Beden ve şehir arasında nasıl bir ilişki mevcuttur? Şehirler, bedenlerin ve insan edimlerinin sadece ürünü ya da yansıması mıdır, yoksa bu ilişki daha kompleks ve karşılıklı mıdır?

Şehir algılanması zamana yayılan uçsuz bucaksız bir yapıdır. Bedenler şehrin devingen öğeleri olarak yerleşik sabit fiziksel parçaları kadar etkilidir.
Şehir kendine has coğrafi ve mimari düzenlemesiyle bedenin  sosyal olarak inşa edilmesinde bir unsurdur. Şehir aynı zamanda bedenin, kitle iletişim araçları ve sanat ile dönüşüme uğradığı temsili bir sahnedir. Bedenin yeniden keşfedildiği, dönüştürüldüğü ve tekrar yazıldığı yerdir. Diğer taraftan beden şehrin kültürel bir ürünü olarak şehri değişken ihtiyaçlarına göre dönüştürür ve yeniden yazar.

Sergide işleri yer alan sanatçılar, çeşitli şehirlerden ve farklı bedensel deneyimlerden gelerek beden – şehir ilişkisinin muhtemel alternatiflerini sorguluyorlar.

Gittikçe can be seen in Simotas Building, Istanbul from October 21st to November 12th, 2010

We, AOT team briefly talked about what being an artist initiative means and what Bolu artist residency program entails. We then introduced all ten artists’ work who took part in the program. After the Q&A session with the students as well as the faculty members, we hosted them at the ranch for a daily visit to the studios.

AOT at the university auditorium

Question & Answer session

Artist residency in Bolu, TURKEY

Bolu artist-in-residence program is a two week residency organized by AmongOtherThings.

We brought together emerging artists from various cultures and provided a working and living environment which allowed artists to interact with each other and with the members of AmongOtherThings.

168 artist from over 30 countries submitted portfolio for the program.

Caroline de Bruijn, Sibel Horada, Mathieu Latulippe, Katherine Pickering, Sumer Sayin, and Stephanie Spindler joined AOT team, Esra Oskay, Tan Mavitan, Ulgen Semerci, and Burcu Yagcioglu for the program.

It took place between 4th and 18th of October 2010. The residency program was followed by Gittikçe exhibition in Simotas Building in Istanbul, which was consisted of the works produced during this two week time.

We believe that the space which the residency took place is an important aspect of this program. The city of Bolu is two hour car ride from Istanbul. Although it is not far from a metropolis with a population of 14 million, Bolu is known with its impressive nature and wild forests. The residency took place in a 31 acre ranch area beside the forests of West Black Sea region, which allowed the residency artists to interact with the unique environment in the process of producing their works.

What was provided to the residency artists;

- Transportation of the artists and the works from Istanbul to Bolu and vice versa
- Accommodation in Bolu during the residency
- Wood workshop
- Studio space
- 100TL material budget
- Tutorials and workshops with Erdag Aksel, Mehmet Ulusel, Joey Holder and Ceren Semerci
- Exhibition in Kuzguncuk, Istanbul
- Accommodation in Istanbul during the exhibition
- All meals throughout the residency

Group photo

Stephanie with her work

Caroline de Bruijn

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Mathieu Latulippe

Sumer Sayin

Snow in Bolu

Mathieu Latulippe’s installation

Ulgen Semerci

Caroline de Bruijn’s work in progress

This project was sponsored by;

What kind of relation exists between bodies and cities? Are the cities only reflections or products of the bodies and human endeavour, or is this relation a more complex and mutual one? What can be the alternative approaches to this relation?

City is a vast scale construction in space, which can be perceived only in the course of long time spans. Bodies, as one of the moving elements of the city, are as effective as the stationary physical parts of it.

The city in its particular geographical and architectural arrangements is an ingredient in the social constitution of the body. The city is also the site for the body’s cultural saturation and transformation by representational systems, the mass media, and the arts. It is the place where the body is representationally reexplored, transformed, and reinscribed. In turn, the body as a cultural product of the city transforms and reinscribes the urban landscape according to its changing demographic needs.

The artists in the show, all coming from different cities and all having different bodily experience of cities are raising questions about the possible alternatives to the relationship between bodies and cities.

Project Owner’s Name: AmongOtherThings
Venue: Simotas Building, Istanbul

Name of Contributors:

Chun Teng Chu (born in Taipei, Taiwan, 1982, lives in London)
Elena Damiani Rodriguez (born in Lima, Peru, 1979, lives in London)
Rowena Harris (born in Norfolk, UK, 1985, lives in London)
Joey Holder (born in Epsom, UK, 1979, lives in London)
Iva Kontic (born in Belgrade, Serbia, 1982, lives in London)
Tan Mavitan (born in Istanbul, Turkey, 1977, lives in Istanbul)
Esra Oskay (born in Başkale, Turkey, 1982, lives in Edinburgh)
Ceren Semerci (born in Istanbul, Turkey, 1975, lives in Istanbul)
Ülgen Semerci (born in Istanbul, Turkey, 1981, lives in Istanbul)
Burcu Yagcioglu (born in Istanbul, Turkey, 1981, lives in London)

Elena Damiani Rodriguez, "We Should Be Able to Build Structures Which Even in a State of Decay"