28.07.2011
27.07.2011
Re-Locate aims to address the historical fact of compulsory population exchanges in the Balkan region, which took place between two world wars, changing borders and possibilities to create newer bonds through artistic dialogue. The shared history within the regions; Plovdiv-Bulgaria, Athens-Greece, Skopje-Macedonia and Prishtina-Kosovo, provides a basis to establish a mutual platform to research both about common history and develop a cultural understanding on various levels.
28 Temmuz 2011 Perşembe
21 Temmuz 2011 Perşembe
Re-Locate Meeting with Elena Veljanovska / Part 1 / Roumeli Han 13.07.2011
Elena Veljanovska
E.V.: What your expectations for this project in the begining and how they are changing through its development? This is specially important for those travelling but still I think it is important for you (Mary, Raycho) and Gjjorgje and Alban who are on residency. Stil you have one expectation and you get something else. And then what about the discussion this project provoked in you and then what were changes this project brought to your work and how did you really like experiences and adopted your creativity in a way? And then to explain as much as posibble really what will your work focus in the final exhibition? And then how do you see as a part of everything like what made you do this king of project then what was your insparation really as mush as detailed about the final project?
Zeyno Pekünlü
Z.P.: This project had two sides for me. First one was really about being a bride which could be international in any place. Second part was when I heard about the project, we always talk about our neighbors and it is an important issue if you ask anyone in the city they have like grandparents from the Balkans, Bulgaria, Macedonia... But actually we don’t have any idea. It is just a myth that they came from there to here. So it is an opportunity to see it and to see the facts then to see the similar differences or to change that myth in my head. And actually it did change. I was expecting more familiar things but it wasn’t that familiar for me. I felt the differences. I felt that it is not a common history even though it has some connection points. And the other expectation of course was to know the artists that we are going to travel all together and also the artists we are going to meet… not only artist but people who help us the co workers like knowing people and also the other part was this project allowed me go into the hair dresses where the most gossip is made so sort of using that to hear the staff I want to hear about those places and the relation between turkey and those places.
Ilgın Seymen / Özgür Erkök (HaZaVuZu)
Ö.E.: Usually when we are working , we built simple basic structure. And the rest is developed with the people around also with the process. And this structure can be more strict in some cases more flexible some other cases. For Re Locate project we decided to make our cut the flow performance, which is based on cutting the flow of Pedestrian Street in the city with the people making announcement inviting them make a flesh wall to stay like a wall in two minutes. So it was a kind of basic structure for us to make there so it was a kind of aim. The rests which means how we organized it and what else can we do related the do it or around the project or something completely different. It is all developed during the process. So our expectation was putting something basic idea and also trying to find some meetings and collaborations. Those collaborations started with the Re Locate group at the beginning. For instance we met with Ilgın. We started to make some radio teasers some street music and some advertisement announcements together for cut the flow. We were also kind of working together then we started to meet some other people when we visited the cities and of course for-five days it is very short limited time so people you can meet or things you can do is very limited. But even though it is lead to it can lead to you know another thing in the future. So we didn’t expect too much but at least those meetings and stuff. For instance we met Mary in Athens and we really wanted to make some collaboration in the future. We are still talking and discussing about that. And also when we met people in the cities we tried to collaborate in different ways organize our performance there. So there were different outcomes such as organizing some radio programs for instance and some ideas from the people, some other ideas. So more or less it went quiet well for us those meetings.
Mary Zyguri
M.Z.: I met all these very nice group in Athens and I think by instinct I realize that it was a very fresh, flexible group that very fast they follow the reality of Greece which I think it is very important. I felt very closed from the very first moment. And I arrived here and I had already very good feeling but I think being here I am like discover another reality all these group and of course another reality of the city which is very important because...I am the third time but I believe this time I really understand, I think, understand more reality of the city. So I didn’t have an idea but the first days I had an idea but after all these bombarding artistic interaction wit h the people here for is very important. So I keep changing these. And I believe it is really nice creative process. I hope something is going to come out of it. And I think the other thing is very important is all the discussions we are doing everyday very nice because we have the time to develop in a way our discussion. We had just four days in Athens I think now in Istanbul we have more time to go deeper to understand much better who is the one I really liked at the beginning, I understand why I like these person. And I believe it is very nice most of them we are like develop in friendship and very nice network.
Raycho Stanev
R.S.: I think on the way of working, my idea a bit changing or lets say upgrading. Because I have two line that I am working: the first one, that I am going to here in the autumn, about the city about Istanbul and deeply connecting with the team here. So because it was second time in Istanbul and totally different than the first time. I just find how different could be one city through the working process which is remind me my student time. When I was working, explore the city much better than the others. So I decided to here make some interview with the team about working process how cities lets say re located for them through the work of the relocate project like especially for us for the guests it is a totally different experience but I think also for local people it is again re find some new things of the city like Eda today visit some places she has never been. And also like could be some feeling to some places spending time together. And I am planning to make some interactive collage with this conversation with the team. And also some small fragments with some short videos I am taking all the time, walking in Istanbul. It is small details fragments of the city just to take the atmosphere and the rhythm of the city and actually this is my impression of Istanbul and I wanted to show for the others. That is my impression of Istanbul from the people whose I am working with them.
