Posts Tagged: Barcelona
1
Jan 10
Ahmet Öğüt: Exploded City / MATRIX 231
18
Nov 09
The Malady of Writing
A project on text and speculative imagination
November 20, 2009 - April 25, 2010
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
Curator: Chus Martínez, MACBA chief curator
3
Nov 09
Open Studio Day at Istanbul Residency Program
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.
27
Sep 09
“Centri/fugacions”
İspanya için iftar vakti
Festival bir anlamıyla toplumun yeniden doğuşu, aidiyet hissi demek. Ya da sosyalleşmek adına günlük rol ve statülerin yok olduğu bir dünyada başkalarıyla gerçekten iletişim kurmak. Barcelona'nın yıllık festivali "La Merce"deki amaç da bu aidiyet hissini yaratmak. Belediye şehrin yeni gerçeklerini de hesaba katarak toplum anlayışı konusunda bir adım daha ileri gidiyor. Yaşayan her şehir gibi Barcelona'nın tarzı da günden güne değişiyor. Durum böyle olunca şehrin farklı etnik, kültür ve dinlerden yeni sakinlerinin sayısı da hızla artıyor. Bu sakinlerin birçoğu da Müslüman (Bugün şehirdeki Müslümanlar'ın biraraya geldiği örgüt sayısı: 43).
İspanya'daki her şehir gibi Barcelona'nın da bir koruyucu azizi var; festivale adını veren "La Merce" (Merhamet). Efsaneye göre bu bakire (Merhamet Bakiresi) 1298'de Hıristiyanlar'ı Müslüman Araplar'dan korumak için ortaya çıkmış ama adını verdiği festivalin 700 yıl sonra İslamiyet'i misafir edeceğini nereden bilsin? "Ramazan Geceleri" ve "İstanbul Daveti" Barcelona Belediyesi'nin iki projesi. Amaç, Barcelona sakinlerini yeni gerçeklerle tanıştırmak ve Türkiye gibi komşu kültürlerle bağını güçlendirmek. Her iki proje de bu festivale ait ancak çıkış noktaları farklı.
İkinci yılını dolduran "Ramazan Geceleri", Avrupa Akdeniz Enstitüsü'nün önerisi. Enstitünün basın müdürü Jordi Bertran'a göre projenin amacı, "Katalonlar'ın muhtemel önyargılarını bertaraf etmek için ramazan kutlamalarını daha yakına getirmek". Birçok İslami topluluk iftar organizasyonları düzenleyip etraflarında dolaşan meraklılarla yemeklerini ve kıyafetlerini paylaşıyor. Bir diğer projedeyse dans ve müzik var. Türk dansçı Ziya Azizi'nin sufizmden esinlenerek hazırladığı modern dans gösterisi 17 Eylül'de başlayan "Ramazan Geceleri"nin açılış programıydı. Ardından sahneye çıkan Pakistan, Mali ve Faslı müzisyenlerle festivalin ilk ayağı tamamlandı.
Festivalin 23 ile 27 Eylül arasındaki ikinci ayağı artık gelenekselleşen "davetli şehir". Davetli şehrin sırrıysa biraz zengin kültüründen, kadim geleneklerinden, kendine has çağdaşlığından ya da kahvesinden veya çayından olabiliyor.
Barcelona Başkonsolosluğu ikinci katibi A. Peyami Çıklakalyoncu'nun Newsweek Türkiye'ye verdiği bilgiye göre bu yıl İstanbul'un davet edilmesindeki en büyük etken 2010 kültür başkenti olması. Yani bu yıl "La Merce" ramazanla birlikte İstanbul'u da ağırlıyor. Yanında Karagöz ve Hacivat, semazen Akın Çakmut'un performansı,Erkan Özgen ve Cevdet Erek gibi sanatçıların "Centri/fugacions" başlıklı sanat sergisi ve 'Birlikte Yaşamak' adlı konserler de tadı tuzu. Ayrıca "The Soul of İstanbul" yani "İstanbul'un Ruhu" adlı bir fotoğraf sergisi de şehrin sesini Barcelona'ya duyuracak.
