Thursday, November 25, 2010

'Les Rencontres Internationales 2010 / Centre Pompidou Paris

‘Les Rencontres Internationales 2010 / PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID

CENTRE POMPIDOU
Place Georges Pompidou - 75004 Paris
Métro: Hôtel de Ville, Rambuteau, Les-Halles, lignes 1, 4, 11
PT 6 euros - TR 4 euros
Accréditations et laissez-passer: gratuit dans la limite des places disponibles

for further info: http://www.art-action.org/site/fr/prog/10/paris/prog_11_27.htm

Artists:
Teresa SOLAR ABBOUD / Ozan ADAM / Sandro AGUILAR / Greta ALFARO / Abu ALI / Thom ANDERSEN / Tobias ANDERSON / Claire ANGELINI / Phuttiphong AROONPHENG / Knut ÅSDAM / Tanatchai BANDASAK / Diego DEL POZO BARRIUSO / Eric BAUDELAIRE / Louidgi BELTRAME / Neil BELOUFA / Vicky BETSOU / Juliette BINEAU / José Miguel BISCAYA / Hisham BIZRI / Marco BRAMBILLA / Christophe BRUNO / Brit BUNKLEY / Michael BUSCH / Libia CASTRO-Olafur OLAFSSON / Sidse CARSTENS / Daya CAHEN / Assila CHERFI / Marina CHERNIKOVA / Linda CIHAROVA / Karel DE COCK / Clément COGITORE / Natalia COMANDARI / Tony COKES / Pedro COSTA / UBERMORGEN.COM / Gabriel Menotti GONRING / Nicky COUTTS / Jordan CRANDALL / Arnaud DOMMERC / Peter DOWNSBROUGH / Catherine DALFIN / Mathias DELFAU / Zackary DRUCKER / Per DYBVIG / Morten DYSGAARD / Anthony FAROUX / Ivan FAKTOR / Nooshin FARHID / Didier FIUZA FAUSTINO / Mauro FOLCI / Miguel FONSECA / André FORTINO / Atau TANAKA-Matt WAND- :ZOVIET-FRANCE / Loic VANDERSTICHELEN-Michel FRANCOIS / Soren Thilo FUNDER / Mariah GARNETT / Andrew GASTON / Akos GERSTNER / Véronique GOËL / Crispin GURHOLT / Janet RIEDEL- Katja PRATSCHKE-Gusztáv HAMOS / Nate HARRISON / Isabelle HAYEUR/ Louis HENDERSON / Eli CORTIÑAS HIDALGO / Colectivo LOS HIJOS / Devin HORAN / Chia Wei HSU / Allan HUGHES / Ken JACOBS / JODI / Patrick JOLLEY / Ricardo ALVES JUNIOR / Anu PENNANEN- Laura HORELLI / Ryoji IKEDA / Pauline JULIER / Yasmine KABIR / Chris KENNEDY / Tu Me Tues (Caroline CAMPBELL & Fionn KIDNEY) / Laura KRANING / Carine KRECKE-Elisabeth KRECKE / Aglaia KONRAD / Irini KARAYANNOPOULOU / Delphine KREUTER / George KUCHAR / Jean DE LACOSTE / Joan LEANDRE / Ange LECCIA / Thomas LEON / Xenia LESNIEWSKI / Les LEVEQUE / Mark LEWIS / Emanuel LICHA / Gaetano LIBERTI / Cecilia LUNDQVIST / Marko MÄETAMM / Lynne MARSH / Laura MERGONI / Christian MERLHIOT / Angelica MESITI / Aurelia MIHAI / Almagul Menlibaeva MENLIBAYEVA / Vincent MEESSEN / Antoni MUNTADAS / Mayumi NAKAZAKI / Jean-François NEPLAZ / Natacha NISIC / Dirk PEUKER- Bettina NÜMBERG / Didier MORIN / Christoph GIRARDET-Matthias MÜLLER Christoph / OERTLI / Erwin OLAF / Wendelien VAN OLDENBORGH / Guillaume LINARD-OSORIO / Vivian OSTROVSKY / Ferhat ÖZGÜR / Chinmoyi PATEL / Lois PATINO / César PESQUERA / Cameron PLATTER / Wiktor POLAK / Pere PORTABELLA / Txuspo POYO / Sejma PRODANOVIC / Jeremie REICHENBACH / Mark REID / Rachel REUPKE / Ben RIVERS / Joyce ROHRMOSER / Stefan ROLOFF / Manuel SAIZ / Eleonore SAINTAGNAN / Rimas SAKALAUSKAS / Mauro SANTINI / Davor SANVINCENTI / Marta SERNA / Alexander SCHELLOW / Jérôme SCHLOMOFF / Corinna SCHNITT / Gregg SMITH / Volker SCHREINER / Shelly SILVER / Ran SLAVIN / Imogen STIDWORTHY / Ann STEUERNAGEL / Axel PETERSEN / Rob TODD / Jaan TOOMIK / Renée VAN TRIER / The PINK TWINS / Luis VALDOVINO / Dan WALWIN / Liu WEI / Julius ZIZ

[EXPOSITION MULTIMEDIA]
VENDREDI 26 NOVEMBRE
19:00 | FORUM -1, ENTREE LIBRE

Les Rencontres Internationales vous invitent cordialement à l'ouverture de la manifestation, en entrée libre, le vendredi 26 novembre à partir de 19h, au Centre Pompidou, Forum -1.

[EXPOSITION MULTIMEDIA]
VENDREDI 26 NOVEMBRE
19:00 | FORUM -1, ENTREE LIBRE

Les Rencontres Internationales vous invitent cordialement à l'ouverture de la manifestation, en entrée libre, le vendredi 26 novembre à partir de 19h, au Centre Pompidou, Forum -1.

VERNISSAGE DE L'EXPOSITION
"RE:MADE"

L'exposition "RE:MADE" présente neuf installations – vidéo, multimédia, net art – autour des notions de relecture et de réinterprétation. Neuf réponses distinctes et autonomes laissant apparaitre une géographie des médias et leur capillarité profonde avec notre quotidien. Les oeuvres choisies déplacent, détournent et réinterprètent un matériaux visuel et numérique pré-existant pour mettre en réflexion notre culture visuelle contemporaine et nos représentations.
Voir le détail des oeuvres.

[PERFORMANCE, WORKSHOP]
SAMEDI 27 NOVEMBRE
14:00 | FORUM -1, ENTREE LIBRE

ARTWAR(E) : LES CYCLES DE HYPE
Workshop organisé par Caroline Engel, Christophe Bruno et Samuel Tronçon.

Caroline Engel est curatrice et directrice artistique du centre d’art contemporain les CAPUCINS à Embrun.
Samuel Tronçon est philosophe
Christophe Bruno est artiste

Artwar(e) est une plate-forme de « gestion des risques artistiques » dont l'ambition est de reformuler l'histoire de l'art, les attitudes performatives et relationnelles, ainsi que les pratiques curatoriales, en utilisant des concepts récents issus du marketing, comme les « courbes de Hype ». Le workshop Artwar(e) invite des artistes, commissaires d'exposition, critiques d'art, théoriciens, galeristes ou collectionneurs à venir témoigner de leur vision des flux d'import-export conceptuels dans le monde de l'art.
www.artwar-e.biz

Artwar(e) est un projet de Christophe Bruno et Samuel Tronçon
Production les CAPUCINS – centre d’art contemporain (ville d’Embrun) www.lescapucins.org
dans le cadre du projet européen SMIR (eSpaces Multimédia pour l’Innovation et la Recherche en production culturelle) / programme Alcotra.

PROGRAMME
14h
Introduction et présentation par Caroline Engel et Samuel Tronçon.

14h30
Christophe Bruno présente son cycle de Hype.

15h30
Invité : Etienne Cliquet, artiste et enseignant à l'Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Toulouse.

