Museo de Huarte

[CONFERENCES] "THE OTHER SHORE". 1st Encounter with Contemporary Cultures. TURKEY. "While all this is happening".

11-11-2008 > 11-11-2008 > The Huarte Centre, through “While all this is happening", which will be held from the 11 to 16 of November, proposes to establish a complex dialogue through art and creativity. The most innovating photography, video, performance, music, cinema, literature and design will give life to the first great Conference of Contemporary Turkish Culture.

Why is it that something that seems so close, like the dream of getting away at a long weekend, seems so strange? Istanbul, further than its stones and the weight of its history, of the complexity of its yearning for modernization and the increase of an Islam which is never univocal, possesses a living culture that is contemporary, plural and pronounced social character.

The Huarte Centre, through "While all this is happening", which will be held from the 11 to 16 of November, proposes to establish a complex dialogue through art and creativity. The most innovating photography, video, performance, music, cinema, literature and design will give life to the first great Conference of Contemporary Turkish Culture.

A process that can open a new perspective for the public and artists in Istanbul and Navarra, which, as Beral Madra, organizer of the Conference, declares, "they can understand the others' aspirations and ways of creating art, find similarities and differences". Meet, share, create and feel, from one shore to the other.
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> 11 NOVEMBER. TUESDAY.

6:00 pm. Official Opening of the Conference.

6:30 pm. "Art and Culture Today in Istanbul". Presentation by Beral Madra, organizer of the Conference.

 

Art critic and curator directing BM Contemporary Art Center (since 1984). Opened BM-SUMA, Contemporary Art Center, September 2007. Coordinated the 1st (1987) and the 2nd (1989) Istanbul Biennale, curated exhibitions of Turkish artists in 43rd, 45th, 49th , 50th and 51st Venice Biennale. Since 1984 she has organized solo and group exhibitions of local and international artists in her art center and in other official art spaces in Istanbul.
Beral Madra is representing Istanbul scholarship of Berlin Senate since 1995.
She is founding member of Diyarbakır Art Centre (established September 2002 , founding member and president of AICA, Turkey (established 2003).
Recent exhibitions: Check in Europe, European Patent Office, Munich, June-July 2006 / advisory curator for Sinopale, August 2006-2008 / "Neighbours in Dialogue", Exhibition for the Collection of ars Aevi, Sarajevo, 2007-2008; "Captivated by Bakhchesaray", Crimea, 2008.

Recent Books: "Neighbours in Dialogue" Editors: Beral Madra/Ayşe Orhun Gültekin, Norgunk Publishers, Istanbul, 2007/ "MAIDAN", editor Beral Madra, BMCAC Yayınları, İstanbul, 2007

7:30-8:30 pm. Videoist with Ferhat Satici.

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> 12 NOVEMBER. WEDNESDAY.

6:00-6:30 pm. Table: Mobile Art Space with Vahit Tuna.

 

6:45-7:30 pm. Surveys of weddings with Nermín Saybasili.

8:00-9:00 pm. Rapprochement of of Turkish Cinema by Dervis Zaim.

 

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> 13 NOVEMBER. THURSDAY.

5:30-6:00 pm. Conference on contemporary Turkish music by Erdem Cologlu.

 

6:30-7:00 pm. Concert and Presentation by Zeynep Gedizlioglu.

   

7:30-8:00 pm. Basak Dilara Özdemir.

  

8:15-9:15 pm. Performance by Ilyas Odman.

 

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> 14 NOVEMBER. FRIDAY.

7:00-7:30 pm. Photography by Sitki Kösemen.

8:00-8:30 pm. Gül Ilgaz.

 

8:30-9:30 pm. Videoshow.

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> 15 NOVEMBER. SATURDAY.

7:00-7:45 pm. Introduction to Turkish literature with Necmiye Alpay.

 

8:00-8:45 pm. Reading by Perihan Mağden.

9:00-10:00 pm. Performance by Nezaket Ekici.

 
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> 16 NOVEMBER. SUNDAY.

4:00-4:45 pm. Recycling life, recycling poetry with Meltem Ahiska.

 

5:00-6:30 pm. Istanbul-Huarte Round Table, writers and academicians with the participation of Necmiye Alpay, Perihan Mağden and Meltem Ahiska.

   

7:00-8:00 pm. Objects of design by Erdem Akan.

 

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