Selda Asal
S.A.: At the end there will be an exhibition for sure. This is the conclusion of the experience. So how we experience of this project. So I will try to explain with this all together, working together, and also through the videos, the documentary are our archive. Then try to a bit open as a source that what we have done on the way so this is one important thing. Archive is mostly.. not the archive; backstage, we say; it will not be the transition or translating the language. It will be the real ...kind of documentation. So artist would probably they would transform the idea or the knowledge in different ways, this way or that way. But the backstage will be the one who is maybe kind of giving the an example moving workshop.. mobile workshop…That is it…
Gökçe Süvari
G.S.: We met with the artists we were in circumstances and you know every specific place, each artist try to exist themselves somehow, try to find some strategies to find different ways. Because these were not really easy places where we went. These are not like, you know, Berlin or London... These are, you know, hard or extreme spaces comparing to that. We had little chance to observe this. But when we invite the artists to here now, we have more chance to talk about, open this discussions how all of these artists find the strategies to exist themselves in these places. So this is important for me. And this is why it’s important to find this kind of networking. We talked already in the morning that all the people know each other somehow already: like from some exhibition, from friends so in that way it is already a present network but it is just not visible so this is a chance that we are making it visible. So I believe that this publication is also very important. Because if somebody who hasn’t experienced this, will have a chance to see what is going on actually in this region and what are the chances to collaborate, what are the chances to establish a better network. That’s why I call it; it’s like the beginning of the experience.
Re-Locate Work in Progress / Balat 10.07.2011
Mary Zyguri, Gjorgje Jovanovik, Raycho Stanev, Selda Asal
Photos: Mari Jögiste
20 Temmuz 2011 Çarşamba
14 Temmuz 2011 Perşembe
13 Temmuz 2011 Çarşamba
Re-Locate Talk: Elena Veljanovska
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Elena Veljanovska
15 Temmuz 2011, Cuma 18.00
Apartman Projesi
Şehbender Sokak, No:4 (Giriş katı) Asmalımescit
Beyoğlu
Re-Locate Projesi kapsamında Apartman Projesinde misafir olarak bulunan Makedonyalı bağımsız küratör Elena Veljanovska küratoryel calışmaları ve Re-Locate projesine yaklaşımı üzerine açık bir konuşma gerçekleştiriyor.
Veljanovska ilgi alanlarını çeşitli başlık ve eğilimler altında toplamakta;
Sanatın bilim ve teknolojiyle evliliği; kamusal alan, urbanizm ve bunlar üzerine inceleme ve arşivlemeler; kamusal alanın değişimiyle şekillenen kolektif hafıza.
Bu eğilimler Elena Veljanovska’nin farklı ilgi alanlarından kaynaklanmakta ve küratoryel pratiğine yansımaktadır. Böylelikle calışmalarının coğu yaşadığı çevreden esinler taşırken, bazıları da global sanat hareketleri ve yeni sanat pratiklerinin gelişimi üzerine ilgisini yansıtır.
Elena Veljanovska (1979 Üsküp) sanat tarihi eğitimi gördü ve 2006’dan beri bağımsız küratör olarak calışmaktadır. 2006’da Üsküp’te kurulan Line Initiative and Movement [www.l-i-n-e.org] yeni medya ve teknoloji temelli sanat platformu kurucuları arasındadır. 2009’da Berlin Stedefreund Galeri’de misafir küratorlüğün yanısıra 53. Venedik Bienali’nde Makedonya Pavyonu’nun ko-küratorlüğünü üstlenmiştir. 2010 yılında Almanya ve Meksika’da gerçeklesen “Visions of art - Contemporary Art E-learning program”da ders vermiş ve Üsküp Euro Balkan Institute’de doktora programına başlamıştır. 2011’de Üsküp, Atina ve Tiran’da gerçekleşen “Who is afraid of the Big, Bad Crisis" workshop’unu organize etmenin yanısıra yine Üsküp’te "Private/ Public, taking space -- > making space" kamusal müdahale projesini kürate etmiş ve Re-Locate projesinin Üsküp koordinasyonunu yönetmiştir.
www.l-i-n-e.org
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Elena Veljanovska
Open Talk
15 Temmuz 2011, Cuma 18.00
Apartment Project
Şehbender Sokak, No:4 (Giriş katı) Asmalımescit
Beyoğlu
Re-Locate Project’s visiting curator Elena Veljanovska will realize an open talk about her practices in conjuction with the Re-Locate worksop in the Apartment Project.
Elena Veljanovska divides her interests into several tendencies and topics:
The marriage of art with science and technology; Interest for art in public space, urbanity, observing and archiving it; The change of the collective memory reflected with the change of the public space
These tendencies arise from different interests that the Veljanovska has, thus trying to reflect them in her curatorial work, so some of them are mostly inspired by the local environment she lives in, while the others reflect her curiosity into the global art movements and development of new art practices.
