Cities on the Edge // Liverpool

Cities On The Edge
exhibition & book launch 6pm, Thursday 13 November
13 November - 18 December 08
McGarry Room
Novas Contemporary Urban Centre


/Cities on the Edge/ is new photography work commissioned by Liverpool
Culture Company in 2008. This is an issue based exhibition and book on
the theme of people and places that illustrates Liverpool in
relationship to five other European port cities. Six
photographer-artists represent the six cities:

Gabriele Basilico - *Naples* - Italy
Philippe Conti - *Marseille* - France
Wojtek Wilczyk - *Gdansk* - Poland
Sandy Volz - *Bremen* - Germany
Ali Taptik - *Istanbul* - Turkey
John Davies - *Liverpool* - UK

*Liverpool University Press* is publishing the /Cities on the Edge/ book
this November, edited by John Davies, containing 128 pages with 72
colour and B&W photographs from all six cities and text in six
languages. ISBN 9781846311864 £24.95 hb.

Transit - yakında/soon

Familiar Strangers - Athens

Curator:Tina Schelhorn

With the collaboration of the Lichtblick Gallery (DE) and courtesy of x-ist (TR)
and the Cultural Organisation of the Municipality of Athens

Tue 4/11 – Tue 25/11,
Opening: Tue 4/11, 20:00-22:00
Cultural Center of the City of Athens
Akadimias 50, GR-106 79 Athens
Τ +30 210 3621601
Tus - Sat 9:00-13:00
and 17:00-21:00, Sun 9:00-13:00

istanbul üzerine...

istanbul üzerine olasılıklar, sezgiler, kurgular...
coincidences, intutions, fictions on istanbul...

Kaza ve Kader @ serge.se

www.serge.se

Magazine, Aug issue

• Ali Taptik
• JH Engström
• Jenny Lindhe
• Marc Femenia Nobell

yollarda.../is on the road...

nedeni/the reason...

"Kaza ve Kader" - SCAN08 - Tarrragona

"Kaza ve Kader" - SCAN08 - Tarrragona

14 April to 18 May 2008
EL REFUGI. Moll de Costa del Port de Tarragona
Curators: Álvaro de los Ángeles, Marta Dahó and Tanit Plana
Organised by the Catalan Ministry of Culture and the Media.

The series of photographs Kaza ve Kader (‘Accident and Fate’) is an extensive photographic work in progress started in 2004 whose main aim is to draw a map of public life through autobiographical scenes. The background contains no cultural picture postcards of the city of Istanbul and the personal images hide more than might be suspected at first glance. Looking at the photographs we become so familiar with the context of Istanbul that we think we understand something more about the life of young people in the city, with their blossoming social and cultural changes. But our interest is maintained thanks to the use of a revealing-hiding technique which puts into practice the maxim that artistic work is as much a window onto the exterior as a mirror of oneself.
The generic title links the two concepts of ‘accident’ and ‘fate’, with which Ali Taptik once again contrasts this constant search between opposites. Between the exterior and interior, the individual and the collective, the mirror and the window...but which, on the other hand, act as cause and consequence. If an accident is a random event, it is also a result of fate, if we understand fate as that which will inevitably happen. Going further, we can interpret an accident as the correlation of an action carried out by humans in their world, whilst fate would appear to be the exclusive field of action of the gods (although we don’t know who or where they are).

by Álvaro de los Ángeles

"Kaza ve Kader"-Atelier de Visu/Marseille

04 Nisan-16 Mayıs 2008//04 April- 16 May 2008

Rotalar

istanbul>malmö>marsilya>tarragona>istanbul>bursa>istanbul>liverpool>stockholm>istanbul>arles>napoli>gdansk> istanbul

Unrecorded

Fragments, 2008

UNRECORDED
5 March – 16 April 2008
Akbank Sanat, Istanbul

Curated by Basak Senova

http://www.akbanksanat.com

The perceptual re-construction of space is a continuous process, generated by diverse inputs such as our senses, memory, history, consciousness as well as technology. It is a process, consisting of momentary fragments, which are impossible to record. They are temporary, augmented, designed,
and loaded.

“Unrecorded” exhibition looks at the notion of space as a decisive factor in our perception of the realities that surround us. The works of Kati London (US), Thomas Duc (France), Laila El-Haddad (Palestine), Dan Phiffer (US), Mushon Zer-Aviv (Israel), Daniel Garcia Andujar (Spain), Zhou Hongxiang (China), Banu Cennetoglu (Turkey), Negar Tahsili (Iran), Kate Armstrong (Canada), and Ali Taptik (Turkey) unfold and restructure all possible perceptual codes through their own inspections, observations, and approaches. They ask questions about the physicality of the space; content of mediatized spaces; clashes between realities and perception of spaces; spaces and situations, discharging information; and narrative spaces.

Exhibition space is deliberately designed to minimize the interaction between the data input of physical space and the audio-visual senses of the viewer, in order to drive the viewer into the realm of each work. Thus, each and every work leads to another, through a unique navigation established by each viewer. In this respect, works in the exhibition are re-positioned, re-linked in space-time relative to the “reading” done by each viewer, building alternative paths. Inevitably, the exhibition takes the phases of informational capitalism, global scenarios for socio-political, cultural and economic gaps into consideration, on each and every visit.

14 subat

sevgililer günü olan değil...

üç cümle

Son zamanlarda katıldığım tüm atölye değerlendirmeleri, tek seferlik dersler, bitirme jürisi oturumları gibi bir işin anlatılması gereken sunumlarda dikkatimi çeken bir sorun katılımcı, üretici ya da sunumcuların işlerini, tasarımlarını özetleyememeleri... Bir işi yapmak kadar eğer sonunda bir sunum olacaksa işin, tasarımın ana fikrininin, temel derdinin, sorun ettiği şeyin ya da genelinin üç cümlede özetlenmesi en azından dinleyicinin yirmi dakikalık bir konuşma sonunda "eeee?" ya da "yani?" gibi sorularla içinde ya da dinleyenler topluluğuyla beraber dışında boğuşmasına engel olacağı gibi -tabii eğer kimse önem veriyorsa- genel bir tartışma için de iyi bir baz olacağını düşünüyorum. Sonuçta aslında bir iş ya da tasarım ancak böyle -bence- üç cümle varsa değerlendirilebilir hala geliyor, aksi takdirde tüm tartışmalar, yorumlar kısaca verimsiz oluyor.