About omosis
Selected exhibitions, activities:
2013
Artist presentation: "Being in Sweden, being an immigrant, being an artist", Adaevi, Museum of the Princes' Islands, İstanbul, Turkey
"Yersiz: Kader Birliği", Mardin, Kızıltepe, Turkey
“Ja jag vill leva jag vill dö”, Tegen 2, Stockholm
"Vilken tur! Himlen omfamnar oss!" / "What luck! The sky embraces us!" / "Ne şans! Gökyüzü hepimizi sarıyor!" Photography Exhibition, Ideas and Innovation Fair, Stockholm
"Milat" Exhibition for Hrant,
Getronagan Lisesi'nden Yetişenler Derneği, Harbiye / Rumeli Han C blok 6.Kat - Beyoğlu, İstanbul
2012
Migration Connections Project 2012 Exhibition, Museum of the Princes' Islands, İstanbul, Turkey
Edinburgh Middle Eastern Film Festival, Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Artist Talking and Screening, Agent Ria, Still Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2011
Ars retorica, Hall the university library of Paris 8 – Saint Denis, France
The Exhibition on the 20th Anniversary of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey: Where Fire Has Struck, DEPO Istanbul, Turkey
2010
PAI 2010-2011 in Thebes, Conference Center of Thebes, Greece
International Media Arts Festival Videfesta’10: Archive Fever, Goethe Institute, Ankara, Turkey
Temps D'Images Portugal 2010 Festival Film Award for Films on Art section
"From childhood to police station" Exhibition, Free Expantion Platform, Istanbul, Turkey
HEP Iran screening, Sazmanab Project, Tehran, Iran
AthensArt 2010 contemporary art exhibition, Athens, Greece
PAI 2010 contemporary art exhibition, Samothrace, Greece
"Thistles of Sazak" screening and exhibition, 7th Karaburun Festival, Izmir, Turkey
Distance Festival, London, UK
"Artist Cinema", Art Beijing, China
Over trubled water, Tegen 2, Stockholm, Sweden
Ankara International Film Festival, "Video: Spaces of Memory", Ankara, Turkey
Direct Channell, Canakkale' Turkey
!F Istanbul Film Festival 2010 online program: See it yourself (This village)' Istanbul, Turkey
HEP Screening, AFA Beijing, China
Tornavideo, Tamirhane, Ankara, Turkey
2009
“Projected Visions: 35 years of Turkish video art” exhibition Meeting Europe - Istanbul, Wacken Exhibition Centre, Strasbourg, France
HEP (Human Emotion Project) Screening, AFA @ Portuguese Bookshop Gallery, Macau, China
co-exhibition "Dirty Story", BM Suma, Istanbul, Turkey
HEP (Human Emotion Project) Screening, Caldas-da-Rainha, Portugal
HEP Screening, Berlin, Germany
"Thistles of Sazak", art performance, Karaburun, Izmir, Turkey
"Istanbul-Off-Spaces" co-exhibition, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
co-exhibition "Interzone:Nation", Gallery Galzenica, Zagreb, Croatia
HEP Screening, LaSala in Cigunuela, Spain
HEP screening, Melbourne, Australia
"Varning för klämrisk", Solo Exhibition, Tegen 2, Stockholm, Sweden
to Ankara International Film Festival, Ankara, Turkey
2008
1st Int. Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Berlin, Germany
"Hög på Golvet" group exhibition at Tegen 2, Stockholm, Sweden
1st Int. Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Istanbul, Turkey
International Mail Art Project 2008, Conceptual Continuity
Supermarket 2008 Art Fair with Tegen 2, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
"Fear of god" co-exhibition, Hafriyat Karakoy, Istanbul, Turkey
"Bodrum Film Festival", Bodrum, Mugla, Turkey
"Jag, min husses hund" group exhibition, Tegen 2, Stockholm, Sweden
"Nightcomers" project in the 10th Biennial of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Scope NYC [PAM], Scope Art Fair, Lincoln Center, New York, USA
2006
co-exhibition "Labyrint" in Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Artist's "Sann dialog" ("Real dialogue") contemporary art activity has been started. Stockholm, Sweden
Artist sent his videoperformance named as "Öppet brev till Migrationsverket" to Migrationsverket ("Open letter to Sweden Migration Board") 51', Stockholm, Sweden
2004
Artist given his art-object named as "För uppehållsstillstånd" to Migrationsverket ("For residence permission"), Istanbul, Turkey
co-exhibition "Bridge from east to west", BBK Karlsruhe, Germany
2003
co-exhibition of AIAP "Hal/iç" with work name the "Difficult sleep". Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey
2002
co-exhibition "Arts Plastiques" in METU Spring Festival at METU Congre Center, Ankara, Turkey
co-exhibition "A travel into life" at Kargart, Istanbul, Turkey
2001
"Sometimes when I'm high, I watch TV", video performance screening, Dulcinea, Istanbul, Turkey
Artist's "Solitudo" contemporary art activity has been started.