"Ramazan Geceleri" ve "Davetli Şehir" gibi projeler kültürler arası köprülerin kurulmasına yardımcı oluyor. "La Merce" Türkiye ve İslamiyet'i aynı sofraya çağırdı ama İspanyol ve Türkler'in farklı yerlerde uzun zamandır tattığı Akdeniz kıyılarından gelen aynı tat değil mi?
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20
Sep 09
centri/fugacions
Organizer:
centri/fugacions
Can Xalant, Mataró / Platform Garanti, Istanbul. 2007/2008
As part of the Roundabout Encounter Programme 6
Participants: Mery Cuesta, Cevdet Erek, Erkan Özgen i Montse Romaní
Can Xalant, an equipment of:
Sponsored by:
The exhibition Centri/fugations presents the projects generated by the exchange between Can Xalant, Mataró’s Centre for Contemporary Creation and Thought, and Platform Garanti of Istanbul. The show is organised as part of the Roundabout Encounter Programme, an initiative set up to promote exchanges between La Capella and other exhibition centres around the world.
Over the last two years, Can Xalant and Platform Garanti have established a cooperation process that enabled Mery Cuesta and Montse Romaní to reside for a period of time in Istanbul, and Cevdet Erek and Erkan Özgen to do the same in Mataró.
We now showcase the results of these residencies at La Capella. Mery Cuesta presents her work Istambul Zombi 2066, a graphic novel that is the fruit of research and collaboration with several illustrators on the Turkish scene. The resulting graphic novel paints a futuristic and critical picture of Turkey today.
Montse Romaní presents a prototype for a chronological table covering the 1987-2010 period, the starting point for a brief history of contemporary art in Turkey. The table begins with the First Istanbul Biennial and stretches as far as the year 2010, when the city will be proclaimed the European cultural capital. This piece is complemented by a selection of documentaries and video essays by Turkish filmmakers, forming a kind of audiovisual landscape.
Turning now to the Turkish artists involved in this project, Cevdet Erek presents a selection of drawings and photographs of different works, as well as a sculptural and architectural construction designed during his residency for installation at Can Xalant.
Finally, the Kurdish artist Erkan Özgen presents Origin, a video that embodies a metaphor about the feeling of being foreign. This piece is accompanied by a selection of video and photographic works that complement the project produced in Mataró.
Supported:
Opening: 21 September at 7.30 pm
Capella de l’Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu. Hospital, 56, 08001 Barcelona, tel. 93 442 71 71
Times: Tuesday to Saturday, from 12 to 2 pm and from 4 to 9 pm; Sundays, from 11 am to 2 pm; Mondays, closed
Seminar on Turkish Comic Art at La Capella
23/09/2009
At 7 pm. Length 2 h.
Guests: Göksu Gül, Cem Dinlenmiş, Tan Cemal Genç and Emir Yardımcı
Moderated by: Mery Cuesta
On comic art in Istanbul
Turkey has a long and rich tradition of satirical draughtsmen and caricaturists being very critical of the current political scene. The way this satirical art is printed and distributed is very peculiar due to the way the draughtsmen’s groups are organised and the political risks they assume, as well as to the economy of production and dizzying regularity with which they print. Istanbul Zombi 2066 is an experiment taken up by six draughtsmen (five of whom are Turkish) who imagine the future of Istanbul in their works.
Participants
The Seminar on Turkish Comic Art at La Capella will be attended by the four artists who worked on the comic book Istanbul Zombi 2066, which is exhibited in the hall:
- Göksü Gul (Lombak magazine)
- Cem Dinlenmiş (Penguen magazine)
- Tan Cemal Genç (Radical newspaper)
- Emir Yardımcı (independent draughtsman)
Schedule
Part One – Presentation of the comic book Istanbul Zombi 2066. The way fanzines and comic strips are produced and distributed in Istanbul. How the work is organised. Commentary on the script.
Part Two – Graphic humour in Turkey and how magazines are edited today. Exhibition of works and each guest’s explanation of their experience and way of working.
Part Three – Commentary on Turkish publications and conversation with the audience.
DIALOGUES Istanbul / Barcelona
Round table and public debate at La Capella
30/09/2009
At 7 pm. Length 2 h.
