originally published in the Performing Arts Journal, issue 85, 2007THE INSPIRATION OF HOMEKöken Ergun interviewed by November PaynterAugust 2006Born in 1976, in Istanbul, Köken Ergun studied with actress Yıldız Kenter and playwright Güngör Dilmen…
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A Global Exhibition of Emerging Contemporary Art + Design | An Experimental, Cross-Pollination of New Ideas for Progress + Possibility January 1, 2010 – CURATE THIS! 2010, the second chapter in the evolution of the CURATE THIS! exhibition series created by BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art, is evolving from a one city-wide event location Full Article…
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art-in-berlin
(Einspieldatum: 18.12.2009)
Der Weg zur Tate Modern ist steinig. Der schmale Pfad führt durch karge Gebirgslandschaften, fernab von jeglicher Zivilisation, zwischen Bauern, Bächen und Felsen. Sener Özmen und Erkan Özgen, zwei türkische Gegenwartskünstler, wandern in ihrem Film „Road to Tate Modern“ (2003) als Don Quijote und Sancho Pansa mit Stock und Esel durch den „wilden Balkan“. Ihr Ziel: Das bekannteste Museum für Moderne Kunst Europas. Die Spannung zwischen Tradition und Moderne erscheint dabei in vielen der Fotografien und Videoarbeiten als das grundlegende Thema. „Free Kick“ (2005) von Cengiz Tekin zeigt einen Fußballer vor dem Freistoß. Vor ihm bilden kopftuchtragende Frauen, schnurrbärtige Männer und Kinder eine „Mauer“. Die Familie als Wächter von Tradition wird zur Einschränkung, zum Hindernis. Bodybuilder und Bauer, Fußballstar und Kopftuch – findet man die Realität der Türkei zwischen diesen Polen? Manche Bilder lassen die Gegensätzlichkeiten auf den ersten Blick plakativ erscheinen. Und dennoch, gerade das provokative Spiel mit den Klischees und deren Verwandlung in Karikaturen ist es, was diese Positionen so erfrischend macht: „Everything you heard about turkish men is true“, so bekennt Servet Kocyigits ironischer Schriftzug aus zusammengesetzten Garnrollen. „Everything you heard about turkish art is true“ – so könnte man den Satz umwandeln und gleichzeitig entlarven, dass wir kaum etwas über türkische Kunst wissen. Die Türkei als Hinterland der Gegenwartskunst, das den Weg zur Tate Modern mit Packeseln beschreitet, gibt es nicht. Und so führt uns die viel versprechende „Road to Tate Modern“ nicht nach London, sondern vielmehr direkt nach Diyarbakir. Abbildung: Künstlerliste: Öffnungszeiten: TANAS Berlin
Nicht einfach, die Welt in 90 Tagen zu retten, TANAS Berlin
Nicht die Tate Modern, aber der Projektraum „Tanas Berlin“ stellt derzeit Werke zeitgenössischer türkischer Künstler aus und beweist mit der Ausstellung „Nicht einfach, die Welt in 90 Tagen zu retten“, dass die Türkei keineswegs als künstlerisches Hinterland gelten kann. Mit dieser Einschätzung sind die Ausstellungsmacher nicht allein. Auch in der Akademie der Künste und im Gropius-Bau scheint die türkische Kunstszene Einzug gefunden zu haben. Mit dem großangelegten Projekt „Istanbul Next Wave“ wird gleich in drei Ausstellungen Istanbul als neue Kunstmetropole gefeiert. René Block, der die Ausstellung für „Tanas“ kuratiert hat, versucht hingegen den Blick über die Grenzen der Metropole auszuweiten und junge, international noch unbekannte Kunstszenen aus Izmir, Ankara, Eskisehir und Diyarbakir mit einzubeziehen.
Die Türkei auf Tate-Modern-Kurs?
Auch der Film „Mirage“ (2009) von Halil Altindere spielt mit Brüchen und kontrastierenden Lebenswelten, wenn ein hagerer, einfach gekleideter Mann mit einem Bodybuilder konfrontiert wird. Oder wenn sechs betende und wild gestikulierende Bauern auf einer Traktorschaufel wie Kinder in einem Leiterwagen durch die Ackerlandschaft gekarrt werden. Die Gebete-murmelnden Köpfe wippen im Takt der Erschütterungen und wirken lächerlich altmodisch, während die Ausrichtung nach Mekka durch die Bewegung des Traktors ad absurdum geführt wird. Klischees von türkischer Tradition, Familie und Religion werden in diesen Arbeiten angekratzt. Es entsteht ein bröckelndes, zerrissenes Bild einer Türkei – kurz vor dem Freistoß.
