MediaScape Biennale Zagreb
30. September – 23. October 2012
mediainmotion.de received confirmations by the co-curators:
On 1st of November we will start the preparation phase of TACTICAL TOPICS – TOPICAL TACTICS
While the city or the urban area is regarded as the area of development, fast progress, and in addition the absent-minded, superficial and disconcentrated perception, the area of the “landscape” is in contrast the place of peace, collection and leisure. In the countryside outside the city the perception of space and time win other values.The landscape encourages for curving: the view, the hearing, the smell and the thoughts win perspective, which the area of the landscape opens. This leads also to a slowing down and a sensory perception, to a concentration, which is another as those of the city.The area outside of the city or outside of the life sphere of humans generally is not characterized by civilization, but by natural conditions: Apparently ordinary: the brook, the tree, the meadow appear in new light, the murmuring water, the noise of the wind kidnap urban humans into another reality. In the countryside there is still a horizon. Here prevails a liberty of view over the restricted city view. The city has structure, pictogram forests, a silhouette perhaps, but no horizon. In the landscape however the horizon is always there and lures into the distance. The horizon is everywhere, has 360° and more. Novigrad is a town, but circled by an immense countryside and great perspectives of the Adriatic Sea.The connection of this reality with the possibilities of current art work, the bridging between nature and civilization and between technology and art is the starting point of Media-Scape 2008.
Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Region of Istria-office for education, culture and sport City of Novigrad
Media Scape Novigrad is part of the collaborative project X-OP: eXchange of art Operators and Producers. Project is partly funded by the European Commission, DG Education and Culture, Culture Programme
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Kemal Seyhan
Table Situation
Installation Apartment Project |
4 – 26. 06. 2010
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Yasemin Nur T.
With the contribution of YNT News Agency
“God is my recorder” is in progress… I will be back to you April 7 – 29, 2011 Opening: April 7 Thursday 2011, 18:30
The exhibition by Yasemin Nur T., “’God is My Recorder’ is in progress; I will be back to you”, which can be seen in Apartment Project between April 4 – 29, is an outcome of the recording process. As a planned activity, the artist presents the representation/imitation of the recording action itself by various means such as continous recording, converting the recording into text and re-recording the whole process again. “Tracing the evidence of hidden entities I typed those chats while I listened them. I capture my computer screen as video while I am operating. The whole operation is an echo of recording performance. Today I believe to record and document as a chronicler is an action which creates chronic absence. It seems like being under the spell of spelled. Now I am listening over and over these talks for anectodal purposes. We are all in this together.”
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FREE FALL EXHIBITION & SYMPOSIUM
Video Installation
Exhibition Opening: March 25, Thursday 2010 / 18:00 @ Apartment Project
Symposium: March 26,27 2010, Fri., Sat. @ Babylon Lounge
Participants: Askin Adan, Sinem Akat, Gulcin Aksoy, Anti-pop, Breaking News, Irmak Canevi, Fatma Ciftci, Zeren Goktan, Gozde Ilkin, Intervention, Borga Kanturk, Burak Karacan, Flo Kasearu, Nur Muskara, Esra Okyay, Suat Oğut, Gamze Ozer, Nurgul Ozturk, Neriman Polat, Cagri Saray, Ilhan Sayin, Ilgin Seymen, Gokce Suvari, Merve Sendil, Yasemin Nur Toksoy, Vahit Tuna, Mehmet Vanlioglu.
Concept: Selda Asal
Application & Coordination of the Project: Selda Asal, Nurgul Ozturk, Gokce Suvari
Assistant: Enise Gokbayrak
Film Editing: Selda Asal
Brochure Design and Application: Gokce Suvari
Symposium Coordination: Serra Ozhan
www.freefall-apartment.blogspot.com
CONCEPT
Apartment Projects aim had been to collectively create and produce different voices in exhibitions based on workshops. These workshops include people who have all formulated their own languages within their own fields. Project Free Fall, in this point, is an attempt to create a different experience, open up a new path in these workshops, namely to create a new language/practice by way of changing the structure and working out of workshops by the means of new technological developments and digital resources.
To this end, Apartment Project formed the platform of freefall-apartment.blogspot.com , which will work as a virtual workshop place for the artists where they can share their productions without the necessity of coming together in the same physical working/production place. With a 15 days of virtual workshop process, this project shelters the documentation of the everyday life practice, writings, images, sounds, texts and the life-effecting dynamics of each artist. It is the falling of individual memories of artists into this platform by following up each other that draws the conceptual framework of Free Fall which is in effect a kind of online personal sketch book or diary. These interactively fallen materials came together in this virtual platform until the end of the workshop process (15.03.2010) as a serial of works in which artists interact with and response the works of each other.
SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS .-_-. (Orton Akinci) – artist talk Abby Stiers– CIANT (International Centre for Art and New Ceren Arkman & Irmak Arkman & Mert Şahbaz – Courrier Video Basak Senova – ‘NOMAD’ Cagri Saray & Ferhat Satici & Hulya Ozdemir – on ‘Videoist’ Charlotte Zott – on Tranforming Freedom and relevant environments, Burak Arikan – artist talk and on ‘Dugumkume’ Ekmel Ertan & Ozlem Alkış & Nafiz Akşehirlioglu – on ‘amberFestival’ Genco Gulan – On ‘Web Biennial’ |
by Sibylle Hoessler, Berlin 2011
In September/October 2010 I was invited by mediainmotion for a stipend at MediaScape in Zagreb.
