| 2nd KargART Video Festival About Us KargART, one of the primary non-profit culture and art centers in Istanbul with its interdisciplinary structure, is organizing the second KargART Video Exhibition. The organization is working hard to instill the concept and structure of “alternative art center” in every respect; and this vibrant structure is providing organizers, curators and artists working in the very modern and digital art form of video with a whole new basis. As in the first exhibition, KargArt is dislocating the videos from where they were installed and creating an audience of its own. With an international outlook, it is aiming to bring individuals and groups producing independent and high quality works together and enlarge its audience in so doing. Ridding its artists from all rules, limitations and concerns about “creating concepts”, the exhibition seeks to uphold “video” as an important art form and nothing else. This year, the exhibition will continue its anti-conceptual stance and freedom under the organization and curation of Irmak Arkman and Gözde Ilkin. 1st Kargart Video Exhibition The exhibition derived its concept from the stance and structure of KargART: since KargART is a non-profit, alternative organization dedicated to exhibiting art and its creation process and the locus of the “opposite shore” in these regards, the concept of the exhibition was “opposite”. It undertook the mission to overcome the domination of Taksim as a center for arts in Istanbul in particular and to transport an art form developed in Europe and US to an Asian context in general. The exhibition displayed anti-conceptual works to uphold “video” in its purest form and create an independent space for artistic production: oppose concept in the name of video and in the name of region! The exhibition consisted of two parts. The first comprised of local and international artists while the second focused on the works of Malmö Art Academy students as an inquiry into video-art in Nordic countries. The local artist were Eser Selen, Zeren Göktan, Ethem Özgüven, Gül Kozacioglu, Gözde Ilkin, Günes Terkol, Güçlü Öztekin, Ibrahim Cansizoglu, Burcu Yagcioglu, Tugçe Di Lara Kurtoglu; while the international independent artists that we started collaborating on-line included Jennifer L. Porter and Kevin Evensen from USA, Greek performance artist Evengelia Basdeski, Nevena Popovic of Montenegro and Alex Waldman&Vandad Kashefi. These together made up the first part of the exhibition. The contributers from Malmö Art Academy were Ingrid Koslung, Anü Ramdas, Kevin Murphy, Jose Luis Martinat, Tamar Guimaraes & Nanna Debois Buhl, Jee Eun Kim, Karlotta Blöndal, Maj Hassager and Mathias Kristersson. The organization of the exhibition was realized by Irmak Arkman with the support of Övül Durmusoglu in the organization and curation of the Malmö Art Academy section. 1st KargART Video-ART Exhibition presented works over a wide spectrum ranging from short videos to animation and audio-visual works by artists from various countries, backgrounds and disciplines. These were displayed 8 times as film screenings for everyone interested in video-art. 2nd KargART Video Festival Consept This year, 1st KargArt Video Exhibition realized with the contribution of several local and international artists, is yielding its place to a video festival –again to be organized in February. Videos screened one after the other from a single channel will acquire an exhibition structure with the contribution of the artist Gözde Ilkin. The exhibition will continue its anti-conceptual stance and name no definite concept for this year. The aims of the exhibition are: freeing the artists from the limitations of exhibition places and art galleries and providing them with a space where they can exhibit their works freely and feel themselves on equal basis with other artists; “creating a platform for new discussions in the area of video production by exhibiting examples of contemporary video art”; “to prove that the video can move beyond the gallery, the white cube and acquire a new form of presentation by way of remaining outside of the typical art gallery format”; to provide an alternative path to Turkish video artists with an international approach. Short videos, long formats, animations, audio-videos, installations, performance videos, documentations, video poems, etc: in short, you are the limit of the 2nd KargART Video Festival. KargART also occupies an important place in the performance arts scene in Istanbul with the festivals and independent performances it organized. It is providing performance artists interested in video and artists producing works in plastic arts wit the opportunity of doing live performances. As a new center of artistic production in opposition to the cultural center of Istanbul, Taksim, and peculiar to Kadiköy, the organization also supports artists who reflect Kadiköy and/or Kadife Street and/or who live and produce here. The exhibition is open to all professional and amateur artist be they local or from abroad. The works should be installable to the exhibition space and be outside mainstream concepts. Application Requirements - The artists willing to contribute are obligated to deliver their videos either by mail (to the below address) or personally to KargART directors or exhibition coordinators. - The videos should be transferred into DVD format. - The works of the artists who fail to deliver us their CVs, short introductory notes about their works and high resolution visual material will not be exhibited. - Those willing to contribute by a live performance or an installation should submit a detailed document concerning the details of their projects and the facilities they will need. Submission deadline: 15 Decembre 2006 Contact Exhibition Coordinators: Irmak Arkman irmakarkman@gmail.com Gözde Ilkin gozilk@gmail.com KargArt Directors: Ilyas Odman Melisa Biryol info@kargart.org adress: Kadife Sokak no:16 Kadiköy/ Istanbul t: 0216 330 31 51 e: info@kargart.org w: www.kargart.org |