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5. Sept. - 1. Nov. 2015, Türkei. SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms. Leitung: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Mehr als 100 Teilnehmer mit Kunstwerken, Objekten, Performances. Infos und Fototour in Nafas.
Sep 2015Laut Angabe der Veranstalter braucht man mindestens drei Tage, um die 14. Istanbul Biennale in Gänze zu besichtigen. Kunstwerke, Objekte und Performances von mehr als 100 Teilnehmern werden an 36 Orten präsentiert, vor allem im Bezirk Beyoğlu und auf der Insel Büyükada (Prinzeninseln) sowie auch an der Insel Sivriada, in Kadiköy (1), der Altstadt (1), Şişli (2), am nördlichen Ende des Bosporus (2) und ein Fischerboot auf dem Bosporus fungiert selbst als Werk. Die Ausstellung SALTWATER findet sowohl in Museen als auch an temporären Orten auf dem Land und auf dem Wasser statt, darunter Boote, Hotels, ehemalige Bankgebäude, Garagen, Gärten, Schulen, Geschäfte und private Wohnungen (siehe alle 36 Orte mit Adressen).
Diese Edition der Istanbul Biennale wurde von Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev konzipiert. Sie äußerte dazu:
"Salt water is one of the most ubiquitous materials in the world. Sodium in our bodies makes our neurological system, and thus our vital systems, work; it literally keeps us alive. At the same time, salt water is the most corrosive material threat to the digital age: if you drop your smart phone in fresh water, you can dry it and it will probably work again. If it falls into salt water, chemical molecular changes in the materials of your phone will break it. When you visit the 14th Istanbul Biennial, you will spend quite a bit of time on salt water. There is a slowing down of the experience of art due to the travel between venues, especially on ferries. That is very healthy: salt water helps to heal respiration problems and many other illnesses, as well as calming the nerves.
This sprawling exhibition spans from Rumelifeneri on the Black Sea, where Jason and the Argonauts passed searching for the Golden Fleece, through the winding and narrow Bosphorus, a seismic fault line which opened as a water channel some 8500 years ago, and down to the Princes’ Islands in the Sea of Marmara towards the Mediterranean, where ancient Byzantine emperors exiled their enemies and where Leon Trotsky lived for four years from 1929 to 1933.
It presents over 1500 artworks, some very tiny, including over fifty commissions by artists as well as other visible and invisible manifestations such as materials from the history of oceanography, environmental studies, marine archaeology, Art Nouveau, neuroscience, physics, mathematics and theosophy.
Works range historically from an 1870 painting of waves by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who received a Nobel prize in 1906 for discovering the neuron, to the ground-breaking abstract Thought Forms of Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater (1901-1905), up to a new installation by Aslı Çavuşoğlu which reflects on an ancient and lost Armenian technique for extracting red dye from an insect, and a new multichannel installation by William Kentridge inspired by Trostky’s passage through Turkey."
Interlocutors and alliances of Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev for the 14th Istanbul Biennial include Anna Boghiguian, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Cevdet Erek, Pierre Huyghe, Emre Hüner, William Kentridge, Marcos Lutyens, Chus Martínez, Füsun Onur, Emin Özsoy, Griselda Pollock, Michael Rakowitz, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran, and Elvan Zabunyan.
Novelist Orhan Pamuk is the Honorary Chairman of the International Council of Friends and Patrons of the 14th Istanbul Biennial.
The Istanbul Biennial advisory board members include Adriano Pedrosa, Başak Şenova, İnci Eviner, Iwona Blazwick, and Ute Meta Bauer.
14. Biennale Istanbul
5. September - 1. November 2015
Türkei
Titel:
SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms
Leitung: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Mehr als 100 Teilnehmer mit
Kunstwerken, Objekten, Performances
an 36 Ausstellungsorten
Veranstalter: