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21/2/2007

Kargart

Studio Life Hazhavuzu, Istanbul

2nd International Video Festival

curated by Irmak Arkman and Gozde İlkin

The exhibition comprises works ranging from performance and dance videos to video-poems, from animations to clips, from audio projects to sound installations and from long format to loops and the contributors include Benjamin Bellas, Juan del Gado, Charbel Torbey, Gruppo Sinestetico, Crossroads by Luka Kito & Megan Boyd, Kevin Murphy, Tamar Guimaraes, Yoshinori Niwa, Ece Kalabak, Swamn, Kinki Texas, Yasemin Tekmen & Nitsa Çukurel, Aynur Fomin, Herve Constant, Özlem Gök, Gülçin Aksoy, Hugo Paquete, Yiğit Güç , Juras Kojs, Levent Çetin, Hakan Ada, Tuğçe Dilara Kurtoğlu, Güneş Terkol, Özgür Erkök, Carl Boutard, Elvan Ekren, Volkan Kızıltunç, Funda Zeynep Aygüler, Mehmet Vanlıoğlu and Hafriyat Art Group (Special Section).

The first round of these collective video screenings took place last year in KargArt exhibition hall under the title of "Opposite Concept"; the 2nd International Video Festival will take place this year between February 21 and 28 in the same place and with the organization of Irmak Arkman and Gözde İlkin. The main aim of this international video festival, organized this year under the title "Courier", is to liberate the video-artists from the constraints imposed by exhibition venues and art galleries and create a space in which they can freely exhibit their works and feel on equal footing with the other artists. Hence, by way of using the concept of "Courier", the festival develops a stance in opposition to the distinction between being chosen and being the chooser brought on by the workings of the system of curators and galleries. The videos posted from all over the world are exhibited without being subjected to any kind of selective process; thus the organization claims that video is a mobile and portable contemporary art form and thanks to this portability, needs couriers more than it needs curators.

In this context, the organization aims at realizing a traveling festival and a wide video archive in the near future in order to make sure that all the works are circulated between various locations and made available to a larger and more diverse audience and to establish the first independent video platform in Turkey. The closing party of the festival will take place on March 1st in Studio Live; the doors will open at 21:30. Hazhavuzu (PleasurePool) Performance Group consisting of Güçlü Öztekin, Güneş Terkol, Özgür Erkök, Mert Öztekin, Erhan Özışıklı, Levent Aygül, Emir Özel, Deniz Ulusoy and İnci Furni will give a small concert following their performance entitled "Photo-Karaoke" and the rest of the night will be devoted to the screening of the festival videos.

Studio Life Hazhavuzu
Kadive Solkak, 16 - Istanbul
Hours: 13 - 21.30

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