PROJECTS in 2007

September,October,November Istanbul 10th. Biennial 2+1Collaboration with Ceren Oykut & Neriman Polat

We ‘ve started the project “Postcards” with Ceren Oykut in Tarlabasi neighborhood, in Istanbul, in the year 2005. 

In 2006, we’ve put together these two projects with a secondary study in Stockholm.

 

Actually Tarlabasi is the name of a large street. This street leads to Taksim, the heart of Istanbul. On the right

 side of the street; there are mostly shopping  malls, coffee places, and night clubs, social clubs that belongs to 

various people from a variety of social classes,in addition to schools, cinemas, theatres, exhibition centers and artist ateliers. 

And on the right side; there are people working for the ones on the right side of the street, drug dealers and

 producers, small mafia groups, hookers, transsexuals, addicts, pickpockets and newly migrants from central, eastern and southern regions of Turkey and from various poor countries of Africa.

We set, as our field, the left hand side of the street that covers the lives that are different from each other, 

complimenting, contrasting and conflicting with each other in the heart of Istanbul. 

These were children and teenagers aged between 8 and 15 that migrated from various origins. They were trying

 to survive with their families under very  hard conditions. 

Our aim was to make it seen where these teenagers living 500m away from prosperity get stuck when trying to 

move on with their lives.  

 

 

                                     

                                           

 Postcards from Istanbul-Botrycka, Botrycka Kunsthalle, 2006

When wewere invited to Stockholm in  2006, we have invited  also anotherartist Gul Kozacioglu to the  project and we chose the suburbs of  Stockholm : Tumba and Fittja , as  our field of study, neighborhood of migrants from 150 differentcountries.To understand the parallel emotionalworlds of teenagers  from Stockholmand Istanbul, to free their minds and to provide a space where they could openup and to  re-create them..  Who werethese teenagers   How weretheir lives? Theiremotions? Theirwants? And Dreams? Theirconcerns? ( for more info>  http://www.apartmentproject.com/postcard.asp)

 

Than They were invited by Hou Hanrou, the curator of the 10th. Istanbul Biennial with this project in 2007. We chosed to focus on these questions in Postcards Stockholm-Istanbul.We would keep to focus  on the same way in Silahtaraga and it’s  neighbourhood like Eyüp and Sütlüce. For this Project  We have invited a visual artist Neriman Polat 

  

Views from the exhibition

Interactive Web                                  http://www.nice-kids.net/

 

     http://www.nice-kids.net/ 

 

Views from the exhibition

 

A book prepeared for the project . Designed by Selda Asal. Suponsored by Unal Ofset

                                       Video Works by Ceren Oykut, Neriman Polat and Selda Asal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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