26-10-2010

03-11-2010

Turkey, Istanbul
Küçükçekmece Kültür ve Sanat Merkezi

Posted by: citizensofculture

Category: Exhibition

Field: Visual arts

Source http://www.local-a.org
http://www.swedenabroad.com

Record Construct is a collaboration between Local A. and Istanbul 2010 Cultural Capital of Europe. Two developing art works by Jenny Berntsson and Felice Hapetzeder together with youths living in Istanbul constitute the base for the project.

The workshop will address attitudes towards environmental issues and housing conditions triggered by Igloo Construction II. The youths are provided possibility to develop an understanding of contemporary art and given a set of tools for communication: They will learn how to make a simple story board, script and dramatise moving images. They experience the difference between being the one performing an interview and being the interviewee. They are free to shape their own ideal story in moving images and encouraged to tell a story from their lives. In the finalized artwork by Hapetzeder interviews will be intertwined with the young peoples own dramatized stories produced under tutelage of the workshop. This material will be shown in interplay with the architectural sculpture of Igloo Construction II.

Common to works by the artists is a commitment to issues relating to time and place. Hapetzeders’ continued project Limits of forgiveness is about how events, which you have not even experienced yourself, still affect you through parents or other influences during your growth. Berntssons’ Igloo Construction II is about the process of construction and decay, in the city as in nature. Where Jenny Berntssons’ Igloo Construction II works physically with the participants to build something tangible, Felice Hapetzeders’ Limits of forgiveness acts into the past and present on a mental level, engaging the participants to share their story in his video work. The maps, which are delineated by the works are complementary and cross-fertilize.

The artists believe that the human background and lived experience combined create the conditions for the mental climate of a place. The mental environment is also something, which can be described as site specific. The non-physical aspect of a place is as important as the physically built and planned. We want Record Construct to be a link between these physical and metaphysical parts of the city.

The project will be held at ECoC studios and exhibited in the two cultural centres of the Istanbul suburbs Küçükçekmece and Kartal.

Record Construct is supported by the Portable art section of Istanbul 2010 Cultural Capital of Europe, the Swedish Institute, Consulate General of Sweden Istanbul, Iaspis, STEP beyond mobility fund, European Cultural Foundation and Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse.

26 October - 3 November
Küçükçekmece Culture and Arts Centre, Istanbul

13 - 19 December
Bülent Ecevit Cultural Centre, Kartal, İstanbul

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