Turkey’s national work on the Eksperimenta! triennial began in June 2010. The triennial’s national concept was determined by D-Atelier and announced to the entire country. The young people attending the public meetings were told about the general concept and the main philosophy of the European Capital of Culture, the expectations to the youth, the significance of establishing an inter-cultural artistic union, and the importance of the cultural rapprochement of Turkey and Estonia. Young people with the ability to look after and direct world art who also had ideas were invited to join the project. The individual works of these young people, as well as what they thought of the topic and what they did, were monitored on the Internet. These young people assumed responsibility and worked together with their younger friends. By generating ideas, they produced examples for their younger friends. That was meant to achieve a bigger and wider synergy. It constituted a good opportunity for the younger children to understand and question contemporary art.
Merve Aydin. Size
After completing all the stages, 16 individual works were selected for the national exhibition. From the common synergy arose 2 group works. In one of the group works, children approached the word “space” through video, while the other group work proceeded from the similarities between Estonian and Anatolian mythologies.
What we are thinking now, what we are doing, the environment we live in, our region, the land we live in and the area we cover in a world getting smaller… In this context, our existence in “space” – place, time, location – was questioned by children. In general, children thought about visible and invisible “space”. In many works, they even questioned whether “space” existed. In this questioning, mathematical, physical and philosophical theories were met by artistic values. We understood that children were influenced by their own living environment in forming their ideas. Arda’s questioning of the mathematical space was about the existence of a visible and invisible side in everything. The best language he could use to express this was mathematical theories which he considered the closest. Our animation thorough generations by multiplication and diversification, connection of all humans and even all the living things – in short, our unrestrained genes – all expressed Dünya’s interest in science. We thought that Merve questioned the area all humans covered in space because she frequently took the stage in performing arts. On the other hand, Bora reminded us of different “spaces” by setting up a playground that belongs to them in all cultures.
Kaan Ozata. Pink pissuar
We hope these works to be a starting point for children, who play a major role in the consumerist world we live in, to look after the world’s cultural values together with their own cultural values.
Alp Gani Oral
Curator of Eksperimenta! Turkish exposition
Turkish exposition
Arda Koray. Our real identity
Turkey’s national work on the Eksperimenta! triennial began in June 2010. The triennial’s national concept was determined by D-Atelier and announced to the entire country. The young people attending the public meetings were told about the general concept and the main philosophy of the European Capital of Culture, the expectations to the youth, the significance of establishing an inter-cultural artistic union, and the importance of the cultural rapprochement of Turkey and Estonia. Young people with the ability to look after and direct world art who also had ideas were invited to join the project. The individual works of these young people, as well as what they thought of the topic and what they did, were monitored on the Internet. These young people assumed responsibility and worked together with their younger friends. By generating ideas, they produced examples for their younger friends. That was meant to achieve a bigger and wider synergy. It constituted a good opportunity for the younger children to understand and question contemporary art.
Merve Aydin. Size
After completing all the stages, 16 individual works were selected for the national exhibition. From the common synergy arose 2 group works. In one of the group works, children approached the word “space” through video, while the other group work proceeded from the similarities between Estonian and Anatolian mythologies.
What we are thinking now, what we are doing, the environment we live in, our region, the land we live in and the area we cover in a world getting smaller… In this context, our existence in “space” – place, time, location – was questioned by children. In general, children thought about visible and invisible “space”. In many works, they even questioned whether “space” existed. In this questioning, mathematical, physical and philosophical theories were met by artistic values. We understood that children were influenced by their own living environment in forming their ideas. Arda’s questioning of the mathematical space was about the existence of a visible and invisible side in everything. The best language he could use to express this was mathematical theories which he considered the closest. Our animation thorough generations by multiplication and diversification, connection of all humans and even all the living things – in short, our unrestrained genes – all expressed Dünya’s interest in science. We thought that Merve questioned the area all humans covered in space because she frequently took the stage in performing arts. On the other hand, Bora reminded us of different “spaces” by setting up a playground that belongs to them in all cultures.
Kaan Ozata. Pink pissuar
We hope these works to be a starting point for children, who play a major role in the consumerist world we live in, to look after the world’s cultural values together with their own cultural values.
Alp Gani Oral
Curator of Eksperimenta! Turkish exposition