenburg, Sweden. He will participate at the Bucharest Biennale in the summer of 2010.

İnci Furni
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 4
3:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.

İnci Furni will present a fanzine titled “I made a new human” designed specially for the open studio day. Furni’s recent works have been shaped under her project “The Control Room and Imaginations”. She says: “Control Room and Imaginations” allows me ask questions such as: What is the meaning of the act of imagining? When do we start to imagine? Why do we need to imagine? What is the source of our imagination? Is it the world that we know? Can we imagine something we have never seen or known? Is imagination itself a language? Or, how does language affect the imagination?”

Inci Furni’s recent exhibitions include “I Don’t Believe in Personal Isolation, I Believe in Building!”, Masa Project, Istanbul (2009) and “Spirit”, Apartment Project, Istanbul (2007). Selected group exhibitions include “Unfair Provocation”, Hafriyat-Karaköy, Istanbul (2009) and “Connect The Dots 2”, Fargfabriken, Stockholm. She is currently participating in the 11th International Biennial.

Sofie van der Linden
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 5
1 p.m.- 6 p.m.

Sofie van der Linden’s works focus on the relation between the city and the people. During the open studio day, she will present her recent project realised in Ghent where she visited residents living in social houses and made sketches of their apartments. After this research period she made a large-scale detailed drawing of all the different flats based on her sketches and on memory.

Sofie van der Linden received a masters in Multimedia from Kask, Ghent, Belgium. Recently she had a one person show in Gallery Gyga in Antwerp, Belgium (2009) and participated in group exhibitions at SMAK, Ghent, Belgium (2009), KUVA, Helsinki, Finland (2007)

Barbara Musil
Platform Garanti 4th floor, Studio 6
4:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.

Although a variety of techniques and media are involved in the work of Barbara Musil, two areas of focus can be recognized in her work: experimentation in and with public space and a preference for video/video installation based on available raw materials. Both of these spheres of activity are continually intertwined with one another. Realised in a medium suitable for the respective context, the works all have one thing in common: a conceptual approach. For the open studios she will present three ongoing projects.
Barbara Musil lives in Linz and Vienna. She studied human medicine in Graz, then experimental design in Linz. She has undertaken residencies in Cluj, Romania; Vilnius, Lithuania; Tallinn, Estonia; Tenno, Italy and Istanbul, Turkey.

Atılkunst
Platform Garanti 5th floor, Studio 3
4:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.

Atılkunst will present a new video work titled “Agenda Exercises”. They will also make a sticker intervention on a daily newspaper.

Atılkunst is an artist collective run by three women artists since 2006. The main activity of Atılkunst focuses on current events, and the agendas of the day. They send out one e-mail every week with the subject “Surplus of Agenda”, consisting of one image called “Decal” which is inspired by political topics that have been raised throughout that week.



Soren Thilo Funder
Platform Garanti 5th floor, Studio 4
5:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.

“Focusing on the literary realm of counter-culture and political-(militant)-activism, Soren Thilo Funder is currently engaged in an investigation of a possible connecting-space between the literary allegory and the political antagonistic action. It is a myth-making, storytelling attempt to fuse critique, subversion and exposure with mythification, dislocation and fictionalization, in order to enable a new potential allegorical space to encounter the “reals” of our contemporary society and propose new possibilities for the future.” Soren Thilo Funder will show one of his videos during the open studio day, and will talk about his current project.

Soren Thilo Funder studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2002-2008) and The School of Art and Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2006-2007). He participated in exhibitions in Denmark, Iran, Serbia, Vietnam, USA, Spain. He had a one person show at Beaver Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009.

5:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Studios open wide!

Artists at Open Studio Day are supported by OCA (Norway), IASPIS (Sweden), DAC (Denmark), FONDS BKVB (The Netherlands), Flemish Government (Belgium), GAI-PARC-D.E.M.O (Italy), European Union grant, Creative Collaboration Grant (British Council, UK) and Platform Garanti.

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“Benim Kentim” Konuk Sanatçı Programı

Benim Kentim Programına konuk sanatçı olarak seçilen Türkiyeli sanatçılar ve sanatçıların çalışmalara katılacağı kurumların adı ve bulundukları kentler 11 Eylül 2009, Cuma, günü açıklandı.

o Caner Aslan, Berlin, Berliner Künstlerprogramm

o Işıl Eğrikavuk, Dortmund, Hartware MedienKunstVerein & Künstlerhaus Dortmund

o Leyla Gediz, Helsinki, Näyttelyvaihtokeskus FRAME

o Güneş Terkol, Londra, Gasworks: Exhibitions, International Residencies & Studios

o Can Atay , Varşova, Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski

o Gülsun Karamustafa, Viyana, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

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Towelflag

Friday, August 28 2009, 6:30 pm

Former Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center

Istiklal Cad. No: 136, Beyoglu,



Towelflag is a temporary intervention in the public space of Istanbul. A 60-meter piece of white towel fabric hangs from two pre-existing flagpoles on the façade of the former Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center headquarters. From the flagpoles located on the third floor, the white flags drop and enter through the first floor windows, crossing rooms and corridors until they meet in the toilet where hanging from a towel rack they can be used as a hand towel.



Towelflag will be exhibited on the façade of the building, currently undergoing renovation, and located on the pedestrian Istiklal Avenue, one of the most populous streets in Istanbul (said to have nearly six million people walking through it on weekends). Amidst blasting loud vendors, neon lights and all the visual and acoustical overwhelming cacophony of this street, Towelflag stands as a fairly quiet and partially hidden work, accessible in its entirety only to the building’s security guard, the one person able to use the flag as a towel.



Spanish born, Berlin based Jasmina Llobet & Luis Fernández Pons are an artist collective working together since 2002 across the fields of installation, object sculpture and art in public space. They are currently artists in residence at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center.



Towelflag has been realized with the generous support by Can Xalant, Mataró and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul

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“Benim Kentim” Konuk Sanatçı Programı

Türkiye’nin İstanbul dışında diğer kentlerinin ve farkı kültürel yapılarının Avrupa’da tanıtımına olanak sağlamayı ve karşılıklı kültür alışverişini desteklemeyi hedefleyen ”Benim Kentim” projesi, British Council’ın Avrupa Komisyonu Kültürel Köprüler programı kapsamında gerçekleştirilmektedir.