16h30
Invitée : Anne Laforet, chercheur en conservation des arts numériques.

17h30 Analyse des courbes de Hype par l'équipe de Artwar(e) - discussion

[PROJECTION]
SAMEDI 27 NOVEMBRE
14:00 | CINEMA 2

[PROJECTION]
SAMEDI 27 NOVEMBRE
16:00 | CINEMA 2

AU BOUT DU MONDE

[FORUM]
SAMEDI 27 NOVEMBRE
14:00 | FORUM -1, ENTREE LIBRE

TABLE RONDE
Chaque jour, des invités particuliers, programmateurs, curators, directeurs de musées ou de structures indépendantes, présentent leur travail et débatent avec le public présent.

Hanna Maria Anttila
Av-Arkki - Directrice - Helsinki, Finlande
www.av-arkki.fi

David Liss
MOCCA Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art - Directeur artistique et curateur - Toronto, Canada
www.mocca.ca

Clément Minighetti
MUDAM Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean - Chef curateur - Luxembourg
www.mudam.lu

Mike Stubbs
FACT Foundation for Art and Creative Technology - Directeur - Liverpool, Royaume-Uni
www.fact.co.uk

[PROJECTION]
SAMEDI 27 NOVEMBRE
18:00 | CINEMA 2

RECONSTITUTION

[PROJECTION]
SAMEDI 27 NOVEMBRE
20:30 | CINEMA 2

CARTE BLANCHE
A PERE PORTABELLA

En présence du réalisateur

Pere PORTABELLA :
Miró, Aides l’Espagne | 16mm | noir et blanc | 00:08:00 | Espagne, Catalogne | 1969
Miró l’altre | 16mm | noir et blanc | 00:12:00 | Espagne, Catalogne | 1969
Play Back | 16mm | noir et blanc | 00:08:00 | Espagne, Catalogne | 1970
Miró Tapís | 16mm | noir et blanc | 00:22:00 | Espagne, Catalogne | 1973
Miró forja | 16mm | noir et blanc | 00:24:00 | Espagne, Catalogne | 1973
La tempest | 35mm | couleur | 00:03:00 | Espagne,Catalogne | 2003
No al no | 35mm | couleur | 00:03:00 | Espagne, Catalogne | 2006
Uno de aquellos | 35mm | couleur | 00:05:00 | Espagne, Catalogne | 2009

[PROJECTION]
DIMANCHE 28 NOVEMBRE
14:00 | CINEMA 2

RESISTANCE / CONTRETEMPS

[FORUM]
DIMANCHE 28 NOVEMBRE
16:00 | FORUM -1, ENTREE LIBRE

TABLE RONDE
Chaque jour, des invités particuliers, programmateurs, curators, directeurs de musées ou de structures indépendantes, présentent leur travail et débatent avec le public présent.

Francis McKee
CCA Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art - Directeur - Glasgow, Royaume-Uni
www.cca-glasgow.com

Oana Tanase
MNAC - National Museum of Contemporary Art - Curatrice - Bucharest, Roumanie
www.mnac.ro

Müge Turan Tüfenk
Istanbul Modern - Directrice du département audiovisuel - Istanbul, Turquie
www.istanbulmodern.org

Theus Zwakhals
NIMK - Netherlands Media Art Institute - Responsable collection / distribution - Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
www.nimk.nl

[PROJECTION]
DIMANCHE 28 NOVEMBRE
16:00 | CINEMA 2

ANIMAUX

[PROJECTION]
DIMANCHE 28 NOVEMBRE
18:00 | CINEMA 2

FIASKO

[PROJECTION]
DIMANCHE 28 NOVEMBRE
20:30 | CINEMA 2

EFFACEMENTS

[PROJECTION]
LUNDI 29 NOVEMBRE
20:00 | CINEMA 1

[PROJECTION]
LUNDI 29 NOVEMBRE
14:00 | CINEMA 2

HYPERCINEMA!

ENQUÊTE
En présence d'Erwin Olaf

[PERFORMANCE MULTIMEDIA]
MARDI 30 NOVEMBRE
20:00 | AUDITORIUM, ENTREE LIBRE

VARIATIONS VII

Une performance multimédia événement. Première en France. "Variation VII" est la réinterprétation d'une œuvre majeure du compositeur américain John Cage, créée en 1966, utilisant le son créé par les outils de communication. Quatre artistes contemporains (Atau Tanaka, le duo :zoviet-france: et Matt Wand) transposent l'œuvre de nos jours, l'interpréte avec l'ensemble des médias contemporains analogiques et numériques existants (téléphone, télévision, ordinateurs, internet...), pour un résultat sonore étonnant.

Atau TANAKA-Matt WAND- :ZOVIET-FRANCE:
Variation VII
Performance multimédia | 02:00:00 | Royaume Uni | 2010

Avec le soutien de Arts Council England

[FORUM]
LUNDI 29 NOVEMBRE
16:00 | FORUM -1, ENTREE LIBRE

TABLE RONDE
Chaque jour, des invités particuliers, programmateurs, curators, directeurs de musées ou de structures indépendantes, présentent leur travail et débatent avec le public présent.

Brigitta Burger-Utzer
Sixpackfilms - Managing Director - Vienne, Autriche
www.sixpackfilm.com

Sandrine Colas
CNA - Centre National de l´Audiovisuel - Responsable médiathèque - Luxembourg
www.cna.public.lu

Angela Martinez Garcia
CCCB-Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Responsable du département audiovisuel et multimédia - Barcelone, Espagne
www.cccb.org

Patricia Lira
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil - Département audiovisuel - Brazilia, Brésil
www.bb.com.br

[PROJECTION]
LUNDI 29 NOVEMBRE
16:00 | CINEMA 2

FASCINUM

BACKSTORY
En présence de Mark Lewis

[PROJECTION]
MERCREDI 1er DECEMBRE
14:00 | CINEMA 1

LOS MATERIALES

[PROJECTION]
MERCREDI 1er DECEMBRE
16:00 | CINEMA 1

LA MAISON QUI PENSE

[PROJECTION]
MERCREDI 1er DECEMBRE
20:00 | CINEMA 1

NUIT BLEUE - AVANT-PREMIERE

[PROJECTION]
JEUDI 2 DECEMBRE
14:00 | CINEMA 2

INSOMNIAC CITY

[PROJECTION]
VENDREDI 3 DECEMBRE
20:30 | CINEMA 1

CARTE BLANCHE
A PEDRO COSTA
En présence de Pedro Costa

Thom ANDERSEN : Get Out of the Car | Documentaire | 16mm | couleur | 00:34:00 | USA | 2010
Pedro COSTA : O nosso homem / Notre homme | Fiction | hdv | couleur | 00:23:00 | Portugal | 2010

[PROJECTION]
SAMEDI 4 DECEMBRE
14:00 | CINEMA 1

RAPPEL

[PROJECTION]
SAMEDI 4 DECEMBRE
14:00 | PETITE SALLE, ENTREE LIBRE

CONTRAINTE

[FORUM]
SAMEDI 4 DECEMBRE
16:00 | FORUM -1, ENTREE LIBRE

TABLE RONDE
Chaque jour, des invités particuliers, programmateurs, curators, directeurs de musées ou de structures indépendantes, présentent leur travail et débatent avec le public présent.

Miguel Dias
Festival Curtas Vila Do Conde - Co-directeur - Vila do Conde, Portugal
www.curtas.pt

Luís Miguel Oliveira
Cinemateca Portuguesa - Responsable du département des expositions permanentes - Lisbonne, Portugal
www.cinemateca.pt

Lisbeth Rebollo
AICA Brazilian Association of Art Critics - Présidente - São Paulo, Brésil

Berta Sichel
MNCARS Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia - Curatrice et responsable du département audiovisuel - Madrid, Espagne
www.museoreinasofia.es

Maria-Kristiina Soomre
Kumu Art Museum - Curatrice - Tallinn, Estonie
www.ekm.ee

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

'Architettando...' / Isola Art Center / Milan

Ferhat Özgür, 'I Can Sing', 2008, video still, 07:00"

The video Halleluja by Ferhat Özgür, presented at the 2010 Berlin Biennale, focuses on a woman from Anatolia, who sings the bitter and provocative version in playback of the original song 'Hallelujah' to Leonard Cohen. In the background you see the new buildings of concrete, metal and glass, that advance. Built on the grounds of "abusive" housing, the gececondu are demolishing and marginalizing the traditional minarets of mosques. The artist tells us about the loss of identity typical of illegal construction, through the use of music and images.

