In the first period of the project Be Mobile – Create Together! carried out in collaboration with four culture institutes in Turkey – French Cultural Center, the Embassy of Netherlands, Goethe Institute, and Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) – artists residing in the artist residencies abroad started to display and share their productions.
Realized as part of the E.U.-Turkey Intercultural Dialogue Program supported by the European Union and the Republic of Turkey, the project provides emerging artists and authors with the opportunity to be welcomed at the homes of prominent artists in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Turkey.
As part of the project that is scheduled to continue between September 2019 and June 2020, 30 artists will be residing in artist residencies focusing on different disciplines in Paris, Cassis, and Issy-les-Moulineaux in France; in Dresden, Berlin, and Stuttgart in Germany; in Amsterdam, Maastricht, and the Hague in the Netherlands; in Istanbul, Bursa, Ayvalık, and Şirince in Turkey at different times and for various durations.
In June, 10 out of 30 artists were matched with 13 artist residencies with experience in their preference and fields of interest and, since September, they have been creating works in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Turkey.
Artists from Turkey who were chosen to participate in the program reside in France, Germany, and the Netherlands and artists from these countries are welcomed in Turkey – they all earn the opportunity to do research and create while making new friends and connections in different geographies.
The artists will continue to stay at artist residencies in four countries until June 2020.
Performances at various corners of Istanbul
Artists visiting from France, Germany, and the Netherlands as part of the project, Be Mobile – Create Together!, are residing at İKSV Residency and arthereistanbul in Istanbul. During the first period of the project, İKSV Residency welcomes Lina Gómez, Kasia Fudakowsk, and Nine Kuttler while arthereistanbul hosts Abel Korinsky. For three months the artists get to experience the city and continue their production here with the chance to exhibit some of their works from this period in Istanbul.
The installation YAKAMOZ by Abel Korinsky
Photography by: Meltem Sarımetin
Continuing his works in Istanbul since September 5, sound artist Abel Korinsky from Berlin created a light and sound installation which was exhibited at Haydarpaşa Ferry Port between December 6 and 15. Aiming to bring a brand new sensual and emotional access to venues in his works, Korinsky used sound and light technology in his installation YAKAMOZ and invited the guests of the port to dive deep into a magical world. While the audience was enveloped by impressive sounds and visual projections accompanied with lights, they could also have a different experience of this historical building, designed by famous architect Vedat Tek (1873-1942) in 1917 and decorated with Kütahya tiles by master ceramic artist Hafız Mehmed Emin Efendi (1872-1922).
The opening of YAKAMOZ took place on the evening of December 5, Thursday, with a live electronic music performance by the artist. The visitors were first taken on an acoustic journey inspired by the club culture in Berlin and the melancholic atmosphere of Istanbul. Then, the multichannel, live system of YAKAMOZ presented a brand new auditory experience jumping out of Istanbul’s unique space.
Open rehearsal by Lina Gómez
Photography by: Behram Evlice
Staying at İKSV Residency, performance artist Lina Gómez staged a special performance at Hasköy Yarn Factory on December 2, Monday. A result of her quest to understand the space of Istanbul where she’d stayed for three months, this performance was described as an “open rehearsal” by the artist. During her performance, Gómez was accompanied by seven students and six singers from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.
A short film by Kasia Fudakowski
An artist known for her entertaining works that include sculpture, performance, writing, and films, Kasia Fudakowski shot a short movie during her stay in Istanbul, which will be screened in Germany next year. Still in Turkey, Fudakowski continues to work on two other works which will be exhibited in Europe.
A research on coast clearance by Nina Kuttler
During her stay in Istanbul, Nina Kuttler did research about coast clearance. As part of the ANEMONE Project with the Turkish Marine Research Foundation on November 23, she participated in the second marina litter survey on the coast of Filburnu in Istanbul.
What have artists from Turkey done in Germany, the Netherlands, and France?
Since September, six artists from Turkey with different disciplinary backgrounds participated in artist residency programs in Germany, the Netherlands, and France.
Open studio and book by İlayda Tunca
İlayda Tunca promoted her open studio A Juicy Topic to Mumble and her self-published book Deconstruction of the Tale Jack and the Beanstalk on October 10 at Cité Internationale des Arts, one of the most long-established artist residency programs in Paris.
