THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF THE ISTANBUL BIENNIAL 2013: "MOM, AM I BARBARIAN?

Curator of the 13th Istanbul Biennial Fulya Erdemci announced the title of the biennial, which will be held from 14 September to 10 November 2013 by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) under the sponsorship of Koç Holding. The title and conceptual framework of the 13th Istanbul Biennial was announced by its curator Fulya Erdemci on Tuesday, 8 January at a press meeting which was held at the Maçka Campus of Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ).

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.

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