Architettando...
November 27th to December 31st 2010

A project by Isola Art Center
curated by Valerio Del Baglivo, Aria Spinelli and Elvira Vannini

AUFO - Architectural & Urban Forum | Fabrizio Bellomo | Gianluca Brezza | Nebojsa Milikic | Ferhat Özgür | Peti Park (Fifth Park) | Stealth.unlimited | Marco Vaglieri - out | Anri Sala (special project curated by Fani Zguro)

Bookshop Puerto de Libros, via Pollaiuolo 5 | Sound Metak, P.le Segrino 1
Opening hours Tuesday - Saturday, 16:30 to 19:30, and by appointment
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Opening Saturday, November 27th at 6 pm
video screening and two musical performances by Collodel Alberto|Davide Lorenzon, Ivan Pilat | Cristiano Calcagno | Xabier Iriondo at Sound Metak, P.le Segrino 1

Monday, November 29th , 2010
7 pm– Bookshop Puerto de Libros, via Pollaiuolo 5
No-Spot City – the status of construction
meeting with Lorenzo Degli Esposti (dir. creative AUFO) | Marco Biraghi | Ernesto D'Alfonso | Nicolò Privileggio

9 pm – Punto Rosso, via Pepe 14
How to build a perfect dinner
recipes by Francesco Careri (Stalker) | Gianni Pettena | Ana Dzokic and Marc Neelen (Stealth.unlimited)
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The city’s right is much more than individual freedom of accessibility to urban resources: it is the right to change ourselves, in order to change the city. David Harvey

Isola Art Center continues with its cultural events hosted by the residents of the neighborhood, enhancing Architettando..., curated by Valerio Del Baglivo, Aria Spinelli and Elvira Vannini, which will be held from November 27th to December 31st, 2010. The term is here understood in its linguistic duality. The Italian word "Architettando" means both the activity of construction - in its physical and unrealistic sense – but also alludes to planning a deception.

The political mechanisms that control urban development and its imbalances, reflect a neoliberal economy, and have resulted, for some years now, for the Isola Neighborhood, as in a continuous fatal process of gentrification, which responds to the needs of an increasingly capitalized elite. The planners, property developers and politicians are plotting. The space that was once public is now privatized. The last agricultural and industrial architecture of the past left are now erased. Architects are planning, the cranes are dominating the skyline and new urban developments are visibly growing. They are almost all offices, shops or luxury homes, designed to radically change the nature of the mixed working class neighborhood. Mostly consisting in unavoidable antagonisms and political interests, the city is no longer an expression of the needs and demands of society, or of the neighborhood’s community.

Lefebvre has already pointed out that the physical form of the city is a product of the accumulation of capital, but also that the legitimacy of the same socio-economic powers gives rise to a potential subversive: resistance to the use of urban spaces and aesthetic opposition to incessant construction. In its complexity, Architettando..., therefore wishes to reflect on art practitioners, architects and documentary filmmakers who have taken the urban and social transformation as the focus of their research. The exhibition will open on Saturday 27th with a video screening of works by Ferhat Özgür, Nebojsa Milikic, Fifth Park, which tell stories and recount events of other districts spatially distant from Milan, but very close to its conditions and forms of resistance. The documentary director Gianluca Brezza (La casa verde - una storia politica) depicts the story of a house and its inhabitants swallowed by the new skyscraper for the Lombardy Region offices, built on the park area of of Gioia. Finally, AUFO (Architectural and Urban Forum) Fabrizio Bellomo and Marco Vaglieri -out, reflect on the hoax of unfeasible construction plans and the administrative bureaucracy that congests the city.

For the event on Monday 29th Lorenzo Degli Esposti (AUFO), Marco Biraghi, Ernesto d'Alfonso and Nicolò Privileggio will discuss the significance of the group activities AUFO, starting from the project No-spot City.

A self-funding diner will follow, entitled How to Build a perfect dinner. Artists and curators from Isola will cook recipes of architects Gianni Pettena, Francesco Careri and Stealth.ultimited, requested for the occasion. Reservations are required. Please call 347 126 4847.

Finally, the special project No Formula One No Cry by Anri Sala will be presented, a project curated by Fani Zguro already exhibited in many cities worldwide, and that will be visible only by booking a trip in a cab.

The project will develop in a dense program during two days –November 27th and 29th- involving artists and curators in the implementation of various events with the aim of reflect on the concept of gentrification, a process still scarcely recognized in the Italian context, but that has already involved many urban areas of its territory. The show will instead extend for two months, until December 31.

Info

Isola Art Center
339 6057 111 | info@isolartcenter.org | www.isolartcenter.org

valeriodelbaglivo@gmail.com
aria.spinelli @ gmail.com
elviravannini@gmail.com

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Aria Spinelli
+39 3397819346
+1 7184313694
aria.spinelli@gmail.com
www.ariaspinelli.com
skypename: aria.spinelli

Monday, November 22, 2010

VIDEFESTA'10-INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MEDIA ARTS

VİDEFESTA’10
Uluslararası Medya Sanatları Festivali
International Festival of Media Arts

RECORD > AGAIN!
40jahrevideokunst.de
Digitales Erbe: Ausstellung zur Videokunst in Deutschland von 1963 bis heute

"40jahrevideokunst.de“ ist ein von Wulf Herzogenrath angeregtes Initiativprojekt der Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Das Goethe-Institut hat die internationale Vermittlung der DVD - Studienedition im Rahmen dieser Kooperation übernommen.

Videogeschichte erforschen bedeutet heute vor allem zunächst einmal, das audiovisuelle Material der vergangenen Jahrzehnte wieder sichtbar zu machen. Vieles lagert vergessen in Museumsdepots und Künstlerateliers, ohne dass es angeschaut werden kann. Auf seltsamen quadratischen oder auch fünfeckigen Kassetten gespeicherte Inhalte sind verschwunden oder defekt. Die Bänder selber sind zudem kaum mehr lauffähig, da sie begonnen haben, sich allmählich aufzulösen und zu verkleben. Um diesen Verfall zu stoppen, wurde 2004 am Karlsruhe Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie das Labor für antiquierte Videosysteme eingerichtet. Inzwischen verfügt es über einen großen funktionierenden historischen Gerätepark gepaart mit moderner digitaler Technik, der es möglicht, über 50 obsolete Videoformate der 60er bis 80er Jahre wieder sichtbar zu machen, hochwertig zu digitalisieren und damit für die Nachwelt zu erhalten. Wesentliches Ziel ist die Rettung, Pflege und Vermittlung des kulturellen Erbes der Videokunst, deren Fortbestand und Bewahrung durch die begrenzte Haltbarkeit ihrer Speichermedien akut gefährdet ist.

Diese Studienedition bietet einen historischen Überblick über 40 Jahre Videokunst in Deutschland sowie einen Vergleich mit der internationalen Medienkunstszene. Darunter sind u. a. der berühmte Boxkampf, den Joseph Beuys 1972 auf der documenta 5 veranstaltete, die Rekonstruktion der auf sechs Monitoren gezeigten Arbeit "Schafe" von Wolf Kahlen, Marcel Odenbach, Peter Weibel, Ursula Wevers.

