links:
www.apartmentproject.com
www.homenothome.se
http://artprojectforyoungsters.blogspot.com/
re-locate.blogspot.com/
SELDA ASAL Visual artist. Born in Izmir . Studied Musicology and Art.
Initiater of the Apartment Project in Istanbul. Currently living in Istanbul.

From an interview with Aleksandra Kostic:
A: How would you describe your artistic world? What kind of an artist are you? Which tools do you use?
S.A: I am a video artist , I have been producing projects consisting of video films, sound installations and music videos by working with teenagers in Turkey, Germany, Denmark , France, Sweden, Iran, Azarbeican, Armenia etc. and also I am working with people who have experienced life on the brink of death to such a degree that they have nearly lost their ability to even imagine a future for themselves. Such as women who are living in women shelters under big death threat, or girls who are attempted suicide .
A: What ideas do you represent? What is important for you? What is the message you are trying to transmit to the audience?
All my works are actually tightly woven together and also they are all base of sociological issues. Being an artist in Turkey, you are not exactly free to do everything that you want. You have some responsibilities .In most of my work ,it's about questioning and judging the time you live in, what is the situation, what's your position according to the changing situation in Turkey. I can say all my works to generate questions. How should it be done? How should it be? While these wars and massacres continue, how can we express our or my response or lack of response through art ?
A: What about your recent project ?
It's
called 're-locate'. We're working on that, and it will open on September 13th.
in Istanbul. The theoretical framework of the Re-Locate project is based on the population exchange between Anatolia and the Balkans and it focuses on the flexibility of the borders, cultural similarities, controversies, the lack of communication between cultures, as well as various methods of developing new communication models.
This Project proposes an experimental workshop practice that is based on mobility and translocation. The suggested mobility tries to encompass the physical transitivity of the cities and borders, as well as the flexibility of historical, identitarian, and ideological borders.
For this Project we are collaborating with some non--profit organisations from Plovdiv, Athens, Skopje and Pristina. There are eight artists from Turkey, and from each cities (Sophia, Athens, Skopje and Pristina) one artist taking apart in this project .
I am in the backstage, While the journey and the cities are experienced with a great pace, it is documenting how the artists work, how they affect each other during the process, how they position themselves according to the changing conditions, how this is reflected in their projects, how they create a transition space between each other, as well as how the project is re-shaped all the time... The kitchen is where all these are documented...
We can also say that, it is documenting the documents, in a way. It even includes notes on artists' notebooks, their conversations, the games they play in the bus..It includes all these. It is really difficult to catch every single thing. That's why it is so important to collaborate and act together with the assistant. It is also crucial to prepare the artists and let them know what a mobile atelier is and how the process can unfold. The other important part is to provide motivation...
It is also like coaching keeping the group together in the face of dispersions or in-group conflicts, providing motivation and stabilizing the conditions to keep up working. The conditions can change rapidly. Sometimes, an artist starts with a project, but she cannot keep up with it, then you have to convince her that her plan B might work or she can come up with something new by using her observations over there.
You have to remind people that this is different than getting prepared for an exhibition; it is an experimental process in which one has to document all possible ways... Before going to the countries where we will realize our projects, we contact the institutions that we are going to work with and tell them artists' projects in detail. This makes us gain some time.
In the future, we are going to continue all these projects in the Arab countries in 2013, and probably some other projects in Europe .