Guests: Ulus Atayurt and Pelin Tan
Moderated by: Montse Romaní
Participants
- Ulus Atayurt: Co-editor of the magazines Istanbul, Express and Bant. He regularly publishes articles on urban problems in the city of Istanbul and their impact mainly on minorities and workers. He also participates in a range of independent initiatives that generate tools for cultural and social action.
- Pelin Tan: Co-editor of the contemporary art magazine Muhtelif and of the publication Public Space Discussion in Contemporary Art (Bilgi University Press, 2008). She is also editor of a special edition of the magazine Arch+ on architecture and urban development in Istanbul (Berlin, 2009), and of the art and economics section in the journal Rethinking Marxism (2010). Since 2001, she has been a professor in the Art History graduate programme at the Institute of Social Sciences in Istanbul. http://tanpelin.blogspot.com/
Presentation
Atayurt will analyse the roots and discourses of urban activism in Istanbul and the way in which the reality of events is exaggerated and/or distorted. What marks these events is a minimal level of mobilisation, bearing in mind the size of the city and the diverse nature of the different dissident movements. He will show past and present-day images of opposition movements to illustrate the specific and local nature of problems in Istanbul. And he will do so in relation to the nature of the property market and its evolution, marked by the effects of capitalist financial globalisation, while taking account of the influence of the "Spanish model" that is being applied to the city.
Pelin Tan. Title: The Question of Autonomy and Dissemination: The Social Production of Contemporary Art in Istanbul
There is a dilemma over trying to find a "form" of art that is basically developed from the reproduction of social relations, but is also about finding a practice that searches for "autonomy". I think the dilemma has several conceptual layers that are interrelated, such as territory, surplus value and discursive institutionalism. On the other hand, there is a problem about the conflict of political and social opinions, which is related to "representation". In the conflict of the radical aesthetic, must the artist represent society by assuming the role of social engineer, or can he/she find a unique practice to reveal a reality that is able to shift the means of production, which does not create an economical exchange of the surplus value of the artistic product?
1
Sep 09
deniz gül 2009-09-01 10:31:00
Cevdet Erek
Köken Ergun
Deniz Gül
Gözde İlkin
Yasemin Özcan Kaya
Nalan Yırtmaç
1-15 Eylül
Açılış: 1 Eylül 2009 Salı 19:00
Tartışma: 5 Eylül 2009 Cumartesi, 17:00
„Misafir sanatçı programlarının konsepti, hedefleri ve yararları“
Sergi sanatçıları, Öykü Özsoy, Serra Özhan ve Adnan Yıldız ile (Skype
aracılığıyla)
Adres: Tatar Beyi Sokak 27 Kuledibi İstanbul
Sanatçı misafirlik programları günümüzde gittikçe daha yaygın bir
kültürel üretim aracı haline gelmekte. Sanatçılara başka bir çevrede
zaman harcama, başka bir sanat ortamını deneyimleme, o yerin içinde ve
ötesinde ağ kurma olanağı sunuyor. Ayrıca, sergi konseptindeki kısa
dönemli konaklamaları kapsayan bir sergi kurulumu çeşidi oluştu.
Böylece, sanatçılar sergi konsepti çerçevesinde kısa zamanda yeni
çalışmalar üretmek için başka bir çevreye davet ediliyor ya da
gönderiliyor. Sanatçı rezidansları küratörel araştırmalar için faydalı
kaynaklar, ağ oluşumu için önemli bir araç olabilir; sanatçının
deneyimini ve uygulamalarını katalize edebilir. En iyi ihtimalle hem
sanatçı, hem kurum, hem de içerideki ve dışarıdaki sanat ortamı
kazançlı çıkar.
„En İyi İhtİmalle“ adlı sergide Cevdet Erek, Köken Ergun, Deniz Gül,
Gözde İlkin, Yasemin Özcan Kaya ve Nalan Yırtmaç misafirlik
programlarında geliştirilmiş çalışmaları ve projeleri sergiliyorlar.
