Between the Photograph and Film: Photofilms
Hasan Cem Çal
Speaking
*The event will be held in Turkish.
Film, doğumundan bu yana fotoğrafla ilişkisi gelgitli bir sanat oldu. Film ile fotoğrafı birbirinden ayıran şeyler ile onları birbirine bağlayan şeyler sürekli olarak konuşuldu, tartışmaya açıldı. Filmi fotoğraftan pek de farklı olmayan, bir tür hareketli fotoğraf olarak görenler de oldu, fotoğrafı filmin gelişiminde yalnızca bir ara evre, bir hazırlık aşaması olarak görenler de. Öyle ki Hollis Frampton, (tıpkı evrenin her an her yönden fotoğraf çektiğini söyleyen Henri Bergson gibi) bir fotoğrafın, bir hareketsiz görüntünün, filmin sonsuz akışından alınmış bir kesitten başka bir şey olmadığını söylemişti; yani fotoğraf filmin bileşeniydi olsa olsa, yoksa kendinden menkul bir şey değil.
Peki, fotoğraf ile film gerçekten de birbirinden sanıldığı kadar farklı iki şey mi? Onları kavuşturan bir estetik düzenleme söz konusu olabilir mi? Filmi, fotoğraftan ayıran değil de (hareket) onunla bağlayan şey (zaman) üzerinden düşünürsek filme dair ne tür bir anlayışa ve farkındalığa sahip oluruz?
Filmi olabildiğince hareketten soyan, böylelikle de filmin fotoğrafa yakınsamasını sağlayan hibrit bir estetik filmin kavranışında ve duyumsanışında nasıl bir farka yol açar? Birbiriyle ilişkili bütün bu sorulara, özellikle 60’lı yıllardan sonra örnekleri çoğalan, hareketsiz görüntülerden oluşan filmler, namı diğer fotofilmler bir cevap niteliğinde. Hareketin ya kısmen ya da tamamen sezilemez hâle geldiği ama yine de zamanın geçişini ve basıncını hissettiren bu filmler, hâkim tanımların ve kavramsallaştırmaların ötesinde, filmin ontolojisi ile fotoğrafınkinin nasıl da paralel bir şekilde ele alınabileceğini gösteriyor bize. Böylece iki pratik ve görüntü tarzı arasında gerçekleşen bir sentezin açığa çıkarabileceği imkânları da görünür kılıyor. Filmi fotoğrafla olan ilişkisinde yeniden düşünüp dönüştüren, bu yolla da film mecrasını yeniden tanımlayan filmler bunlar".
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*Image: Disappearing Music for Face, Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi, 1966
Ulus Baker Readings LIII
Cinematographic Image
Edited by: Onur Eylül Kara - Reader: Hasan Cem Çal
Speaking - Reading
The 53rd Ulus Baker reading, organized by Onur Eylül Kara, will be at Yermekân! Friday, December 13, at 19:00.
The reading will be done by Hasan Cem Çal and Ulus Baker's text titled "Cinematographic Image" from his book Brain Screen will be discussed. You can access the text here .
Before the presentation, a riddle will be asked and the first person to give a correct answer will be awarded an Ulus Baker book. You can join the conversation after the presentation and contribute to the reading with your questions and comments.
The event is free of charge and we would like to remind you that there is no need to attend previous events. The venue has a capacity of 25 people, so we recommend that you arrive in good time to secure your place.
Visual Sociology: Concepts, Periods, Methods
Gulbin Ozdamar Akarcay - Besim Can Zirh
Conversation
Moderated by Besim Can Zırh, in the book “Visual Sociology: Concepts, Periods, Methods” with Gülbin Özdamar Akarçay, we will present visual sociology, which is the intersection point of photography and sociology practices as forms of social, cultural and aesthetic criticism that facilitate our understanding of ourselves and the world we live in, as a field that both photographers and sociologists can benefit from.
Gülbin Özdamar Akarçay, in her book, includes how photography can be used as visual data in research and the definition of the field of visual sociology. She defines visual sociology, an interdisciplinary field that emerged from the parallels between documentary photography and sociology, as the use of visual images for sociological research. She examines how visual sociology, which examines social reality through images and these images, benefits from the qualities of photography in conveying reality, providing information, and being a document.
