Kutlug Ataman
dal 21/3/2005 al 7/5/2005
Segnalato da
21/3/2005
Kutlug Ataman
The Sorting Office, London
The area known as Kuba first emerged in the late 1960s as a neighbourhood of safe houses in a dangerous time. In today's Istanbul, few people could tell you exactly where it is. Ataman spent more than two years exploring Kuba, mapping its physical and psychological terrain through the lives of forty inhabitants whose remarkable stories are the foundation for his most ambitious artwork to date. A multiple DVD installation
Küba
The area known as Küba first emerged in the late 1960s as a neighbourhood of safe houses in a dangerous time. In today’s Istanbul, few people could tell you exactly where it is: some say Küba lies in the southern part of the city, close to the airport, others doubt whether it still exists. Today Küba comprises a few hundred makeshift clapboard dwellings that are still home to non-conformists of diverse ethnicity, religion and political persuasion united in their defiant disregard for state control.
Kutlug Ataman spent more than two years exploring Küba, mapping its physical and psychological terrain through the lives of forty inhabitants whose remarkable stories are the foundation for his most ambitious artwork to date. Initially uprooted in October 2004, the forty residents of Küba first appeared in Pittsburgh where Ataman’s multiple DVD installation – a commission for Artangel – won the prestigious Carnegie Prize.
From 22nd March 2005, the Küba community take up temporary residence in The Sorting Office on New Oxford Street in London from where, up until 1995, almost two million items of post were delivered every week. After London, Küba will travel to a railway station in Stuttgart, down the Danube to Vienna and disembark at a passenger ferry terminal on Circular Quay in Sydney before returning home to Istanbul in 2006.
Access
The entrance to Küba is close to the junction of New
Oxford Street and Museum Street. Küba is accessed by several flights of stairs with handrail supports. Additional assistance can be given by the on-site staff. Küba has English subtitles. Excerpts from the testimonials of all forty Küba residents are available as large print text from the Küba Information Desk at The Sorting Office.
Küba is commissioned by
Co-produced with Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21), Vienna; Theater der Welt, Stuttgart and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Film production by Yalan Dünya, Istanbul.
Küba is funded by Arts Council England with the support of Film London and the special help of Anita and Poju Zabludowicz.
Artangel gratefully acknowledges the generosity of Consolidated Developments, Morley and Electra who have kindly provided the London location for Küba.
Artangel is supported by Arts Council England, London; The Company of Angels and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Artangel is a registered charity no. 292976
The Sorting Office
21 – 31 New Oxford Street
London
Opening Times: 11.00–19.00hrs Tuesday- Sunday (closed Mondays). Late opening Thursday until 21.00hrs. Admission Free