Gelangweilt, fast mechanisch scheinen auch die uniformierten Männer in Servet Kocyigits Videoarbeit „shake it ´til it drops“ (2007) an eingefahrenen Traditionen festzuhalten. Zu orientalischer Musik schütteln sie mit lustlosen Mienen eine Bauchtänzerin hin und her – wobei der im Titel angekündigte „Fall“ ausbleibt.
- Servet Kocyigit, Motherland, 2007
Courtesy: The artist, Copyright: Tanas Berlin
- Cengiz Tekin, Normalizasyon
C-Print auf Dibond, 150 x 200 cm
Courtesy: The artist, Copyright: Tanas Berlin
Halil Altindere, Fikret Atay, Köken Ergun, Ali Kazma, Servet Kocyigit, Ahmet Ögüt, Erkan Özgen, Sener Özmen, Cengiz Tekin, Nasan Tur
Di-Sa 11-18 Uhr
Heidestraße 50
10557 Berlin
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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
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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Adrian Paci Konuşması
4 Nisan Cumartesi, 14.00
Garanti Galeri ve Platform Garanti Güncel Sanat Merkezi / 5. Kat
Garanti Han 115A, İstiklal Caddesi
Adrian Paci, kişisel deneyimlerini yeniden yaratırken, belgesel nitelikli düz bir sunumdan ziyade geleneksel hikaye anlatım yöntemlerini kullanıyor. Kendi düğününde çekilen video görüntülerini tabloya dönüştürebiliyor (Düğün / The Wedding, 2003), ailesinin Arnavutluk’tan İtalya’ya göç hikayesini kızının anlatımıyla masalsı bir ifadeyle kayda geçirebiliyor (Arnavut Masalları / Albanian Stories, 1997).
Adrian Paci, WHW’nin düzenlediği Yamuk Bakmak / Looking Awry (apexart, 2003); Balkanların Geçitlerinde / In the Gorges of the Balkans (Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, 2003); New Video, New Europe, (Tate Modern, London, 2004); Biennial of Sevilla, (2004) gibi birçok sergiye katıldı. Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; PS1/Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum Am Ostwall, Dortmund’da kişisel sergiler açtı.
4 Nisan’dan itibaren Outlet//İhraç Fazlası Sanat Galerisi‘nde gerçekleştirilecek “Kişilik Krizi” adlı sergide, sanatçının 2007 tarihli Centro di Permanenza Temporanea adlı fotoğraf ve video işi izlenebilir. Sergide, savaş, yoksulluk ve eşitsizliğin tetiklediği koşullarda göç, sürgün ve bekleyiş döngüsünü düşündüren Centro di Permanenza Temporanea, aprondaki bir dizi insanın uçağa binmek üzere merdivenlerden çıkmaları ve aslında var olmayan bir uçağı beklemeleri konu alınıyor. Uzaktan, uçakların iniş ve kalış sesleri duyulmakta ancak bekleyenlerin durumunda bir değişiklik olmamaktadır. Yapıtın adı, İtalya’daki kaçak göçmenlerin bekletildiği kamplara gönderme yapıyor.
1969’da Arnavutluk’ta doğan Adrian Paci, Arnavutluk Sanat Akademisi’nde öğrenim gördükten sonra 1990’ların ortasında ailesiyle İtalya’ya göç etmek zorunda kaldı. Doğduğu topraklarla bağını sürdüren sanatçı, göç, yoksulluk ve köksüzlük deneyimlerinden yola çıkarak bir dizi son derece güçlü eser üretiyor.
Konuşma, İngilizce yapılacak.
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01.04.09 Oreet Ashery
Please scroll down for the English text
Oreet Ashery
Sabetay Sevi ve Diğer Egolar / Shabbtai Zvi and Other Alter Egos
Sanatçı Konuşması / Artist Talk
01.04.09 Çarşamba / Wednesday
18:30 / 6.30 pm
http://www.oreetashery.net/
PiST///
Dolapdere Caddesi
Pangaltı Dere Sokak
No 8 A/B/C
Pangaltı 34375
İstanbul TR
pist@pist.org.tr
Londra’da yaşayan sanatçı Oreet Ashery 1 Nisan 2009, Çarşamba günü saat 18:30’da PiST’te çalışmalarıyla ilgili bir konuşma gerçekleştirecek. 27 Mart-7 Nisan tarihleri arasında projeleriyle ilgili araştırma yapmak için İstanbul’da bulunacak ve PiST’in ilk misafir sanatçısı olacak.