Türkiye ile Avrupa arasındaki kültürel bağları ilerletmeyi planlayan proje kapsamında Avrupa’dan beş saygın ve tecrübeli sanatçı, Türkiye’ye, ülkenin 21. yüzyıldaki kültürel zenginliğini ve çeşitliliğini tecrübe etmek üzere davet edilecek.

Aynı zamanda buna paralel olarak Türkiye’den beş sanatçı da Avrupa’nın ileri gelen kültür kurumlarında konuk sanatçı programlarına katılarak yeni işlerini sergileme olanağı bulacaktır. Berlin, Dortmund, Helsinki, Londra, Varşova ve Viyana’da gerçekleşecek olan programların son başvuru tarihi 21 Ağustos 2009′dur.

Programlara seçilen sanatçılar Eylül ayında gerçekleştirilecek olan 11. İstanbul Bienali sırasında açıklanacaktır.

‘Benim Kentim”, Avrupa Komisyonu tarafından desteklenmektedir ve Anadolu Kültür, Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi ile işbirliği içinde British Council tarafından yürütülmektedir.
Başvuru formlarını buradan indirebilir ya da platform@garanti.com.tr adresinden isteyebilirsiniz.

My City
 European Residencies [MCER]


MCER, is a one-off programme to be realized between 2010 and 2011 for enabling visual artists from Turkey to develop their work in six prominent host institutions across Europe through residencies.

It forms part of My City, a new cultural initiative funded through the European Commission’s Cultural Bridges Programme, designed and run by the British Council in Turkey. The programme’s aim is to establish partnerships between artists and institutions in Turkey and Europe.

The My City programme has two strands: MCER and a programme of activities in Turkey around the theme of art in public space, including seminars, conferences and new commissions. Starting in 2009, five artists from Europe will be invited to Turkey to develop a unique work of public art for a specific city in Turkey. The selected cities are Canakkale, Istanbul, Konya, Mardin and Trabzon. Each of these cities has a unique story to tell and this project will give the artists the opportunity to take part in residencies and show their work at some of Europe’s leading cultural venues. The names of all participants will be announced during the International Istanbul Biennale in September.

My City has been conceived by the British Council together with Anadolu Kultur and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center. The project is funded by the European Commission and the British Council.


Goal 

The project goal is to enable visual artists to develop and reflect upon their work in a different European environment and culture. The residency also generates opportunities for making or extending contacts and for exploring and/or developing a new context as well as producing new work.

Who Can Apply?

My City European Residencies [MCER] grants are intended for visual artists. However, artists who are part of a collective or a multi-disciplinary team are also welcome to apply to the MCER.

In addition to work-related criteria, there are a number of conditions applicants must satisfy in order to qualify for a grant. All applicants must be resident in Turkey, and if they are not nationals of Turkey, they must have a valid residence permit. A good command of English and other relevant languages of the place of residence are required.

For precise details of the conditions, applicants are referred to the explanation accompanying the application form. If you require more information please contact: platform@garanti.com.tr.

Selection Process

MCER Applications will be reviewed by a committee of six professionals, including but not limited to curators, who have the experience in international residencies. There will be one representative each from Platform Garanti and the British Council.

The committee will prepare a short-list of three candidates for each institution for which the application was made. The final selection will be made by the European host institutions in consultation with the committee.

Host Institutions

Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
, Poland is the premier interdisciplinary contemporary art centre in Poland and one of the most vibrant art centres in Central and Eastern Europe. The CCA has been supporting, documenting and presenting art since 1989. The audience consists of professionals, artists, students but also people unacquainted with art on an everyday basis.

The a-i-r programme, created in 2002 in the frame of the CCA international activity, is an extension and a complement of the ongoing dialogue between artists from around the world. The small scale of the a-i-r laboratory has allowed for an individual approach to each visiting artist by working in close dialogue with a curator. The CCA is interested in both site-specific projects and further work on projects initiated before arrival. The institution encourages an exchange between artists from different cultures and the local milieu. Publications (artist books, posters, catalogues) created during the residency stays at a-i-r laboratory are of great importance.

Presentations of the visiting artists’ works are incorporated into the CCA’s programme of events in the form of lectures, screenings, discussions, exhibitions and performances. Artists are encouraged to work in public space.

Workrooms are designed both for artists using traditional techniques and for those employing new media. There is a bedroom, a kitchen, a studio and a film workshop equipped with a camera, microports, lighting and editing computers at the disposal of the residents. Furthermore, a-i-r laboratory residents can benefit from the CCA’s technical background, library, reading room and videotheque.

Gasworks: Exhibitions, International Residencies & Studios, London
, UK
Founded in 1994, Gasworks is an art organization located in a three-story Victorian building in South London, between Vauxhall and Oval underground stations. It houses 12 artists’ studios – of which nine are rented by London based artists and three are dedicated to residencies – and offers a programme of exhibitions and events, artists’ residencies, international fellowships and educational projects.

Gasworks focuses on visual arts practice in its broadest sense, working discursively with UK-based and international artists to facilitate the development of their work. Gasworks’ programme is committed to providing a responsive context and to disseminating critical practices to a wider audience. Gasworks is part of the Triangle Arts Trust, an international network of artists and organisations.

As part of the My City programme, one Turkish or Turkey-based artist will be selected for a residency and a solo exhibition at Gasworks in Spring 2010. The residency will take place between 1 April and 30 June 2010, offering the selected artist a studio at Gasworks, accommodation and living expenses. The exhibition will open at the end of the residency, on 25 June 2010 and remain open for seven weeks, until 15 August 2010.

The artist will receive pastoral and curatorial support from both the residencies coordinator and exhibitions curator throughout the period of residency at Gasworks. The exhibition will be the result of a dialogue between the artist and the two curators and is expected to start prior to the residency period.

DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service, Berlin
Dates 3 months in the first half of 2010
The Berliner Künstlerprogramm was found in 1963 by the Ford Foundation as an artist-in-residence programme. In 1965 it was taken over by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst/German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). As part of the My City programme, the Berliner Künstlerprogramm is offering a three month residency in Berlin in the first half of 2010.

The aim of this programme is to promote an exchange of experience among artists and to foster their involvement with current cultural issues in other countries. Through numerous internal meetings and projects which are carried out in the DAAD Gallery or in cooperation with other cultural institutions, the Berliner Künstlerprogramm aims to establish contacts with local artists and personalities involved in Germany’s cultural life.

With their expertise, the visual arts team of the Künstlerprogramm will support the selected guest artist to realize a project developed during his/her stay in Berlin (for example a new piece, an exhibition, a public work, a publication etc.). In Berlin, the guest artist will have the opportunity to continue his/her work undisturbed and to participate actively in the city’s cultural life.

