Artist Talk / Nadim Assad

Wednesday, 16.11.2011, 19:00

Yoğurtçu Parkı Cad. No:52, D:17 Kadıköy

 çATIşMa // coLLisiOn ( l’avenir) Artist Talk & Video Screening

 "...But there is also another 'collision (l’avenir)', in which I am more interested. The noun becomes a verb: to collide, to interrupt, to jar, and transforms a fixed event into a confrontation with the Other or the Unknown.“

During his residency stay at halka art project, Assad was interested to work with the term 'collision' in relation to public spheres in contemporary Istanbul.

 For this evening he prepared a short input talk on his definition of 'collision (l’avenir)’ in relation to his own artistic practice as well. He will underline his talk with a video excerpt of his own video installation ’Shot / Reverse Shot’ (Jerusalem, Berlin, 2010) and the screening of ’The Negotiation’ (38min., Berlin, 2011) by Azin Feizabadi / Kaya Bekalham.

A night at Yoğurtçu 52/17

Video Screening & Talk with Nadim Assad

Thursday, 03.11.2011, 19:00

“Meeting on Common Ground”

In the framework of the Residency stay of the Berlin based artist Nadim Assad at halka art project  curated a collection of video works regarding his current interest of research. This evening we want to focus on 'collision' as an artistic strategy in urban spheres. The selection of videos evoke different questions about the 'public' not only as a space for the common but also as a place for encounters and its constitution of diverse scenarios.

After the screening we invite the audience to join an open talk with Nadim Assad.

Programme:

Fracys Alys (Mexico)

El-Gringo, 4:38

Mexico, 2003

Matthias Wermke / Mischa Leinkauf (Germany)

Trotzdem Danke, 6:42
Berlin, 2006



Santiago Sierra (Spain)

Container, 12:05

Sweden, 2009

Fracys Alys (Mexico)
Walking a Painting, 3:40
Los Angeles, 2002

Fernando Sánchez Castillo (Spain)

Pegasus' Dance, 11:58

Rotterdam, 2007 Program:

Fracys Alys (Mexico)
El-Gringo, 4:38
Mexico, 2003

Matthias Wermke / Mischa Leinkauf (Germany)
Trotzdem Danke, 6:42
Berlin, 2006
Santiago Sierra (Spain)
Container, 12:05
Sweden, 2009

Fracys Alys (Mexico)
Walking a Painting, 3:40
Los Angeles, 2002

Fernando Sánchez Castillo (Spain)
Pegasus' Dance, 11:58
Rotterdam, 2007 In the framework of the Residency stay of the Berlin based artist
Nadim Assad at halka art project, Assad curated a
collection of video works regarding his current interest of research.
This evening we want to focus on 'collision' as an artistic strategy
in urban spheres. The selection of videos evoke different questions
about the 'public' not only as a space for the common but also as
a place for encounters and its constitution of diverse scenarios.

After the screening we invite the audience to join an open talk with Nadim Assad.

Program:

Fracys Alys (Mexico)
El-Gringo, 4:38
Mexico, 2003

Matthias Wermke / Mischa Leinkauf (Germany)
Trotzdem Danke, 6:42
Berlin, 2006
Santiago Sierra (Spain)
Container, 12:05
Sweden, 2009

Fracys Alys (Mexico)
Walking a Painting, 3:40
Los Angeles, 2002

Fernando Sánchez Castillo (Spain)
Pegasus' Dance, 11:58
Rotterdam, 2007In the framework of the Residency stay of the Berlin based artist
Nadim Assad at halka art project, Assad curated a
collection of video works regarding his current interest of research.
This evening we want to focus on 'collision' as an artistic strategy
in urban spheres. The selection of videos evoke different questions
about the 'public' not only as a space for the common but also as
a place for encounters and its constitution of diverse scenarios.

After the screening we invite the audience to join an open talk with Nadim Assad.

Program:

Fracys Alys (Mexico)
El-Gringo, 4:38
Mexico, 2003

Matthias Wermke / Mischa Leinkauf (Germany)
Trotzdem Danke, 6:42
Berlin, 2006
Santiago Sierra (Spain)
Container, 12:05
Sweden, 2009

Fracys Alys (Mexico)
Walking a Painting, 3:40
Los Angeles, 2002

Fernando Sánchez Castillo (Spain)
Pegasus' Dance, 11:58
Rotterdam, 2007In the framework of the Residency stay of the Berlin based artist
Nadim Assad at halka art project, Assad curated a
collection of video works regarding his current interest of research.
This evening we want to focus on 'collision' as an artistic strategy
in urban spheres. The selection of videos evoke different questions
about the 'public' not only as a space for the common but also as
a place for encounters and its constitution of diverse scenarios.

After the screening we invite the audience to join an open talk with Nadim Assad.

Program:

Fracys Alys (Mexico)
El-Gringo, 4:38
Mexico, 2003

Matthias Wermke / Mischa Leinkauf (Germany)
Trotzdem Danke, 6:42
Berlin, 2006
Santiago Sierra (Spain)
Container, 12:05
Sweden, 2009

Fracys Alys (Mexico)
Walking a Painting, 3:40
Los Angeles, 2002

Fernando Sánchez Castillo (Spain)
Pegasus' Dance, 11:58
Rotterdam, 2007In the framework of the Residency stay of the Berlin based artist
Nadim Assad at halka art project, Assad curated a
collection of video works regarding his current interest of research.
This evening we want to focus on 'collision' as an artistic strategy
in urban spheres. The selection of videos evoke different questions
about the 'public' not only as a space for the common but also as
a place for encounters and its constitution of diverse scenarios.

After the screening we invite the audience to join an open talk with Nadim Assad.

halka art project welcomes Nadim Assad

Berlin based artist Nadim Assad is the current artist-in-residence of halka art project residency programme. Assad will be in İstanbul from October 11 to November 18, 2011 to investigate questions of the ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres. His definition of the ‘public’ describes a field of free movement and communication of the common.
In his artistic statement he declares "My artistic work tries to intervene in this contradiction by experimenting with different kinds of re-arrangements, re-enactments, assemblages and combinations of documents. Themes that I am interested in are Urbanity, Migration and Identity, which stem from my own background as a Palestinian, born and raised in Germany and living in a metropolitan city like Berlin. As an artist I use this kind of self-experience as a departure for my work. Art offers me a space in which I can experiment with these topics in a broader way of expression and exploration, what „reality“ is, how it looks like and what further questions it could possibly expand to."

For more information about the artist and a selection of his works please visit www.nadimassad.com

Images from Vera Korman's first workshop for halka art project Residency Programme

yoğurtçu 52/17 (detail)

Vera Korman, first guest of the Residency Programme

Our Guests

yoğurtçu 52/17 (detail)

Our first audience

18.09. 2011

Today's session "The Art of the Unexpected" of the workshop "Foreigners in the Body of Art" by Vera Korman starts at 16:00 hours at Yoğurtçu 52/17 -Art space & Residency of halka art project.

Vera Korman'ın halka sanat projesi Rezidans Programı kapsamında gerçekleştirdiği "Sanatın Bedeninde Yabancılar" workshop serisinin bugünkü bölümü " Sanatta Beklenmeyenin Öyküsü" saat 16:00'da Yoğurtçu 52/17'de. Türkçe çeviri mevcut.


Osmanağa Mah. Yoğurtçu Parkı Cad. No:52/17 Kadıköy - İstanbul

Vera Korman workshops starts on September 14th, 2011 19:00 hours