Oreet Ashery, farklı medyumlar aracılığıyla interaktif ve performatif sanat etkinlikleri düzenleyen, video, 2 boyutlu isler ureten, obje, metin ve interneti kullanarak çalışan bir sanatçı. Ashery uzun zamandır Musevilik, ırk, cinsiyet ve Arap/Müslüman dünyası üzerine işler üretiyor. İşlerinde sıklıkla farklı karakterlere bürünüyor. Bunlardan bazıları tavşan, siyah adam, Norveçli postacı, şişman çiftçi ve Arap adam karakterleri.
Son olarak Ashery 17. yüzyılda yaşamış Sahte Mesih Sabetay Sevi’yi de performanslarında yeni bir karakter olarak kullanmaya başladı. Oreet Ashery‘nin Sabetay Sevi ve Diğer Egolar* başlıklı konuşması için 1 Nisan, Çarşamba günü saat 18:30’da hepinizi PiST’e bekliyoruz!
*Konuşma İngilizce olacaktır.
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London based artist Oreet Ashery will give a talk* about her work at PiST on April 1st, 2009, Wednesday at 6.30 pm. Ashery is the first artist-in residence at PiST who will stay in Istanbul for her project research.
Ashery is a context- responsive visual artist working across mediums in interactive performance art events, video, 2-D image making, objects, text and the internet. Ashery’s practice looks at personal politics and its complex relationship to social and political realities, notions of identity and subjectivity, and at the nature of what an art practice might be.
Ashery has an ongoing interest in the intersections between Jewishness, race, gender and the Arab and Muslim world. The project Welcome Home that started in 2004 is an investigation into the Palestinian Right to Return and other projects within an anti-Occupation remit.
Frequently Ashery will produce work as a character. Her characters include a rabbit, a black man, a Norwegian postman, a fat farmer and an Arab man, among others. Marcus Fisher, an orthodox Jewish man is Ashery’s most consistent character. Recently Ashery developed a new character based on the controversial 17th century false messiah Shabbtai Zvi. Throughout his life Shabbtai conducted a series of ‘Strange Acts’ akin to much performance work, like walking with a fish dressed in baby clothes in a pram, he converted from Judaism to Islam later on in life.
Ashery’s work has been shown extensively in the UK and internationally in museums, galleries, cinemas, biennials, festivals and site-specific locations. Most recently at the: ZKM | Tate Modern, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Brooklyn Museum, Pompidou Centre, Liverpool Biennial, EDS Gallery, Mexico City, Freud museum, OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz.
Ashery’s work has been published and discussed in numerous books, academic and art publications in many languages including: Bidoun, Frieze, Art Monthly, Art Forum, Contemporary, Time Out, the Village Voice, Circa, Flash Art, Dazed & Confused, Map, Heeb, Sleezenation among others. And in books including Art Tomorrow, Art in the Age of Terrorism, Blasphemy and Biographies and Space.
The book Dancing with Men, charting ten years of interactive performance work, published by the Live Art Development Agency and the collaborative graphic novel, the Novel of Nonel and Vovel with the artist Larissa Sansour, published by Charta, will be available in Spring 2009.
Ashery has been given public talks about her works at the ICA, Whitechapel, Gallery, Tate Modern, Royal Academy, Goldsmith College, Chelsea College, to mention a few.
Ashery has been engaged with educational work for years, including public art projects and community based projects, as well as teaching in academic contexts. Ashery currently holds a creative fellowship in Queen Mary University Drama department.
We look forward to seeing you at PiST on Oreet Ashery‘s talk about Shabbtai Zvi and Other Alter Egos. On April 1st, 2009, Wednesday at 6.30 pm.
*The talk will be in English.
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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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“Destek Yapıları” Destek Üzerine Konuşmaları
13 Şubat 2009, 18:30
James Langdon ve Celine Condorelli
Osmanlı Bankası Müzesi
Konferans Salonu
Bankalar Caddesi, 11, Karaköy
“İstanbul Misafirleri Programı” kapsamında Türkiye’de bulunan Mimar ve Sanatçı Celine Condorelli’nin düzenlediği “Destek Üzerine” konuşma dizisi, James Langdon ve Celine Condorelli ile son buluyor.
