Act / Experience / Contact
It is a project that aims to investigate multiplicity instead of singularity, freedom of sharing and other possibilities of artistic dialogues. It is a search for an answer from unity to multiplicity. The project focuses on how it is possible to produce art, to share it and the social problems of individuals' access to material, space or intellectual partnerships during the production processes.
With this project, which aims to provide a space for production and specifically for darkroom use, participants will be able to experience the process from darkroom and alternative printing techniques training to the exhibition stage as a whole. In addition, participants will be able to benefit from the existing darkroom facilities throughout the process. The project consists of workshops and a final exhibition with four separate groups determined by the jury - a total of sixteen people will benefit.
The workshops will cover the basic information and applications of darkroom and alternative printing techniques. Open talks, which will be held parallel to the trainings, will open up discussions on the fundamental problems of being an artist, producing and exhibiting art.
Exhibition
March 2 - March 31, 2024
Ayşe Beyza Türker, Çağrı Ertem, Derya Akbay, Doğa Kısa, Fatih Karatekin, Göktürk Sarısoy, İrem Akbay, Mısra Sargın, Musa Doğanay, Mübeccel Kaya, Nil Yücel, Öner Taylan Öztürk, Sonat Özcivan, Tolga Akmermer
Exhibition Advisor: Umut Erbaş
Project Coordinator / Darkroom Instructors: Ekin Kula, Hazel Kılınç, Zeynep Üçöz
Alternative Printing Techniques Instructor: Serdar Bilici
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Yermekân brings together fragmented memories produced by fourteen participants in the workshop process between March 2-31, while also drawing a thematic framework regarding remembering.
“Act/Experience/Contact focuses on the seductiveness and liberating aspects of remembering, inviting participants to take action. The exhibition allows for the rethinking and even production of the past, to be revisited, changed, critiqued and perhaps even emerge as an interesting form of re-encounter.
The exhibition, which is a reflection of the participants’ contact with their memories and their sharing with each other throughout the workshop process, contains small stories that seem complex but are tightly interlocked. It makes the moments and memories that emerge from the dark rooms of the mind physically visible and makes room for new encounters by scattering a selection of the images produced during the process throughout the space. ” -Umut Erbaş
Konuşmalar
How does ''visibility'' affect art actors, both as an economy and as an effect surrounding production methods, and how do alternative forms of visibility work?
In this talk, which will be shaped around the concept of visibility through experiences, we will discuss issues such as invisible labor, inequality, insecurity, constant performance anxiety, independence, market censorship and self-censorship with art manager - curator Melis Bektaş and artist - academic Esra Oskay.
We invite you to think out loud in our talk where we will interpret exhibition making, independence, representation, space/de-spatialization from the points where they touch the concept of visibility!
•Image: Hito Steyerl, How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013
In this second talk, which focuses on individual art practices and collective works, we will discuss the indispensable material that is present in all dynamics of the artist's production with Saliha Yavuz and Erdal Duman.
Is the material really indispensable? Can the distance between the artist and the material be measured or is it merely a tool? Is it only the material itself that changes/transforms or does the artist also change and transform along with the material? How does access to the material shape the content of production and what happens in the process that extends after the creation of the work?
We invite you to come together and think out loud in search of answers to these questions, the answers to which we would like to examine both individually and collectively!
• Image: A frame from Erdal Duman's atelier, 2023
In this first talk, which focuses on individual art practices and collective works, the potential of creative action to transform into artistic production and the conditions that enable independent art productions will be discussed with artist Betül Aksu and art critic/thinker Ezgi Bakçay.
In the second part of the talk, we invite you to think out loud about the situations in which these conditions become impositions and standardize production, and the relationship between the situations in which creative action takes place/does not take place and the conditions that make artistic production possible!
•Image: Julian Wasser, Contact Sheet for Duchamp Playing Chess with a Nude (Eve Babitz), Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963
Atölye
Action / Experience / Contact has been funded by a European Union project CultureCIVIC: Culture and Arts Support Programme.
