01.04.09 Oreet Ashery

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Oreet Ashery
Sabetay Sevi ve Diğer Egolar / Shabbtai Zvi and Other Alter Egos
Sanatçı Konuşması / Artist Talk
01.04.09 Çarşamba / Wednesday
18:30 / 6.30 pm

http://www.oreetashery.net/

PiST///
Dolapdere Caddesi
Pangaltı Dere Sokak
No 8 A/B/C
Pangaltı 34375
İstanbul TR

pist@pist.org.tr

Londra’da yaşayan sanatçı Oreet Ashery 1 Nisan 2009, Çarşamba günü saat 18:30’da PiST’te çalışmalarıyla ilgili bir konuşma gerçekleştirecek. 27 Mart-7 Nisan tarihleri arasında projeleriyle ilgili araştırma yapmak için İstanbul’da bulunacak ve PiST’in ilk misafir sanatçısı olacak.

Oreet Ashery, farklı medyumlar aracılığıyla interaktif ve performatif sanat etkinlikleri düzenleyen, video, 2 boyutlu isler ureten, obje, metin ve interneti kullanarak çalışan bir sanatçı. Ashery uzun zamandır Musevilik, ırk, cinsiyet ve Arap/Müslüman dünyası üzerine işler üretiyor. İşlerinde sıklıkla farklı karakterlere bürünüyor. Bunlardan bazıları tavşan, siyah adam, Norveçli postacı, şişman çiftçi ve Arap adam karakterleri.

Son olarak Ashery 17. yüzyılda yaşamış Sahte Mesih Sabetay Sevi’yi de performanslarında yeni bir karakter olarak kullanmaya başladı. Oreet Ashery'nin Sabetay Sevi ve Diğer Egolar* başlıklı konuşması için 1 Nisan, Çarşamba günü saat 18:30’da hepinizi PiST’e bekliyoruz!

*Konuşma İngilizce olacaktır.

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London based artist Oreet Ashery will give a talk* about her work at PiST on April 1st, 2009, Wednesday at 6.30 pm. Ashery is the first artist-in residence at PiST who will stay in Istanbul for her project research.

Ashery is a context- responsive visual artist working across mediums in interactive performance art events, video, 2-D image making, objects, text and the internet. Ashery’s practice looks at personal politics and its complex relationship to social and political realities, notions of identity and subjectivity, and at the nature of what an art practice might be.
Ashery has an ongoing interest in the intersections between Jewishness, race, gender and the Arab and Muslim world. The project Welcome Home that started in 2004 is an investigation into the Palestinian Right to Return and other projects within an anti-Occupation remit.
Frequently Ashery will produce work as a character. Her characters include a rabbit, a black man, a Norwegian postman, a fat farmer and an Arab man, among others. Marcus Fisher, an orthodox Jewish man is Ashery’s most consistent character. Recently Ashery developed a new character based on the controversial 17th century false messiah Shabbtai Zvi. Throughout his life Shabbtai conducted a series of ‘Strange Acts’ akin to much performance work, like walking with a fish dressed in baby clothes in a pram, he converted from Judaism to Islam later on in life.

Ashery's work has been shown extensively in the UK and internationally in museums, galleries, cinemas, biennials, festivals and site-specific locations. Most recently at the: ZKM | Tate Modern, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Brooklyn Museum, Pompidou Centre, Liverpool Biennial, EDS Gallery, Mexico City, Freud museum, OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz.

Ashery's work has been published and discussed in numerous books, academic and art publications in many languages including: Bidoun, Frieze, Art Monthly, Art Forum, Contemporary, Time Out, the Village Voice, Circa, Flash Art, Dazed & Confused, Map, Heeb, Sleezenation among others. And in books including Art Tomorrow, Art in the Age of Terrorism, Blasphemy and Biographies and Space.

The book Dancing with Men, charting ten years of interactive performance work, published by the Live Art Development Agency and the collaborative graphic novel, the Novel of Nonel and Vovel with the artist Larissa Sansour, published by Charta, will be available in Spring 2009.

Ashery has been given public talks about her works at the ICA, Whitechapel, Gallery, Tate Modern, Royal Academy, Goldsmith College, Chelsea College, to mention a few.

Ashery has been engaged with educational work for years, including public art projects and community based projects, as well as teaching in academic contexts. Ashery currently holds a creative fellowship in Queen Mary University Drama department.

We look forward to seeing you at PiST on Oreet Ashery's talk about Shabbtai Zvi and Other Alter Egos. On April 1st, 2009, Wednesday at 6.30 pm.

*The talk will be in English.

13.03.09 Bettina Lockemann

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Bettina Lockemann
Ülkeleri Keşfetmek / Exploring Territories
Sanatçı Konuşması / Artist Talk
13.03.09 Cuma / Friday
18:30 / 6.30 pm

http://www.archivalien.de/

PiST///
Dolapdere Caddesi
Pangaltı Dere Sokak
No 8 A/B/C
Pangaltı 34375
İstanbul TR

pist@pist.org.tr

Kavramsal-belgesel fotoğraf işleri üreten Alman sanatçı Bettina Lockemann Kunststifung NRW (Northrine-Westphalia Sanat Vakfı) tarafindan desteklenen son projesini gerçekleştirmek için bugünlerde Türkiye'de çalışıyor. Bu çalışmasını İstanbul'un kentsel yapılanması, Avrupa ile Asya arasında konumlandığı coğrafi sınır ve Türkiye'nin geleceğini bir Avrupa ülkesi olarak şekillendiren Atatürk'un Ankara'yı başkent olarak seçmesi üzerine oluşturuyor. Lockemann Avrupa'nın yanı başında yer alan Türkiye'yi ne tam Avrupalı ne de tam zıttı olarak gören anlayışın bağlantı ve ayrılıklarını oluşturan bir söylemi bir araya toparlamayı amaçlıyor. Bunu gerçekleştirirken bireylerin Avrupalı kimliğine de sorular yöneltiyor.