22-28.11.2010
Goethe-Institut Ankara, Atatürk Bulvarı No 131, Bakanlıklar, Ankara

Sanatçılar/Artists:

John Adams, Hakan Akçura,Viktor Alimpiev, Peter Anderson, Chris Meigh Andrews&Gabrielle Bown, Selda Asal, Nancy Atakan&İpek Duben, Kevin Atherton, Joseph Beuys, Viktoriya Begalskaya, Bielicky, Christoph Blasé, Ian Bourn, Claus Böhmler, Ian Breakwell, Klaus vom Bruch, Vladimir Bystrov, Aristarkh Chernyshev&Vladislav Efimov, Gerd Conradt, David Critchley, Holger Czukay, Lutz Dammbeck, Ali Mahmut Demirel, Klaus P...eter Dencker, Peter Donebauer, Pavel Dubo, Catherine Elwes, Factory of Found Clothes, Wolfgang Flatz, Michael Geissler, Judith Goddard, Gliuklya, Dmitry Gutov&Radek Group, Genco Gülan, Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt, David Hall, Gusztáv Hámos, Steve Hawley, Alp Zeki Heper, Rudolf Herz, Jochen Hiltmann, Brian Hoey&Wendy Brown, Nan Hoover Foundation, Madelon Hooykaas&Elsa Stansfiel, Oktay İnce, Anna Jermolaeva, Wolf Kahlen, Başak Kaptan, Bilge Karasu, Yakov Kazhdan, Tina Keane, Korpys&Löffler, Elena Kovylina, Tamara Krikorian, Gerd Kroske, Edmund Kuppel, Oleg Kulik, Levent Kunt, Mike Leggett, Stephen Littman, Anton Litvin, Urs Lüthi, Digne Meller Marcovicz, Marcello Mercado, Prigov Family Group, Stuart Marshall, Ernst Mitzka, Michael Morgner, Marcelline Mori, Heike Mutter, Susanne Ofteringer, Marcel Odenbach, Özhan Önder/Belit Sağ (VİDEA), Ferhat Özgür, C.O. Paeffgen, Stephen Partridge, Clive Richardson, Guia Rigvava, Klaus Rinke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Ulrich Rückriem, Gustav-Adolf Schroeder, Walter Schröder-Limmer, HA Schult, Gerry Schum, Kirill Shuvalov, Tony Sinden, Wolfgang Stoerchle, Alper Şen, Candaş Şişman, UTV, Dmitry Vilensky, F. E. Walther, Peter Weibel, Ursula Wevers, Paul Wiersbinski, ZERGUT Group

PROGRAM

22 Kasım/November 2010, Pazartesi/Monday

11:00-12:40
Christoph Blasé, Beuys Boxkampf/Beuys’un Boks Maçı, 9’ 32’’, 1972.
Bielicky, Die Fettecke von Joseph Beuys/Beuys’un Yağ Köşesi, 39’ 26’’, 1986-87.
Claus Böhmler, Wir malen mit dem Rot des Kohls/Lahananın Kırmızısıyla Resim Yapıyoruz, 14’ 04’, 1974.
Klaus vom Bruch, Die Entführung eines Kunsthändlers ist keine Utopie mehr/Bir Galericinin Kaçırılması Artık Ütopya Değildir , 6’ 46’’, 1975.
Gerd Conradt, Gretchen Dutschke, 14’ 36’’, 1985/2009.
Holger Czukay, Jahresrückblick mit Cool in the Pool/ Cool in the Pool ile Geçen Yıla Bakış, 15’ 47’’, 1982.

13:00-14:40
Lutz Dammbeck, Herakles/Herkül, 10’ 28’’, 1984.
Klaus Peter Dencker, Starfighter-Geschichte eines Fronteinsatzes aus der Trilogie-Visuelle Poesie/Starfighter-Trilojiden Bir Cephe Operasyonu Öyküsü-Görsel Şiir, 6’, 1970.
Wolfgang Flatz, Toni, (ein Satz, der sich wiederholt)/Toni (Tekerrür eden bir cümle), 11’’, 1981.
Gusztáv Hámos, Seins Fiction II: Der Unbesiegbare/Science Fiction II: Yenilmez, 25’ 20’’, 1983/87.
Rudolf Herz, Das Haus der Kunst abtragen/Sanat Evini Yıkmak, 36’ 39’’, 1980.
Jochen Hiltmann, Für Künstler/Sanatçılar İçin, 13’ 31’’, 1972.

15:00-16:40

Nan Hoover Foundation, Movements in Light/Işıktan Devinimler, 16’ 36’’, 1975-76.
Wolf Kahlen, Achtung Aufnahme/Dikkat, Çekim Var, 22’ 52’’, 1980/2001.
Korpys/Löffler, Sammelstelle für Alt-Fernsehgeräte/Eski Televizyon Toplama Yeri, 7’ 52’’, 1995.
Gerd Kroske, Cassiber, 28’ 50’’, 1988-1989.
Edmund Kuppel, filmen – filmer – In 4 Minuten um die Welt/film çekmek-filmci-Dört Dakikada Devr-i alem, 5’ 8’’, 1975.
Urs Lüthi, ohne Titel/Başlıksız, 3’ 5’’, 1973.
15:00-18:40
Digne Meller Marcovicz, Über Wilhelm Reich-Viva Kleiner Mann/Wilhelm Reich Üzerine-Yaşa Küçük Adam, 90’, 1987.

19:00 Festival Açılışı (Festival Opening)

23 Kasım/November 2010, Salı/Tuesday

11:00-12:40

Marcello Mercado, Das Kapital/Kapital, 60’, 1999-2000.
Ernst Mitzka, Valeska Gert: Das Baby, der Tod/Valeska Gert: Bebek, Ölüm, 5’ 59’, 1969
Michael Morgner, M. überschreitet den See bei Gallenthin/M., Gallenthin’de Yürüyerek Gölü Geçer, 14’ 36’’, 1981.
Heike Mutter, Ekstase 1/Çoşku 1, 6’40’’, 1998.

13:00-14:40

Michael Geissler, “Nico”, 17’ 48’’, 1974.
Susanne Ofteringer, Nice Icon/Güzel İkon, 25’ 49’’, 1993.
Marcel Odenbach, Gespräche zwischen Ost und West/Doğu ve Batı Arasında Konuşmalar, 3’ 20’’, 1978.
C.O. Paeffgen, Erst das Hemd, dann die Kunst/Önce Gömlek, Sonra Sanat, 10’ 16’’, 1975.
Klaus Rinke, Wasser holen, Wasser bringen, Wasser schütten/Su taşımak, Su getirmek, Su dökmek, 6’, 1971.
Ulrike Rosenbach, Good luck for a better art/Daha iyi bir sanat için iyi şanslar, 5’ 12’’, 1977.
Ulrich Rückriem, Teilungen/Bölünmeler, 8’, 1971.
Ulrich Rückriem, Kreise/Daireler, 10’, 1971
Ulrich Rückriem, Diagonalen/Diyagonaller, 2’, 1971.

15:00-16:40

Reiner Ruthenbeck, Objekt zur teilweisen Verdeckung einer Videoszene/Bir Video Ekranını Kısmen Örtmek İçin Nesne, 31’ 45’’, 1974.
Gustav-Adolf Schroeder, Festival Genialer Dilletanten/Dahiyane Acemiler Şenliği, 10’ 5’’, 1981.
Walter Schröder-Limmer, Debatte/Tartışma, 11’’ 53’’, 1977-78.
telewissen-video, Der Magische Spiegel/Büyülü Ayna, 5’ 18’’ 1970-2008.
HA Schult, Medienhaus Ruhrtour/Ruhr Turu, 9’ 48’’, 1978.
Gerry Schum, Interview documenta/documenta Söyleşisi, 11’ 25’’, 1972.
Wolfgang Stoerchle, Untitled (Lamp Performance)/Başlıksız (Lamba Performansı), 2’ 31’’, 1972.
Wolfgang Stoerchle, Sue Turning, 12’, 1973.