Dizinin son konuşması, “Destek Yapıları” kitabı için yapılan, Gavin Wade’in de katıldığı bir taslak çalışmadan oluşuyor. Konuşmada, grafik tasarımcısı James Langdon ve Celine Condorelli tasarımın nasıl bir destek modeli olabileceğini tartışacaklar. Kitapta yer alacak bazı malzemeler ışığında, sanat, mimarlık ve diğer mekansal pratiklerdeki destek kavramları üzerine yapılan araştırmayı birleştirerek, bir destek bibliyografyasının nasıl olabileceğiyle ilgili kamusal bir öneride bulunacaklar. “Destek Yapıları” ismini, bu konuyla ilgili eksik kalmış bibliyografyayı oluşturmak üzere gerçekleştirilen bir yayın projesinden alıyor.
James Langdon sanat eğitimi aldı. Sanatçı ve sanat organizasyonlarıyla ilgili kitaplar tasarlıyor. İşleri arasında Ruth Claxton, Harrison & Wood, Steven Shearer ve Victor Man ile beraber hazırladığı sanatçı kitapları bulunuyor. Gavin Wade’in sergisini düzenlediği Has Man a Function in Universe? adlı kitapta, sergideki Mark Titchner, Shezad Dawood ve Neil Chapman gibi sanatçılar yer aldı. Langdon aynı zamanda Birmingham’da bir sanatçı girişimi olan sergi alanı Eastside Projects’in kurucu üyeliğini yapıyor.
Gavin Wade sanatçı ve küratör. Strategic Questions’ın yayımcısı, aynı zamanda Eastside Projects’in yönetmenliğini yapıyor. Küratörlüğünü üstlendiği projeler arasında: This is The Gallery And The Gallery is Many Things, Eastside Projects (2008); Strategic Questions Venice, 52nd Venice Biennale (2007); Thin Cities, Piccadilly Line Centenary, Platform for Art, London Underground (2006-8); Public Structures, Guang Zhou Triennial, China (2005); ArtSheffield 05: Spectator T, Cross City Biennial (2005) bulunuyor.
British Council Desteğiyle
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Mimari ve Tahayyül: Wouter Davidts
Destek Üzerine Konuşmaları
Salı, Aralık 30, 2008, 18.30
Mimari ve Tahayyül: Wouter Davidts
Mimarlık, kurumsal tahayyülü destekleyen vazgeçilmez bir olgudur ve tam da bundan dolayı kurumsal tahayyülü kısıtlar.
Aşağıdaki alıntı, mimarlığı bir destek modeli olarak düşünmenin başlangıç noktasıdır:
“Müze düşüncesi, neredeyse her zaman bir bina ile başlar. Herhangi bir kişi, diyelim ki bir hayırsever ya da kamu otoritesi, bir müze açmaya karar verdiğinde, tasarının ilk aşamalarından başlayarak bu düşünce mimari bir kavram çercevesinde belirginleşmeye başlar. Geçtiğimiz yüz yıl boyunca, bu düşünce esin perilerine adanan bir tapınak ya da tam olarak ne bir katedral ne de bir belediye binası olarak adlandırılabilecek bir cisimde, zira bu formlar kamuya ait büyük değere sahip kutsal emanetlerin korunması ve içinde bulunduğu dönemin geçerli mimari “prestij” bina nosyonuna uygun düşünce çerçevesinde somutlaşmıştır (…)
Müzeleri sadece bir binadan ibaret olarak algılayan düşünce karşısında ihtiyatlı olmamızı gerektiren budur. Müzelerimizi dışarıdan içeriye doğru inşaa etmekten vazgeçmeliyiz. (…)
O zaman bir müze, bir binadan ibaret değilse nedir?”
Ian Finlay, Priceless Heritage. The Future of Museums (London: Faber and Faber, 1977)
Wouter Davidts
Wouter Davidts Gent Üniversitesi Mimari ve Kent Planlama bölümünde doktora sonrası araştırmacısıdır. 2008 sonbaharından beri Henry Moore Institute, Leeds’de araştırma görevlisi olan Davidts’in geçtigimiz yıllarda müze, güncel sanat ve mimari üzerine Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Archis, De Witte Raaf, Footprint, Kritische Berichten, OPEN, OASE ve Parachute dergilerde, kitaplarda ve sergi kataloglarında yazıları yayınlandı. Artforum dergisinin belçika muhabirliğini yapan Davidts’in Bouwen voor de kunst? Museumarchitectuur van Centre Pompidou tot Tate Modern (A&S/books, 2006) adlı bir kitabı var. 2007′de at Extra City, Center for Contemporary Art, Anvers’de Beginners & Begetters sergisini düzenledi.
