extended stay Open working space at GAF Istanbul Oct. 17 – 22.2007 The process of urban, economic, cultural and social change requires to feel, as well as to define the identity and diversity of place. extended stay presents ideas and parallel thoughts on public spheres and its inhabitants, creating an active network, a lived place, a space where positions meet and produce mechanisms of independent, non-bureaucratic and alternative cultural thinking. extended stay is a model initiative by Berlin-based artist Bettina Allamoda of the trans-disciplinary postgraduate course Art in Context at University of Arts Berlin, introducing a temporary open working space for artistic research and production in Istanbul in collaboration with GAF and Serkan Öz . The space will be used to bring together, develop and display on-site artistic production, interventions in public space through participation, planned to expand existing official exchange modalities beyond the Biennial period, the City Partnership Year Berlin - Istanbul 2009 and even Istanbul Cultural Capital 2010. The objective is to convey the format of hostel life as a liberated society within society collaboratively creating a new approach of laboratory-like network and establishing a non-virtual mindmap. As such, we intend to expand our own research agenda practiced between Berlin and Istanbul since October 2006 and actively examine different social and cultural settings; sometimes challenging localised ones. Focussing on the changing status of tourism and travel and the ways tourist landscapes, tourism practices, hospitality and how host-guest relations are shaped, extended stay offers strategies for the stranger, considering migration, alienation and the new ways in which foreigners must deal with the visited places. Hostel Life by Julia Kapelle (D) is an ongoing on-site research with Istanbul residents in transitory spaces. „Living-by-Doing“, she has created an extensive local network – creatively participating in the vast possibilities of survival a hostel in the Turkish metropolis has to offer. With Feels like home Sofia Bempeza (GR) offers a temporary private property-ownership to the public/people. By choosing four different locations in Istanbul the project aims to explore ways of understanding urban reality, residents and their relation to public space compared to Berlin. Considering and accepting each place’s particularities, the intervention proposes a debate on urban conditions and aims to redefine the pursuit of privacy within public spheres. Kristin Möller (D) questions collective memory and representation within media in Escape Beyoğlu: a series of investigative walks to Sultanahamet and Kağithane. Introducing/Using found images by Istanbul-based photographers well documented between 1850 and the turn of the 20th century brought from Berlin library collections, she challenges passers-by/participants to explore the myth of old/past Istanbul times, while searching for these lost or maybe still existing sites. Through the processes of globalization city space worldwide has been transformed into a depersonalized landscape, lacking connection to the people living in it. With Capturing Istanbul Branka Pavlovic (SRB) attempts to reverse this commodity – to preserve and make visible the places defined by our personal stories. She follows 8 locals in Istanbul, records their stories and takes pictures along the way as a means of capturing a very intimate view, which can not be found in any guides or map -representing and recreating the city of Istanbul through the eyes of it’s inhabitants. Scouting concealed layers, some common urban situation might turn into an adventurous trip whilst viewing it from different angles: Viola Thiele/ Silke Bauer (A/D) invite a group of locals, temporary inhabitants and guests for Urban Workout. Join them on a special field-trip through the cityscape. Equipped with a custom designed utility bag, the group will be sent out to collect their points of view and investigate the city from new perspectives: taking photos, collecting objects, drawing, writing, talking, reshaping the usage of public space. Taking back their catch to the GAF extended stay base, the participants may collaborate in compiling an alternate city guide from their gathered material, a collection of shared and individual thoughts and ideas, spotting the city as a mental workout-parcours. The international character of the group (including participants from Serbia, Greece, Austria besides Germany and Turkey) encourages a multi-layered understanding of the city as host: This perhaps collective ‘foreignness’ as a basis of cultural production suggests that relations between places and people could be long developed and communicated. Schedule oct. 17-22nd daily 18-20:00 Julia Kapelle: Hostel Life: screening Branka Pavlovic: Capturing Istanbul: the making of is open the public daily (18-21.10) from 18-20:00. Please bring a photo of your favorite non-place in Istanbul and be a part of the project! oct. 18th Sofia Bempeza: Feels like home! 1. intervention 13-15:00 galata kulesi Viola Thiele: Urban Workout: scout field trip. open dinner at GAF 20:30 oct. 19th Sofia Bempeza: Feels like home! 2. intervention 13-15:00 osmanbey-metrostation/cummhuriyet caddesi Viola Thiele: Urban Workout: field trip. 1. scout walk oct. 20th Kristin Möller: Escape Beyoğlu. 1. walk kağithane, GAF 12:00 Viola Thiele: Urban Workout: field trip. 2. scout walk oct. 21st Sofia Bempeza: Feels like home! 3. intervention 13-15:00 şişli Kristin Möller: Escape Beyoğlu: 2. walk Sultanahmet, GAF 12:00 oct. 22nd Sofia Bempeza: Feels like home! 4. intervention 13-15:00 Taksim/Istiklal open group presentation and special guests, GAF 19:00 Be our guest! open group presentation & special guests, GAF 19:00 with special thanks to: Orhan Ersen, Selda Asal, Feride Cicekoğlu, Umut Ulus, Katja Jedermann, Michael Fehr, Klaus Mantze, Serkan Öz & everybody at GAF! oct. 23rd 20:00 at GAF: ''SHE'' performance/show by Serkan Öz Try to see Istanbul from their eyes…
Institute for Art in Context Fine Art Department University of Arts Berlin Tel:+49 30 3185 2960 www.kunstimkontext.udk-berlin.de <http://www.kunstimkontext.udk-berlin.de> GAF Hüseyin Ağa Mahallesi Top Çekenler Sok. No:3 Beyoğlu / İstanbul Tel: +90 212 244 06 77 www.gaf-istanbul.org <http://www.gaf-istanbul.org> http://www.mosh-mosh.com http://www.myspace.com/moshmosh2000 --
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