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22/9/2005

Where It was, shall I be

Keciburcu Basilica, Diyarbakir

Wo es war, soll ich warden

curated by Gulsen Bal

EXHIBITION CONCEPT and “where It was, shall I be” AS AN ARTISTS PROJECT

“The future has ceased to exist; the idle circle of travelling closes in the land that lies before us, beyond the horizon. Elsewhere begins here, we become what is unknown to us.” (Paul Virillio)

For this group exhibition, a group of artists have been invited to present work questioning of how European is Europe, which allows artists to critically examine Europe's meaning and the contradictions between homogenizing official narratives and the everyday realities of urban life, where heterogeneity and hybridity are the living norms. The theme is timely, given the political climate in Europe, its shifting demographics.

This exhibition aims to create a cross-border communication and a dialogue in some integrative aspects of artistic activities within the context of questioning the territorial boundaries and/or boundary shifts and trans-local and/or trans-national connections.

The point of departure for the exhibition requires an experimental approach intended to take into account different artistic circumstances. These are achieved by confronting geographical, political, social and cultural standpoint within a specific situation.

The response and/or challenge subsequently will involve bringing the issues of identity or identification, of territory and imaginary geographies into reflecting site-specific realities as a response of revealing the in-/visible boundaries towards temporality of cultural representation. Processes of inhabitation also revealed here within the frame of spatial claims in nodal points are viewed through local geographical elements.

The success of this exhibition will require a focus upon the journey through the ‘in-between’ indicating the critical location in a situation in which iterates the identities and spaces involved in dis-/identification.

These ‘artificial’ construct in relation to cultural visibility and invisibility will be explored through experiences developing by precept a framework, which attempts to reconfigure essentialist mappings of questioning what it means to belong to a ‘nation’ in terms of what its affiliations, exclusions, clichés are recapitulated in the context of drawing upon a variety of cultural materials of ‘externalising and/or internalising’ new topological zones of exclusion and/or inclusion.

We will consequently be looking at both the flows and the spaces of encounters in order to find alternative positions and possibilities from which to look at Europe in different ways. This requires shifting this perspective for the purpose of thinking otherwise about questions of cultural complexity and locating European space relative to other spaces and vice verse.

In conjunction with the exhibition, a seminar and a companion catalogue are planned to address these issues within the context of the current local and global power relations.

PARTICIPATING ARTIST

Cengiz Tekin (Video and Photography, based in Diyarbakır)
Charles Kriel (Time-based Media and VJ, based in London)
Dilek Wincester (Time-based Media and Performance, based in Istanbul)
Elena Cologni (Performance and Installation, based in London / Italy)
Genco Gülan (Multi-media, Installation, based in Istanbul)
Gülsen Bal (Installation and Time-based Media, based in London)
Kypros Kyprianou & Simon Hollington (Installation, based in London)
Michalis Kokkoliadis (Installation and Theatre Design, based in London / Greece)
Turan Aksoy (Installation, based in Istanbul)

ACITIVITY

Exhibition
Workshop
Panel Discussion

LOCATION Diyarbakır (Turkey)

Exhibition venue: Keciburcu
Workshop & Panel: Diyarbakir Sanat Merkezi (DSM)

PANEL

There will be a panel discussion focusing upon the issues raised through and in the activities program, which will invite the participation of local students, artists and the general public in the region and the results in will be later published underpinning the catalogue editorial and curatorial.

This should be regarded as of particular importance to the local community since iterative aspects of the exhibition and issues raised will provide a basis for the second phase of “where It was, shall I be” which is scheduled to take place in Istanbul.

Panel includes:

Ian Padgett (MA, RCA - Director of Study at CSM, Art Critic, based in London)
Dr. Charles Kriel (MA, Ph-D at CSM - Time-based Media and VJ, based in London)
Gülsen Bal (MA, Ph-D at CSM - Installation and Time-based Media Artist and Curator, based in London)
Dilek Wincester (MA, Guildhall University; Ph-D at University of Marmara - Time-based Media and Performance, based in Istanbul)
Şener Özmen (representing Local Artist Participation and scholar, based in Diyarbakır)

Informations:
Gulsen Bal
Research Centre
Central Saint Martins College of Art &Design
Southampton Row
London WC1B 4AP
England
(+44) 797 637 37 93

Opening: 23 September 2005

Panel Discussion: 24 September 2005

Image: Kypros Kyprianou & Simon Hollington

Keciburcu Basilica, Diyarbakir

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