EU-Turkey Civil Society Dialogue: Cultural Bridges
This programme is funded by the European Union
My City Announcements
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The work of Andreas Fogarasi Panorama is open to visit in Eminönü, after Kadıköy |
Panorama: Right of View, the work of the wold-famous artist Andreas Fogarasi inspired by the 19th century panorama idea, tries to describe the panoramic city of İstanbul with a new interpretation of the panorama.
Fogarasi declares his impressions about the city as: “İstanbul is many cities at once, consisting of very different urban structures and ways of life. This complexity asks for an artistic intervention that is similarly complex and multifaceted, getting inspirations from the past, the present and the future of the city”.
This work exhibited between January 15 - March 15, 2011 in Kadıköy and that took part in the wold media is now placed in Eminönü, a neighbourhood appropriate with the work’s panoramic content and providing an open public space for crowded visitors. You wouldn’t pass over the Panorama that is visible from many different parts of İstanbul.
Summarizing three years of the project: My City Book
My City Book is the final publication of the My City project, which was conceived and implemented by the British Council in collaboration with Anadolu Kültür and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center. The book is published in Turkish and English.
The My City project includes projects that took place in the public spaces of five project cities and simultaneously organised education programme and guest artist programme in six different cities in Europe. The artists’ research activities in these cities and the kinds of relationships they established with their cities constituted the most important aspect of their projects. It is sought to render these processes and the multi-dimensional experience that this project enabled visible in the book. The artists who have completed their projects in five different cities and the six artists who have participated in the guest artist programme in Europe told their My City experiences. The articles written by the curators who have initially nominated these artists for the project have explored the links between the artists’ previous works and the works they produced for the My City project. While Pace Children’s Arts Center, which designed and implemented the educational programme has commented on a different field of experience in the participating cities, the documentary produced and directed by Nuran Bayer and her production team in collaboration with TRT has also contributed to the wider reception of the project.
Please email arts.info@britishcouncil.org.tr to receive the My City Book.
Discussion: Looking after My City
My City Book was discussed in the Açık Masa at Tütün Deposu on 30th of June 2011 with Esra Sarıgedik, Evrim Altuğ, Özge Açıkkol, Seçil Yersel, Yavuz Parlar
Within the framework of the İştirak program, Açık Masa aims to bring people together in order to create a discussion and sharing platform at DEPO. The program beginning in November differs from previous Açık Masa events as it includes not only artists but also collectives, lecturers, sociologists, writers, critics and curators. Açık Masa İştirak Program is organized by Mürüvvet Türkyılmaz in collaboration with Elmas Deniz
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The film screenings of the Sun Cinema in Mardin continues |
Clemens von Wedemeyer installed his work Sun Cinema in Mardin as part of the My City project conceived by British Council in İstanbul, working with local partners Anadolu Kültür, and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, within the scope of the EU-Turkey Civil Society Dialogue, Cultural Bridges Programme.
The open air cinema hosted the screening program “Human Rights Documentaries” and the different film screenings started in May 2011. The cinema will continue its screenings during the whole summer. The films taking part in the programme organized by the Mardin Cinema Association are shown for free on Wednesday and Friday nights in the Sun Cinema. Until now, lectures by the cinema writers and film directors were also organized additionally by the cinema association.
The selection of “Human Rights Documentaries” compiled in collaboration with Anadolu Kültür and Documentarist meets the spectators with the support of the Consulate General of Sweden. The documentaries telling the stories of the people from Turkey and from all around the world meets the movie fans from Mardin after Bursa, Çanakkale, İzmir, Afyon and Eskişehir.
The films narrating the problematics of Turkey and worldwide with a creative style, are enough attractive to be able to break the general perception about documentary cinema within the society. The spectators have the opportunity to see films about issues such as “video journalists” of Burma; the little girls lost in the Dersim Rebellion; the cleaning of İstanbul dogs in 1910 or a story about environment from Sweden to Chile and to share their ideas in the talks around the human rights issue.
You can visit the Mardin Cinema Association website for further information: http://www.mardinsinemadernegi.org/
The films and short films from Great Britain will be on the screen for the next programme organized in collaboration with British Council.
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The short version of My City Documentary is shown in TRT channel |
The documentary of My City project is introduced on Wednesday, May 25 in a reception organized by the British Consulate General of İstanbul. The documentary is directed by Nuran Bayer and produced with collaboration between the British Consulate General and TRT.
The short version of the documentary consisting of the selected sequences is shown in TRT on May 25. The reception taking place in the gardens of the British Consulate General of İstanbul was broadcasted live in the TRT news. The guests ranging from art and culture milieu to media and business world declared their views about the project. The My City documentary will introduce the multiple dimensions of this project to the viewer in 6 episodes, in the new season in September.
About the project
Starting in 2009, five artists from Europe were invited to Turkey to develop a unique work of public art for a specific city in Turkey. The selected cities are Çanakkale, İstanbul, Konya, Mardin and Trabzon. Each city has unique story to tell and this project has given the artists the opportunity to develop an in-depth understanding of both the city and Turkey as a whole. The different contexts and the range of artists participating ensured that the results in each city will be both unique and spectacular. Starting from Ocotber 2010, the works of the artists are open to visit in 5 project cities.
Artists from Europe have been nominated for My City by a panel of acclaimed international curators; Andrea Schlieker (UK), curatorial adviser for My City and Curator of Folkestone Triennial, Brigitte Franzen (DE), Director, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Mika Hannula (FI), University of Gothenburg/ freelance curator, Sebastian Cichocki (PL) Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw and Silvia Eiblmayr (AT) Co-curator Austrian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2009 and selected together with British Council and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center.
My City was conceived by the British Council together with partners from Turkey Anadolu Kültür and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre. The project is funded by the European Union within the framework of EU-Turkey Civil Society Dialogue: Cultural Bridges Programme and British Council.
For further information about the project and the artists please visit www.mycity.eu.com
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