Visual artists who live and work in Turkey are encouraged to apply. They should be at the beginning of their career or not yet be widely internationally known. The invitation is issued in conjunction with a grant that allows for an adequate standard of living. It also includes a furnished apartment and a production budget. Artists who accept the invitation take up permanent residence in Berlin for the duration of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm grant.

Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
, Austria
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna has been a leading European training centre for artists for more than 300 years. The Academy offers a renowned team of professors in the arts and cultural studies department, including Pawel Althamer, Sabeth Buchmann, Martin Beck, Monica Bonvicini, Diedrich Diederichsen, Harun Farocki, Marina Grizinic, Matthias Herrmann, Tom Holert, Dorit Margreiter, Marion van Osten, Daniel Richter, Constanze Ruhm, Amelie von Wulffen, Heimo Zobernig and others. Theory and practice are regarded as necessary for the transdisciplinarity that is a common agenda in the arts and theoretical research. Disciplines such as painting, photography, sculpture, video, digital media, sound, film, conceptual art, performance, art in public space, gender studies, postcolonial studies, philosophy and aesthetic theory, art history are, among others, to be found at the Academy.

As part of the My City programme, this residency provides accommodation in the heart of Vienna, next to the Museumquartier (MQ) and the Academy. The apartment (89m²) has two bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen. The resident will have access to the labs and studios, ranging from drawing, printing and painting to photography, sound, video, digital media, performance and as well as the libraries. The Academy is interested in applicants with a strong international track record.

FRAME, Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Helsinki

FRAME Finnish Fund for Art Exchange provides services and acts as an expert body in international exchanges relating to the visual arts. FRAME, established in 1992, works within the Finnish Fine Arts Academy Foundation and is primarily funded by the Finnish Ministry of Culture.

FRAME currently collaborates with HIAP (Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Programme) for artists’ residencies. HIAP offers a residency on Suomenlinna island from for a period still to be negotiated from Spring 2010 onwards.

Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Dortmund & Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
As part of the MyCity programme, one Turkish or Turkey-based artist will be selected for a residency at Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund in spring 2010. The residency will take place between 1 April and 30 June 2010, offering the selected artist a studio at Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, accommodation and living expenses. The residency takes place in the context of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010.

Hartware MedienKunstVerein and Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund are inviting visual artists exploring the artistic, creative and critical potentials of digital and electronic media to apply for the residency. However, media art is not understood as a technical genre. Rather, it is the topical and conceptual discussion of our contemporary world based increasingly on media and technological structures that makes for the contemporaneity of media art.

Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV)
Founded in 1996 in Dortmund, Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) serves as a platform for the production, presentation, mediation and contextualisation of contemporary and experimental media art. Since 1996 HMKV has realized over 70 exhibitions, film and video programs, workshops, lectures, symposia, performance programs and conferences at various venues in Dortmund (currently in the PHOENIX Halle, a spectacular 1895 factory hall measuring 2.200 square meters belonging to the giant former steel production plant of hoenix-West) as well as in other cities in Germany and abroad. Among the 40 exhibitions of the last thirteen years there were seminal projects such as „Reservate der Sehnsucht“ (1998), games. Computer games by artists“ (2003), „History Will Repeat Itself“ (2007/2008) and „Anna Kournikova … Art in the Age of Intellectual Property“ (2008). Through its strong commitment to the field of media art over the past decade HMKV has developed into a unique institution in Germany. HMKV’s exhibitions are characterised by their broad definition of media art and by positioning media art in the context of contemporary art. HMKV’s activities have received international recognition. In 2007 and 2008 HMKV has been nominated for the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Award for Art Associations. HMKV hosts since 2000 the grant program of the State of North Rhine Westphalia (NRW) for media artists (f) from NRW. Since 2006 HMKV functions as the branch office of Medienwerk NRW which will host the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) RUHR 2010.

Künstlerhaus Dortmund
Since 1983 the artists’ organization Künstlerhaus Dortmund has been a non-profit space for contemporary and experimental arts. It is a place for all kinds of contemporary visual arts: Painting, sculpture, graphic as well as photography, film, video, installation and new
media. This spectrum can be found in the working fields of the members as well as in the group exhibitions, organized by the members exclusively for artists who are not members of the Künstlerhaus. By focusing on contemporary and experimental art, especially young, not
yet established artists are supported. In this way, the Künstlerhaus enriches the cultural scene of the city of Dortmund – consisting of museums and galleries with their economic interests, featuring mainly solo exhibitions – in a unique way. The Künstlerhaus creates free space for arts, offers optimal working conditions for artists from Germany and abroad and attempts to reach the interested public through direct and personal mediation. The Künstlerhaus frequently serves as a workstation for international guests to realize new and site-specific work. The interdisciplinary orientation of the Künstlerhaus Dortmund creates a constantly growing network of contacts to various national and international cultural institutions. Since 1993, the association “MeX” for experimental music is a continuous guest in the basement for intermedia and experimental sound projects. In addition, the Künstlerhaus cultivates the contact to the Hartware MedienKunstVerein, also located in Dortmund.



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İstanbul Misafirleri Programı Açık Atölye Günü

27 Haziran ’09 / Cumartesi, 14:00-18:00

Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi’nin 2003′den beri devam eden İstanbul Misafirleri Programı (İMP) kapsamında İstanbul’da bulunan sanatçılar atölyelerini ve üzerinde çalıştıkları projeleri ziyaretçilerle paylaşacaklar.

Katherine Hymers:
Platform Garanti 3. kat, Stüdyo no:5
14:00-14:15
Katherine Hymers’ın işlerindeki görüntü kullanımı sinemadaki anlatım alışkanlıklarına şiddetle direnmekte. Açık Atölye Günü’nde Hymers, üzerinde çalıştığı Untitled’ı (Abandon) sunacak. İki ekranlı video sanatçının İstanbul’da çektiği birbirinden bağımsız iki görüntüyü, ortak bir anlatının parçalarıymış gibi bir araya getiriyor. Hareket ya da hareketsizlik, zamanın akışında hissedilir bir gerilim yaratmak için kullanılıyor. İki imaj arasındaki çelişki sergilenirken, aynı zamanda izleyicilerin bu görüntüyü bir bütün içinde algılamaları yüreklendiriliyor.