Osmanli Bankası Müzesi Konferans Salonu
Bankalar Caddesi, 11, Karaköy
“Destek Üzerine”, British Council tarafından kısmen destekleniyor.
Ek destek Goethe Institute Istanbul tarafından sağlanıyor.
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Collaborations 2008
Can Xalant Residency in Collaboration with Platform Garanti
September 7- October 12 2008
Erkan Ozgen was born in Derik, Mardin in 1971. He graduated from the University of Cukurova, Department of Painting. He lives and works in Diyarbakir.
Erkan Ozgen is interested in political and social issues. He believes that the language of art can play an active role in social processes. His works are influenced by his experience of living in the problematic city of Diyarbakir, in the south-west of Turkey, where the cultural relationship between the Turkish and Kurdish communities is intense. Erkan uses video and photography as a tool to show his resistance to constrictions and contradictions, as well as a strong sense of denial that form political and military power in contemporary Turkish society. He often confronts the problem of attempting to define an identity for those living in dislocated border towns, or for strangers who live in foreign countries, as we can see in his two last videos Robben and Origin, both shot in 2008. In order to understand the practice of Ozgen, it is important to mention his participation both as an artist and organiser in the workshop Here as the Centre of the World, between 2006 and 2007, in which six artists from six different cities (Beirut, Damascus, Diyarbakir, Enschede, Khartoum and Taipei) shared their reflections about the architecture, the social history, and the current issues pertaining to the cities that they came from.
In 2008 Erkan Ozgen participated in Can Xalant-Center for Creating and Contemporary Thought Residency Programme. His works were shown in Beyond Paradise, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, 2008; The New York Arab and South Asian Film Festivals, New York, 2008; Article 23, Galerija Skuk, Ljubljana, 2008; Catching Breath, Kunsthalle Basel, 2008; Destroy Athens, 1st Athens Biennial, 2007; and No Future, Bloomberg Space, London, 2007.
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PiST/// at Frieze Art Fair 2008, Stand F36
Regent’s Park, London
16 – 19 October 2008
www.frieze.com
Opening Reception
Wednesday, 15 October
7 – 10 PM
PiST has been invited by the directors of the Frieze Art Fair as one of the two not-for-profit, artist-run galleries participating in the fair in 2008. For Frieze Art Fair 2008, PiST has juxtaposed the works of Caner Aslan, Osman Bozkurt, Yang Ah Ham, Köken Ergun, Sefer Memişoğlu, Fahrettin Örenli and Didem Özbek.
Caner Aslan is a young artist who has participated the 5th Berlin Biennial. His works are strongly influenced by the internet.
His installation work “https” will be at the PiST Stand F36.
https (gathering information in a variety of ways, not just by “spying” like you see in the movies)
Mixed media
Variable sizes
Caner Aslan, 2007
Osman Bozkurt mainly uses photography and video in his works. After the “Global Cities” exhibition at Tate Modern in 2007, Frieze Art Fair will be his second presentation in London. His new portrait series “Untitled” will be exhibited for the first time at PiST’s Stand F36.
Untitled 0119L
50×70 cm
C-Print
Osman Bozkurt, 2008
Köken Ergun’s video “The Flag” received an award at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2007. At the PiST stand one of his new videos “The Wedding” will be screened for the first time.
The Wedding
3 Channel Video
12′ 10″
Köken Ergun, 2008
Yang Ah Ham who was nominated for the Hermes Art Award 2008 in Korea will install her sculpture “Chocolate Heads” with its companion performance video “Adjective Life – Out of Frame”.
Chocolate Heads
60x40x30 cm
Before and after the performance of Adjective Life – Out of Frame
08′
Yang Ah Ham, 2007
One of Turkey’s leading video artists Sefer Memişoğlu will screen his recent HD video “Rendering Rome” for the first time at Frieze Art Fair 2008.
