Garp Sessions 2019
July 27-August 4, 2019
Facilitators
Ayşe İdil İdil
Ayşe İdil İdil is an artist and researcher based in İstanbul. In her practice, she researches alternative forms of togetherness, the conditions that shape bonds across time and place. She works in constellations and asks how fellowshipping can create culture outside of capitalizing and individuating systems, and what belonging looks like during multiple global crises, especially across the Mediterranean. She is a co-founder of Garp Sessions; broadcasts & organizes with independent internet radio Modyan; and is a co-founder of Sounds Here or There. She has exhibited at internationally including poşe, İstanbul, and Sharjah Biennial 16. Her writing has been published online and in print. She received her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and MFA at the Dutch Art Institute, Art/Praxis.
Deniz Kirkali
Deniz Kirkali is an independent curator and writer based in London. She is the co-founder of topsoil, a transnational curatorial and research collective, and Garp Sessions, a summer residency programme in Babakale, Turkey. Her research-led curatorial practice focuses on collaboration and experimental pedagogies and spans across the UK, Europe and the Middle East. She holds a PhD in curatorial practices from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her writings have been published widely in international magazines and platforms such as AQNB, Flash Art, this is tomorrow, Cogito and Art Unlimited.
Participants
Larissa Araz
Larissa Araz (1990) produces works in a variety of media including text, video, image and sound. Through a personal viewpoint, she focuses at the topics of history, identity, memory and belonging that are included or not included in social memory. The questions that are not answered by history that we repeatedly ask ourselves-or not anymore- are the main threads of an existential research of Araz. She founded Poşe Artist Run Space in April 2018. Poşe is conceived with an urge to establish a community. It is a physical and mental open-space for those who feel the need for dialogue and critique. Poşe have displayed many exhibitions including solo and group productions along with public programing and other contents.
Gülşah Mursaloğlu
Gülşah Mursaloğlu (1989, Istanbul)completed her BA in Sociology at Boğaziçi University and received her MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In her works, she explores materiality, matter’s agency and human and non-human temporalities. Her installations, which emerge after an in-depth and extensive research process, don’t remain stable in form, and rather manifest themselves as dynamic and fluid systems through their ephemeral nature. Recent exhibitions include “Material Play”, Salisbury University Galleries, Salisbury, USA (2019); “Pandora’s Black Box”, Galata Rum Okulu, Istanbul (2019); “YFD 10: One Must Continue” Zilberman Gallery, İstanbul (2019); “A Notation, for Every Crossing”, poşe, İstanbul (2019); “An Internal Garden”, Depo, Istanbul (2018); “Artificial Life”, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, USA (2018); “Other Hours”, 601 Artspace, New York, USA (2017) and “For Rent, For Sale”, Protocinema, İstanbul (2017).
Aslı Özdoyuran
Aslı Özdoyuran is an artist and researcher living and working in İstanbul. She holds a BFA in Sculpture and a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While in school and after graduation, she worked as Michael Rakowitz’ s production assistant, installing his exhibitions across the US, Europe and the Middle East. In Chicago, she co-run an artist initiative supporting on-site production and discussion. For a year, she interned as Curatorial Research Assistant at Sculpture Center in NYC. In Istanbul, she assisted Banu Cennetoğlu in her continuous projects, the List and 14.05.2019. She participated in artist-run residencies focusing on land and bio-colonialism in Hawai’i islands (Summer Forum) and Palestine (Sakiya). Currently working in Arter Museum’s Learning Program where she is engaged in organizing workshops and interpretation events, Aslı continues her material research on sessility, and in particular; sleep.
Ezgi Tok
Ezgi Tok lives and works in Istanbul. Her works contemplate relations, systems and standards through a close look at the subtle. It often takes the form of documentation of repetitive gestures involving futile attempts to measure, organize, label or define natural occurrences, habits, or simply the passage of time. She has participated in many exhibitions, programs and residencies.
