Donnerstag, 22.7.2010,
ab 19 Uhr
Präsentation:
23.07.2010 - 18.09.2010
Hülya Özdemir und Ferhat Satici präsentieren die Istanbuler Initiative VIDEOIST mit Videokunst von Ali İbrahim Öcal, Ahmet Albayrak, Başak Kaptan, Çağrı Saray, Evrim Kavcar, Ferhat Özgür, Fikret Atay, Flo Kasearu, Hülya Özdemir, Nancy Atakan, Necmettin Tarkan, Özlem Uzun, Parça Tesirli, Suat Öğüt, Volkan Arslan, Yeni Anıt, Zeynep Erpolat
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Two Shadows Of ‘The Public’:
Screen And Space
1-Ali İbrahim Öcal
Pound Along
3’57’’
2009
In
the moving image obtained by filming the Turkish flag from an unusual angle,
the flag is dancing, or “twisting/curling” to Çiftetelli music (a
traditional, Oriental-style tune generally played at weddings and other
ceremonies involving entertainment and dance) in the background. By displaying
the object outside its usual context (with very “casual” music, typical of the
gypsies and the non-elite and very much incongruous for the flag, which is
almost a “sacred” object of respect for the “Turkish nation”) the video prompts
the viewer to question the attributed values of the objects which, through
political or social paradigms, acquire meanings beyond pure representation.
2-
Başak
Kaptan
Windshield Strategies
5’13’’
2008
Başak
Kaptan’s work “Windshield Strategies” is a stop-motion video with two parts.
The audience looks at a black and white view of the Bosphorous through a
windshield. Animated objects and sounds transform this dusty, abandoned Serçe car covered with spiders into a
stage. In the second chapter of the video, various stickers, which are
indispensable accessories for truck drivers, are tagged one after the other on
the windshield. As the oriental expressions come along, the “alien” voice in
the background tries to translate them. Both situations point at the alienation
resulting from an effort to translate the symbols specific to one culture to
another language.
Derya
Yücel, 2008
3- Özlem Uzun
Home
4 Videos
11’ 50’
2006 – 2009
The bus-stop as a public space is the focus of this project.
Contrary to “home,” a space where belonging is extensively reflected, the
bus-stop as a public space belongs to everyone and yet to no one. The project,
realized by installing housewares in a bus-stop is presented as a document of
the audience’s reaction to the converted image of the ordinary bus-stop which
is transformed into a house.
It is planned that the project will be repeated in different
districts/cities and reactions from different cultural/economic groups will be
recorded.
4-
Ferhat
Özgür
I am Like This Seven Days of Week
1’ 20’’
2004
Ferhat
Özgür says ‘I am Like This 7 Days of Week.’ For seven days (regularly), he
chooses one car waiting at red light and attacks. All he has to do is to jump
on the victim - I mean the car – to set foot on it, cross over and in a sense
to continue on his way. This message of continuity is reminiscent of the
mechanisms in the contemporary art system, the network of relations. Despite
exciting events along the way, there is always someone who does not cheer up.
This man who risks his health, mind and soul for no purpose, satirizes the
notion of art that aims to change life and shock the viewer and once more
demonstrates its eternal deadlock. Özgür - felicitously - does not articulate
this act (and its logic) through concepts of rebellion (Hunera Berxwedani's
“Serhildan” / the opposite direction of the thematic orientation of the
rebellion practice). He invites the viewer to the great spectacle art presents
through funny (tragicomic), simple and almost ordinary issues. I sort out the
words "circus" and "acrobat."
(Şener
Özmen, “They Must Have Gone Mad”, Free Kick [9th
Istanbul Biennial Hospitality Zone] exhibition catalog text, Art-İst
Publications, İstanbul, 2002)
5- Yeni Anıt
The Techniques of Advanced Driving
6’51’’
2010
Yeni Anıt’s “The
Techniques of Advanced Driving” project is a trial to document the creation of
a life guide with an automobile alternative to the manipulative nature of
automobiles and highways - which manipulate masses and are plastic instruments
in the heart of nature – and the solutions and problems presented by local
positions.
6- Hülya Özdemir
Spatial Alienation
2’41’’
2010
Hülya Özdemir’s work is an attempt to measure a spatial environment
that unites the concepts of public and art. Using a spatial method, she shows
the practices of visual projection of an exhibition space (DEPO screening room)
without viewers. The work constructs relationships between the public character
of the exhibition space and its physical dimensions.
7- Suat Öğüt
Consumption Practices,
10’34’’
2009
The video “Consumption Practices” reflects on the
condition of the individual in a society that is mainly focused on consumerism
where the single one is reduced to one role and becomes a the character of an
advertisement campaign. Especially in places like the big shopping malls and
anonymizing supermarkets that are emerging more and more, this becomes visible.
As Jean Baudrillard stated, ‘The hypermarket is already, beyond the factory and
traditional institutions of capital, the model of all future forms of
controlled socialization: retotalization in a homogeneous space - time of all
the dispersed functions of the body, and of social life (work, leisure, food,
hygiene, transportation, media, culture); retranscription of the contradictory
fluxes in terms of integrated circuits; space .
8- Evrim Kavcar
Power Games (At the Outskirts of Town)
Animation, 1’ 40’’
2009
This animation is
based on a true incident: The UEFA Championship League Final took place in
İkitelli Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul in May 2005. On the day of the
match, the neighbourhoods situated right across the stadium suffered a severe
power cut. The power came back only 2 hours after the game was over. The
animation transforms the irony of this particular event into a visual metaphor.
9-Volkan Aslan, Nancy Atakan
Neighbours
20’10’’
2009
Taking
its name from the number of the shop, 5533 opened in the 5th Block of IMC in February
2008. Since then the space has hosted a variety of projects, initiatives,
discussions and exhibitions. In 2009, an exhibition titled “Special Days and
Weeks” was organized at 5533 together with sixteen other independent artist
spaces and initiatives.
This
event gave spectators a chance to become closely acquainted with artist
initiatives in Istanbul. As a part of this project, 5533 interviewed their own
neighbours as well as those of the initiatives located in a variety of
different communities throughout the city about their view of the relationships
of these spaces with their environments and their production and presentation
practices.
Materialized jointly by Nancy
Atakan, Volkan Aslan, and Hanife Ölmez, this video project was shown at 5533
and Berlin Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien in
2009.
