Produce II brings together participants, who offer cultural propositions given the political, bureaucratic and commercial constraints we live in in the region and beyond. As small initiatives (artistic, institutional and research based) that try to make a dent in the bureaucracies of the everyday, each of the practices presented as part of PRODUCE create its own capsule of engagement by being involved in cultural policy.
Anyone Could Be a Sculptor One Day is comprised of 7 commissioned art works. The works question the bureaucracies of production, power formations and history writing from various angles, and offer possibilities for moving and producing in these restricted spaces.
In an era when political uncertainties run their course, each person sculpting a cultural practice is a political act in and of itself: Afterall, anyone could be a sculptor one day.
Dates: 20th of September – 13th of December 13, 2014
Venue: Elhamra Han, İstiklal Street No:131 Floor:1-2, Beyoğlu-Istanbul
Curator: Zeynep Öz
Projects:
– 5Harfliler, I’m Off, 2014
– Fatma Belkıs & Onur Gökmen, There are These. These are Ours., 2014
– Özge Ersoy & Bikem Ekberzade with Thomas Keenan, te-le-ge-nic, 2014
– Merve Ertufan, Side by Side, 2014
– Ege Kanar, Surface Studies, 2014
– Merve Ünsal, Three States of Water, 2014
– Dilek Winchester, Homage to Emin Barın, 2014
Art International Events Programme is produced as part of SPOT Production Fund’s yearlong event series called PRODUCE. The participants of the programme are cultural actors who particularly develop their practices particularly in relation to the city they live in. Whether they have a background in architecture, urban planning or artistic production, they have in common the specific relationship formed between their work and the urban context in which they produce.
Dates: 26-29 September 2014
Venues: Haliç Congress Center & Elhamra Han
List of events:
– Imagining an Architectural and Design Museum in Istanbul; Büke Uras
– Visualization of Research; Mario Rizzi, Vasıf Kortun (Moderator: Tirdad Zolghadr)
– PRODUCE: The New Artwork; Khalil Rabah, Gülsün Karamustafa, Hajnalka Somogyi (Moderator: Tirdad Zolghadr)
– Nothing Gets Organised; Gabi Ngcobo
– Keynote; Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi
– DRC Radio issue #9: Bruce McLean talks to David Greene; The Drawing Room Confessions
– Big Challenges, Small Interventions in the City; TAK – Tasarım Araştırma Katılım, Herkes İçin Mimarlık, Studio–X Istanbul, (Moderator: Merve Yücel)
– One Thousand Solitudes; Tony Chakar
– Mondial 2010; Roy Dib (Moderator: Fatma Çolakoğlu)
– Relationship Between the Art Exhibition and the Venue in Istanbul in the 1990s & 2000s; Ali Akay
– Rules of the Game (Boardgaming Sessions); Dilek Winchester
– Running 15 Minutes Late; Merve Ünsal
Curated by: Zeynep Öz
Team: Director, SPOT Production Fund: Zeynep Öz; Director, SPOT.TER & SPOT Seminars: Tansa Mermerci Ekşioğlu; Exhibition & Administrative Assistant: Esra Arslan; Exhibition Assistant: Ekin Bayraktaroğlu; Graphic Design: Selin Estroti; Translation: Nitsa Viktorya Gormezano; Printing: Nest Medya; Exhibitions Production: İlhan Sayın
Thanks: Christine Tohme, Cevdet Erek, Ali Taptık, Ayşe Umur, Yavuz Parlar, Suna Kafadar, Gram, Merve Çağlar, Mari Spirito, Nazlı Gürlek, İz Öztat, Özkan Cangüven, Ayşe Toprak, Emre Peker
Supported by:
Exhibitions: SPOT.TER, SPOT Seminars
Conceptualization & Production: Can Ekşioğlu, DEPO, Moiz Zilberman
Events Program: ArtInternational, Sotheby’s, collectorspace
Kırtasiye: Stabilo, Mynote, Umur Basım
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