17:00-18:40

UTV, Hans Christian Dany, Wochenschau/Haftaya bakış, 33’ 21’’, 1995.
F. E. Walther, Demonstration-Demonstration Werksatz zur documenta/documenta İçin Yapılan Çalışma Programı Nümayişi, 23’ 54’’, 1972.
Peter Weibel, Publikum als Exponat/Sergilenen Nesne Olarak Seyirci, 17’ 48’’, 1969.
Ursula Wevers, Horizontales/Vertikales Springen/YatayDikey Sıçrama, 12’ 29’’, 1979.
Paul Wiersbinski, King Nothing/Şeyimin Kralı, 5’ 56’’, 2008.

24 Kasım/November 2010, Çarşamba/Wednesday

11:00-12:40

John Adams, Stories/Hikâyeler, 13’, 1982.
Peter Anderson, Eyebath/Gözbanyosu, 8’, 1977,
Kevin Atherton, In Two Minds/İki Gönülde (2 screen version), 25’, 1978.
Ian Bourn, Lenny’s Documentary/Lenny’nin Belgeseli, 45’, 1978.
Ian Breakwell, In the Home/Evde, 10’, 1980.

13:00-14:40

David Critchley, Pieces I Never Did (3 screen version)/ Asla Parçalamadım (3 Ekranlı Düzenleme), 31’, 1979.
Peter Donebauer, Circling/Topaç, 12’, 1975.
Catherine Elwes, Kensington Gore, 15’, 1981.
Judith Goddard, Time Spent/Yiten Zaman, 12’, 1981.
David Hall, TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces)/TV Fasılaları (7 TV Bölüm), 23’, 1971.
Mick Hartney, State of Division/Bölünme Hali, 5’, 1978.
Steve Hawley, The Extent of Three Bells/Üç Çanın Mertebesi , 5’, 1981.
Brian Hoey/Wendy Brown, Flow/Akış, 17’, 1977.

15:00-18:40

Madelon Hooykaas/ Elsa Stansfield, Split Seconds/Lahzalar, 11’, 1979.
Tina Keane, Clapping Songs/Şak Şak Şarkıları, 6’, 1979.
Tamara Krikorian, Vanitas/Beyhude, 8’, 1977.
Mike Leggett, The Heart Cycle/Devr-i Kaim, 9’, 1973.
Stephen Littman, Mirror/Ayna, 5’, 1979.
Stuart Marshall, Go thru the Motions/İsteksizce Yap, 8’, 1975.
Chris Meigh Andrews/Gabrielle Bown, Continuum/Süreklilik 5’, 1977.
Marcelline Mori, 2nd and 3rd Identity/2nci Ve 3ncü Kimlik, 10’, 1978.
Stephen Partridge, Monitor/Monitör, 6’, 1975.
Clive Richardson, Video Sketches/Video Taslakları, 22’, 1972.
Tony Sinden, Drift Guitars/Elektirikli Gitarlar, 21’, 1975.

25 Kasım/November 2010, Perşembe/Thursday

11:00-12:40

Guia Rigvava, You Can Rely On Me/Bana Güvenebilirsin, 1’29’’, 1993.
Gliuklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya), Secret Advice/Mahrem Nasihat, 2’40’’, 2004.
The Blue Noses Group (Vyacheslav Mizin, Alexander Shaburov), New Russian Charades/Yeni Rus Sessiz Sineması, 2’20’’, 2004.
Prigov Family Group (Dmitry Alexandrovich Prigov, Natalia Mali, Andrei Prigov), The People and the State: Together We Build a New Russia/Halk ve Devlet: Biz, Birlikte, Yeni Rusyayı İnşaa Ediyoruz, 7’22’’, 2003.
Anton Litvin, Restoration/Tecdit, 11’ 19’’, 2006.
Pavel Dubo, Putin Karaoke, 50’’, 2005.
Dmitry Gutov&Radek Group, Demonstration/Nümayiş, 2’ 50’’, 2002.
ZERGUT Group, A Visualization of Domestication, or a Special Case in Contemporary Ornithology/Ehlileştirmrnin Görselleştirilmesi ya da Kuşbiliminde Özel bir Durum, 3’20’’, 2002.
Viktoriya Begalskaya, Nutcrackers/Cevizkırıcıları5’58’’, 2004.
Dmitry Vilensky. Contact/Temas, 4’40’’, 2002.
Oleg Kulik, I love Europe, Europe Does Not Love Me/Avrupa’yı Seviyorum, Avrupa Beni Sevmiyorum, 6’, 1996.
Anna Jermolaeva, 3 min. trying to survive/3 dakikada hayatta kalmaya çalışmak, 3’ 2000.
Aristarkh Chernyshev&Vladislav Efimov, Schwarzen Ecke/Siyah Köşe, 2’21, 2002.
Elena Kovylina, Waltz/Vals, 5’55’’, 2001.
Factory of Found Clothes (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya-Gluklia & Olga Egorova), Scarlet Sails/Kırmızı Yelkenler, 7’, 2005.
Kirill Shuvalov, Massacre/Katliam, 59’’, 2003.
Viktor Alimpiev, Is it yours?/Senin mi?, 2’18’’, 2004.
Yakov Kazhdan, Mona Lisa/Monaliza, 58’’, 2005.
Vladimir Bystrov, Magnificat/Şaşkınlık, 5’05’’, 2005.

13:00-14:40

Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt, On The Stage, 3’ 30’’, 2010.
Genco Gülan, Frigo, 26’ 32’’, 2008.
Genco Gülan, La mer, 5’ 50’’, 2008.
Genco Gülan, Su Altında 5 Vakit/5 Times A Day Under Water, 7’ 06’’, 2009.
Selda Asal, Who was I, for Real?/Sahi Ben Kimdim?, 10’ 22’’, 2008
Selda Asal, See Me!/Beni Gör!, 11’ 40’’, 2008.
Selda Asal, All Pale/Herşey Solgun, 4’, 2009.

15:00-19:40

Hakan Akçura, Kürtçe dersi / Kurdish lesson (1), 28’’, 2010.
Hakan Akçura, Kürtçe dersi / Kurdish lesson (2), 22’’, 2010.
Hakan Akçura, Öppet brev till Migrationsverket/İsveç Göçmen Bürosu'na Açık Mektup, 50’ 53’’, 2006.
Hakan Akçura, Godmorgon/Günaydın, 2 Ekranlı Video Düzenleme/2 Screen Video Instalation, 7’ 31’’+93', 2007.
Ferhat Özgür, I Can Sing, 7’, 2008
Ferhat Özgür, Metamorphosis Chat / Metamorfoz Muhabbet, 9’ 75’’, 2009.

26 Kasım/November, 2010, Cuma/Friday

11:00-12:40

Oktay İnce, Müstehcen/Dirty, 4’ 5’’, 2005.
Oktay İnce, Rendu, 5’ 50’’, 2007.
Oktay İnce, Naturel ile Futurel, 10’, 2006
Oktay İnce, Vokal Anestezi, 23', 2004
Oktay İnce, Dağın Ardında/Behind the Mountain, 47’, 2005.

