Floating Volumes #1/#2
City and Identity within Artistic Research Floating Volumes #1/#2 An exchange project by FRISE, Hamburg and 5533, Istanbul with: Emine Şahinaz Akalın, Volkan Aslan, Nancy Atakan, Claudia Behling, Ania Corcilius, Antonio Cosentino, Elmas Deniz, Uli Fischer, Şakir Gökçebağ, Hinrich Gross, Gül Ilgaz, Gerrit Jöns-Anders, Julia Münz, Pınar Öğrenci, Helene von Oldenburg, İz Öztat, Erich Pick, Eva Riekehof, Per Schumann, Olaf Sobczak, Youssef Tabti, Mehmet Ali Uysal, Kathrin Wildner, Yüksel Yavuz, Malte Zacharias 2/3 5533, Istanbul by Nancy Atakan Even though personal interaction and exchange took masters brought into dialogue with contemporary place in Istanbul, only those artists able to experi- works. This motivated her to transform her work for the ence both cities could present their impressions of the Istanbul exhibition into a photograph reminding the shared or distinct characteristics of the two places. For spectator that all artwork has been contemporary. In example, while walking through both cities to pinpoint her photographic work, Pınar Öğrenci reads identities, neighborhoods, traditional shops, theaters, and mu- traces forms of existence while showing a contrast be- seums under attack for her project, SAVE ME, Nancy tween physical nearness and spatial distance. For the Atakan realized that inhabitants of both cities needed Hamburg exhibition, Öğrenci displayed a series of pho- to ask, “Who really owns our streets?” In contrast, Gül tographs of small Istanbul shopkeepers that became Ilgaz transported three photographs taken in Istanbul, individual portraits of distinct places. For the Istanbul Traces, to Hamburg, but was unable to make a similar exhibition she presented a series of photographs giv- work to bring back to Istanbul.
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