He emphasizes that, as ethnographers, photographers, sociologists and visual researchers turn to participant-centered approaches today, previously passive research subjects have become active subjects.
We look forward to seeing everyone in our conversation where we will focus on photography, one of the most effective tools in the change of seeing and ways of seeing, and the simultaneous development of both in the light of social science!
*Image: Ivan Sutherland: Sword of Damocles, 1968.
Living on the Edge of the Rubicon
Serhat Kir - Fazli Ozturk
Conversation
Moderated by Fazlı Öztürk, we will talk about the project production process of Serhat Kır, a photographer who produces projects in a contemporary documentary language, the spatial encounters in his works, and the effect of the method he uses on his stories.
While watching his projects, we will also follow the traces of walking, traveling and being alone in his projects. We will chat about the artist's preferences, sources of inspiration and the schools he is influenced by. We are waiting for everyone who is interested in contemporary documentary language and storytelling in photography!
Art Secrets: Seeing - Shaping - Perspective
Seval Sener
Talk
“It is surprising and thought-provoking that Rodin, one of the greatest artists in history, said that he never learned perspective and that what he knew about perspective was instinct. If perspective is something that is learned, as Rodin said, it means that it is not a natural result of our perception of sight.
What does perspective assume, what does it ignore? To what extent can it reflect the outside world? Why does the user use it, and why does the non-user not use it? What is the role it plays in painting and sculpture? What is the historical story of perspective?
We invite you to join us in discussing the central perspective, which is said to be a renaissance invention and a great revolution in art history!
A Publisher's Journey
Irem Cagil
Talk
In this conversation, where we will listen to the invisible footprints of an adventure that started in Ankara bookstores and continued until Sinek Sekiz, we will touch on publishing, books, art books, culture of togetherness and many other topics. We invite you to the meeting where we will listen to İrem Çağıl's experiences on her journey!
Good Deed Bad Deed
İpek Çınar - İpek Aşıkoğlu
Game Night
GGood Deed Bad Deed is a board game produced by artist İpek Çınar and legal academic İpek Aşıkoğlu!
It encourages photographers to express their intentions and discuss their positions, considering their privileges in the production and presentation process while addressing structural discriminations such as racism, sexism, classism, faith-based discrimination, and others. Through hypothetical scenarios, the game challenges decision-making and judgment mechanisms in photography, encouraging players to reflect on their intentions and consider alternative perspectives. Join us for an engaging evening of conversation about your positionality in the art field!
During the event, participants will be divided into groups of four people and play the game under the facilitation of The İpeks. Feel free to come with your 4-person group. But don't let being without a group stop you - we'll match you up with other awesome people. You can play the role of the good-hearted or the devil, everyone's lover, or a fat cat. Above all, you'll consider photography, agencies, and curatorial work.
The event is limited to 16 people and operates on a first-come, first-served basis. If you wish, you can come with your snacks or drinks. Don't be late!
*Game language is English and Turkish.
Ankara’da Flanör Olmak
Can Öktemer - Karaca Pehlivanlı
Söyleşi
"Düşünür gezer olarak tarif edilen flanör, 18. yüzyıla doğru kentin içinde kafasında soru baloncukları ve her daim cevapsız sorularla modern dünyanın belki de ilk varoluşsal sorunlarını yaşayan karakterdir. Flanör, büyük kentlerin değişimi, artan kalabalıklar, dükkânlar ve ışıltılı hayatın içinde tek başına amaçsızca bu dünyayı seyre dalmaktadır. Peki bugünün flanörleri nereye kayboldular? Hepsi sigortalı bir işe mi girdi? Kamusal alanın sıkı denetime tabi olduğu, yan güvenlik önlemlerinin arttırıldığı, yürümenin iş ve ev arasına sıkıştırıldığı bir çağda flanörün yürüyüşü nasıl olur?