13:00-14:40

Ali Mahmut Demirel, The Tunnel, 3’ 26’’, 2005.
Ali Mahmut Demirel, We (all) search, 3’, 38’’, 2005.
Nancy Atakan&İpek Duben, Thinking Garbage/ Düşünen Çöp, 2’ 15’’, 2005
Nancy Atakan, Lost Suitcase/Kayıp Bavul, 3’ 34’’, 2009.
Candaş Şişman, Flux, 4’ 43’’, 2010.
Candaş Şişman, Avatar, 6’ 35’’, 2009.
Candaş Şişman, Retory, 3’ 25’, 2007.
Candaş Şişman, Edicisum, 3’ 8’, 2008.
Alp Zeki Heper, Siyahlı Kadının Kokusu/Le parfum de la Dame En Noir, 5’ 54’’, 1962.
Alp Zeki Heper, Şafak/L’Aub, 7’ 44’, 1963.
Bilge Karasu, Çeşitlemeli Korku-5 Ses İçin/Fear Variations-For 5-Voice Chorus, Ses-Sound, 8’ 50’’, 1975.
Levent Kunt, Le Spectacle, 18’, 2009.
Başak Kaptan, Teras/Terrace, 1’ 8’’, 2008.
Alper Şen, Hafıza, 6’, 2003
Alper Şen, Mayın, 8’, 2009

15:00-18:40

Özhan Önder/Belit Sağ (VİDEA), Temiz Giysiler, 30’, 2010.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

'PastPresentFuture: Highlights From The UniCredit and Yapi Kredi Collection'

"PastPresentFuture – Highlights from the UniCredit and Yapi Kredi Collection"
An Exhibition at Yapi Kredi Cultural Center, Istanbul
6 November 2010 – 7 January 2011

Opening:
Friday, 5 November 2010, 7 p.m.

Featuring 90 International Works and Spanning Four Centuries of Art
Selected works from across the UniCredit Art Collection and Yapı Kredi Art Collection

Yapı Kredi Cultural Center
161 Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Tel: + 90 212 252 47 00 (pbx)
www.yapikredi.com.tr/en-US/culture/main.aspx

Artists (in alphabetical order) :

Doug Aitken, Ghada Amer, Giovanni Baglione, Stephan Balkenhol, Olivo Barbieri, Georg Baselitz, Gabriele Basilico, John Ernest Joseph Bellocq, Michael Biberstein, Mathias Bitzer, Pieter Van Bloemen, Paul Bril, Balthasar Burkhard, Vincenzo Castella, Jordi Colomer, Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Tony Cragg, Charles-Francois Daubigny, Giorgio De Chirico, Antonio Donghi, Dosso Dossi, Igor Eskinja, Lara Favaretto, Trude Fleischmann, Fischli & Weiss, Francisco Goya, Andreas Gursky, Jitka Hanzlovà, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Francesco Jodice, Mimmo Jodice, Imi Knoebel, Heinrich Carl Christian Kühn, Maria Lassnig, Richard Long, Pietro Longhi, Hans Makart, Ryuji Miyamoto, Muntean/Rosenblum, Hermann Nitsch, Şükran Moral, Aydan Mürtezaoğlu, Ferhat Özgür, Luca Pancrazzi, Giulio Paolini, Arnuf Rainer, Giuseppe Recco, Gerhard Richter, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Giovan Battista Ruoppolo, Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo, Hans Schabus, Kurt Schwitters, Annelies Strba, Beat Streuli, Christine Streuli, Thomas Struth, Wolfang Tillmans, Marco Tirelli, Export Valie, Carlo Valsecchi, Massimo Vitali, Andy Warhol, Franz West, Erwin Wurm, Heimo Zobernig

Yapi Kredi Cultural Center in Istanbul will host the exhibition titled "PastPresentFuture." The UniCredit Art Collection, one of Europe's largest corporate collections, is the source of this travelling exhibition which opens in Istanbul, European Capital of Culture for 2010, after the debut in Vienna in October 2009 and the stop in Verona last spring. The exhibition will be open between November 6th 2010 and January 7th 2011. On display there will be works from the collections of the various banks of the Group. There will also be seven works from the Yapı Kredi Art Collection, including Osman Hamdi Bey's Feraceli Kadınlar (Women Wearing Fullcoats, 1887) a masterpiece from the turn of the century in Istanbul.

Curated by UniCredit Art & Scientific Commission Chairman Walter Guadagnini, the exhibition spans four centuries European art history and creates a dialogue between eras and languages. With this exhibition, including 90 works, UniCredit's significant art collection meets with Turkish art lovers for the first time.

The company's artistic and cultural heritage is mainly derived from the collections of UniCredit in Italy, HypoVereinsbank in Germany and Bank Austria. It comprises 60,000 works that together capture the history of art from ancient Greece and classical Rome to the present day. The collection, which is currently being studied and re-catalogued, is a trans-European museum that can be experienced in the Group's main offices and at the sites of its institutional partners in culture.

The show's concept is based on a variety of languages and allows visitors to see the past through contemporary eyes and to look from the present towards the future. From ancient works by significant painters including Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo and Dosso Dossi, the exhibition moves to collages by Kurt Schwitters and canvases by Giorgio de Chirico, to installations by such artists as Tony Cragg, Stephen Balkenhol and Giulio Paolini, and to photographs by Andreas Gursky and Thomas Struth.

Yapı Kredi has been a natural part of cultural life in Turkey since its foundation in 1944 as the patron of a private art collection, exhibitions and publications. Yapı Kredi possesses an important growing art collection which comprises works of Turkish and foreign artists. Yapı Kredi Cultural Activities, Arts and Publishing Inc. realizes all events with the aim of enriching the culture and art life of the country and to make varied forms of contemporary and high quality art available to all. Its raison d'être is to spread art and culture, to a wider audience. The company aims to enrich continuously the cultural and artistic life of Turkey.

Yapı Kredi Cultural Activities, Arts and Publishing has a publishing house and art galleries. Yapı Kredi Publications (YKY) the largest and one of the most influential publishing houses in Turkey, started its activities in 1949. YKY aims to offer its readers a most carefully chosen selection of the highest quality of works from Turkish and world literature. It also continues to publish books on contemporary art, monographs of prominent artists, archeology books and exhibition catalogues with leading names in their fields. With its variety of books and periodicals it has printed its 3.200th book in November 2010, Yapı Kredi Publications this year published more than 180 first editions and 400 reprints, amounting to 1 million books and 19 periodicals.

General information:
"PastPresentFuture – Highlights from the UniCredit Collection"
Yapı Kredi Cultural Center, November 6 – January 7, 2011

Address:
Yapı Kredi Cultural Center, 161 Beyoğlu, Istanbul
Tel: + 90 212 252 47 00 (pbx)

Opening Hours:
(Admission free)
Monday-Friday: from 10 am to 7.30 pm
Saturday: from 10 am to 7.30 pm
Sunday: 1 pm to 7.30 pm

Thursday, September 30, 2010

2.ANTAKYA BIENNALE - TURKEY

‘Thank you for your understanding’

2. INTERNATIONAL ANTAKYA BIENNIAL / TURKEY

Curators: Arzu Yayintas - Dessislava Dimova

15 October – 20 November 2010

artists:

a77 / adalet akbaş / muhammad ali / günay alkan /burak arıkan / vartan avakian / pierre bısmuth / hakan bitmez / luchezar boyadjıev / rana çuhadaroğlu / burak delier / hülya dolaş / natalya dyu / ışıl eğrikavuk / volkan eray / mehmet fahracı / emel sıkar genç / nadi guler & m. hasan / demirci / özlem günyol & mustafa kunt / sanja ivekovic / simon kentgens / fevziye koku / daniela kostova / cüneyt / kurt / ghassan maasri / renzo martens / ivan moudov / vesselina nikolaeva / bora petkova / ferhat özgür / larissa sansour / bastiaan schevers / aygül sezer / mary hyunhee song / emel sökmen / fatih tan / kezban tatlı / sevgi tatlı / güneş terkol / varol topac / issa touma / gönül türker / macide yalçınkaya & zehra güzel / fadı yazıgı / mediha yeniocak / ediz yenmiş / ela yılmaz / sevcan yılmaz / nalan yırtmaç

Concept:

21st century turned out to be century of crisis. It is not only the big economic crisis that we are going through, it is also a period of profound social crisis: a fragmented and increasingly fundamentalist social world, an environment in danger, high unemployment rates, precarious and underpaid work life and political system failures. It seems that it is time to look through the globalization and neoliberalization and the social, economical and urban transformations that we are subject to in recent decades.