Can Altay:
Platform Garanti 3. kat, Stüdyo no:4
14:20-14:35
Can Altay, kendisiyle aynı dönem içerisinde Platform’da bulunan Jeremiah Day ile geliştirdikleri ortak proje hakkında konuşacak. Popüler ama bir o kadar da riskli bir sokak yemeği olan midye dolma üzerinden İstanbul’un çeşitli dinamiklerine bir bakış niteliği taşıyan bu çalışmada, ikili, birbirinden bağımsız gözüken anlatı parçalarını biraraya getiriyor. İkili, “Boğaz’ın Böbrekleri” olarak da bilinen midyelerin içlerinden geçen suyu filtrelerken tuttukları kimyasal izlerin yanısıra daha soyut ve kentin sosyal, ekonomik ve siyasi coğrafyalarına dair izler de barındırdığı kanısında.

Frenchmottershead:
Platform Garanti 3. kat, Stüdyo no:3
14:40-14:55
Rebecca French ve Andrew Mottershead kimlik, sosyal gelenekler, günlük kamusal ve özel alan üzerine işler üretiyor. Şimdiye kadar Brezilya, Çin, İngiltere, Finlandiya, Romanya ve Slovenya’da gerçekleştirdikleri “SHOPS -DÜKKANLAR” projesini İstanbul’da sürdürmekteler. Farklı dükkan sahipleri ile görüşerek bu dükkanlar çevresinde örülen iletişim ağlarını, kültürü, günlük yaşam unsurlarını incedikleri fotoğraf projesi 2009 yılı sonunda bir sergi ve yayın olarak tamamlanacak.
http://shopsproject.blogspot.com

Stefanos Tsivopoulos:
Platform Garanti 4. kat, Stüdyo no:1&2
15:00-15:15
“Filmlerim, arşivlerin ve sinemanın, tarihi ve politik olayları araştırmak üzere kullanılması şeklinde tanımlanabilir. Yeni projem “As Others Continue to Fall” (Diğerleri Düşmeye Devam Ederken), miras kalan anıtların topluma yakınlığı sorusunu ortaya atıyor. Anıt (monument) kelimesi, latince ‘monere’ den geliyor, yani ‘uyarmak’, ‘hatırlatmak’ anlamını taşıyor. Bu durumda, etrafımızda gördüğümüz anıtlar bize tarihsel olayları hatırlatmak yerine politik gücün nasıl kötüye kullanabileceği konusunda bizi uyarmak üzere yapıldığında ne olur?”

Hans Rosenström:
Platform Garanti 4. kat, Stüdyo no:3
15:20-15:35
Hans Rosenström, Hasankeyf’te kamerayı Dicle nehrinin akışına bırakarak çektiği videosunu Açık Atölye’de sunuyor. Nehrin doğal akışı kamerayı Hasankeyf’in içinde taşırken görüntüler manzarayı tanımlıyor. Video, doğal ve kültürel oluşumların birbirinin içine geçtiği, uzun zamandır değişim içinde olan bir bölgeyi gösteriyor.

Asli Cavusoglu:
Platform Garanti 4. kat, Stüdyo no:4
15:40-15:55
Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Açık Atölye Günü’ne son işleri ile katılıyor. Dünyayı Nasıl Dolaştım? Sanatçının hazır seyahat turları görüntülerinden yararlanarak yeniden kurguladığı bir video. William Blake okudum, orjinali bir Karadeniz türküsü olan şarkının sözlerinin sanatçı tarafından yazılmış ve kaydı payvon müzisyenleri eşliğinde yapılmış hali. Dünya saati ve Hiçbirşey İstemeyen Adam ise el yapımı iki adet kitap.

Alina Viola Grumiller:
Platform Garanti 4. kat, Stüdyo no:5
16:00-16.15
Alina Viola Grumiller, Açık Atölye Günü’nde City Dialogues (Kent Dialogları) isimli işini gösterecek. Bu iş, sanatçının Viyana, New York ve İstanbul’da çeşitli kişilerle gerçekleştirdiği konuşmaların ses kayıtlarının metinlerinden oluşuyor. Platform’daki dönem içinde yazıya dökülen bu konuşmalar, bir video ya da kitap olarak tamamlanacak. Sanatçı ayrıca The Tree on the Hill ve The Serpentine Road isimli iki resmini de gösterecek.

Emre Hüner:
Platform Garanti 5. kat, Stüdyo no:3
16:20-16:35
“Şu anda özellikle soğuk savaş dönemi Amerikan ve Rus kültürü, edebiyatı ve sineması referanslı yeni işimin araştırma safhasındayım. Bu iş, propoganda filmleri, mimarisi ve bilimiyle ilişkili. Özellikle NASA uzay programları, Walt Disney animasyonları, dünya fuarları, 80′li yılların Hollywood kült bilim kurgu filmlerini inceliyorum. Araştırmam için, bazen işlerimin çıkış noktasını oluşturan internet üzerindeki görsel, kitap, dergi, koleksiyon malzemeleri sitelerini tarıyorum”.

Karolin Fişekçi:
Platform Garanti 5. kat, Stüdyo no:4
16:40-16:55
Sanatçı, Platform’daki çalışma dönemi sırasında yaptığı resimler üzerine bir sunum yapacak.

ha za vu zu:
Platform Garanti 4. kat, Stüdyo no:6
17:30
Sanatçı kollektifi ha za vu zu stüdyolarında bir performans gerçekleştirecekler.

Açık Atölye Günü’ne katılan sanatçılar Arts Council, İngiltere; EU Culture Fund, FONDS BKVB, Hollanda; FRAME, Finlandiya ve Platform Garanti tarafından destekleniyor.

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Platform Garanti ve Can Xalant Misafir Sanatçı Programları Arasında Değişim Programı

Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi ile Barcelona merkezine 30 dakika uzaklıkta olan Mataro’daki Can Xalant Center for Contemporary Art arasında gerçekleştirilen misafir sanatçı programları sanatçı ya da küratör değişim projesi çerçevesinde, Sonbahar 2009 için dosya kabulü başlamıştır.

Özellikle video ve ses üretimiyle ilgilenen, yeni medyayla çalışan sanatçılar için hazırlanmış olan Can Xalant Programı için son dosya teslim tarihi 1 Temmuz Çarşamba 2009′dur.

Programın süresi 6 haftadır (Eylül – Ekim 2009). Seyahat, İspanya içi dolaşım, yaşam, konaklama ve kısmi üretim giderleri Platform ve Can Xalant tarafından karşılanmaktadır.