Day by day I was strawling around the foreign city.
After three days I realized that my way was daily crossed by a guy with a red suitcase.
So I decided to follow him. After a while I realized that all his places to go were somehow related to Art.
I followed him to the Ministry of culture, the Museum of Contemporary Art, to the HDLU, a round artbuilding in Zagrebs old city and different little galeries in the heart of the city. I became his shadow for two weeks. Without knowing he showed me around the city. We never talked to each other.
I left Zagreb without knowing anything about this person.
It remained a secret what he carried in his red suitcase.
more information:
Sibylle Hoessler
Mediascape 2010
The exhibition *Diverçity**.** **Learning from Istanbul** *takes the city as a resource of fictive narratives, private (hi)stories, dreams and desires, still in the process of recreations, and speculations. Here, poliphony and fragmentation make one unable to grasp the city in a fixed formula, becauseas the exhibiton claims, urban and architectural potential is continuously re-constructed by negotiations, by individually-organized temporary systems, by the local adaptations and phenomena of the everyday practices in which innumerous strategies of survival (mostly considered as informal in thesystem) are created.
Date: 26/08/2011 until 06/09/2011
Location: Gallery KiBela, Maribor – Slovenia
Organisers / Producers: ACE KIBLA
X-OP, a three-year-old project exchange of operators and producers in the field of contemporary art, comprises over two hundred and fifty art and production units. It has been (and still is) geographically set in Berlin, Maçao, Novigrad, Rijeka, Zagreb, Istanbul, Tomar, Abrantes, Mooste, Helsinki, Prague, Vienna, Ljubljana, Talin and other locations; and is now coming to an end in Maribor with the following artistic performances:
More InformationDate: 25/08/2011
Location: Gallery KiBela, Maribor – Slovenia
Organisers / Producers: ACE KIBLA
X-OP, a three-year-old project exchange of operators and producers in the field of contemporary art, comprises over two hundred and fifty art and production units. It has been (and still is) geographically set in Berlin, Maçao, Novigrad, Rijeka, Zagreb, Istanbul, Tomar, Abrantes, Mooste, Helsinki, Prague, Vienna, Ljubljana, Talin and other locations; and is now coming to an end in Maribor with the following artistic performances:
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Electropera postproductions: Operabil Relocation
Irena Tomažin: voice
Marko Košnik: live manipulation of topographic imagery
21.00
Cameron Bobro, Peter Tomaž Dobrila and Ana Pečar:
Bizantinski kadilak / Byzantine Cadillac, a vocal and electronic work of art in the making
Date: 21/06/2011 until 01/07/2008
Location: Gallery KiBela, Maribor – Slovenia
Organisers : ACE KIBLA
“Being preoccupied with objectness and photography, I create images of various objects, of dry, meaningless artefacts of everyday world. At the same time I seek the same artefacts self-referentially in the world of photography. This, to me, is an exercise in patience in a meaningless field, which nonetheless enables intense creativity, engagement and enthusiasm. Although there are concrete social issues that art should be providing answers to, I tend to shut myself in the politics of the medium, in the politics of my own finger on the shutter button, the gaze in the viewfinder, in the strategy of developing and enlarging photographs, as well as the politics of selecting and exhibiting. I apologize for not possessing any additional knowledge of the world, I only mean to create it through my activity. If there is an aim to my exhibition, this is it.” – Peter Rauch
Kibla photo archive
Date: 04/07/2011 until 14/07/2011
Location: Gallery KiBela, Maribor – Slovenia
Organisers: ACE KIBLA
ASE 8 is a system that examines the negative spaces between fingers and the motion of hands and arms. Moving structures and abstract geometric forms begin to appear in between fingers or grow out from the hands and arms creating a reactive organic environment.
Ljudmila´s Artist in Residence Chris Sugrue is an artist and programmer developing interactive installations, audio-visual performances and experimental interfaces. Her works often combine digital and physical elements and have investigated topics such as artificial life, eye-tracking and electromagnetism. http://csugrue.com
Kibla photo archive
Exhibition with X-OP Cultural Policy Group (Tatu Engeström, Kalle Hamm, Ritva Harle, Minna Henriksson, Mikko Lipiäinen, Antti Majava and Tero Nauha).
Date: 06/05/2011 until 21/05/2011
Location: Gallery KiBela, Maribor – Slovenia
Organisers / Producers: ACE KIBLA
Within X-OP eXchange of art Operators and Producers, KIBLA Association for Culture and Education has issued a call for a month-long X-OP residence in Maribor for an artist, theoretician, producer or art critic. The April residence in Maribor – the 3π Multiverse intermedia project by Breda Pivk – will be presented in Kibela gallery from 6 to 21 May 2011.
The 3π Multiverse intermedia project is an experimental, multilayered, metaphoric artistic project related to topical theories of contemporary cosmology and quantum physics based on the assumptions that our visible universe is only one of the uncountable co-existing parallel universes. It is about an active integration of scientific findings with artistic creations, the interlacement providing new experiential dimensions and an actual transition from old paradigms of our existence to new potential realities.
Kibla photo archive (Photo: Boštjan Lah)