2nd Antakya Biennial is inviting artists to question the effects of globalization and neo-liberalism and the social and cultural transformations that we are going through and to explore the way our collective life is organized today in order to open up new possibilities for alternative coalitions, free alliances. We believe that it is important to emphasize the notion of collectivity within this context because today alongside the economic globalization, there is a global trend of rising fundamentalism and nationalism which effects our life in all layers. Questioning the globalization inholds also the critique of the art world and mainly the notion of biennial since art world - the system globalized itself.

What kind of a city?

2nd Antakya Biennial is aiming to questioning the transformation that we have been going through in the last decades through focusing on the urban life and the cityscape since as David Harvey put forward the question of what kind of city we want cannot be separated from what kind of people we want to be and what kind of social ties, relationship to nature, lifestyles, technologies and aesthetic values we desire. Therefore it is an individual right to change ourselves by changing the city and this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization[1].

Why Antakya?

Many cities in different parts of the world have experienced a fundamental economic, cultural and social transformation in recent decades and most of them have become nodes of goods and consumption and turned into products rather than places to live.

Approaching Antakya as the site for yet another Biennial we were confronted to a city like many others, facing transformations and expansion, yet different. Antakya is located in southern Turkey, near the border with Syria. In ancient times the city was known as Antioch and has historical significance for Christianity, being the place where the followers of Jesus Christ were called Christians for the very first time. The city of Antioch was founded in 300 BC, and went on to play an important part in the history as one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire and Byzantium, a key location of the early years of Christianity, the Antiochian Orthodox Church, the rise of Islam and the Crusades. It has a rich architectural heritage, which has not totally discovered yet.

Being so near the Syrian border Antakya is a cosmopolitan city unlike most of the cities in Turkey today, and it has not experienced the 1980s and 1990s mass immigration of people from eastern Anatolia. As a result both Turkish and Arabic are still widely spoken in Antakya although written Arabic is rarely used. In some regions people even don’t know Turkish and speak only Arabic. Although most of the inhabitants are Muslim there are still Christian communities in the city. With its long history of spiritual and religious movements Antakya is still a place of pilgrimage for Christians and Muslims. Sunnis, Alevis, Catholics, Orthodox, Armenians, Arabs and Kurds continue to co-exist in the city today.

Antakya has not been gone through a rapid transformation of the 1980s like most of the cities in Turkey and has been a cosmopolitan city since the very beginning. Contemporary Antakya is a wealthy city in a process of fast development. Its historical and geographic connections to Syria have been recently reinforced by the visa exemption agreement between Turkey and Syria and changes in the Turkish government policies have confirmed its place as a cultural, touristic and trade centre. People in Antakya begin to undergo the same processes of urbanisation, gentrification and gradual increase of control of public space that have advanced with varying speed and extent elsewhere. But there was something in the mixture between the traces of ancient history and the remnants of humanity and innocence amid the growing concerns for profit and efficiency that made us hope for an almost utopian promise for something different to be found. Is there something for us to learn from contemporary Antakya and something from the experience of other places and other histories to teach to its citizens? Antakya is a place where the streets and even the shops still do little to encourage a hectic consumerism. The banks of the river and the hills outside the town offer benches to contemplate the view but no cafes or restaurants to capitalize on it. The many historical and architectural sites continue to be part of the daily urban life and cultural heritage programs have not yet turned the city into a museum. The only museum has no shop and it is even difficult to find postcards from Antakya. However the city culturally, socially, spatially and economically going through a rapid transformation. A new airport is being constructed, most of the big old houses are being turned into hotels, each day a new souvenir shop or tourism office is being opened instead of small ateliers and etc. Just recently a big shopping mall construction has started in the outskirt of the city, which will definitely change the social, and public life of the inhabitants and understanding of the public space. And inevitably these transformations are followed by gentrification process (or we should say concurrently) in the city center and Antakya Biennial is also a result/part of this transformation. The Antakya biennial finds itself in between the needs and ambitions of the growing and developing city, and the foreign, often nostalgic, gaze. But between the drive towards globalization and its reverse but inherent demand for local difference, is there something of the old universal we can rescue, some common ground that can unite us, while still respecting all particularities?

Through focusing on the social and cultural transformations that we are going through and exploring the way our collective life is organized today, the 2nd Antakya Biennial is aiming to explore the social and cultural structure of today’s society through Antakya and build a discussion platform for Antakya inhabitants to question these changes and to invite them to take an active part in the re-making the city in other words remaking themselves since the city itself, as the spatial model of the way society is organized and functions today, that is one of our common grounds of experience as human beings. Within its spatial metaphor we can share common references and unify our dispersed struggles. Cities territorialize social injustices, but also define the space to fight them. The remaking of the city is the remaking of ourselves and as such it is one of our most fundamental, human rights.

The biennial will also expand internationally and each of its editions will collaborate with different partner countries. In 2010 these are Belgium, Holland and Bulgaria. Under the umbrella of Antakya Biennial, parallel events co-organized with local institutions will take place in Brussels, Amsterdam and Sofia. They will extend the questions we pose in Antakya and confront them to different local contexts.

Antakya Biennial is the sole international art exhibition in the region. As a result it has a stronger impact on the locality than most other biennials. This is why Antakya biennial proposes a structure that is much more locally oriented. Such a structure will be a more challenging but less standardized framework for the collaboration of local and international artists and organizations on the grounds of the biennial. However, Antakya biennial is not simply a "regional" event. Instead we see the biennial as a global laboratory for artistic and intellectual exchange that has its starting point in the local situation of Antakya but reaches out and exchanges experiences with other locations since the specifics to Antakya mimics the global transformation.

[1] Harvey, David, The Right to the City, New Left Review 53, Sep-Oct 2008

Friday, September 24, 2010

KINAMA / CONDEMNATION

Değerli Sanatçı Arkadaşlarım

21 Eylül 2010 tarihinde çağdaş sanat tarihine 'Tophane Saldırısı' adlı yeni bir kara leke daha eklendi. Bu çirkin ve iğrenç saldırının ardından, bazı istisnalar hariç, yazılı ve görsel medyada 'mahalle halkını savunma ve haklı gösterme' stratejilerini esefle kınıyor, öfkeleniyor ve utanç duyuyorum. Amaçları apaçık ortada olan bu iğrenç saldırgan yaratıkların süratle yakalanıp, ceza yemeleri yerine, medyada olay 'ahlak, gelenek ve aile adabına aykırı davranışlar' vb sahtekar etiketlerle açıklanmaya çalışılıyor.

Mağduru değil saldırganı haklı çıkaran yumuşak dozdaki bu eleştirilerle, sözüm ona bizlerden olayı sineye çekmemiz ve unutmamız bekleniyor. Namaz çıkışlarında hep bir ağızdan tekbir getirenler, oruç vakti sokakta simit yiyenlere taş atanlar, yolda ele ele yürüyen sevgililere saldıran ayyaşlar, parklarda öpüşenleri uyaran polisler, 'huzuru kaçıran'lar olmuyor da, bir çağdaş sanat şöleni için bir araya gelen ve ellerindeki şarap kadehleriyle, galeri önündeki sokakta ortak bir duyguyu paylaşan topluluk söz konusu 'kurtarılmış bölgenin' huzur bozucuları oluyor.

Kanımca sesimizi istediğimiz yükseklikte duyuramıyoruz hala. Yanlı medya organlarını, olaylara seyirci kalan güvenlik güçlerini esefle kınadığımızı bağıra çağıra söylemeliyiz.

Tekrar tekrar hepimize geçmiş olsun diyorum.
Ferhat Özgür

Thursday, September 23, 2010

'I'M SPARTACUS - DROMAHAIR- NORTHERN IRELAND

Schedule

Saturday, September 25th 2010

5pm – The Rose of Innisfree tourboat

Bea McMahon presents a reading, ‘Sink or Swim‘, on The Rose of Innisfree tourboat at 5 pm on Saturday. Departure location is indicated in this map with a boat icon.
Places are limited so please book for this event at gracelandsis@gmail.com

6.30pm – The Mimetic House site

Screenings
Ian Breakwell / Paul Bush / Rhona Byrne / Omer Fast / Rainer Ganahl / Ryan Gander / Işıl Eğrikavuk / Ciné Institute Haiti / Sanja Iveković / Kevin Kirwan / Seamus Nolan / Ferhat Özgür / Alice Rekab / Margaret Tait / Sarah Pierce / Grace Weir

Presentations/Performance
Sam Keogh and Joseph Noonan Ganley Noonan (Radical Love) / The Provisional University / Ruby Staunton / Anne Tallentire

Sculpture/Installation
Azple / Dean Hughes / Bea Mc Mahon / Isabel Nolan / Walker and Walker

Sound events ( programmed with Aisling Ryan) featuring:
John Godfrey / Dylan Rynhart / Si Shroeder / Martin Tourish

Sunday, September 26th

1pm – Hurl Learning Speed Encounters

Over late breakfast in the Blue Devon Pub, Mainstreet Dromahair

8pm – Pot luck Dinner

Bring a contribution, from 8, The United Trades Club, Castle Street, Sligo see http://themodel.ie/ for details on this project

See info on food, accommodation and travel »

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Saturday, September 18, 2010

'Sister Sister City' / Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles

Thomas Solomon Gallery | Thomas Solomon Gallery@Cottage Home

Still from "I Can Sing" by Ferhat Özgür, 2008, courtesy of the artist.

Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Cottage Home is pleased to present an evening of new video works from Berlin on Saturday, September 18, 9:00 PM.

"Sister Sister City” is a video screening of works brought to Los Angeles from Berlin, two cities in continual states of renewal. The population of Berlin is constantly transforming and there are few areas in the city where one will not see construction cranes shaping the skyline. Also exhibiting a quickly evolving cityscape, Los Angeles (via Hollywood) is perpetually reinventing and borrowing from itself in the production of media. Using popular culture as a point of departure, each artist in the screening investigates methods of repetition such as sequels, copies, remakes, versions, and covers. The works implement imitation and duplication through the use of performativity and appropriation. They hold up a mirror, however faded, distorted, or far away, to LA's image-media diaspora.

“Sister Sister City” is organized by Lindsay Lawson, a Berlin-based artist formerly living and working in Los Angeles.

The list of artists:

Petra Cortright, Martin Kohout, Oliver Laric, Lindsay Lawson, Dafna Maimon, Ferhat Özgür, and Anne de Vries.

427 Bernard Street 410 Cottage Home Street

Los Angeles CA 90012 Los Angeles CA 90012

310 428 2964 323 275 1687

info@thomassolomongallery.com www.thomassolomongallery.com

Thursday, September 16, 2010

'Video Dumbo 2010', Brooklyn, New York, USA

Video_dumbo: 24-26 september 2010

112 water street, DUMBO

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Curators: Caspar Stracke, Gabriela Manroy

For further information please visit: www.videodumbo.org

OPENING RECEPTION:

‘VIDEO INSTALLATIONS’, 24-26 September 2010, 7pm

Adam Leech / Hans Op De Beeck / Rimas Sakalauskas / Till Roeskens / Kristin Lucas / David Krippendorf

‘FAUNATICA’, 24 September 2010, 8 pm

Emily Vey Duke + Cooper Battersby / Shaun Slifer / Torsten Zenas Burns
Douglas Fishbone / Pene Ginard & Laura Gines / Oliver Laric / Pilvi Takala /

‘COLLISION COURSE’, 25 September 2010, 2 pm

Gratuitous Art Films / Julie Casper Roth / Zbynek Baladran Estela / Estupinyà-García Arne Bunk / Vincent Meessen / Isabelle Hayeur /

‘SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GONE’, 25 September 2010, 3 pm

David Pierce / Maria Niro / Agnes Meyer-Brandis / Penny Lane / Joseph Bennett /

‘CHOSING SIDES’, SATURDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2010, 5 PM

Ferhat Özgür / Christoph Schlingensief / Karen Mirza & Brad Butler / Avi Mograbi / Basma Alsharif /

‘TEL QUEL’, 25 Sepember 2010, 7.30 pm

Aaron Oldenburg / Tamar Latzman / Theodore Tagholm / Tim Leyendekker / Redmond Entwistle / David Politzer / Melanie Crean / Pete Burkeet /

‘PROJECTOR PERFORMANCES’, 25 September 2010, 8.30 pm

LIGHTBOX projector performance, Alex MacKenzie, Vancouver

SANDRA GIBSON + LUIS RECODER

Keith Sanborn / Bob Paris / Volker Schreiner / Ivan Faktor / Vivian Ostrovsky / Dave Griffiths / Julius Ziz /

‘SILVER SPLICED’, 25 September 2010, 10 pm

Keith Sanborn / Bob Paris / Volker Schreiner / Ivan Faktor / Vivian Ostrovsky / Dave Griffiths/ Julius Ziz /

ETC: DVD-EAI: SPECIAL SCREENING, 26 September 2010, 2pm

ETC: 1969 - 2007

The Experimental Television Center (ETC) was established in 1969 by Ralph Hocking at the State University of New York at Binghamton and is among the oldest yet still existing nexus for video / media artists on the East Coast.

In 1972, ETC began a residency program, inviting artists such as Nam June Paik, Shikego Kubota, poet Jackson MacLow, and glass artist/video activist Rudi Stern to explore the center's tools. Engineer David Jones deleloped ETC's unique one of its kind image-processing system in 1974

This system layed the groundwork for subsequent innovations in artist-oriented software and tools, including Jones's frame buffer with two-dimensional print software. Over the years the Center's residency program gained international recognition through the works of visiting artists, among them Peter D'Agostino, Peer Bode, Shalom Gorewitz, Barbara Hammer, Ken Jacobs, and Gary Hill. In 1978 the Center relocated to Owego, New York, where it continues to operate today.

An anniversary DVD compilation

For it's 40th year anniversary ETC started to produce a DVD compilation of a selection of artists who had created video art during ETC residencies over the course of 40 solid years.
This enormous undertaking required digital restorations, and took three years, resulting in a 20 hour compilation of over 100 artists.

Digitizing, restorations, and overall support: Bill Seery and Maria Venuto and Standby program
Project manager and DVD author: Aaron Miller.
Art director: Diane Bertolo

The DVD is accompanied with a 130-page catalog and is distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix

A 40-min compilation program focussing on historic works from the early beginnings.

Rebecca Cleman from Electronic Arts Intermix will present additional works of the selected artists created in the same time period from the EAI collection.

The screening is followed by a small reception.

http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/etcdvd.html
http://ww.eai.org

‘ARE WE HOME YET?’ 26 September 2010, 3.30 pm

Emmanuelle Antille / Lena Maria Thuering / Gautam Kansara / Ken Jacobs / Sam Holden / Nicole Sloan / Jill Epstein / Axel Roessler /

‘INSIDE OUT’, 26 September 2010, 5pm

Steve Rogenstein / Josh Weinstein / Allen Chen / Shelly Silver / Devrim Kadirbeyoglu / Christopher Udemezue / Melissa Potter / Erik Levine / Simon Mullan / Axel Petersén / Liz Rodda /

‘TURNING POINTS’, 26 September 2010, 7 pm

Tomoko Inagaki / Toni Comas / Jonathan Cummins / Vianney Lambert / Magnus Bärtås /

‘CRACK LIGHT’, 26 September 2010, 8.30 pm

Theodore Tagholm / John Michael Boling / Wojciech Gilewicz / Jacob Tonski / François Vogel / Flatform / Peter Rose / Yorgos Taxiarchopolus / David Grainger / Leighton Pierce / Phyllis Baldino / Gerhard Funk / Ulrich Polster and Christine Scherrer /

Ferhat Özgür