Bu sorunun yanıtını her yere yürüme mesafesi uzaklığındaki Ankara özelinden aramak ilginç bir deneyim olabilir. Ankara yürüyüş dostu bir şehir olduğu kadar yakın zamanlarda yaşadığı değişimler nedeniyle giderek anılarda yaşayan bir yere dönüşüyor. Ankara içerisinde yürümek kayıp bir tarihin, yıkılmış bir medeniyetin içinde dolaşmak gibidir. Kent üstü başı yırtılmış devrik bir kral gibi görünür zaten. Altın çağını yaşamış ve tarihin tozlu sayfalarına gömülmüş gibidir. Bu yüzden geçmiş, şimdiki zamana çok fazla sirayet eder.
Ankara’nın içinde serbest rotalarda yürürken neler görürüz? Neler hissederiz? Zihnimizde nasıl hisler uyanır? Her adım yeni bir ihtimali yaratabilir bu ihtimaller bizi nereye sürükler? Biz de bu sohbette, peşimize bu soru kümelerini takıp, flanörlük deneyiminin geçmişten bugüne değişimini ve 21. yüzyılda Ankara’da nasıl bir şeye benzediğini anlamaya çalışacağız."
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*Görsel: Avareler, 2011
I. Topografik Seyehatler: Zaman, Mekân, Aşırı Kent
Duygu Cihangir Riberio - Erhan Muratoğlu
Talk
Yermekân and Rê art collective, in collaboration with visual artist Rezzan Gümgüm's project “I Have Treasures on the Edge”, are starting a series of monthly discussions titled “Topographic Journeys: Time, Space, Extreme City”, Yermekân and Rê art collective are starting a series of discussions that will host different field experts and art producers in monthly periods. The first guest of the series, which will be moderated by artist Erhan Muratoğlu, a member of the Rê collective, will be Dr. Duygu Cihanger Ribeiro, Faculty Member of METU Department of Urban and Regional Planning and II President of TMMOB Chamber of Urban Planners.
The art project “I Have Treasures on the Edge” focuses on Dikmen Valley, starting with all living and non-living beings, gradually expanding and continuing as multi-participatory events that talk and discuss, produce and multiply about water basins, housing and urban rights, memory and space.
II. Topographic Journeys: Time, Space, Extreme City
Screening: Asfaltın Altında Dereler Var
Yasin Semiz - Elçin Deniz Özdamar - Onur Bektaş - Erhan Muratoğlu
In the scope of visual artist Rezzan Gümgüm's project “I Have Treasures on the Edge” in collaboration with Yermekân and Rê collective, Topographic Journeys: Time, Space, Extreme City”, we will be hosting the team of the documentary ‘Asfaltın Altında Dereler Var’.
The screening of the documentary can be watched at Yermekân on Saturday at 16:00. Immediately after the screening, there will be a discussion moderated by Erhan Muratoğlu with the participation of director Yasin Semiz, Elçin Deniz Özdamar and Onur Bektaş.
The art project “I Have Treasures on the Edge” met with the documentary “There are Creeks Under the Asphalt” while tracing the Ateş Creek in Dikmen Valley. Ankara is actually a city of streams, as evidenced by its numerous neighborhoods with streams such as Kavaklıdere, Hoşdere, Bentderesi and Cevizlidere. Although the city dwellers may not realize it, they actually cross over the streams flowing underground every day. With Topographic Travels, we invite you to discover Ankara's hidden stories together, and in this context, to explore and discuss the possibilities of understanding ourselves, the past, the present and the future.
III. Topographic Journeys: Time, Space, Extreme City
Anna Bromley - Erhan Muratoğlu
We are hosting Anna Bromley, the guest artist of Tarabya Cultural Academy between June and September 2023, in the third of the series of talks titled "Topographic Journeys: Time, Space, Extreme City" within the scope of Rezzan Gümgüm's "I Have Treasures on the Margin" project in collaboration with Rê collective and Yermekan. (with the support of Tarabya Culture Academy). We will hold a conversation on the art productions of Anna Bromley, moderated by Erhan Muratoğlu.