Rendering Rome
06′ 09″
HD Video
Sefer Memişoğlu, 2008
ABN AMRO Art Prize 2004 winner Fahrettin Örenli will exhibit his recent installation work “West-East Dog Line”. It is a multi layered installation that consists of drawings, poems, video and photography with gold-plated and silver sculptures.
A Fairy Tale in Future: Sisss! Shadows
20×54.5 cm
Drawing on Etching Paper
Fahrettin Örenli, 2008
Didem Özbek will exhibit her limited edition work “White Sugar Cube Book”. Produced as a part of the tea stand installation of PiST at its Stand F36, Turkish tea’s ubiquitous companion, white sugar cubes will work as a metaphor of the white cube gallery spaces of the art market, becoming a – sweet – guide for the viewers of the show.
White Sugar Cube Book
240 pieces of wrapped white cube sugars
Limited Edition Work
Didem Özbek, 2008
As an artist-run intative PiST has also invited Maya Ersan to help to present the artist’s works at its stand with Didem Özbek and Osman Bozkurt.
PiST/// is a non-profit, independent, artist-run space in Istanbul. Co-directed by Didem Özbek and Osman Bozkurt, it aims to offer an open, diverse, alternative art space. The main focus of PiST is to support the local contemporary art scene while sustaining its continuing growth. Since May 2006 PiST has hosted various exhibitions, discussions, and projects as well as produced its own publications.
PiST///
Dolapdere Caddesi
Pangalti Dere Sokak
No 12 / 14 / 16
Pangalti 34375
Istanbul TR
www.pist.org.tr
www.pist-org.blogspot.com
pist@pist.org.tr
LiST: Istanbul’s Contemporary Art List
www.istanbulartlist.net
list@pist.org.tr
With the kind support of Canan Pak and Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency
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White Sugar Cube Book
‘White Sugar Cube Book’ is designed as a concise reference guide of the Frieze Art Fair 2008. Realized by Didem Özbek as a conceptual art project with the editorial support of Frieze Art Fair’s Yearbook 2008-9 contributors, 240 copies of this limited edition book have been produced. It includes clues on the work of the 240 artists represented by the galleries participating in Frieze Art Fair 2008. Outside of the familiar format of a standard book, all of the pages of this book have been printed on the wrapping paper of white sugar cubes. Throughout the four days of visual bombardment during the fair, the clues about the artist’s work on the sugar cubes will perform as an orientation tool for the tens of thousands of visitors around the fair. For those desiring the pleasure of being a collector amidst works worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, the ‘White Sugar Cube Book’ will act as a collector’s item. Similar to one of our first, most delightful childhood collections, such as comic bubble gum wrapper collections, this project will provide the opportunity of not leaving Frieze empty handed, but instead with an affordable piece of art work.
Didem Özbek is an artist, designer and co-director of PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space – a non-profit, independent, artist-run space – in Istanbul. This project aims to carry PiST’s familiar daily life in Istanbul to London. Taking inspiration from the neighbourhood tea stand, which acts as a gatekeeper while providing tea service to the whole street and sharing views and thoughts amongst workers and neighbours, PiST aims to be the gate keeper for the neighbouring galleries. Özbek takes this model of communication to Frieze, to create a communication network amongst the world’s leading galleries and artists. Produced as a part of the tea stand installation of PiST at Stand F36, Turkish tea’s ubiquitous companion, white sugar cubes work as a metaphor of the white cube gallery spaces of the art market, becoming a – sweet – guide for the viewers of the show.
With the kind support of Canan Pak and Istanbul 2010 European Capital Of Culture Agency
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Ali Kazma
Ali Kazma,
sunum&söyleşi presentation&talk
12 Nisan Cumartesi On Saturday 12 April
14:00 at 2:00 p.m
5533
IMC 5. Blok
no:5533
Unkapani / Istanbul
ALI KAZMA
“dexterity of mind/hand/eye
creates highly refined finished products”
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Born in 1971 in Istanbul, Ali Kazma graduated from Robert College in 1989. In 1993, he completed his undergraduate studies in the United States. After briefly studying photography in London, in 1995 he returned to the United States to study film. He received his MA from the The New School in New York City where he worked between 1995 and 1998 as a teaching assistant. In 2000 he returned to Istanbul, opened a film production company, and between 2001 and 2003 taught part time at Bilgi University. After settling in Istanbul, he has produced not only art films, but also commercial products and a full-length documentary. Among others, he has exhibited his work in 7th International Istanbul Biennial (2001), Tokyo Opera City (2001), Platform Garanti Center for Contemporary Art (Istanbul, 2003), Cetinje Biennial (2004), Istanbul Modern (2004), 2nd Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibition (2005), 9th Havana Biennial (Cuba, 2006), San Francisco Art Institute (2006), 10th International Istanbul Biennial (2007), and has opened a solo exhibition at the Francesca Minini Via Massimiano (Italy, 2008). Presently, three of his videos are being shown on Istiklal Caddesi, Beyoglu, in a group show, “Oditoryumda Sanat” sponsored by the Vehbi Koc Foundation.