'I dream but...' 2009 http://vimeo.com/20458871
Com'on come here, I can not hear you!' 2008 http://vimeo.com/27264430
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px2Mvv2cWhg&feature=channel_page

http://artprojectforyoungsters.blogspot.com/p/lille-france-i-dream-but-2009.html


Diyarbakır / Benusen 2008
http://vimeo.com/13854855
http://artprojectforyoungsters.blogspot.com/p/hey-world-hear-my-voice-diyarbakr-2008.html



EXHIBITIONS (by selection)
2011 See me, Who was I for real? Dijital Film Mångkulturellt
centrum , Fittja Stockholm, Isveç Hayal / Hakikat Istanbul Modern Museum Re-Locate / Back Stage / 7 Films, Rumeli Han, istanbul Too dark to see’, Dijital Film, sound : Cem Akkan , If , 10. Independent Film Festival , Istanbul, Locarno & Venezia Film Festival Ölmek zor, Ateşin Düştüğü yer, Depo, Istanbul http://vimeo.com/26753500 2010 Everything's fine! , Fotoğraf , 'A dream but not yours... Kuratör: Esra Sarigedik Oktem, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA Visandid , Dijital Film, sound : Cem Akkan, Mooste, Estonia http://vimeo.com/27279579 Hey dünya duy sesimi’, video, müzik: Serdar Ateser.http://vimeo.com/13854855 “Le Musée Ephémère” , La Saison Vidéo, L’Espace Croisé , Roubaix, France If , 9th AFM International Independent Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey ‘All Pale, Breathing ashes in the air' ‘ , video yerleştirme, Reciprocal Visit, Kibla, Maribor, Slovenya http://vimeo.com/27246511 Selected exhibitions between 2008-1991 2009 next turn , I dream but... / video installation Maison Folie Moluen ,Lille,France Collaboration with musician Serdar Ateser Be a dream, digital video,Bethanienhause, Berlin, Germany Collaboration with musician Serdar Ateser http://vimeo.com/27323206 See me, Seriously Ironic ,cur: Dolores Denaro& Isin Onol CentrePasquArt Kunsthaus Centre d'art, Biel, Switzerland Hey world hear my voice, Collaboration with musician Serdar Ateser , Istanbul Film Festival/ Duzende (çok) kuçuk bozukluklar" , Cur: Yekhan Pinarligil, Aksanat 20.Ankara Film festivali, Turkiye 'de videonun 35 yili See me / Se mig! Video Installation Who was I , really? - Vem var jag, egentligen? Depo, Istanbul, Turkey-Solo 2008 See me, Who was I , really?, Hard to die, Gallery Alkatraz at Metelkova, Ljubliana, Slovenia-Solo exhibition See me / Se mig! Who was I , really? - Vem var jag, egentligen? /Video installation in Vagoon -Project :Home not Home ,Video Installation ,Riksutstalingar/Travelling exhibition: Goteborg, Stockholm,Malmo, Umea, Skövde, Varberg,Lund,Kalix,Katrineholm, Linköping,Ludvika, Osby, Ostersund, Pitea. www.homenothome.se See me / Se mig! Video Installation Who was I , really? - Vem var jag, egentligen? DSM, Diyarbakir,Turkey-Solo Restore Hope : Love is Fake, I wouldn't quit , if the world upside down, Hard to die, Vita kuben Umeå, Sweden-Solo Com’on, come here , I can not hear you! Collaboration with musician Serdar Ateser ,Video Installations ,Holstebro, Denmark, Public Spaces in Holstebro -performance and video installation www.youtube.com/seldaasal2 http://vimeo.com/27264430 Hard to die, video installation,Nev Gallery,Istanbul-solo exhibition Wofuer Kaempfen wir?, Labour 6, Berlin -event 2007 Hard to die, Arttransponder, Berlin -solo exhibition Hard to die, video installation, OFF BEAT , cur : Maja Ciric, SKC, Belgrate,Serbia
2+1 , multi media installation , Apartment Project (colaboration with Ceren Oykut and Neriman Polat) 10 th.Istanbul Bienniale, cur : Hou Hanru, Istanbul www.nice-kids.net
I wouldn't quit ,if the world turned upside down, Istanbul Now , Video Installation , Galerie Lucas Feichtner,Vienna, Nev Gallery, Istanbul, Contemporary Art Museum, Novi Sad,Serbia
The Trial, video installation, Mediterrenean Dialogs, cur: Susan van Hagen,France
Everything is ok! , cur :Ovul Durmusoglu ,Radikal Art , billboards in Istanbul Streets,Istanbul
Four days in Cairo , Upgrade! Tel Aviv-Jerusalem , cur:Basak Senova ,Contemporary Image ,Center (CIC) Cairo
2006
Postcards Stockholm-Istanbul - collaborated with Ceren Oykut ,Interactive Video installation,Botkyrka Kunsthalle, Stockholm
Love is fake, video installation ,PRO –arte ,Copenhagen The 12th International Festival of Computer Arts , Maribor ,Slovenia Odysee, 17. Cinema weeks Strausbourg
Competing with Genies , Outliners , video installation Arttransponder,Berlin, and Odysee, 17. Cinema weeks Strausbourg
2005
Restore Hope ,Loosing Control, cur: Galit Elat,Basak Senova,Eyal Danon ,Transmediale,HDKW,Berlin,
Egnasia, collaborated with STALKER -Iacopo Gallico, cur:Marina Fokidis Yeni Cami, Thesaloniki,Greece,
_Vertigo Entrapped _ Volume 2_ video and photography selection curated by Basak Senova for Attitude video /short & experimental film/ photography festival curated by Biljana Petrovska Isijani, Magaza, Bitola.