Anna Bromley is an artist, radio producer and writer who started his artistic career in East Germany. She has recently appeared at international venues and festivals with his installations, reenactments and audio projects, such as documenta 14, Manifesta 14, the 23rd Milan Triennale German Pavilion and beuys2021 & beuysradio. She conducts research and lectures on dissident and undercovert radio practices and their underground feminist histories. Also she published two books; Quatsch! (AAAAPPPP 2020) and Speak to me (Edition Error, 2022). She distorts original sounds from archival recordings and transforms them into electroacoustic compositions. She imagines a hypothetical future powered by words and sounds, the imagined lives of the sounds she remembers.
Mehmed SiyahKalem and Reduction to Two Dimensions
Aykan Alemderoğlu - Hayri Şengün
Conversation
We invite everyone to this conversation where we will trace the mystery of SiyahKalem's pen together with Aykan Alemdaroğlu and Hayri Şengün.
What Mehmed SiyahKalem did is unique among the methods of reduction to two dimensions developed since Ancient Egypt. His masterful handling of problems that would only be addressed in European painting at the beginning of the 20th century places him in a timeless and inter-traditional position. In order to approach this position, it will be necessary to analyze the images produced by SiyahKalem.
The event is open to everyone and free of charge.
The Source and Theoretical Development of 'Beauty' in Sculpture
Aykan Alemderoğlu - Hayri Şengün
Conversation
•Is it a “beauty” invention?
•Why is European art determined by Ancient Greece?
•Does every sculpture have to be “beautiful”?
•Can modern sculpture theories be considered independently of Ancient Greek sculptures?
•Can a sculpture be made without theory? Has anyone made one?
We invite you to talk about beauty and theories in sculpture and to ask more questions at the meeting that will take place around the conversation of Aykan Alemdaroğlu and Hayri Şengün.
The event is open to everyone and free of charge.
I know you, you know me
Mumtaz Demirkalp
Talk - Workshop
“While the title “I know you” that I voiced to myself made me nervous on the one hand, on the other hand, searching for the equivalent of knowing on the “screen-wall” in Yermekân excited me. This excitement may be the equivalent of the sincerity of “you know me”.
Hope to meet you at Yermekan
Mumtaz.”
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What will the walls that carry the mutual burden of seeing and knowing carry from the cave walls to today?
4th Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival // Rethinking the Archive - Lost&Found
Workshop - Talk - Screening
Applications for the Lost&Found workshop as part of the 'Rethinking the Archive' program of the 4th Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival continue until this Friday.
In addition to the workshop with a limited number of participants, it aims to open up discussion on the relationship between contemporary archive/anti-archive practices and our perception of the images that surround us and the art of the moving image through a series of panels and film screenings open to everyone.
The speeches will be held at Yermekan between 15:00-17:00.
October 22, 2022: Umut Erbaş – Emin Köseoğlu | Exhibition and Experience of Working with Found Materials
October 29, 2022: Andreas Treske – Naz Önen Gündoğdu | Media Archaeology Lab and Collage Films
November 5, 2022: Pelin Aytemiz Karslı – Gülay Acar Göktepe | Methodological Approaches to Found Materials
Performative Book Launch // Active Living -truths in the clippings-
Coşkun Demirok
Performantif Book Launch
“Architect and artist Coşkun Demirok, who has been in an intense ebb and flow between Düsseldorf, where he has been living for a very long time, and Ankara, where he was born and raised, has recently collected his text collages using contemporary media terminology in a booklet. He describes this booklet as a “living”, dynamic and sustainable artwork, not a finished, finalized work.
These “poetic verses”, composed entirely of quoted texts, are integrated with the visuals of the artist's works using newspaper pages. Although he sets out in search of a new aesthetic, he is motivated by a social imperative, and it is impossible not to recall the provocative “noise poems” (Lautgedichte) and anti-content poems of the Dadaists or Kurt Schwitters in the 1920-30s against academicism and bourgeois conservatism, as well as William S. Burroughs' numerous artworks in the 1960-70s, which, through collages of texts, paintings and films, unraveled what was really hidden in the newspaper pages. It is known that Burroughs borrowed the method of creating new meanings by cropping these newspaper clippings from Brian Gysin.
