December 2011
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September 2011
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With a group exhibition composed of artists most of whom have recently joined the gallery, CDA-Projects is opening up for the new season. Artists of the exhibition are integrating their peculiar artistic languages with their again peculiar, “original” stories and approaches. Hosting different materials from installations to photographs, videos to wall application, the exhibition provides the...
UNCANNY ENCOUNTERS
Silva Bingaz, Banu Cennetoğlu, Çınar Eslek, Zeren Göktan, Zeynep Kayan, Melisa Önel
“Uncanny” (Unheimlich) is a concept employed mainly in art and philosophy to describe the unsettling feeling evoked by something that is strange and foreign, yet astonishingly close and familiar at the same time. Uncanniness has ties to a peculiar sense of “déjà vu,” and implies the...
July 2011
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When she looked up at me, her hair was in her face. I pushed it back with my hands and it was wet too but not from outside but from crying. I picked up a tear on my finger and put it in my eyes.
Friends are usually the best to rely on what to read. When I was five I killed myself is one of those books, i took the advise and surprise, surprise, again it all was true : i loved it. Burt, an...
May 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
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January 2011
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EXISTRONG is an exhibition that reaches beyond what we see around, focusing on the individual and the compromises he/she makes in his/her mind and feeds upon directly from this area. This way, it visualizes the unique life experience of the humankind intertwined with mistakes, defects, worries and most important of all, a great sense of excitement. It opens this private area to be shared with...
December 2010
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”…John Berger traces in words, moments lived in Europe at the end of the millenium. These moments are not fiction. They happened.” writes, at the back of Photocopies. To tell the truth, it did take me some time to believe in that, till i come across with this one story titled : ” A friend talking (for Guzine) “. For who is the beloved wife of Abidin Dino, Abidine in Berger’s own...
September 2010
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The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton starts with; If This is Art, refering to photography as both the document of artistic gesture and a work of art. Once Upon a Time is in Jeff Wall’s words, happens to be the “farmers”: “..hunters and farmers, the former tracking down and capturing images, the latter cultivating them over time”. Deadpan, not so...
August 2010
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Another multi-channel video
July 2010
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WatchRabbit Hole
A video we had fun with Hester Israël.
She also is the singer.
June 2010
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Watch
May 2010
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"Artists Are Their Own Breed"
I’ve always been a big fan of Patti Smith. Not so surprisingly, I did get very excited with the heralding of the book, Just Kids, the very honest story of a unique friendship, she and Robert Mapplethorpe. Soon I found myself turning the pages eagerly. It is a youth story at its best: “Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young...
March 2010
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Performance: Live Art Since 1960 is a great book with each of the six intriguing chapters inside. I was rather more interested in the chapter, The Body: Ritual, Living Sculptures, Performed Photography, with Matthew Barney, Ann Hamilton, Abramovic and Ulay, Chris Burden, Vito Acconci, Dan Graham and more. And this, to me, is the summary of it all:
Yet, no matter how much sensationalism is...
Times Are a Changing
I now have a website.
February 2010
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January 2010
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December 2009
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“http://www.flickr.com/photos/coldfeet/show/”
"REALITY IS UP FOR GRABS"
Recently, I got the chance to take a look at one of the famous Taschen series, New Media Art by Mark Tribe and Reene Lana. Despite the fact that most of the works in the collection are quiet old, heading towards the beginning of 2000s, you still can find them online; perhaps not as active as they might had been once, but still a trace, a path to lead you to the essence of the work is out...
Watchstill experimenting with multiple channels without shame
what you hear belongs to me as well
"WHAT A TERRIBLE MISTAKE TO LET GO OF SOMETHING...
I tried hard to figure out what to write on the book of Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You Do- recommended by a dear friend, that I had received from the better betterworldbooks like a month ago and had finished it up lately- and all I could think of how to describe the feelings it stirs up in one, was actually again her film that she wrote, directed and starred in, Me and You and...
November 2009
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WatchPerformance Documentation I
Christina Papakyriakou
Zeynep Kayan
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September 2009
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August 2009
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July 2009
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Story of the Eye is an erotic classic translated from French which then has been added two essays from Susan Sontag, The Pornographic Imagination, and Roland Barthes’ The Metaphor of the Eye in its latest editions.
Sontag’s essay is on the fact that pornography constitues a branch of literature, yet that it cannot go further. She discusses by juxtaposing the use of religious...
Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection is an inspiring collection of films, videos and installations from 1963 to 2005, gathered under titles of Phantasmagoria, Persona, Repertory Cinema, Body Double, The Liminal, and The Optic.
Taken from Gabriele Knapstein’s writing might well be a summary of how the art of projection expands and reflects the potentialities of the medium: …The...
June 2009
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May 2009
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Blauwe Huis
On Saturday 9th of May at 16.00 the exhibition of students of the Fine Art and Public Space Design will be opened in The Blue House. Everybody is welcome and to talk with the students about their projects.
There will be presentations of Missing Dogs, missing otherness, Facing the other, the result of a research about mothers on IJburg, I am the sun, and Air out your dirty laundry. As part of...
April 2009
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Workshop at Witte de With/Rotterdam
I’m going to participate in this closed workshop from tomorrow on. Looking forward to it.
Talk Artist
Apparently Robert Filliou walked on stage for an artist talk and simply asked, “Are there any questions?.” Andy Warhol just answered every question with a “Yes.” In 1965 Joseph Beuys wandered around the Galerie Alfred Schmela with a dead hare in his arms and performed “How to Explain...
March 2009
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February 2009
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