Elena Veljanovska (b.1979, Skopje) Educated as Art Historian and working as an independent curator since 2006. 2006: co-founding Line Initiative and Movement [www.l-i-n-e.org] platform for new media art and technology related arts, based in Skopje, Macedonia. 2009: guest-curator in the gallery Stedefreund in Berlin; co-curator of the Macedonian Pavilion at the 53 International Art exhibition in Venice, Italy. 2010: teaching for the “Visions of art - Contemporary Art E-learning program” (Germany-Mexico); MA candidate in Cultural Studies, Euro Balkan Institute, Skopje. 2011: "Who is afraid of the Big, Bad Crisis" - workshop project realized in Skopje, Athens, Tirana; hosted "Re-locate" project in Skopje; Public interventions curator for "Private/ Public, taking space -- > making space", Skopje.
www.l-i-n-e.org
12 Temmuz 2011 Salı
Re-Locate Artist Talk: Mary Zygouri
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Mary Zygouri
Sanatcı Konuşması
14 Temmuz 2011, Perşembe 18.00
Apartman Projesi
Şehbender Sokak, No:4 (Giriş katı) Asmalımescit
Beyoğlu
Re-Locate Projesi kapsamında Apartman Projesinde misafir sanatçı olarak bulunan Mary Zygouri calışmaları üzerine bir açık konuşma gerçekleştiriyor.
Mary Zygouri günümüz dünyasında bireysel kimlik ve sosyal krizle ilgili konulara işaret etmektedir. Çalışmalarında, kurgusal karakterler ve sahte kimlikler icad ederek bunları, kamusal eylemler, sembolik ve paradoksal sonuçlari olan video performanslar ile temsil eder. Güç ilişkileri, sansür ve gözetleme gibi sistemlerle olan iliskişi bağlamında benlik kavramına odaklanmaktadır. Tarihsel olaylardan yola çıkıp, arşivler, biyografiler ve edebi anlatıları inceleyen sanatçı, bunları yeniden aktararak, işaret ederek ve güncel bir referanslar çerçevesinde yeniden sunup, günümüz gerçekliğine taşıyarak, geçmiş ve onun birçok yorumunu başkalaşıma uğratır. Böylelikle ‘Yunanistan Borç Krizi – kemer sıkma dönemi’yle işaretlenmiş bir günümüz eleştirisini zerkeder. Sanatçının burada hedeflediği, herhangi bir amaca erişmenin ve anlamın nerede yattığını tanımlamanın imkansızlığına dair bir hissi telkin etmektir.
Mary Zygouri’nin son yıllardaki performanslarında kullandığı yöntemler kentsel-kamusal alanın tepkisine açık olan kamusal müdahalelerden olusur. Bu performanslarda, sanatçının tamamen spontan bir durumda varoluşu, seyirciyi harekete zorlar. Zygouri aynı zamanda daha ilişkisel bir strateji güderek, aşırı bölgelerde video-performanslar sahneler. Böylelikle, gerçek deneyimin ve performansın sonucuna dair sınırlı kontrolün özgün bir deneyim ürettiği durumlar ve video performanslar oluşturur.
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Mary Zygouri
Artist Talk
July 14, 2011 Thursday 18.00
Apartment Project
Şehbender Sokak, No:4 (Giriş katı) Asmalımescit
Beyoğlu
Re-Locate Project’s visiting artists Mary Zygouri will realize an open talk about her practices in the Apartment Project.
Mary Zygouri addresses issues related to individual identity and social crisis in the contemporary world. In her work she invents and impersonates fictional characters in reality, false identities presented in public actions and video-performances with symbolic and paradoxical results. She focuses on the notion of self in relation to systems of power, censorship, and surveillance. Starting from historical events, investigating archives, biographies, and literary narratives, she alters the past and its many interpretations, by transferring, re-signifying, and representing them in contemporary frames of reference, relocating them in contemporary reality. Thus injecting a critic of nowadays, which, in fact, is been hit by an “age of austerity -Greek debt crisis”. Her aim is to induce a feeling of impossibility in achieving any purpose, and in identifying where meaning lays.
The tactics that Mary Zygouri followed in her actions in the recent years are public interventions, opened to the reaction of the urban public space. In these performances her presence in complete spontaneity situation, forces the public-becoming-audience to be in motion. She also stages, video-Performances in extreme spaces, following a more relational strategy. Thus creating situations and video-performances, where the real experience and the limited control over the outcome of the performance generates authentic experiences.
11 Temmuz 2011 Pazartesi
Night Meeting / Free fall performance / 30/06/2011
Participiants:
Alban Muja Gjorgje Jovanovik Raycho Stanev
Zeyno Pekünlü
Gökçe Süvari
Güneş Terkol
Zeyno Pekünlü
Gökçe Süvari
Güneş Terkol
Güçlü Öztekin Mari Jõgiste
Başak Şenova
Selda Asal
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