2 minute –Attitude, Bitola, Macedonia - Cultural Center "Magaza" (Institute and Museum)Center for Contemporary Public Arts ELEMENTI+International Art Expo (Italy)
House of glass, (In-)Security cur:Sabine Winkler,The Badische Kunstverein,Karlsruhe
' Home sweet home' The Balkan Art Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art , cur: Svetlana Mladenov, Sava Stepanov, The Golden Eye Centre for Visual Culture ,Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
Waiting Room, Apartment Project, Istanbul
Love is Fake, Kunst oder Konigin,cur :Danielle de Piciotto,Arena,Berlin
Ocu ,Neurotitan,Berlin
Lost Postcard ,Tele-city, Collaborated with Ceren Oykut, Siemens Art, Istanbul, cur:Marcus Graf,Basak Senova
Lost Postcard ,Point of View cur :Judith Nothnagel Fournos Center for the Art and New Technology, Athens, Greece,Museum Wesel, Lower Rhine, Germany, Gallery Noass, Art and Culture Project Noass, Riga, Latvia, Audiovisual Festival zemos98 in cooperation with Endanza, Sevilla, Spain ,Contemporary Art Museum ex-manifattura tabacchi, Pescara, Italy
2004
Turbulence ,1.st Balkan Biennial –Cosmopolis, Macedonia Museum of Contemporary Art,Theseloniki,Greece,cur:Magda Carneci
Palimpsests, Book Trieannale,Lille, France
Turbulence, The Ideal, Center for Contemporary Art ,Plovdiv,Bulgaria,cur:Emil Mirazciev
Home Sweet Home, Personal Cinema ,Novi Sad , Serbia& Montenegro,cur: Ilias Marmaras
Ctrl-alt-delete ,Babylone,Istanbul,cur :Basak Senova, Eyal Danon
2003 Living Room, Ruh Halleri uzerine,Nev Gallery, Istanbul Home Sweet Home, Roxy,Istanbul-event 2001 Endscene, Apartment Project, Istanbul 2000 Paris Journal, FCC , Istanbul 1998 Sleep, BM Contemporary Art Center 1995 Archieve 901234 L Stettener Castle , Loerrach , Germany 1992 Palimpsests, Siyah Beyaz, Ankara BM Contemporary Art Center,Istanbul 1990 Palimpsests, BM Contemporary Art Center,Istanbul Selected group exhibitions 2008-1991 2008 Hard to die, video installation, SAVE AS Contemporary Art from Turkey, cur Derya Yucel, Milano,Italy Home Sweet Home , Pure Expression, cur : Jelena Radic 13th Art Biennial Pancevo, Serbia Becoming Istanbul , I wouldn't quit ,if the world turned upside down,Love is Fake, Hard to die, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt 7.4.4 , 'Accumulated: ...put aside, left aside' cur: Asli Cetinkaya & Isin Onol 5333 IMC,Istanbul 2007 Hard to die, video installation, OFF BEAT , cur : Maja Ciric, SKC, Belgrate,Serbia 2+1 , multi media installation , Apartment Project (colaboration with Ceren Oykut and Neriman Polat) 10 th.Istanbul Bienniale, cur : Hou Hanru, Istanbul www.nice-kids.net I wouldn't quit ,if the world turned upside down, Istanbul Now , Video Installation , Galerie Lucas Feichtner,Vienna, Nev Gallery, Istanbul,Contemporary Art Museum, Novi Sad,Serbia The Trial, video installation, Mediterrenean Dialogs, cur: Susan van Hagen,France Everything is ok! , cur :Ovul Durmusoglu ,Radikal Art , billboards in Istanbul Streets,Istanbul Four days in Cairo , Upgrade! Tel Aviv-Jerusalem , cur:Basak Senova ,Contemporary Image ,Center (CIC) Cairo 2006 Postcards Stockholm-Istanbul - collaborated with Ceren Oykut ,Interactive Video installation,Botkyrka Kunsthalle, Stockholm Love is fake, video installation ,PRO –arte ,Copenhagen The 12th International Festival of Computer Arts , Maribor ,Slovenia Odysee, 17. Cinema weeks Strausbourg Competing with Genies , Outliners , video installation Arttransponder,Berlin, and Odysee, 17. Cinema weeks Strausbourg 2005 Restore Hope ,Loosing Control, cur: Galit Elat,Basak Senova,Eyal Danon ,Transmediale,HDKW,Berlin, Egnasia, collaborated with STALKER -Iacopo Gallico, cur:Marina Fokidis Yeni Cami, Thesaloniki,Greece, _Vertigo Entrapped _ Volume 2_ video and photography selection curated by Basak Senova for Attitude video /short & experimental film/ photography festival curated by Biljana Petrovska Isijani, Magaza, Bitola. 