…an, English. Projects created, developed or organized by InEnArt includes: Searching Traces in partnership with the Goethe-Institut is hosting a serial of educational events for displaced people in Istanbul. StreetWalking reflects the urban methamorphosis based on topics like culture, politics, social values, gentrification and commercialisation of the society. Tightrope Walking refers to the funambulist Philippe Petit crossing illegally the space…
Read More…8 in cooperation with the Maltese National Museum MUZA and Heriatge Malta. Searching Traces in partnership with the Goethe-Institut, Allianz Kulturstiftung and others is hosting a serial of educational events for displaced people in Turkey and Malta. StreetWalking reflects the urban methamorphosis based on topics like culture, politics, social values, gentrification and commercialisation of the society. Tightrope Walking refers to the funambulist…
Read More…This Secret World That Exists Right There in Public July 4, 2014Black Sea TracesThe first group exhibition of gallery Rampa in Istanbul this secret world that exists right there in public brings together the works of Etel Adnan, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Francis Alÿs, Otto Berchem, Attila Csörgő, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Cengiz Çekil, Nilbar Güreş, Berat Işık, Çağdaş Kahriman, Yasemin Özcan, Funda Özgünaydın, İz Öztat & Zişan, Kiki Smith, and Ali Taptık un…
Read More…[…] Read more… Traces Thomas Büsch100 Years Asger Jorn The exhibition Traces – 100 Years Asger Jorn at the Cobra Museum for modern art in Amsterdam marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Asger Jorn (1914-1973), with works by Jorn and selected works by his contemporaries. Asger Jorn is known as the artist who invented in 1964 the three sided football match to explain his notion of triolectics, his refinement on the concept of dialecti…
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…is getting more and more popular. Foraging describes the act of looking or searching for food. Urban foragers are looking for food in urban areas. Critics may say that this orginal way of wandering around and searching for food isn´t necessary in our globalized, western civilized world, because there are supermarkets on every corner where you can get everything you need fast and cheap than instead of walking around in urban areas and looking for f…
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…en, uphill and downhill, like a hoop, inspiring an improvised narrative. It’s an example of “doing/undoing,” Alÿs says. And that interplay became the axiom of the film. Reel – Unreel by Francis Alÿs, Kabul 2011 A number of images have been selected by Ai Weiwei for a major publication, Traces of Survival: Drawings by Refugees in Iraq selected by Ai Weiwei, that was published to coincide with the Iraq Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. All pie…
Read More…of species and the creation of new habitats. Both “The Lasting Pond” and “Traces of Escapees” examine issues such as the shrinking of wetlands on the outskirts of Istanbul and the genetic erosion of local fish species resulting from fish farm pollution. “Exhausted” as the last work, tells about human life in the Neolithic Age. The point of reference here is the phenomenon of fertility. An interesting parallel is made between man living in the Fer…
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…reates a narrative through Alptekin’s objects and ephemera collected mostly from the Black Sea region. Boyadjiev engages in a dialogue with these materials to suggest the reasons why Alptekin chose and collected them; he also detects traces of his own professional past, thanks to the projects the two artists worked on together. There are also some objects that Boyadjiev includes in his selection purely for their design or aura. This text was first…
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…is a response to this change. This year theme – „Journey Within“ reflects searching for a peace through music and culture in these turbulent times. The program of 2nd edition of the Festival consists of shows of local and international artists, who explore psychedelic music and blend it with rituals, forgotten knowledge, rhythm and groove. The festival is organized by Gulbaba Music Agency (Sounds from Istanbul) and takes place at Kargaart, Arkaod…
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