Can Xalant görsel sanatların ve güncel tartışmaların üretimi üzerine Mataro’da kurulmuş ilk merkezdir. Can Xalant’ın amacı görsel sanatların araştırılması ve üretimi sırasında gerekli olan programları sunmaktır. Merkez bu amacını, düzenlediği atöyle çalışmaları, sergiler, eğitim programları, misafir sanatçı programı, değişim programları ve yayınladığı basılı malzemeler ile sürdürmektedir.

Dosyalar, Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi’nden bir kişi ve 2 bağımsız seçiciden oluşan komite tarafından incelenecek ve aralarından Can Xalant’a toplam 5 dosya gönderilecektir. Nihai seçimi Can Xalant yapacaktır. Başvuracak olan sanatçı ve küratörlerden program süresince yapmayı düşündükleri proje ya da araştırma hakkında bir dosya sunmaları beklenmektedir.

Programa bir sanatçı seçilmesi durumunda Can Xalant’daki stüdyolardan, video/ses kaydı, post-prodüksiyon ekipmanlarından yararlanabileceği gibi ihtiyaç halinde merkez tarafından teknik ekip de sanatçıya sağlanacaktır.

Platform Garanti ve Can Xalant değişim programına birinci yılda Cevdet Erek, ikinci yılda ise Erkan Özgen katıldılar.

Başvuru detaylarını burada bulabilirsiniz.
Internet yoluyla başvuru ve URL kabul edilmemektedir. Başvuru dosyaları geri yollanmaz.

Başvuru Teslim Adresi:
Garanti Galeri – Platform Garanti
Istiklal Cad. No: 115A, Beyoglu, Istanbul, 34430, TR
T: 90 212 293 23 61
F: 90 212 293 83 27

Salı > Cumartesi
10:00 – 18:00

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Urban Interventions: Artistic Perspectives (UIAP)

Residency Program

UIAP is a one-off project to be realized in 2009 for enabling visual artists from Turkey to attend a residency program in Linz, Austria, from July to September, 2009, and again from October to December, 2009. The program will be reciprocated in 2010 in Istanbul.

Goal:
The project “Urban Interventions” aims at inviting artists from Europe to explore various urban landscapes in different cities. It creates, within the framework of artist residency programs and activities, a platform for interaction and exchange both on a local level, as well as within a broader, inter-regional spectrum.

The project will include artists from 5 countries from Europe (Liverpool-UK, Dortmund-GE, Tallinn-EE, Istanbul-TR, And Linz-AT), developing urban art projects within the span of 3 to 6 month residencies at one of the project partner cities.

Who Can Apply:
Urban Interventions Artistic Perspectives (UIAP) grants are intended for visual artists. However, artists who are part of a collective or a multi-disciplinary team are also welcome to apply to the UIAP. In addition to work-related criteria, there are a number of conditions applicants must satisfy in order to qualify for a grant. All applicants must be resident in Turkey, and if they are not nationals of Turkey, they must have a valid residence permit. For precise details of the conditions, applicants are referred to the explanation accompanying the application form.

If you require more information please contact oykuozsoy@gmail.com / OykuOzs@garanti.com.tr.

Host Institutions for artists from Turkey:
Cultural Dept of Linz, Austria

Dates:
1 artist July-Sept 2009
1 artist Oct-Dec 2009

Selection Process:
UIAP Applications will be reviewed by a committee of five professionals, including but not limited to curators, who have experience in international residencies. There will be one representative from Platform Garanti.

Selection Criteria:
Artists who have a demonstrable interest in public spaces, urban initiatives and interventions, as well as mobilization of artistic practices and exchanges.

Detailed information about the institution:
Atelierhaus Salzamt (International Studio House Linz)

The former Salt Authority in Linz’s city has been converted into an international meeting place for artists by the Cultural Department of Linz, Austria.

Atelierhaus Salzamt is a brand new renovated 300 year old building beside the Danube. The ground floor has a 200 sqm exhibition room and a cafe/bistro.

Accommodation (around 30qm) and studio (30-70qm) is in Atelierhaus Salzamt, is free of charge for the artists-in-residence. There is also a recreation room with an extra kitchen, a small library. Internet is provided.

Selected artists will receive a stipend for living expenses Euro 800 per month and Euro 1,000 for material subsidy once.

Institutions of Interest in Linz:
Ars electronica

Ludwig Boltzmann Institute

lentos

ok centrum

Kunstraum GoethestraBe

afo architectureforum oberosterreich

salzamt – atelier haus

design center Linz

kapu

kepler salon

nordico

medienkulturhaus

artpark

The application must include a statement/motivation letter for the residency. Please forward the application form and your CV, along with sufficient visual material such as slides, Cds/DVDs, web addresses, images and/or printed material of work no older than four years. The material will not be returned, please do not send in any original work.

All visual documentation must be accompanied by a specific information sheet on the visuals that lists the medium, date, and other necessary details.

It is important that you choose a documentation medium with which your work can be assessed best.

Please take into account that the committee may not view a video for longer than 15 minutes. If necessary, please provide an explanation no longer than a single A4 sheet.

Your materials must be delivered to Platform Garanti by June 2, 2009

Important Note:
If you have already applied for the:

Accented Residency, or the Can Xalant Residency programs, you do not have to send your file again.

Please send only a letter of intent specific to the application.

The application can be found here

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Accented


Accented aims to develop co-operations in South East Europe (SEE), and the East Mediterranean (EM), North Africa, the Gulf Countries and the United Kingdom with key institutions that focus on artistic research.

The initiative will be administered through a relationship between six institutions that include Platform Garanti CAC (Istanbul, Turkey), Vector Association (Iasi, Romania), Ashkal Alwan (Beirut, Lebanon), Townhouse Gallery (Cairo, Egypt), Delfina Foundation (London, UK) and Spike Island (Bristol, UK).

Creative Collaboration grants will be made available to artists, curators and writers from countries in SEE, EM, the Gulf and the UK. Over a course of two years 20 professionals selected will be offered six to eight-week residencies at one of the participating institutions.

The initiative is open to applicants from the following countries: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Egypt, Greece, Gulf Region, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Morocco, Palestine, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Syria, Tunisia, Cyprus, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

Accented is generously supported by the British Council under the Creative Collaboration Project Funds.