Cevdet Erek, 2008 yılında Mataro’daki Can Xalant Centre for Creation
and Contemporary Thought’ta 1 aylık konaklaması süresinde „Sanatçıyı
Gölgeleyen Anıt“ fikrini geliştirdi. Fikir, sanat için yurtdışında,
„dışarıda“ veya hareketlilik halinde olan insanlara ithaf edilmiş
ironik bir kahramanlık metninin biçimlendirdiği gölgeliğin yapımını
içeriyor. Gölgelik, önümüzdeki ay Barcelona’da Capella’da
sergilendikten sonra gerçek yerine yerleştirilecek. Erek „En İyi
İhtimalle“de gölgeliğin küçük modelini sergiliyor.
Köken Ergun 2004’te 6 ay kaldığı New York’taki Location One’da „So
Much“ adlı performans videosunu çekti. Kentin merkezi yerlerinde daha
önce bir bilgisayar virüsü olarak tasarladığı „there is so much love
in this world“ (bu dünyada çok fazla sevgi var) metnini taşıyan el
ilanları dağıttı. Bir kampanyaymış gibi kurgulanan bu performansta
Ergun dağıtım stratejilerini uyarlıyor ve bu stratejilerin toplumsal
ve politik amaçlarını sorguluyor.
2008 yılında Deniz Gül iki ayını Tokyo Wonder Site, Institute of
Contemporary Arts and International Cultural Exchange’ de geçirdi.
Burada, „Stop Mama Stop!“ (Dur Anne Dur) başlığı altında iki video
çalışması yaptı. Çalışmalardan ilki bir annenin evde kızının saçlarını
keserken görüntülerken, diğerinde ise bir anne kızıyla ip atlıyor. Her
iki videoda da annenin eylemlerinin kızı tarafından durdurulmaya
çalıştığını izliyoruz; oysa kızın, anneliğe özgü kontrol ve disipline
karşı gelmekte başarılı olup olmadığı belirsizliğini koruyor.
2006 yılında Gözde İlkin „Topkapı“ adlı sergi için 2 ay konakladığı
Spedition Bremen’de Alman sanatçı Susanne Katherina Willand ile
birlikte çalıştı. Her iki sanatçı da „Yer“ adlı projeleri için kişisel
gündelik kültür kesitleri ve sembolleri içeren mendiller işlediler ve
bu mendilleri seyircilerin içinde oturabileceği bir çadır formunda
yerleştirdiler. Serginin ardından İlkin’in bir perdeye çevirdiği
mendiller Willand’ın çerçevelenmiş iki işlemesinin yanında sergiliyor.
2005 ve 2007 yılları arasında Yasemin Özcan Kaya diğer 14 sanatçıyla
birlikte Transfer adlı Alman-Türk değişim projesine katıldı.
Almanya’daki 2 aylık misafir sanatçılığın ardından Özcan Kaya
İstanbul’da coğrafi temsili ve kültür politikalarını yansıttığı
„Transfer ziyareti“ adlı videoyu çekti. „Transfer ziyareti“ videosu
2007’de Istanbul, Aachen, Bochum ve Münster’de sergilendi.
Burada slayt gösterimi şeklinde sunulacak olan Münih defteri adlı
çalışmadaki kolajlar 2004 yılında Münih’te hazırlandı. Bir Hafriyat
sergisi olan „Yalan Dünya/Falsche Welt“ çerçevesinde Nalan Yırtmaç 2
ayını Rathausgalerie’de geçirdi. Yırtmaç, bu sergi için „Obez insanlar
terörist olamazlar“ adlı stensili yapmıştır.
Manzara İstanbul, Almanya’dan üç kurumun işbirliği ile Galata Kulesi
yakınlarındaki Tatar Beyi sokakta zemin katında sergi alanı bulunan
dört katlı rezidans binasında gerçekleştirecektir. Misafir sanatçılar
kurumlar tarafından seçilip gönderilirken, sergi alanı programı
Manzara Perspectives, Anna Heidenhain ve Kristina Kramer tarafından
organize edilecektir.