During the 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Kazma presented an installation consisting of four videos, Ceramist Studio (2007), Clock Master (2006), Brain Surgeon (2006), and Slaughterhouse (2007), projected simultaneously side by side in the bottom floor of IMC. Unlike most of the other video work shown in IMC as a part of the “World Factory”, Kazma’s videos were optimistic. In contrast to many of the other films shown, he did not choose work places using informal labor. He did not show exploitation or poor working conditions.
At the “Oditoryumda Sanat” exhibition he is exhibiting again Brain Surgeon (2006) and Slaughterhouse (2007) while showing Jean Factory (2008) for the first time in Istanbul. Jean Factory emphasizes the detail and craftsmanship used to produce the seemingly simple jean hanging in shops around the world. Every crease, every wrinkle, every gradation of color is highly thought out and calculated. In his seemingly obsessive exploration of contemporary human production and activity, he also made Rolling Mills (2007), showing a steel factory and Household Goods Factory (2008), a film about a factory in Italy owned by Alessi . This series of films cannot be seen as documentary and socioeconomic issues surface only indirectly. The films consist of a series of close-ups, fragments, and glances at sophisticated use of skills. While highly sophisticated technology is present, the skilled hand is still important. In his videos, the gruesome becomes beautiful and the mundane becomes complicated. While viewing highly skilled workers in different contemporary environments, we are reminded of the subtle aesthetic and technical skills required to produce a contemporary high quality work of art. All require dexterity of mind/hand/eye, and ability for cutting/sewing/reshaping, to make a highly refined finished product, a masterpiece. All the places and activities chosen share almost allusive similarities even though they are totally unique.
Marcus Graf, Volkan Aslan, and Nancy Atakan are pleased to have Ali Kazma as a guest on April 12 at 2:00 p.m. at 5533. We find it significant for him to return to IMC and make a presentation about his artistic viewpoint, discuss his artistic practice, and explain the direction his most recent work is taking.
Nancy Atakan
April, 2008
Ali Kazma
5533 te Sunum
‘Zihin, göz ve el becerisiyle
yaratılan sofistike üretim’
1971 İstanbul doğumlu Ali Kazma, 1989 yılında Robert Lisesi’nden mezun oldu. 1993 yılında ABD’de lisans eğitimini tamamladı. Londra’da kısa bir süre fotoğraf eğitim aldıktan sonra 1995 yılında tekrar ABD’ye film eğitimi almak için döndü. 1995-1998 yılları arasında New York’ta The New School’da master programıyla eş zamanlı öğretim elemanı olarak görev yaptı. 2000 Yılında İstanbul’a dönerek film yapım şirketini kurdu. 2001-2003 yılları arasında misafir öğretim görevlisi olarak Bilgi Üniversitesi’nde ders verdi. İstanbul’a yerleştikten sonra sanatsal filmlerinin yanı sıra kendi kurduğu yapım şirketinde belgeseller ve reklam filmleri çekti. 7. Uluslar arası İstanbul Bienali (2001), Tokyo Opera Şehir (2001) Platform Garanti Çağdaş Sanat Merkezi (2003), Cetinje Bienali (2004), İstanbul Modern (2004), 2. İstanbul Yaya Sergileri (2005), 90. Havana Bienali (2006), San Francisco Sanat Enstitüsü (2006), 10. İstanbul Bienali (2007) ve kişisel sergi Francesca Mimini Via Massimiano İtalya (2008) Ali Kazma’nın katıldığı sergilerden bazıları. Bu ay içerisinde İstanbul’da Vehbi Koç Vakfı’nın desteklediği “Oditoryumda Sanat” başlıklı projede üç çalışması gösterilmektedir.