Detailed information can be found here
Download the application form from here
For further information please contact:
Oyku Ozsoy: oykuozs@garanti.com.tr

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Book Preview / Kitap Sunumu


Jeremiah Day / Simone Forti
28 Mart Cumartesi, 17:30

Garanti Galeri – Platform Garanti
Istiklal Cad. no:115A, Beyoglu/Ist., 5. Kat

Geçtiğimiz sene Project Arts Center’da (Dublin, İrlanda) düzenlenen bir grup sergisinden yola çıkarak oluşmaya başlayan bu kitap, farklı dönemlerden gelen ve farklı malzemeleri kullanan; fakat aynı konuyu ve duyarlılığı paylaşan iki sanatçının çalışmalarını belgeliyor. Simone Forti’nin gazetelerdeki günlük haberleri kullandığı doğaçlama performanslarına ve Jeremiah Day’in fotoğraf/alan araştırmalarına odaklanan kitap, hem bir katalog hem de bir sanatçı kitabı niteliğinde. Sanatçı Can Altay ile işbirliğiyle hazırlanan bu kitap, Day’in İstanbul’da üzerinde çalıştığı ana proje niteliğinde.

UCLA’dan (California, ABD) mezun olduktan ve hem sanatla ilgili hem de sanat dışında Los Angeles’da çalıştıktan sonra Day, 2003 yılında Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten’e (Amsterdam, Hollanda) katılmak için Avrupa’ya taşındı. Day’in slide gösterileri, yayınları ve enstelasyonları; fotoğraf, performans ve araştırmanın bir araya getirilmesi ile oluşuyor. Jeremiah Day, işleri 1960′larda Judson Kilisesi’ndeki postmodern danstan, hareket halinde konuşan doğaçlamaların evrimine, ve yazarlığa kadar uzanan Simone Forti’den etkilenmiştir.

Jeremiah Day, Kasım 2008′den beri FONDS BKVB (Hollanda) desteğiyle İstanbul Misafirleri Programı kapsamında Platform Garanti’de misafir sanatçı olarak yer almaktadır.

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Jeremiah Day
Jeremiah Day / Simone Forti
Saturday, March 28 at 5:30 p.m.

Garanti Galeri – Platform Garanti
Istiklal Str. no:115A, Beyoglu/Ist.; 5th Floor

Developed from last year’s collaborative exhibition at Project Arts Centre (Dublin, Ireland), this book documents the practice of two artists of different generations and mediums, but with shared subject matter and sensibility. Focussed on Simone Forti’s improvisational performances working with stories from the daily news, and Jeremiah Day’s photo/site investigations, the book is part catalogue, part artist’s book. In addition to working collaboratively with Can Altay, this book has been Day’s major project while here in Istanbul.

After graduating from UCLA and working in Los Angeles both in and out of the art context, in 2003 Jeremiah Day moved to Europe to attend Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. Day’s slide-shows, publications and installations combine photography, performance and research, and are critically informed by his experience working with an artist of an earlier generation, Simone Forti, whose practice has spanned from the origins of post-modern dance at Judson Church in the early 1960′s, to the evolution of her moving-speaking improvisations, and increasingly as a writer.

Jeremiah Day, current resident at Platform Garanti supported by FONDS BKVB (The Netherlands) since November 2008.

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Platform Residents at OPEN e v+ a 2009

March 14 – May 24, Limerick Irelans

Nevin ALADAG Andreas BUNTE Lynda DEVENNY Willie DOHERTY Andrea FACIU Andreas FOGARASI Jan FREUCHEN Garvan GALLAGHER William HAMILTON Diango HERNANDEZ Michele HORRIGAN Florian HÜTTNER Luis JACOB Daniel KNORR Jakob KOLDING Nicky LARKIN An Te LIU Sean LYNCH Eduardo Daniel NAVARRO Vulkasin NEDELJOVIC Seamus NOLAN Isabella OBERTANDER Eoin O’CONAILL Siobhan OGILVY David O’KANE Eamonn O’KANE John O’REILLY Alan PHELAN Marjetica POTRC Gavin REDMOND Tom RYAN Jochen SCHMITH Donal SHEEHAN Nicole SIX / Paul PETRITSCH Stefanos TSIVOPOULOS Olaf NVERZART

OPEN e v+ a, as Ireland’s pre-eminent annual exhibition of contemporary art, is an open submission exhibition, open to all artists world-wide, working in all media, materials, styles and genres which will be exhibted in varios locations throughout Limerick City Centre.

The 33rd annual OPEN e v+ a will in 2009 for the first time since 1978 be a co-curated exhibition. The two designated curators, Angelika Nollert / Yilmaz Dziewior, have worked well together in the past are sharing the responsibilities for adjudicating the submissions, selecting the works and venues, designing the exhibition and its budget allocations, determining the OPEN e v+ a awards and contributing their thoughts to the catalogue essay.

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Artist Talk: Larissa Sansour

Friday, February 27 at 6:30 p.m.

Platform Garanti CAC
Istiklal Str. no:115A
Beyoglu/Ist.
5th Floor

Larissa Sansour current resident at Platform Garanti supported by Danish Arts Council since January will speak about her work and current projects.

Larissa Sansour’s work tackles difficult political situations through unorthodox means. During the talk, she will introduce some of her videos that deal specifically with the situation in Palestine.

Sansour will also be joined by Oreet Ashery to talk about their latest book project, “Nonel and Vovel”. The book is a collaborative work in which Ashery, an Israeli born artist and Sansour, a Palestinian born artist engage in a surreal dialogue that addresses issues ranging from art and politics to the problematic nature of their collaboration. The book is a graphic novel in which both artists contract a virus that gives them super human powers yet rids them of their creative creativity. The adventure lies in the dilemma of such a scenario and the consequences of the artists’ decisions.

Born 1973 in Jerusalem, Sansour studied Fine Art in Copenhagen, London and New York, and earned her MA from New York University. Her work is interdisciplinary, immersed in the current political dialogue and utilizes video art, digital photography, experimental documentary, the book form and the web.

Sansour’s work has been exhibited worldwide in galleries, museums and film festivals. Her most notable shows include the Tate Modern in London and the Arken Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Her work was shown in last year’s Third Guangzhou Triennial in China, the Contemporary Art Biennale in Nîmes, France and the Busan Biennale in South Korea. Her latest film “A Space Exodus” was nominated for the Muhr Awards for short film at the Dubai International Film Festival. In 2009, Sansour will launch the graphic novel “Nonel and Vovel” which she is working on with artist Oreet Ashery. She will also have her first oneiperson exhibition in New York.