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BEST CASE SCENARIO
Cevdet Erek
Köken Ergun
Deniz Gül
Gözde İlkin
Yasemin Özcan Kaya
Nalan Yırtmaç
1-15 September
Opening Tuesday 1 September 2009, 7pm
Discussion Saturday 5 September 2009, 5pm
„Concepts, aims and benefits of artist-in-residence programs“
With the artists of the exhibition and Öykü Özsoy, Serra Özhan and
Adnan Yıldız (via skype)
Adress: Tatar Beyi Sokak 27 Kuledibi İstanbul
Residencies become a more and more common tool for cultural production
nowadays. To artists they give the possibility to spend some time in
another environment, experience another art scene and build up a
network in that place and beyond. Furthermore a type of exhibition
making has developed that includes short-stay residencies in the
exhibition concept, so the artists are invited or sent to another
context to produce new works in the framework of the exhibitions
concept in a short time. Residencies can be useful sources for
curatorial research, an important tool for networking and can catalyze
the artist's experience and practise. In an ideal case it is a
win-win-situation for the artists, the institutions and the art scenes
at home and abroad.
In the exhibition „Best Case Scenario“ Cevdet Erek, Köken Ergun, Deniz
Gül, Gözde İlkin, Yasemin Özcan Kaya and Nalan Yırtmaç show works and
projects that have been developed on residencies.
During his 1-month-stay at Can Xalant Centre for Creation and
Contemporary Thought in Mataró in 2008 Cevdet Erek created the idea
for the „Monument Shading The Artist“. The idea consists of the
construction of a shade which is in form of an ironic heroic text
dedicated to people who are abroad, „outside“ or in the state of
mobility for art’s sake. This shade is going to be installed in its
real place after being exhibited in Capella in Barcelona next month.
In „Best Case Scenario“ Erek shows a scalemodel of the shade.
Köken Ergun shot the performance video „So much“ while he stayed at
LOCATION ONE in New York for six month in 2004. In central places of
the city Ergun distributed flyers with the writing there is so much
love in this world. These words he had designed as a computer virus
before. In this performance, which in the video is edited like a
campaign, Ergun adapts and questions startegies of distribution and
their social and political intentions.
In 2008 Deniz Gül spent two month at Tokyo wonder site, Institute of
Contemporary Arts and International Cultural Exchange. There she made
two videos under the title „Stop Mama Stop!“. One is showing a mother
cutting her daughters hair at home, in the other one mother and
daughter are playing skipping. In both videos the daughter tries to
Stopp the mothers action whereas it remains uncertain whether she can
succeed against the maternal control and disciplin.
In 2006 Gözde İlkin collaborated with the german artist Susanne
Katherina Willand during a 2-month residency for the exhibition
„Topkapi“ in Spedition Bremen. For the work „place“ both artists
embroidered handkerchiefs with scences and symbols of personal
everyday culture and installed them in form of a tent where visitors
could sit in. After the exhibition İlkin altered her handkerchiefs to
a curtain that she is showing now next to two framed embroideries of
Willand.
Between 2005 and 2007 Yasemin Özcan Kaya participated in the
german-turkish exchange project „transfer“ together with 14 other
artists. After her 2-month residency stay in Germany Özcan Kaya shot
the video „transfer visit“ in Istanbul in which she is reflecting on
geographical representation and cultural politics. The video „transfer
visit“ was exhibited in Istanbul, Aachen, Bochum and Münster in 2007.
The collages from the „Münih defteri“ that are shown here in form of a
slideshow have been made in Munich in 2004. Nalan Yırtmaç spent there
2 month on a residency at the Rathausgalerie in the framework of the
Hafriyat exhibition „Yalan Dünya/Falsche Welt“. For that exhibtion she
made the stencil „Obez people can not be terrorists“.
In collaboration with Manzara Istanbul three institutions from Germany
initiated a new four-storied residency building with an exhibition
space on the ground floor in Tatar Beyi Sokak, close to the Galata
Tower. While the resident artists are chosen and sent by the
institutions, the program of the exhibition space is organised by
Manzara Perspectives, Anna Heidenhain and Kristina Kramer.
