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EXTRA EUROPA TURKEY
FINE ART, EXHIBITION
Inspiring
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The students and graduates of the Faculty of
Art and Design at the Yildiz Teknik Üniversitesi
Istanbul, and the experimental design programme
at Linz Art University have produced two
exhibitions. Both cities will be European cultural
capitals: Linz in 2009, Istanbul in 2010.
Inspiring Istanbul brings together two exhibitions
produced by two major arts and cultural institutions
from Austria and Turkey. They provide a counterpoint
to one another through which to explore the
differences between their respective cultural identities.
Inspiring Istanbul will be kicked off by the Faculty
of Art and Design (Yildiz Teknik Üniversitesi),
which will launch two exhibitions in Linz in April
2009: one at the University of Art, the other at the
art society Paradigma.
Inspiring Istanbul presents artwork and research
that explores the ambivalence, contrasts, and
contradictions that exist between art and culture
on the one hand, and social and political realities
on the other. Artists approach contentious cultural
subjects from a critical historical perspective, radically
and ironically questioning the fundamentalist
pathos that exists both in the east and the west.
Both Turks’ and Austrians’ opinions on the issue of
the “European identity of Turkey” diverge, and the
discourse around this subject is severely deficient.
Turkey’s accession negotiations are barely present
in both nations’ public spheres. How is this discourse
perceived on an individual level? How are
the social and political conditions reflected in the
values, prejudices, and mentalities of individuals?
The artists of Yildiz Teknik will present the results of
this research at the exhibition Inspiring Istanbul.
The core competencies of the University of Art Linz
and its Department of Experimental Design and of
Yildiz Teknik Üniversitesi Istanbul and its Faculty
of Art and Design oscillate between pure art and
applied design in a spirit of interdisciplinarity and
artistic-scientific research.
“The ability to combine art and design concepts
anew with individual inspiration and talent in order
to fuse the appropriation of tradition with experimental
innovation is at the centre of instruction at
Yildik Teknik Üniversitesi.” “The course of study
‘Experimental Gestaltung’ was necessitated by the
tensions between strategies of artistic production
on the one hand and scientific discourse on the
other – a course that meets the requirements of our
times as it intuitively tests the process character of
artistic ideas in order to systematically expand it.” 1
Exhibition
The artistic approaches open to students were interactive
in character and experimental. Possibilities
ranged from painting to sculpture, video, photography,
installation and to collage, from stencils to
documentation. Students were able to apply their
own perspectives to their works, which means they
differ quite frequently substantially from mainstream
work. The project’s aim was to encourage independent,
critical takes on tensions that exist between
art and culture on the one hand and social and political
conditions on the other.
DATE
16.4. – 10.5.09
Vernissage 16.4.09 | 7 p.m.
Kunstuniversität Linz
(Finanzgebäude Ost, Hauptplatz 5 – 6)
WHERE
Kunstuniversität Linz, Kunstverein Paradigma
TICKETS
Admission free
PARTICIPANTS
Turan Aksoy und Ayça Tufan
Herbert Lachmayer
Oona Valarie Schager, Ufuk Serbest,
sowie StudentInnen und AbsolventInnen
der Yildiz Teknik Universität Istanbul
und der Kunstuniversität Linz
PARTNERS
Yildiz Teknik Üniversitesi Istanbul
Kunstuniversität Linz
Kunstverein Paradigma
Kulturverein Peligro
Österreichisches Kulturforum Istanbul
For detailed information please visit
www.peligro.at/stanbul
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1 Photo collage
2 | 3 „wir müssen weiter denken als unsere pistolen
schiessen“, Linzer Augen Band 5: art special, 2007
4 | 5 Kunstuniversität Linz
6 – 14 Yildiz Teknik Üniversitesi Istanbul
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Herbert Lachmayer, “wir müssen weiter denken als unsere pistolen schiessen”, Linzer Augen Band 5: art special , 2007