[spectre] Transition Project // Episode 1

[Basak Senova]

TRANSITION Project
curated by Basak Senova and Fatma Bucak

http://www.transitionprojectistanbul.com

Transition Episode 1

Live Performance
01 August 2013, 7pm

"Give Me A Body Then" by Ali Cherri

Screening Programme
02 August-23 August 2013, Tuesday-Sunday, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm

"I'm not the Enemy" (2011) by Bjørn Melhus
"My Breath" (2007) by Victor Alimpiev
"Body/Military" (2004) by Lida Abdul
"Being Mammy, (Mammy’s Looks)" (2004) by Harold Offeh


TRANSITION Project
 
The building of Yapı Kredi Cultural Center is going through a comprehensive
renovation, ushering significant transformations which include new
galleries, offices, and an archive both for the arts and their publishing
facilities. The construction started at the beginning of 2013 and will be
completed by 2014. With the implementation of the Transition project during
the process of renewal, the building will host a series of live
performances, screening programmes, and an exhibition accompanied by a book.
The aim of the project is to turn the building, which is under construction,
to a platform for discussing and experiencing intersection points between
performance and moving image. At the same time, the dynamics of the space
will be processed through contemporary art practices.
 
Transition project is an outcome of a yearlong research and collaboration
between an artist, Fatma Bucak and a curator, Basak Senova. Therefore, the
entire project explores the issues that have been crucial for this
collaboration and the process. The project brings together artists with
different areas of research and artistic approaches to 'performance', the
common denominator of the project content. In this respect, artists
reflecting on politics of identity, gender, and body through social and
psychological aspects with critical approaches are the basis of this
project. The last stages of Transition's research coincided with the Gezi
Park Resistance which, in May and June 2013, spread all across Turkey. In an
inevitable way, the project also entails to discuss the notions of
resistance, solidarity and collective life within the framework of its
program.
 
The project has five episodes: Three episodes present live performances and
screening programmes with different thematic approaches. A fourth episode
provides a discussion platform, which coincides with the 13th Istanbul
Biennial. Finally, the fifth episode is dedicated to the exhibition and the
book launch.
 
The project starts in August 2013 and will be completed by March 2014.
Throughout the project, for the spatial designs and the architectural
applications we work together with the architect Emre Erkal.
 
The participating artists are Ali Cherri, Ana Prvacki, Anahita Razmi, Anna
Konik, Bjorn Melhus, Fatma Bucak, Guido van der Werve, Güneş Terkol, Harrold
Offeh, Jesper Just, Lida Abdul, Lucy Beech and Edward Thomasson, Maria Jose
Arjona, and Nicoline Van Harskamp, Nigel Rolfe, and Victor Alimpiev.
 
The project launch will take place on the 1st of August, at 7pm, with Ali
Cherri's live performance  at Yapı Kredi Cultural Center.
 
The project was developed in collaboration with the Royal College of Art
(London, UK). 

 
For further information please visit www.transitionprojectistanbul.com.

The project takes place from1st August 2013 to 14th March 2014.