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BEST CASE SZENARIO
Cevdet Erek
Köken Ergun
Deniz Gül
Gözde İlkin
Yasemin Özcan Kaya
Nalan Yırtmaç
1.-15. September
Eröffnung Dienstag 1. September 2009, 19.00 Uhr
Diskussion am 5. September 2009 um 17.00 Uhr
„Konzepte, Ziele und Profit von Residenzprogrammen“
mit den Künstlern der Ausstellung sowie Öykü Özsoy, Serra Özhan und
Adnan Yildiz (via skype)
Adresse: Tatar Beyi Sokak 27 Kuledibi İstanbul
Künstlerresidenzen werden eine zunehmend verbreitete Strategie der
Kulturproduktion. Sie ermöglichen Künstlern, eine gewisse Zeit in
einer anderen Umgebung zu verbringen, eine andere Kunstszene zu
erleben und in diesem Umfeld Kontakte zu knüpfen und neue Arbeiten zu
produzieren. Gleichzeitig hat sich eine Art des Ausstellungsmachens
entwickelt, die Residenzen in das Konzept konkret mit einbezieht. So
sollen die eingeladenen Künstler in meist kurzer Zeit am anderen Ort
eine neue Arbeit im Rahmen jenes Ausstellungskonzeptes entwickeln und
realisieren.
Residenzprogramme sind eine nützliche Ressource für die Recherche von
Kuratoren, und ein wichtiges Instrument zum Networken und Katalysieren
der Erfahrungen und Arbeitsweisen der Künstler. Im Idealfall sind
Residenzen sowohl auf Seiten der Künstler, der Institutionen sowie der
Kunstszenen zu Hause und im Ausland bereichernd.
In der Ausstellung „Best Case Szenario“ zeigen Cevdet Erek, Köken
Ergun, Deniz Gül, Gözde İlkin, Yasemin Özcan Kaya und Nalan Yırtmaç
Arbeiten, die im Kontext eines Residenzaufenthalts entstanden sind.
Die Idee für das „Monument, das dem Künstler Schatten spendet“
entwickelte Cevdet Erek 2008 während seines einmonatigen
Arbeitsaufenthaltes im Can Xalant Centre for Creation and Contemporary
Thought in Mataró.Seine Arbeit besteht aus einem hölzernen Sonnendach
in Form eines ironischen heroischen Schriftzuges im Angedenken an alle
Menschen, die sich für die Kunst im Ausland, "ausserhalb" oder im ständigen Status von Mobilität aufhalten. Nächsten Monat wird das Sonnendach in Capella
in Barcelona ausgestellt und danach an seinem ursprünglichen Ort
installiert werden. In „Best Case Scenario“ zeigt Erek ein Modell des
Sonnendaches.
Während eines sechsmonatigen Aufenthaltes 2004 in LOCATION ONE (New
York) drehte Köken Ergun das Performancevideo „So much“. An zentralen
Stellen in der Stadt verteilt Ergun Flyer mit der Aufschrift there is
so much love in this world, ein Schriftzug, den er zuvor als
Computervirus designed hatte. Mit dieser Performance, die im Video wie
eine Kampagne inszeniert ist, adaptiert und hinterfragt Ergun
Distributionsstrategien und ihre gesellschaftlichen und politischen
Absichten.
Deniz Gül verbrachte 2008 zwei Monate im Tokyo wonder site,
Institute of Contemporary Arts and International Cultural Exchange.
Dort entstanden unter dem Titel „Stop Mama Stop!“ zwei Videos. Das
eine zeigt wie eine Mutter ihrer Tochter zu Hause die Haare schneidet,
in dem anderen spielen Mutter und Tochter Seilspringen. In beiden
Videos versucht die Tochter die Aktion der Mutter mit der Aufforderung
„Stop Mama Stop!“ zu beenden, wobei es unklar bleibt, ob sie sich
gegen die mütterliche Kontrolle und Disziplin durchsetzen kann.
Gözde İlkin arbeitete 2006 während einer zweimonatigen Residenz in der
Spedition Bremen, zu der sie im Rahmen der Ausstellung „Topkapi“
eingeladen war, mit der deutschen Künstlerin Susanne Katherina Willand
zusammen. Für die Arbeit „place“ haben beide Künstlerinnen
Stofftaschentücher mit Szenen und Symbolen persönlicher Alltagskultur
bestickt und diese in Form eines begehbaren Zeltes installiert. Nach
Ende der Ausstellung hat İlkin ihre Tücher zu einem Vorhang
umgearbeitet, den sie jetzt neben zwei gerahmten Stickereien von
Willand zeigt.
Zwischen 2005 und 2007 nahm Yasemin Özcan Kaya neben 14 weiteren
Künstlern an dem deutsch-türkischen Austauschprojekt „transfer“ teil.
