Monika Nguyen's Staged Photography Event

halka art project presents a staged photography project by Monika Nguyen about timber houses in Istanbul.

Used// Kullanılmış

Monika Nguyen's project "Used" features interventions that she has performed at selected timber houses- mostly inhabited-from different districts of Istanbul which still try to keep their original condition.

Date: Friday, 16.03.2012

Time: 19.00 - 22.00  

Adress: Lütfiye Apt. No:14 /// Across Oyun Atölyesi

Dr Esat Isık Caddesi, Moda, Istanbul, Turkey

A New Artist in Residence: Monika Nguyen

Monika Nguyen is a Vienna-based stage designer and artist working in the fields of spatial installation and photography. Her works emphasize sociocultural concerns, in which she focuses on exceptional and extreme situations. Architectural environments serve as stages for interventions and narratives.
http://monikanguyen.net/


Monika Nguyen is intending to realize a staged photography project about timber houses in Istanbul. She is specifically interested in the original Ottoman architecture of these houses, many of which have vanished since their debut in the late 19th century. A small number of houses which still feature their original condition, still exists -and these houses are mostly inhabited- will serve for the realization of the project.
Nguyen will be at halka art project's residency to pursuit her project between 5-18 March 2012.

Sam Bunn at halka art project

halka art project is hosting London based artist Sam Bunn as a guest artist in residency.
Bunn will live and work at halka art project's residency at Kadıköy between 02.03.2012 - 08.04.2012.

Sam Bunn is a sculptor, working in the expanded field that includes performance, video and installation.
Space is crucial to his work, which explores performative physicality, interaction with an audience, site
specificity, materials, expression and humour. Bunn's recent work plays with the idea that sculpture might
express a self-contained subjectivity.

Me the gang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH1A7z7nmo0

Up the River
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naICUuIdvmY

Further information about Sam Bunn's activities in İstanbul will be announced.

Exhibition: Gözlem

Gözlem (Observation) is an exhibition realized by five artists Selin Bourquin (Switzerland),  Samuel  Burkhardt, Julia Herfurth, Christian Klier (Germany) and Uli Fohler (Austria) who met in Istanbul  in Fall 2011.
The idea of forming a collective came after the discussion on their perceptions of life in this city.

Gözlem is an attempt to share their five month experience  as the foreigners who found themselves being naively caught between excitement and amazement.

The discovery of the “ungraspable” matrix of life- systems, certain values, social structures, speed of life, fluctuation, quick glance on the market situation,  economic diversity, buzzingly-detailed market life, gorgeously personal exchange and consumption stories and friendly people revealed  an interesting playing ground.

The structural basis of the exhibition stands on two concepts: “Borrowing “ and “Buying" which are respectively used on socially based interactions and market relations.

Gözlem is an attempt to share some of this perspective with the city’s inhabitants. Focusing on the evident recurrent consumption in the city, the exhibition tries to propose a foreign interpretation of some matters concerning the subject in Istanbul.

The attitude of the artist collective in the conceptual and creative process can be interpreted as being ironic and sometimes intentionally funny and clumsy.

The exhibition showcases three groups of works entitled “1 Lira- 100 Kuruş”, “Mexico 66- Copy of the Copy”, and “Permanent- Collection from Moda Cad. and Dr. Esat Işık Cad.”.

Gözlem will take place between 28.02.2012 and 03.03.2012, at Lütfiye Apt. No: 14 Moda, Istanbul. The exhibition project is curated by Sezgi Abalı and İpek Çankaya and supported by halka art project.

For further information
 www.halkaartproject.net
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/halkasanatprojesi/?ref=ts

Res Artis Reception

Board of Directors of Res Artis, the Worldwide Network of Artist Residencies was the guest of halka art project

On January 21st, 2012 halka art project held a reception for the Board that was in Istanbul for a meeting after a few years. 

Miranda Train, halka art project's current artist at the residency programme also participated to the reception.

A new guest at the residency: Miranda Train

halka art project welcomes Miranda, a young writer from NYC.
She will be with us for the next 4 weeks.
We hope that halka art project Residency Programme would create a refuge for her to concentrate on her novel and Istanbul would be a source of inspiration.

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