26 Nisan 2013 Cuma

Vjoints of Urban Life : Talk at IMC5533

Vjunk Talk // 30th April 2013 @ IMC5533  at 15.30-17.00
İstanbul Manifaturacılar Çarşısı 5. Blok no.5533, next to Atatürk Blv, Unkapanı ISTANBUL



I am a visual artist and organizer of an independent real-time audiovisual art festival in Istanbul since 2008. On 14th June 2012 in Tarlabasi, I organized a site specific event for the first time.

For urban renewal, Tarlabasi area has been emptied. For me it used to be a very peaceful place, and still is, only with the remaining life in it. There are local issues discussed by various circles now. Some people are quite rightly against the renewal and transformation. Yet, nobody can do anything; nobody can stop the so-called transformation process.

Some streets are empty now. Buildings are historical and they have beautiful textures. I knew mayer+empl who did site-specific video mappings. I invited them to VJ Fest. They came and with the help of some other friends, we did video mapping, projections and some interactive painting on the walls outside and inside the buildings. This doesn't mean that video artists are
only interested in walls.

Our event and some other events in the following dates were criticized by some. For example, in the link: http://birdirbir.org/tarlabasinda-sanat-yikima-dek-gorulebilir/ the critic seems to argue that the visual arts events in Tarlabasi streets were neither resisting nor reclaiming anything. I disagree. These kinds of events get people together and open possibilities for touching real issues. They can be done anywhere. Of course, people must be there for a meaningful reason. What is a meaningful reason? My reason was to “distribute some sensibles” and show that these kinds of events are possible in Istanbul streets. Not everybody knows that.


Vjunk  2013

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SiteSpecific Art workshop: Taking Site! @ IMC5533

http://www.imc5533.blogspot.com/ 
http://www.d21-leipzig.de
The “Taking Site!” project will consist of a workshop
about site-specificity with participants at 5533 Istanbul
between April 21 and May 04, 2013 and a simultaneous
exhibition “in progress” at D21 art space Leipzig. Artists
and curators from Turkey, Germany, China, USA and
Russia will meet at 5533, broaching the issue of their
experiences and the problematics of site, in theory and
practice. Via livestream the spaces are connected and
lectures and performances can be experienced by the
public at 5533 and D21 art space. Rather than showing
relicts of a finished process, the exhibition at D21 art
space will accumulate in a process.

The workshop is seeking for the potential of site-specific
art. Our current concepts of society, nation and city rely
on sedentariness, but today´s increasing mobility challenges
these concepts. Tourists and migrants are generally
relieved from rights and duties of a governmental
politic. Political subjectivity usually vanishes with the
liberation of site. A status as a political subject – can this
issue be raised, claimed and transferred to others, by
artists and their work at an “alien” place? What could be
site-specificity today?
“Taking Site!” is a cooperation between 5533 art space
Istanbul and D21 Kunstraum Leipzig.
Kindly supported by Halka Art Project, European
Cultural Foundation, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates
Sachsen and Kulturamt der Stadt Leipzig
Workshop at 5533, Istanbul, exhibition at D21 art space, Leipzig 21.04. – 04.05. 2013
Vernissage: 20.04., 4pm – 7pm
Finissage: 04.05., 4pm – 7pm

By and With: Ilgin Abeln, Chloë Bass, Anne Baumann,
Lars Bergmann, Jan Blessing, Lena Brüggemann,
Didem Erk, Constanze Hein, Devrim Kadirbeyoğlu,
Şefik Özcan, Hannah Sieben, Michael Tolmachev,
Burcu Vjunk, Arzu Yayıntaş & Neriman Polat, Mi You
Technical realisation: westfernsehen.net

Programm:

Sa 20.04.
Eröffnung 15:00h bis 18:00h, Performance von Chloë Bass: „Tea will be served“

Di 23.04.
14:00h Michael Tolmachev artist presentation
15:30h Mi You - That (Political/Ethical) Space artist presentation

Mi 24.04.
15:30h Ilgin Abeln, Anne Baumann artist presentations

Do 25.04.
15:00h Arzu Yayintas and Neriman Polat: „Sterile exhibitions, closed boxes... The marriage of convenience between art and gentrification“ lecture

Fr 26.04.
15:30h Şefik Özcan - Site-Specifity: Polis-Politics and Identification artist presentation

Sat 27.04.
15:30h Chloë Bass, Lars Bergmann artist presentations: The Art of Living As Research

So 28.04.
Devrim Kadirbeyoglu workshop visit and artist presentation

Tue 30.04.
15:30h Burcu Vjunk, Enrique Arce Gutierrez artist presentations

Wed 01.05.
D21 open, 5533 closed

Do 02.05.
15:30h open space

Fr 03.05.
15:30h Didem Erk artist presentation

Sa 04.05.
FINISSAGE von 15:00h bis 18:00h
Artistic Directors D21 Artspace

D21 Kunstraum Leipzig e.V.
Demmeringstr. 21
04177 Leipzig
www.d21-leipzig.de

Vjunk and Enrique is part of the program from VJFESTIST.


Türkçe Sürüm:

21 Nisan-04 Mayis 2013 arasi Istanbul 5533 Sanat Mekaninda atölye çalismasi ve
Leipzig D21 Sanat Mekaninda naklen yayin olarak eszamanli sergi olacak.

Açilis: 20 Nisan, saat 15.00–18.00 arasi
Kapanis: 4 Mayis, 15.00–18.00 arasi
Mekan sali-çumartesi günleri saat 14.00–18.00 arasi seyircilere açiktir.

Ilgin Abeln, Chloë Bass, Anne Baumann, Lars Bergmann, Jan Blessing, Lena Brüggemann, Didem Erk, Constanze Hein, Devrim Kadirbeyoglu, Şefik Özcan, Hannah Sieben, Michael Tolmachev, Burcu Vjunk, Arzu Yayıntaş & Neriman Polat, Mi You

Teknik Uygulama: westfernsehen.net

Istanbul 5533/Leipzig D21 isbirligiyle ve Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen ve Kulturamt der Stadt Leipzig ve Halka Art Project ve European Cultural Foundation desteklerle gerçeklesecek.
Hannah Sieben & Lena Brüggemann