Coşkun Demirok, on the other hand, transforms the sentences taken out of their context into the lines of a book of poetry. He sees his work on the one hand as an artistic resistance against the unbearability of social existence, and on the other hand as an attitude against melancholy, artifice and self-deception in art, in poetry for example. Although the lines occasionally provoke a smile, it is impossible to ignore their stark reality, and our reading may take spontaneous and experimental forms in accordance with the prescribed function of the work.”
Words, Actions, and Worlds: The Promise of Critical Literacy
Erdinc Kaygusuz & Ciler Dursun
Conversation
Let us accept that the existence of a person appears at the levels of language and action. The share of these two levels in the construction and perception of the world is still debatable, despite their value equivalence. The unbridgeable difference between the constitutive power of language and the symbolic and the constitutive power of action also makes it difficult for a person to relate to the world critically. However, critical knowledge of something means comprehending its reason for existence. The concept in question can result in the transformation of objections directed to this reason into action. Therefore, the problem of deciphering the given inequalities regarding the earth is intertwined with the problem of eliminating them.
How can we go about this, or what kind of subjectivity promises to overcome existing inequalities? We will seek answers to these ancient questions through a radical questioning of the chronic inequality of competency-based academic education and the meaning of being critical. We will examine the promises of critical literacy and critical pedagogy to disrupt the existing by analyzing the texture of real life. Thus, we will also rethink the question of “how is a revolutionary subject possible?”
The Moment of Temporality and the Medium of Non-Settlementality: Initiatives
Sinasi Tek
Speech
Ankara has had an ever-developing art scene since it was declared the capital of the Republic. As the city was being built by the politics of modernity, the perspective of institutionalization began to emerge. Art was addressed as an educational issue before becoming a medium in its own right. Modernity, which gradually embraced life and shaped society as a worldview, embraced the arts at an intellectual level and transformed them into a part of an institutional, critical structure.
Today, following the traces of those days, we will think together this Friday that "initiatives, as a moment of criticism, art and philosophical thought, are coming from the periphery of the workshop, school and gallery policies of the past to the center and adding unusual things to the city."
From Diary to Literature, From Literature to History
Talk
Murat Can Kabagoz
On the second Friday of every month, we read about each decade that shaped Turkey during the Republican era, from the 1920s to the 2010s, through a novel, narrated by Murat Can Kabagöz, and we discuss it together.
• 9 Haziran 2023, Hikmet Hükümenoğlu - Atmaca
• 14 Nisan 2023, Vüs'at O. Bener - Bay Muannit Sahtegi'nin Notları
• 10 Mart 2023, Oktay Rifat - Bir Kadının Penceresinden
• 13 Ocak 2023, Latife Tekin - Sevgili Arsız Ölüm
• 09 Aralık 2022, Vedat Türkali - Bir gün Tek Başına
• 11 Kasım 2022, Zaven Biberyan - Karıncaların Günbatımı
• 09 Eylül 2022, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu - Ankara
• 14 Ekim 2022, Sabahattin Ali - İçimizdeki Şeytan
Twelfth House
Directed: Salih Usta
Performer: by Melek Ceylan
August 26-28, 2022
“Then... I have hands. I have eyes, lips, breath. I have my songs. I have my voice! Is it enough? It's not.”
The story of a woman trying to find her voice... The narrator, who is looking for a way to tell the houses, the cities, the stories she has carried from the past, tries to create a voice from silence, an action from the gaze. Created using autobiographical elements from the actor's life, Twelfth House is an attempt to establish a dialog with the audience.
For everyone looking for their voice...
"SOFAR ANKARA"
Concert
Sofarlankara! 🎷
A huge thank you to everyone who made the evening even more beautiful!
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After a long time, we had a night full of music as Sofar Ankara. We would like to thank Yermekân for hosting the night, which made us feel the inclusiveness of the venue and music; and dear Ömürcan Akın, Mabastet and Spade, who made us experience a wonderful night with their colorful, exciting, laughter-filled attitudes and performances that have never been seen before.