Nach ihrem zweimonatigen Residenzaufenthalt in Deutschland mit
zahlreichen das Projekt begleitenden Vorträgen und Workshops drehte
Özcan Kaya das Video „transfer visit“ in Istanbul, in dem sie die
Repräsentation von Geographien und Nationalitäten im Kontext von
Kulturpolitik reflektiert. Das Video „transfer visit“ wurde 2007 in
vier „Transfer“-Ausstellungen in Istanbul, Aachen, Bochum und Münster
gezeigt.
Die hier als Slideshow gezeigten Collagen „Münih defteri“ entstanden
2004 in München. Nalan Yırtmaç verbrachte dort einen zweimonatigen
Residenzaufenthalts in der Rathausgalerie im Rahmen der
Hafriyat-Ausstellung „Yalan Dünya/Falsche Welt“. Für diese Ausstellung
machte sie das Stencil „Obez people can not be terrorists“.
In Kooperation mit Manzara Istanbul haben drei Institutionen aus
Deutschland ein vierstöckiges Künstlerresidenzhaus in Tatar Beyi Sokak
nahe des Galataturms eröffnet. Die Residenzkünstler werden von den
Institutionen ausgewählt; das Programm des Ausstellungsraumes im
Erdgeschoss wird von Manzara Perspectives, Anna Heidenhain und
Kristina Kramer organisiert.
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Jun 09
Platform Garanti ve Can Xalant Misafir Sanatçı Programları Arasında Değişim Programı
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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Jan 09
yenisehirmektupculari

Yenisehirmektupculari
Torre Muntadas, El Prat de Llobregat, 2008
Towards the end of the Ottoman Empire a new genre of literature appeared: Şehir Mektupçuları, meaning people writing letters to -or about- the city, City Lettrists. This genre consisted of writings about the city, its habits and characteristics, everyday life in the streets and moralistic behavioural rules to follow. It emerged at the same time as the Europeanization started to be a significant concern in the society and the influence of European culture became a more active cultural dynamic. Şehir Mektupçuları have written about urban life and culture especially in Istanbul, mostly comparing it to their beloved European cities. The general climate of their writings was based on the idea that Istanbul is still in a slow development process whereas European cities have already moved along in the path of modernization. While everything was ordered in European cities, in Istanbul it was very likely that your eye will get hurt by the umbrella of an irresponsible person or your shoes will become muddy while walking on premodern roads at an ordinary rainy day. This genre disappeared in 70’s.

In this international art project, we are collecting signs of urban culture and existing codes in public space, by making thematic photo series of daily life details ranging from street art, wall writings, lost shoes, street poles, nationalist items and icons in public space, empty houses, stickers of bug extermination companies and so on. Next to this, we collect sound fragments from different districts, create alternative visual and auditory city maps, write provocative letters to authorities and make interactive street walks and performances.
The project consists of four different ways of manipulating and experimenting the cities: The first one includes thematic photographs of daily urban life details to create different portraits of the cities apart from the stereotypical, cliché and touristic ones. These details were exposed as thematic pairs of repetitive phenomena from both cities. Images are either communicating thematically or creating conflicts between them. The second part of the project is to capture the most typical sounds of the cities to create a video composed of still images. In the interactive part of the exhibition, the audience can send postcards designed by the group to the randomly selected citizens. And last, “Yenisehirmektupculari” does interventions placing the most conspicuous images from one city to another in order to achive the “Istanbulization” of “El Prat and El Pratization of Istanbul or Istanbulization of Amsterdam and Amsterdamization of Istanbul.


postcard example from el prat de llobregat

El Pratization of Istanbul

Istanbulization of El Prat
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Jan 09
CV
+90 533 541 74 51
2009 "Doublethink",Biennal de Valls, Barcelona
2009 "This is not a Medical Center", Carlos Garaicoa Open Studio 3.0, Madrid
2009 Guasch-Coranty Award, Biennal de Valls, Barcelona
2009 Selected Artist 2008 (as part of the collective Yenisehirmektupculari) Idensitat 5, Barcelona
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Jan 09
Deniz Gül
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).








