10/10/2003
Border Crossing
Galeri X, Istanbul
Here and Somewhere else... is a group exhibition that brings together works, which will address the issues within and across cultural boundaries marked by practices and processes of journey through the 'in-between'- the focus being on the identities and spaces involving a (dis) identification, which is a process of 'tactical becoming'. Elena Cologni, Gulsen Bal, Karl Ingar Roys, Silvia Erdem.
Here and Somewhere else...
Elena Cologni, Gülsen Bal, Karl Ingar Roys, Silvia Erdem
'Border Crossing' Here and Somewhere else... is a group exhibition that brings together works, which will address the issues within and across cultural boundaries marked by practices and processes of journey through the 'in-between'- the focus being on the identities and spaces involving a (dis) identification, which is a process of 'tactical becoming'. This indicates establishing the critical location in terms of examining forms of transmission integral to the very definition and differentiation of cultural forms including, reflexivity that remains open to the trace of the other.
The subsequent inhabitation in a context viewed as 'other' also the spatial claims as nodal points through local geographical elements is to an attempt to create space and place-space shaping as characterised. The loss in relation to cultural visibility and/or invisibility is explored through experiences forming a framework that attempts to reconfigure essentialist mappings of identity and space.
The exhibition will aim to converge towards a point of focus the spatial/temporal disjuncture, drawing upon a variety of cultural materials of transformation and difference. The extensive borderlands, where we plan to transgress the boundaries of difference and identity towards disjunctive temporality of cultural representation, are delineated arbitrarily.
This is precisely the space where this exhibition would like to position the questions with mapping the territorial boundaries to episteme constructions spatiality and at the same time addresses the issues of disjuncture spaces or any diverse of inhabited space and spatiotemporal borders including mirror disposition remaining open to the trace of the 'other'.
curated by Gülsen Bal
and special thanks to OFFICE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART NORWAY
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'Border Crossing' Here and Somewhere else... as an artists project
Elena Cologni - 'Tracing', video live installation
The 'video-live-installation' presentation is often adopted as a format of artistic expression which incorporates strategies of audience involvement in the art-making process. Particularly, in the piece 'tracing' she both present and represent her performative self simultaneously, thus opening up questions within a debate regarding issues of presence/representation, the live spectacle and its simultaneous documentation as perceived by the audience. This process of the construction and recording of the documentation as supplement (part) of the live event results in the paradox of its status as documentation, or does it? In the Derridean logic of différance, this stage may not be the closure point of the piece, but it may instead generate new discourses, thus acquiring an ontological prerequisite of aperture.
Gulsen Bal - 'vilified as Other', video installation
The subject that was introduced is to see clearly by looking obliquely to step out of misrecognition. In other words, subjectivity implies inter-subjectivity, and is not just a function of the imaginary and the symbolic, but also of the real. Indeed, gazing at oneself through the speculation of the Other that permits us to stake out a subject position. Our subjectivity is constituted in relation to others, in the realization that "you never look at me from the place where I see you". This is the voice of the Other, a projective transference. Thus the uncanny; the return of the repressed is the return of the object that insists on being seen, and on captivating the seer in a field of reciprocal gazes.
Karl Ingar Roys - 'Palladium', installation
In Cronenberg's movie 'Existenz', a female game designer has created the ultimate game, a game that is controlled by a game-pad connected directly to the body. By being 'on-line' your body follows you into this game world which appears so real that the question of which reality is most real has to be questioned.
By pointing at the notion of being lost in reality, one has to think of the understanding of time and speed in relation to flow of information. The desire of making smarter and faster computers triggers the ultimate dream of an interactive situation where the time of 'input and output' goes down to zero.
If we look further at Broadcast Media's focus on methods of presenting unhinged news via 'live footage' and embedded journalism during conflict situations, we see a situation where the messenger's message can manifest its quality of 'truth' as believable information because of its 'brought-to-you-instantly-live-reality-feeling'.
You are there, looking with your own eyes, and you trust your eyes, don't you?
Silvia Erdem - 'Negation', video installation
By dealing with mysticism in general in respect to sufism, the philosophical system of Islam and in particular with scientific laws, she develops her own personal theoretical concerns. These in turn translated into an adequate, visual form and expression. Hereby she often employs the so called new media, which is video and computer as a medium. In her work a heightened interest finds itself in the twilight zones of human perception and in a certain play with the customary ways of looking at things initially takes place. The world, after all, she believes is nothing but a game.
Image: Elena Cologni - 'Tracing'
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