Workshop by Didem Yalınay
A resident of Le Cube, an art center in Paris with a focus on digital arts, Didem Yalınay had the opportunity to expand her works with international participation. Working in an interdisciplinary manner in academy and arts and focusing primarily on generative art, the artist organized a workshop titled In the Gap of Data World: //noise/less at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris on November 20 and at Le Cube on November 22. She produced an installation that prioritizes production in the data world in order to invite the participants to find ways to design data. Designed in two parts in order to strengthen the collaboration between two establishment, the workshop continues with wide international participation.
Open studio with photographs by Gülşin Ketenci
Interested in photography and documentary filmmaking, Gülşin Ketenci has been in Berlin since October 15 as a resident of Künstlerhaus Bethanien. The artist, who will continue her works in the city until March 15, currently works on a project about the athletes of Türkiyemspor, a female basketball team in Germany. Striving to tell stories with photographs in order to make the labor of women in every field more visible, Ketenci shared her works at an open studio event on November 14.
A performance by Canan Yücel Pekiçten
Having spent the month of October in Amsterdam as a guest at the residency of Dansmakers which focuses on contemporary dance studies, Canan Yücel Pekiçten staged a performance titled How to Enjoy Ceylon Tea at Podium Mozaiek in collaboration with Theater RAST and Dansmakers Amsterdam. The performance was a solo dance show looking for alternative ways to enjoy Ceylon tea, a product of colonization. Inspired by Georges Bizet’s orientalist opera The Pearl Fishers, Yücel Pekiçten aimed to draw attention to the methods of conceptualization that are dominant in the West.
A presentation by Burcu Yağcıoğlu
Focusing on drawing, video, collage, and installation and basing her works on research about biological processes, Burcu Yağcıoğlu resided at Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht in November. Working on a plant mutation known as “fasciation,” the artist made a presentation on the practice of art, plant mutations, and botanic anomalies on November 27.
An interactive installation by Diren Demir
Residing at Theater RAST in Amsterdam in October, Diren Demir put on an interactive installation titled Confessions at Podium Mozaiek in collaboration with Theater RAST and Dansmakers Amsterdam. In his installation, Demir invites participants to make a confession and confesses a sin of his own.
ARTIST CALENDER
FRANCE
Camargo Foundation
Ekin Can Göksoy (25 February-21 April 2020)
Sibel Horada (25 February-21 April 2020)
Cité internationale des arts
İlayda Tunca (3 September-13 October 2019)
Lara Ögel (17 December 2019-29 January 2020)
Camargo & Cité internationale des arts common project
Alper Turan (6 January-3 February 2020, Camargo Foundation & 3 February- 3 March 2020, Cité internationale des arts)
Le Cube
Didem Yalınay (15 September-14 December 2019)
GERMANY
Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Gülşin Ketenci (15 October-15 March 2020)
Hellerau – European Centre for Arts
Gizem Aksu (17 March-15 June 2020)
Melih Kıraç (March-April 2020)
Akademie Schloss-Solitude
Kuzey Topuz (7 January-31 May 2020)
THE NETHERLANDS
Dansmakers
Canan Yücel Pekiçten (5-24 October 2019)
Jan van Eyck Academie
Burcu Yağcıoğlu (1-30 November 2019)
Theater Rast
Diren Demir (30 September-31 October 2019)
Writers Unlimited
Barbaros Altuğ (10 January-9 February 2020)
Çağla Meknuze (13-20 January 2020)
TURKEY
İKSV Residency
Nina Kuttler (9 September-2 December 2019)
Kasia Fudakowski (15 September-2 December 2019)
Lina Gómez (17 September-10 December 2019)
Annemarie van Splunter (9 December 2019-5 March 2020)
Helena Kauppila (3 December 2019-28 February 2020)
Mirak Jamal (2 December 2019-29 February 2020)
Marianne Villiére (3 December 2019-29 February 2020)
Simon(e) van Saarloos (1 February- 29 April 2020)
Mairi Pardalaki (March-May 2020)
Chloe Quenum (March-May 2020)
Rebecca Topakian (March-May 2020)
Daniel Nicolae Djamo (March-May 2020)
arthereistanbul
Abel Korinsky (15 September-5 December 2019)
Jehsong Baak (15 November-15 December 2019)
Léa Roch (15 January-15 March 2020)