10.Uluslararası İstanbul Bienali’e Ali Kazma İMÇ’de Seramik Atölyesi (2007), Saat Tamircisi (2006), Beyin Cerrahı (2006) ve Mezbaha (2007) isimli dört video yerleştirmesi ile katılmıştır. “Oditoryumda Sanat” başlıklı sergiye ise Beyin Cerrahı, BlueJean Fabrikası (2008) ve Mezbaha ile katılmıştır. Ali Kazma videolarında çağdaş insanın üretim ve aktivitelerini tutkulu bir şekilde ve derinlemesine araştırır. Bu araştırma serisi bir belgesel değildir. Toplumsal ve ekonomik konuları dolaylı bir şekilde ele alır. 10. İstanbul Bienali sırasında İMÇ’ de “Dünya Fabrikası” başlığı altında sunulan çoğu eserin tersine, Ali Kazma’nın video eserleri iyimser olup, sunduğu dört film kötü çalışma koşulları ve sömürü ile ilişkili değildir.
Filmlerinde yakın çekimler, parçalanmış sahneler, ani geçişler ve sofistike beceriler görülür. İleri teknolojinin imkanları ve el becerisi Ali Kazma filmlerinde yan yanadır. İtici, iğrenç ve korkunç sahneleri güzelleştirdiği gibi basit olanın da çok karmaşık olduğunu gösterir. Ali Kazma’nın filmlerinde insan, el becerisi ve teknolojinin yardımıyla güzel bir ürün yaratırken eş zamanlı olarak sanatçı da aynı yöntemle sofistike filmlerini ortaya çıkarır. Hem sanatçı hem de filmlerinde bulunan figurler zihin, göz ve el becerilerini kullanarak keser, birleştirir ve bitirir. Sonuç olarak her ikisi de ortaya bir eser çıkartır. Filmlerde seçilen mekan ve eylemler eşsiz olmalarına rağmen derin bir benzerlik ve birlikteliği içerirler.
5533 adına sanat mekaninda, Marcus Graf, Volkan Aslan ve Nancy Atakan, 12 Nisan Cumartesi saat 14:00’te sanatçı Ali Kazma’yı ağırlamaktan mutluluk duyar. 10. İstanbul Bienali sırasında da İMÇ’de bulunan Ali Kazma’nın bu mekana geri dönerek yeni projelerinden bahsedecek ve video sunumu yapacak olmasını 5533 olarak anlamlı buluyoruz.
Nancy Atakan
Nisan, 2008
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Kalliopi Lemos BM SUMA ÇSM’de / Kalliopi Lemos in BM SUMA CAC- 14 Mart/March-26 Nisan/April 2008
KALLIOPI LEMOS
DESENLER
Lemos’un projesi, yerleştirmenin kavramı ve amacı doğrultusunda, Türkiye’den Yunanistan’a sürmekte olan yasa dışı insan trafiği üstüne bir tartışma da açtı ve İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi’nde “Göç: Sanat ve Tarih üstüne Yansılamalar” başlıklı bir günlük konferans yapıldı. Konferans Hellenic Migration Policy Institute (IMEPO) ile İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Göç Araştırmaları Merkezi’ni (CMR) işbirliğine yönlendirdi.
BM Suma Çağdaş Sanat Merkezi’ndeki sergi Haliç’teki yerleştirmenin bir devamıdır. BM Suma’nın on odasında, izleyiciye bu yerleştirmenin arka alanındaki düşünceleri göstermek üzere, Kalliopi Lemos’un büyük desenleri (100 x
Kalliopi Lemos,Sakız adası kıyılarında parçalanmış tekneleri bulup, bu adsız insanların yazgısı üstüne bir proje yapmak için Atina’ya dönmeye karar verene kadar bir ressam ve heykelci olarak Londra’da yaşıyordu. Böylece, yasadışı göçmenlerin devr-i alemi onun kendi ülkesine yolculuğuna dönüştü.
KALLIOPI LEMOS
DRAWINGS
Since 1990’s artistic and cultural exchange between
Lemos’s project opened the discussion on the illegal traffic from Turkey to Greece as well and in accordance with the concept and aim of the installation a one-day conference on” Migration: Reflections on Art and History,” was held at İstanbul Bilgi University. The conference involved the Hellenic Migration Policy Institute (IMEPO) in cooperation with
The drawing exhibition in BM Suma Contemporary Art Center is an addendum to the installation on
As a painter and sculptor Kalliopi Lemos lived and worked in
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