X-OP

The Last Picture

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found recently in Berlin-Wedding
meaning in english: EU-Demolishing Services Ltd.

Gulliver

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a project in progress by Signe Theill (since 2008)

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TACTICAL TOPICS – TOPICAL TACTICS

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MediaScape Biennale Zagreb

30. September – 23. October 2012

mediainmotion.de received confirmations by the co-curators:

Iva Kovac

Isin Onol

On 1st of November we will start the preparation phase of TACTICAL TOPICS – TOPICAL TACTICS

mediascape

MediaScape 2008

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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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Re-Locate Athens Journal

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Athens Journal / Re-locate 2011 from apartment project istanbul on Vimeo.

Re-Locate Project Exhibition

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13 September – 6 November 2011

Opening: 13 Eylül 2011 Saat: 18:30

Address: Rumeli Han B Blok Kat: 3 İstaiklal Cad. Beyoğlu İstanbul

Participants:

Mehmet Dere, Ha za vu zu, Gjorgje Jovanovik, Alban Muja, Suat Öğüt, Zeyno Pekünlü, Ilgın Seymen, Raycho Stanev, Gökçe Süvari, Mary Zygouri

Documentation & Backstage:

Selda Asal

Assistants:

Zeynep Beler, Eda Gecikmez, Mari Jögiste

Re- Locate

The theoretical framework of the Re- Locate project is based on the population exchange between Anatolia and the Balkans and it focuses on the flexibility of the borders, cultural similarities, controversies, the lack of communication between cultures, as well as various methods of developing new communication models. In addition, the project aims at establishing a new network between artists, curators, writers and institutions by making the shared history in the selected places its most important guide.

Re- Locate Project proposes an experimental workshop practice that is based on mobility and translocation. The suggested mobility tries to en- compass the physical transitivity of the cities and borders, as well as the flexibility of historical, identitarian, and ideological borders.

Re- Locate project consists of a series of workshops that are realized in this framework. The first part of the series is realized in Plovidiv, Athens, Skopje, Prizren, and Pristine with the participation of Gökçe Süvari, Ha za vu zu (Özgür Erkök, Güneş Terkol), Ilgın Seymen, Mehmet Dere, Suat Öğüt, and Zeyno Pekünlü. The group worked in collaboration with the local artists in the places that they visited. They worked on both their individual works and collective works and shared their experiences with each other.

The second workshop is realized in Istanbul with the participation of the artists who were invited to Istanbul from the places that are visited: Alban Muja, Gjorgje Jovanovik, Mary Zygoury, and Raycho Stanev.

Table Situation

admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:13:01 +0000

Kemal Seyhan

Table Situation

Installation

Apartment Project

4 – 26. 06. 2010

“God is My Recorder” is in progress; I will be back to you

admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:09:34 +0000

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.”

Freefall

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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

www.apartmentproject.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
http://httpdot.net/.-_-./

Abby Stiers– CIANT (International Centre for Art and New
Technologies), Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.ciant.cz

Ceren Arkman & Irmak Arkman & Mert Şahbaz – Courrier Video
Organization presents video screening
Video Screenings: Kevin Murphy, Ivan Shevchenko, Boris Eldagsen, Atıl
Altaş, Tuğçe Dilara Kurtoğlu, Digimind, Candaş Şişman, Efe Hızır,
Eva Olsson, Myriam Thyes
http://www.kuryevideo.org/

Basak Senova – ‘NOMAD’
http://www.nomad-tv.net/

Cagri Saray & Ferhat Satici & Hulya Ozdemir – on ‘Videoist’
http://www.videoistanbul.blogspot.com/

Charlotte Zott – on Tranforming Freedom and relevant environments,
Vienna, Austria
http://www.transformingfreedom.org/

Burak Arikan – artist talk and on ‘Dugumkume’
http://burak-arikan.com/ ; http://dugumkume.org/

Ekmel Ertan & Ozlem Alkış & Nafiz Akşehirlioglu – on ‘amberFestival’
http://www.amberplatform.org/ , http://www.amberfestival.org/

Genco Gulan – On ‘Web Biennial’
http://www.gencogulan.com/ , http://www.webbiennial.org

Fern Silva Screening in Apartment Project

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Fern Silva

Short Film Screening

June 7th 2011, Tuesday, 20.30

New York City based artist/film-maker Fern Silva will be presenting his most recent short films at Apartment Project.
Since 2005, Fern Silva has been an active filmmaker whose personal journeys and impulsery disposition give rise to his visionary process. He has created a body of film, video, and?projection work that conveys a congruent existence through the aesthetics of reflections and detriments within controlled microcosms. He travels the world capturing these ephemeral?moments and weaves them together creating abstracted essays packed with emotion and humor.

His work has been screened and performed at various festivals, galleries, museums and cinematheques including International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Anthology Film Archive, San Francisco Cinematheque, European Media Art Festival, MediaCity Film Festival, World Film Festival of Bangkok, Biennale Bandits-Mages, Roulette Gallery, White Box Gallery, and MOMA P.S.1.

He is the recent recipient of the prestigious Gus Van Sant award for best experimental film at the Ann Arbor ?Film Festival and was listed as one of the top 25 Film-makers for the 21st Century in Film Comment magazine. He received his MFA from Bard College and a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art.