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Sanatçı Konuşması: Larissa Sansour

27 Şubat Cuma, 18:30

Platform Garanti GSM
Istiklal Cad. no:115A
Beyoglu/Ist.
5. Kat

Platform Garanti bünyesinde yer alan İstanbul Misafirleri Programı’da Danish Arts Council desteğiyle, Ocak ayından beri konuk olan Larissa Sansour, işleri ve üzerinde çalıştığı projeler hakkında konuşacak.

Larissa Sansour’un işleri, zor altındaki politik durumları alışılmışın dışında araçlar yardımıyla inceler. Platform Garanti’de gerçekleştireceği konuşma sırasında sanatçı, Filistin’deki duruma yönelik videolarından bir seçki sunacak. Sansour sanat pratiğini daha karşılıklı hale getiren yeni alanlar ile kamusal katmana ulaşmayı hedefleyen yeni stratejiler kullandığı son projeleri hakkında da konuşacak.

Konuşma sırasında Sansour’a yeni kitap projesi “Nonel and Vovel” da birlikte çalıştığı sanatçı Oreet Ashery de eşlik edecek. Israil doğumlu sanatçı Ashery ile Filistin doğumlu Sansour’u bir araya getiren kitap projesi, iki sanatçıyı sanat ve politikadan kendi ortaklıklarının problemli doğasına kadar bir çok konuyu ele aldıkları, gerçeküstü bir söyleşi içinde tanımlıyor.
1973 yılında Kudüs’te doğan Larissa Sansour Kopenhag, Londra ve New York’ta güzel sanatlar eğitimi, New York Üniversitesi’nden yüksek lisans derecesi aldı. Sanatçı, halihazırdaki politik durum üzerine farklı malzemeler kullanarak çalışıyor. Sansour’un işleri farklı ülkelerde galerilerde, müzelerde ve film festivallerinde gösterildi. Bunlar arasında Tate Modern (Londra), Arken Museum of Modern Art (Danimarka), 3. Guangzhou Trienali (Çin), Güncel Sanat Bienali (Nîmes, Fransa) ve BusanBienali (G. Kore) sayılabilir. Sansour 2009 yılında New York’ta ilk kişisel sergisini açacaktır.

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Artist Talk / Jacopo Miliani


Friday, January 16, 6:30 p.m.

Jacopo Miliani, current resident at Platform Garanti supported by the Association for the Circuit of the Young Italian Artists (GAI), the Italian Ministry of Culture – PARC (Directorate-general for landscape contemporary art and architecture), and the Ministry for Youth Policies, since November 2008 will speak about his work and his engagement with the residency program.

Using a broad range of different references, Jacopo Miliani’s work focuses on the relation between image and representation and their role in the contemporary debate. His research involves the reuse and distortion of images from the art world and cinema and it focuses on topics such as magic, popular culture and collective imagination.

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Deniz Gül

Tokyo Wonder Site Residency in Collaboration with Platform Garanti
Fall 2008

Deniz Gül lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey where she received her BA in Visual Arts and Communication Design from Sabanci University.

Gül’s artistic practice involves public interventions or site-specific productions ans she uses photography, video, objects and text to create works of art that examine the construction of identity and space through social roles, urban myths and representation. Dealing with a matter’s condition of existence, she deconstructs her subjects to capture and develop a new reality. In her recent video series Mama Stop! (2008, Tokyo) she depicts forms of parental control over a child in different settings and reproduces codes of behaviour via spatial arguments on identities and roles of women in society. Gül’s latest photographic series Backyard and Façade (2008, Istanbul) exposes the use of an early 19th century style of architectural structure composed of counterfeit combination of baroque and western styles by a narrative which imagines fictive characters circulating in the contemporary cultural, social and practical rituals. This series reproduces the cult of western influence on the orient and locates cultural artefacts in a staged wedding celebration.

In addition to her artistic practice, Gül writes for various magazines and blogs about contemporary culture, arts, design and urban life. In 2008, Gul’s fictive-documentary Zeytinburnu Monologues was published as a part of “Urban Makers- Parallel Narratives of Grassroots Practices and Tensions” by Bbooks, Germany. In the same year, she exhibited in “Post-it Cities”, Centre De Cultura Contemporania (Barcelona) and “Bodig 08”, Hafriyat (Istanbul).

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Artist Talk: Jeremiah Day

Contact Improvisation / News Animations
The work of Steve Paxton and Simone Forti

Wednesday, January 7 at 6:30 p.m.

Postmodern dance emerged in a unique moment of interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange in American arts – composers like Terry Riley, Steve Reich mingled with sculptors like Richard Serra, and visual artists like Robert Morris and Walter de Maria worked in dance. This unstable moment produced new forms and models in all of the arts, but the underlying shared assumption that there would be some new relationship to the public was ultimately proved wrong – we still go to theaters and white cube galleries. With the brief exception of Earthworks, really only one art form was able to break away from “the art world” – Steve Paxton’s invention Contact Improvisation.

In this informal presentation, Jeremiah Day will show videos of Contact Improvisation and discuss Steve Paxton’s artistic evolution. Also, he will present the work of Paxton’s peer Simone Forti. Forti’s work differed from the rest of her minimalist peers in that she ultimately returned to the problem of “subject matter.” Day will show a few examples of her “News Animations” which offer a unique model for engaging politics in art.

Platform Garanti
Contemporary Art Center
Istiklal Cad. No: 115A, Beyoglu
Istanbul, 34430, Turkey

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Do you believe in magic?

workshop*
Held by IRP artist Jacopo Miliani
December 20 Saturday and December 21 Sunday 2-6 p.m.
Platform Garanti at Jacopo Miliani’s studio: 3rd floor Studio:4
Supported by the Association for the Circuit of the Young Italian Artists (GAI), the Italian Ministry of Culture – PARC (Directorate-general for landscape contemporary art and architecture), and the Ministry for Youth Policies

The workshop aims to be a direct confrontation with the vast and allegorical topic of magic in contemporary art. Magic will be a thin line and not a border in grouping different persons, categories or issues. Magic, alchemy, esotericism find more and more significance in contemporary art, and this interest shows an alternative to the system of representation in crisis. We are witnessing the collapse of the original symbolism, property of a close system of knowledge, in favor of a different scene full of references, quotations, metamorphosis and suspension of belief.

The workshop aims to be an open discussion starting from a personal research in the field and the practice of contemporary art. The workshop would also be a link between some researches, which till now have been developed in a european context, and the reality/unreality of Istanbul. The work of different artists will be observed, and supported by ‘special contributors’.