2 minute –Attitude, Bitola, Macedonia - Cultural Center "Magaza" (Institute and Museum)Center for Contemporary Public Arts ELEMENTI+International Art Expo (Italy) House of glass, (In-)Security cur:Sabine Winkler,The Badische Kunstverein,Karlsruhe ' Home sweet home' The Balkan Art Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art , cur: Svetlana Mladenov, Sava Stepanov, The Golden Eye Centre for Visual Culture ,Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro Waiting Room, Apartment Project, Istanbul Love is Fake, Kunst oder Konigin,cur :Danielle de Piciotto,Arena,Berlin Ocu ,Neurotitan,Berlin Lost Postcard ,Tele-city, Collaborated with Ceren Oykut, Siemens Art, Istanbul, cur:Marcus Graf,Basak Senova Lost Postcard ,Point of View cur :Judith Nothnagel Fournos Center for the Art and New Technology, Athens, Greece,Museum Wesel, Lower Rhine, Germany, Gallery Noass, Art and Culture Project Noass, Riga, Latvia, Audiovisual Festival zemos98 in cooperation with Endanza, Sevilla, Spain ,Contemporary Art Museum ex-manifattura tabacchi, Pescara, Italy 2004 Turbulence ,1.st Balkan Biennial –Cosmopolis, Macedonia Museum of Contemporary Art,Theseloniki,Greece,cur:Magda Carneci Palimpsests, Book Trieannale,Lille, France Turbulence, The Ideal, Center for Contemporary Art ,Plovdiv,Bulgaria,cur:Emil Mirazciev Home Sweet Home, Personal Cinema ,Novi Sad , Serbia& Montenegro,cur: Ilias Marmaras Ctrl-alt-delete ,Babylone,Istanbul,cur :Basak Senova, Eyal Danon 2003 Palimpsests, 3 rd.Triennal Vilnius, Luitvania,Frankfurt,Lille Home Sweet Home, Euroscreen 21, PAN-Museum,Emmerich,Kunstpalast Dusseldorf,Germany,Transmediale Berlin, cur:Judith Nothnagel Home Sweet Home, Novi sad Digital Video Art Festival.Novi Sad, Serbia Living Room, Eco Art, Russe,Bulgaria Untitled,The making of Balkan wars: The game Thesseloniki,Skopje,Belgrade,Novi Sad,Bucharest 2002 Shoe Store, In Search of Balkania, Neue Galerie Graz Landesmuseum Joanneum, Austria, ,cur:Peter Weibel,Roger Conover,Eda Cufer www.apartmentproject.com The Dream Quilt, Between the waterfronts,,cur: Ron Mandos, Fulya Erdemci, Dutch Art ,Rotterdam,The Nederlands Dream, Contemporary Art in Balkan Countries, State Museum of Contemporary Art , Thesseloniki ,Greece Living Room, Ecoart3 – RUSSE, cur:Ivan Ivanova, State Museum of Russe, Bulgaria Bulgaria The Trial,Transparency,Cur:Emil Mirazciev Plovdiv Center of Contemporary Art , Bulgaria The Trial , Personal Space-Public Space, 22. Nadezda Petrovic cur:Zoran Eric,Lyubisa Simovic 22.,Galery Nadezda Petrovic ,Cacak, Yugoslavia House of glass ,Mirror of Balkans, cur:Lyubisa Simovic,Stevan Vukovic National Museum+Ogledelo Visual Art Center Kraljevo,Yugoslavia Palimpsests, Imaginning the book ,cur:Mouhammed Aboulnega The Library of Alexandria, Alexandria,Egypt me /my self Cathy Brewster Galery ,New Zealand 2001 House of glass, From faraway so close,cur: Margrit Brehm, Baden-Baden Kunsthalle, Germany2001 House of glass, Bugunku Program, Gelecek Program, Yapi Kredi Kultur Sanat , Istanbul 2000 -1999 Sleep, Passage de Bosphore ,Musee de Picardie cur: Sylvie Couderc ,Musee de Picardie , Amiens , France 2000 The notebook, Confidental , cur: Christian Hutzinger , Galerie Ilse Hutzinger , Ebensee , Austria 1999 The Quilt, Ortung , cur: Gottfried Goiginger, Galerie 5020 , Salzburg 1998 Export-Import, Volkskunde Museum , Vienna Kerteriz , cur: Beral Madra , Ataturk Kultur Merkezi, Istanbul 1996 Tessera, cur: Ewald Statzny , Art in Nature , St.Veil/Vienna 1991 Ani-Bellek, cur:Vasif Kortun,Taksim Sanat Galerisi,Istanbulcur:Vasif Kortun Please check www.apartmentproject.com for Selda Asal's collaborative works. |