"Public Address" begins on Friday
The second cluster of events of the 13th Istanbul Biennial Public Programme Public Alchemy continues with "Public Address" on March 22 and 23.
The public programme events aim to examine the ways in which publicness can be reclaimed as an artistic and political tool in the context of global financial imperialism and local social fractures. The public programme, "Public Alchemy", is organised under the co-curatorship of Fulya Erdemci and Dr. Andrea Phillips.
"Public Address"
The second event of the public programme, "Public Adress", will explore if it is possible to find and sustain spaces of freedom of expression in the context of a neo-liberalised public domain while questioning the relation between public speech and private power.
Hosted by Fırat Demir, Burak Fidan, Eren Erdem, Cevdet Erek, Adbusters Media Foundation, Robert Sember, Dan Hind, and Lina Ben Mhenni
"Public Address" will seek answers to the following questions:
> How are we addressed as citizens?
> What registers of address are used by politicians, professors and publishers to speak to us;
what form does such address take and in which way does it flow? > Do so-called new media technologies offer alternative devices of communication or do they sustain existent hierarchiest of address, suggesting radical distribution but in fact maintaining power in the hands of the technologically enabled?  "Public Address" will take place on Friday, March 22 and Saturday, March 23 at Istanbul Technical University, Maçka Campus, C101 Conference Hall. For reservations, please send an e-mail to rezervasyon@iksv.org |
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3/20/2013
ISTANBUL ALCHEMY 2013
1/09/2013
THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF THE ISTANBUL BIENNIAL 2013: "MOM, AM I BARBARIAN?
Bige Örer, Director of the Istanbul Biennial, joined Fulya Erdemci as a speaker at the press meeting. Fulya Erdemci, who determined the title of the 13th Istanbul Biennial as the conceptual framework. "Mom, am I barbarian?" with a reference from poet Lale Müldür's book of the same title
The 13th Istanbul Biennial will use public buildings which are left temporarily vacant by urban transformation as exhibition venues. These may include public buildings such as courthouses, schools, military structures or post offices, former transportation hubs like train stations, ex-industrial sites such as warehouses, dockyards as well as the very contested Taksim Square and Gezi Park. Furthermore, the hallmarks of current urbanism such as shopping malls, hotels and office-residential towers are being considered as sites for artistic interventions.
Bige Örer also disclosed the details of the 13th Istanbul Biennial Public Programme, which will start in February as a part of 13th Istanbul Biennial. Aiming for bringing artistic production and knowledge production together, the public programme, titled "Public Alchemy", is co-curated by Fulya Erdemci and Dr. Andrea Phillips, Reader in Fine Art in the Department of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London and Director of the Doctoral Research Programmes in Fine Art and Curating. A series of lectures, workshops, seminars and performances, which will take place from February to the end of the Biennial, will examine how a political, poetic alchemy is at work, both in Turkey and across the world, in which conventional concepts of "the public" are being transformed. The first events of the programme will focus on Istanbul's current urban transformation under the title of "Making the City Public" from 8 to 10 February.
PROJECT APPLICATIONS FOR 13TH ISTANBUL BIENNIAL
Artists who would like to apply to participate in the 13th Istanbul Biennial should send their project proposals together with their portfolios to: application.biennial@iksv.org until 1 March 2013.
The list of participants and projects of the 13th Istanbul Biennial will be finalized in June.
For further information go HERE