The workshop is open to artists, curators, critics, filmmakers, curious, people interest in contemporary art, people interested in magic …
Keywords:
_illusion _hallucination _reality/ipereality/parallel reality _ time _double _image _alterated status _oral prophecy
_belief/disbelief _cult / occult _monte verità _mirror and mirrors _smoke _disappearance _absence/presence
_performativity _ceremony _ritual _place vs space _Futurism/Avantgarde _representation _reflection _ superstition
_uncanny …

Special Contributors:
Jen de Nike, Form Content/ THE MOCK, FruitandFlowerDeli, Trisha Donnelly, THISISAMAGAZINE, BROWN,
Simone Menegoi, Francesca Pagliuca, Marco Tagliafierro and Miroslava Hajek, Matija Ferlin, Francesca di Nardo, Luigi Presicce, Sandrine Nicoletta, Christoph Keller…
LINK:
www.jmiliani.com
www.brownmagazine.it/
www.themock.co.uk
www.fruitandflowerdeli.com
www.thisisamagazine.com
Project realized with the contribution of DE.MO.- Movin’up GAI/ Residenze 2008

*Everyone is interested in taking part to the workshop could please send an email to: LPMPROJECT@YAHOO.IT or text/call +905546253281.

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Els Vanden Meersch: Exchanging Icons

Wednesday, December 17, 18:30
Book Launch, 2007 Residency Artist
Els Vanden Meersch: Exchanging Icons
Garanti Galeri

Exchanging icons / Occasionally dressing-up
Double-sided photo-poster, 2008.

‘Occasionally dressing-up’ makes a connection between different cities. The city of temporary residence, Istanbul, and the city of permanent residence, Antwerp (and other Belgium cities), become interwoven by means of subjective associations.

Experiencing memory as a generating force, one place is involved with the other through similarities and differences. Continuously searching for possible links in the mental act of adjustment, apparent different locations imply and reflect one another. This mental process of connecting allows the possibility of exchanging and mixing local icons in a mutual narrative.
These cities are experienced as both obsessively changeable and invariable. Observed public space and monumentalized buildings are part of everyday flow, hardly noticed by a preoccupied citizen but obvious for a visitor.

Buildings play their role as stone protagonists of a cityscape, both containing elements for cultural or national identity and serving as facades to increase the cities international appeal.
‘Occasionally dressing-up’ can be seen as and other Belgium cities a temporary fashion show.

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Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan

At the Project Arts Centre, Dublin
with Monument to Another Man’s Fatherland

Project Arts Centre will present the newly commissioned installation of two films by Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, in the exhibition Monument to Another Man’s Fatherland.

Triggered by the invitation to make a new work for Dublin, the two collaborating Dutch artists followed a trail of migrating Celts to Berlin, where a victory monument commemorates a battle of this ancient people. The artists’ 35mm black and white film slowly follows the surface of the monument’s frieze bringing us into an intimate encounter with a global treasure. Depicting the gigantomachy, or struggle between gods and giants. The frieze is also the receptacle of another tale – that of imperialism, cultural looting and the re-appropriation of national treasures, cultural heritage and the spoils of war.

Initially they planned to film the sculptural battle scene in the Pergamonmuseum, however the museum did not want to collaborate with an art project addressing the fact that the monument originates from somewhere else. This might ‘stir the debate about repatriation’, something the museum was ‘not interested in’.

Numerous images of Pergamon’s Gigantomachia frieze circulate in academic books and guides that have been published throughout the years. Appropriating these existing reproductions, which were printed in different epochs and different periods, with their diverse grids, qualities and illumination, the artists reconstructed the entire sculptural battlefield, and this is what we see on film.

The second element in the Monument to Another Man’s Fatherland exhibition, is another tonal interpretation of the sculptural relief, presented this time not in image but in language. The artists have collaborated with participants of an integration class in the Goethe-Institut in Istanbul. Motivated by rising nationalism and in response to integration lagging behind, many European countries have recently introduced a proficiency integration exam. Only after passing this exam can applicants obtain their papers for migration. This prepares new migrants for the difficult task of learning the language and culture of their new fatherland, in their country of origin. While on residency with Platform Garanti, van Brummelen & de Haan asked these prospective Germans, who were preparing themselves for the integration exam and still knew only very basic German vocabulary, to read out loud a German art historical description of the sculpted myth that travelled ahead of them. In front of a 16mm camera, and whilst grappling with difficult pronunciation and terms that are not taught in the course (such as serpent’s leg) the aspirant migrants describe each of the scenes of the sculptural battlefield in their fledgling German.

As with many of van Brummelen & de Haan’s collaborative works there is a long and twisting tale behind these films. As the migrants in Istanbul’s Goethe Institut argued about the relevance of them describing a ‘Greek’ sculpture, and the Pergamonmuseum denied their request to film the frieze, the artists’ formal trajectory developed into an increasingly layered illustration of the complex historical subject matter. In an age of globalization, the relationships we have to language and to national artistic and academic heritage have becoming increasingly nuanced and conflicted, creating open spaces for artistic reading and interpretation. The artworks of van Brummelen and de Haan actively inhabit these disputed grounds.
Curated by Tessa Giblin

Saturday 31st January from 1pm

The new films of van Brummelen and de Haan have been supported in their production by the Dutch Film Fund, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Goethe-Institut Istanbul, Platform Garanti, Kodak: Global Images in Motion and Project Arts Centre.

Monument to Another Man’s Fatherland has been generously supported by the Mondriaan Foundation.

Project Arts Centre | 39 East Essex Street | Temple Bar | Dublin 2 | Ireland
Gallery open Monday – Saturday, 11am – 8pm

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Fatma Çiftçi at Spike Island

Platform Garanti CAC/Visiting Arts Residency Exhibition
Spike Island Project Space
31 January – 15 March 2009
Fatma Çiftçi

Turkish artist Fatma Çiftçi returns to Spike Island after completing a three month residency summer 2008 which has been funded by Visiting Arts.

This residency is an on-going collaboration with Platform Garanti CAC, Istanbul and had previously been awarded to Can Altay. Fatma graduated at Bilkent University Fine Arts Department in Ankara and her work spans photography, video, performance, animation and drawing. This will be her first solo show in the UK .

16 May 2008: Second Spike Island artist selected
26 February 2008: Spike Island Production Residency ‘08 in the UK in partnership with Platform Garanti
5 February 2007: Can Altay, First Spike Island artist exhibition

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