Artspace Noordkaap presents performances, video-screenings, installations and a city tour in Istanbul

EU Tour | Istanbul

Artspace Noordkaap presents performances, video-screenings, installations and a city tour.

Artists: Hans van den Ban, Johannes Brechter, Nada van Dalen, Susi Gelb, Daan den Houter, Jan Kryszons, Tassilo Letzel, Ferhat Özgür, Remotewords, Extrapool: Ivette Mrova Zub, Piotr Kurek.

 Seven of the participating artists are working on the spot, reacting on specific elements of the city and society. Their perfomances, installations and artistic interventions in public space will be documentated through film, photo and interviews. These video's, combined with works of artists from Istanbul, will be shown to the public the upcoming weekend (23 and 24th of September) at our big yellow container, that is located at the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts.

Doors open at 19.30 o'clock

Free entrance

FRIDAY 23

20:00 - 22:00 o'clock

screenings with Susi Gelb (DE), Daan den Houter (NL), Jan Kryszons (DE/ NL), Ferhat Ozgur (TR)

SATURDAY

12:00 o'clock 'Periphery Istanbul'

a fieldtrip from Sulukule to Tasoluk by Tassilo Letzel (DE)

Startingpoint at Mimar Sinan University on the Meclis-i Mebusan Caddesi, nr. 24

Istanbul is changing fast. Giving a closer look, you can find various examples in what direction the officials want to develop the city. One of the biggest issues in this recent development was the forced eviction of Sulukule area, an ancient Roma Settlement, existing even prior to Istanbul and developing this area in some kind of Gated Community by speculators. The governement's excuse was to renew the old buildings and to  offer 'affordable houses' in another area of Istanbul to the former residents.

The area offered is in Tasoluk, some 40 kms north in the periphery of Istanbul.

We will start the fieldtrip at the Construction site of former Sulukule,  where we will get a brief introduction by local artists, about the past events. By doing the fieldtrip to Tasoluk with public transport, we will experience the distance and how the plan to reestablish the people from Sulukule. In this remote area, in the end, there was nothing else but a planned whipeout to Sulukule Community. In Tasoluk we will meet some of the locals, who are mainly middle class people working close by or being senior citizens spending their retirement there, out of the hectic from the inner city.

Please don't expect this tour to be a 'finished product'. The idea is to get a short view into two worlds colliding, that are typical for the latest development in Istanbul. I also wanted to bring together local people who are very aware of this process and visitors, who might not have heard about these developments before.

In the best case, this tour can start a discussion and increase the perception of your local surroundings.

Tassilo Letzel

We will use public transport, so be prepared. This trip is taking about 8 hours.

Please make sure to bring enough to drink and eat with you.

Costs of public transport are somewhere between 10 and 25 Turkish Lira.

20:00 o'clock 'Huzzle in the Streets'

a puppetplay with Karagöz and Hacivat by Johannes Brechter (DE)

Brechters Puppet theatre is about the famous characters Karagöz (meaning blackeye in Turkish) and Hacivat (shortened in time from "Haci Cevat" meaning "Cevat the Pilgrim"). They are the lead characters of the traditional Turkish shadow play, popularized during the Ottoman period. The central theme of the plays are the contrasting interaction between the two main characters. They are perfect foils of each other: Karagöz represents the illiterate but straightforward public, whereas Hacivat belongs to the educated class, speaking Ottoman Turkish and using a poetical and literary language. Karagőz and Hacivat will among other discuss the relevance of art.

21:00 - 23:00  o'clock

screenings with Susi Gelb (DE), Daan den Houter (NL), Jan Kryszons (DE/ NL), Ferhat Ozgur (TR)

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In 2011 and 2012 artist-initiative Noordkaap (NL) is touring through Europe. In six cities we invite international artists to work on the spot, resulting in a final exhibition in the Netherlands. Noordkaap investigates populistic tendencies in European society and creates a flexible network of artists working in various disciplines.

Location: Mimar Sinan

Street: Meclis-I Mebusan Cd. nr 24

Tram: Tophane | metro: Kabata[1]

www.noordkaap.org

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Noordkaap likes to meet artists from Turkey to exchange ideas for possible future collaborations. Contact: info@noordkaap.org

For each exhibition we publish our own independent newspaper:'Noordkaap Times'. Burak Delier, Bas Heijne, Bart Nijstad, Wouter Osterholt & Elke Uitentuis, Pelin Tan and Jonas Staal contributed to the Istanbul edition. Available from October 1st at: DEPO & 5533

Please make sure to bring enough to drink and eat with you.

 www.noordkaap.orgMunich, Ista