Lockemann 13 Mart 2009 Cuma günü saat 18:30'da PiST'te hem Türkiye'de gerçekleştirmekte olduğu son projesi üzerine hem de 2006-2008 süresince Japonya'daki Avrupa etkisi ve Brüksel'deki Avrupa Parlementosu içerisinde gerçekleştirdiği iki yeni projesi üzerine de konuşacak. 13 Mart Cuma günü sizi de PiST'e bekliyoruz!

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German artist Bettina Lockemann is working in the field of conceptual documentary photography. Currently she is working on a project in Turkey funded by the Kunststiftung NRW (Art Foundation Northrhine-Westphalia). Her work in Turkey is conceived in the urban settings of Istanbul, situated at the geographical border between Europe and Asia and Ankara, being the capital chosen by Atatürk who was working on Turkey's future as a European country. Lockemann is searching for threads of connection and disjunction within the discourse of Turkey being situated at the European frontier neither being fully European nor the contrary Other, therefore also posing questions towards European identities themselves. In her latest works she is exploring cultural and institutional territories in search of Europe and its Other.

On March 13th, 2009 Lockemann will give an artist talk on not only about her recent project in Turkey but also about two other projects she has realized in 2006-2008 one about the European influences in Japan and the other on her approach to the interior of the European Parliament in Brussels. We look forward to see you at PiST on March 13th!

Rotterdam Dialogues: the Curators Symposium

IS THERE SUCH A THING AS AN EMBEDDED CURATOR?

Saturday 7 MAR: CONTEXTS
4:00 pm
Rotterdam Dialogues Symposium: The Curators
Witte de With

Panel discussion

In contrast to the hyper-internationality of some curators - which has led to the label 'airport curator' - others choose to immerse themselves in a specific territory or local context, and work extensively within this framework. Does this 'embedded curating' open up possibilities that might not find a place in other models of curating, for example the sharing of knowledge and expertise, and the provision of service to others?

Didem Ozbek & Osman Bozkurt, artists, independent curators, PiST, Istanbul; Lesley Young & James Hutchinson, independent curators, The Salford Restoration Office, Salford, Anke Bangma (moderator), independent curator and writer Rotterdam


Witte de With presents a program of three symposia, titled Rotterdam Dialogues: Critics, Curators, Artists. Structured to establish a lively platform for debate and exchange, they create space for a range of voices, and explore the practice of three of the central protagonists of the contemporary art world: the critic, the curator and the artist. Critics were the subject of the first symposium, held last October. This highly successful event is now followed by The Curators on 5, 6, 7 March 2009. The series will conclude with The Artists later this year. A publication will follow, bringing together elements of each symposium. Speakers The practice of curating is much discussed within the art world, but often neglected by the media and thus remains largely invisible to the broader public. With our selection of speakers, we aim to put a wide range of faces to the often elusive and contested title of "curator". The speakers are: Jamila Adeli, Anke Bangma, Bart De Baere, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Pablo León de la Barra, Ute Meta Bauer, Lorenzo Benedetti, Iwona Blazwick, Nicolas Bourriaud, Sabine Breitwieser, Adam Budak, Ann Demeester, Barnaby Drabble, Mai Abu ElDahab, Zoran Erić, Bruce Ferguson, Juan Gaitan, Hou Hanru, Jan Hoet, Jens Hoffmann, Manray Hsu, Renske Janssen, Stefan Kalmár, Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Emmanuel Lambion, Enrico Lunghi, Raimundas Malasauskas, Gerardo Mosquera, Sophie von Olfers, Paul O'Neill, Livia Páldi, Philippe Pirotte, PiST, Irit Rogoff, Beatrix Ruf, The Salford Restoration Office, Brigitte van der Sande, Kitty Scott, Seth Siegelaub, Saskia van Stein, Adam Szymczyk, Andrea Viliani, Rein Wolfs, and What, how and for whom. Topics The full program is available to download from http://www.wdw.nl. Each day has an overarching theme, subdivided into more precise questions: Thursday – Expectations, looking at the personal expectations of individual curators, of audiences and of artists, and how these expectations might influence curatorial practice. Friday – Positions, focusing on the importance of building a reputation, the power of curators to shape the canon, and the influence of the market on the profession. Saturday – Contexts, exploring the conditions and ideas underlying curating, and the increasingly international practice of exhibition making. Rotterdam Dialogues: Critics, Curators, Artists is conceived by Zoë Gray, Nicolaus Schafhausen and Ariadne Urlus.

LiST 08 Çıktı! LiST 08 is Out!

Mart - Nisan 2009 dönemi boyunca İstanbul'da gerçekleşecek güncel sanat sergi etkinliklerini listeleyen LiST 08 çıktı! 40.000 adet basılan LiST 08, İstanbul ve Türkiye genelinde ücretsiz dağıtılıyor. LiST 08'i pdf olarak aşağıdaki adresten de indirebilirsiniz.

http://www.istanbulartlist.net/Download___indir.html

LiST 08, listing Istanbul's contemporary art exhibitions on March-April 2009 is out now. 40.000 copies of LiST 08 is on free distribution in/around Istanbul and Turkey. You can also download LiST 08's pdf version from the link below.

http://www.istanbulartlist.net/Download___indir.html