Tomorrow evening at the CCA:
Tuesday 12 January 2010
7:30pm : FREE
Venue: CCA 4 (cinema)
Ages: 18 and over
This screening is curated by current MFA student Deniz Üster and features a selection of work by Turkish and UK-based artists.
Aquarium by Denizcan Yuzgul, 2007, Turkey, DVD PAL- 5.44 mins Perhaps it is only a child who can discover the meaning of 21st Century ‘modern’ life, because they haven’t yet forgotten.
I Would Swallow You Whole, Burcu Yagcioglu, 2009, Turkey, DVD PAL- 6.53 mins Covering is always caused by the gaze of other. People cover themselves for others, whether this other is a real person or an imaginary one. In both cases, in order to cover, we need a gaze which puts us in a position of an object; an object, which has to be ashamed of.
A Heavy Summer by Burcu Yagcioglu, 2009, Turkey, DVD PAL- 1 min “I was wondering what happens when tension is broken. It’s a frustrating and disappointing ending, as if something has collapsed, broken or has revealed a lie.”
Rally by Umut Sakall?oglu 3.47 mins The artist participates in public demonstrations in Istanbul, organized by various groups such as Nationalists, Islamists, left-wingers, women, etc. The work depicts the demonstrations of nine groups chosen at random within the political scene in Istanbul and in Turkey.
Avatar by Candas Sisman 6.35 mins Avatar conveys the formation of the human body during a dance performance, as experienced through a computer screen. The internet as a medium, whose very connectedness is central, is exposed as a source of disconnection.
Retory by Candas Sisman 3.25 mins The film engages with the sometimes difficult, emotionally charged process that occurs when a tangible and mechanic structure becomes gradually organic and abstract.
Passages by Tom Harrup 3.14 mins Venus was habitable once. Its tectonic plates moved under oceans like ours. Mars was a good place to live too; atmospheres now dry and barren. Only our own home can still provide the experience of water under earth.
Dungbeetle and Sisyphus 1 by Birgit Deubner 3.00 mins The Artist uses Mythological Characters, insect life and Folk Tale Protagonists and brings them together in a place they have never met before. This could be a conversation, a play, a dialogue or monologue, but Birgit Deubner creates an unusual performance for the public realm, for an unsuspecting audience; and a film for exhibition in gallery contexts as well as waiting rooms and all manner of public spaces that are frequented and lingered in.
The Rain in Spain stays Mainly in the Plain by Chu Chun Teng 6.57 mins “The Rain in Spain stay mainly in the plain” is the sentence that Professor Higgins uses to train Eliza to pronounce the “A” sound in “My Fair Lady.” This sentence appeared constantly and was the most famous line in the movie; it eventually became the standard to judge if Eliza had succeeded. This video has continued my concern toward the impact of the post-colonial phenomenon on the individual and cultural identity crisis. This is also my second work inspired by the classic 70’s movie “My Fair Lady.”
Peace Like a River by Emily Donnini 2.52 mins The hymn Peace Like a River, traditionally a baptismal hymn, is utilized in this work along with psychoanalytic concepts of reconstruction, intervention, and projection to reposition the artists memory of her own baptism
Ambivalence by Ozlem Uzun 4.00 mins The symbolism inherent in our understanding of ‘apple’ coincides with the bipolar condition of the concept of ‘ambivalence’. The ambivalence at that point is simultaneously structured by the opposing acts of ‘construction’ and ‘destruction’.
Buyume I, Buyume II and Buyume III by Esra Oskay 0.25 mins, 0.23 mins,0.23 mins “The word “buyume” summarizes the motives beyond my work: “buyu”:magic – “buyume”:growing up –“buyume”: do not grow up. If Freud were Turkish he would develop the concept of “buyume” rather than unheimlich (I reckon).”