A solo contemporary art exhibition with 210 participants: I want my mirrors. Dulcinea Istanbul, Turkey
2000
co-exhibition "Veritas Omnia Vincit", Istanbul, Turkey
Artist's "I want my mirrors" contemporary art activity has been started, Istanbul, Turkey
1999
"2th Interbalcanic Symposium of Visual Arts" and co-exhibition, Samotrache/Greece
1998
"...self", solo exhibition. Dulcinea, Istanbul, Turkey
co-exhibition "The Other", Istanbul, Turkey
1996
"Citypaintings", solo exhibition. Habitat II/NGO Forum '96 art activities, Istanbul, Turkey
Publication of book of poems: "Limpin Bird" (Aksak Kus) (168 page, 81 poem, 81 picture), Istanbul, Turkey
1995
Fourth Biennial of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
co-exhibition "Young Activity/Borders and Beyong", Istanbul, Turkey
1991
Short film maker and director, ("Everything is as it is", 24', 16 mm. Included in TRT's "Young Cinematographers" programme), Istanbul, Turkey
I will attend “Interzone/Nation” co-exhibition at Gallery Galženica, Zagreb, Croatia, between April 1- May 15, 2009
“Interzone: nation” is the second exhibition this year dedicated to the phenomenon of globalization. The topic of the exhibition deals with the impact of globalization processes on the projection of national identities. For instance, during the nineties, the countries of Middle and South-East Europe – which were looking for their place on the redrawn map of Europe – found themselves in a paradoxical position in which they had to denationalize their economy and nationalize their culture at the same time. The more a form of cultural practice seemed traditional and more particular, the more it was presented as a model by which other newly formed states were to follow in the process of self-identification. The following artists will point to this paradoxical position of projecting national identities: In his video work, Hakan Akçura (TR, S) will show the problems non-EU immigrants face in EU countries. A young artist from Dubrovnik working in Zagreb, who works under the art name of Id Sarup, will present himself with a video work in which he uses the television programme of the Croatian National Television (HRT) to bitterly and amusingly comment on the social state of affairs in Croatia. Meanwhile, Ana Lozica and Jasminka Končić will use their photographs, digital montages and animated films to point to the role of sport in forming (not only) the Croatian national identity. A video work from Saša Karalić (NL, BiH) under the title “Schwabo” will deal with the hybridism of every identity, including the national one, as well as its paradoxes and contradictories.
” (…) The concept of the nation is a complex one; to try and define the notion means taking into account a wide rage of criteria such as language, culture, dissent, history, religion, etc. Such so called objective criteria can be found in many of contemporary definitions of the notion of nation, such as the following: A nation is a relatively self-sufficient and stabile national life community, stemming out of the historical development of the associating of people into communities for the purpose of survival and development, which is characterized by a uniform state territory, common economical life, specific culture and language, adequate religion, a developed collective and individual awareness of national feeling. Another element is included in this complex definition, which can be labelled as a voluntary definition of a nation, the most famous of which is that of the French philosopher Ernest Renan. In his 1882 lecture What is a nation? he concluded that the nation is a daily plebiscite, which is based on the individual’s subjective criteria.
In the 21st century the problem of nation and its self-definition is not less complex; in fact, it could be argued that the question is more complicated than ever, especially when observed in the context of globalization. Globalization has not treated kindly the nation as idea, concept and social reality. The nation was associated with the backlash against irresistible historical forces, doomed to obsolescence by global postmodern culture, deprived of its institutional shell by the decline of the state, and with a questionable reputation among social scientists to boot, the nation appears to be rapidly fading into little more than a historical phenomenon. [2]
In the last couple of decades, central and south-east Europe found itself caught up between two extremities: between East and West, between capitalism and communism, between globalization as a factor of unifying and the tendency to create one’s own identity. In the early nineties, countries of this area found themselves in the paradoxical position in which they were to denationalize their economies and nationalize their culture at the same time. Today, the question arises – what does globalization mean for this area, what changes will it bring, how does it affect the projection of national identity? It is certain that in the contemporary world, the problem of nation and national identity cannot be examined separately from the process of globalization. This exhibition therefore looks at the phenomenon of nation and national identity within the globalization process, as well as the problems, paradoxes and ironies arising from that correlation (…)”
(Nina Pisk)
Curators:
Ivana Hanaček, Klaudio Štefančić
Assistant curators: Sanja Horvatinčić, Nina Pisk
Interzone / Nation, exhibition April 1 – May 10, 2009.
Saša Karalić (NL, B i H) Id Sarup (HR) Hakan Akçura (TR, S) Jasminka Končić (HR) Ana Lozica (HR)
My works at the exhibition:
1. Open Letter to Sweden Migration Board (Öppet Brev till Migrationsverket / İsveç Göçmen Bürosu’na Açık Mektup) Videoperformance (51 min.) 2006 2. Good morning (Godmorgon / Günaydın)
Videoperformance with two parts
Epilog (07.31 min.) Godmorgon (98.18. min.) 2007
Epilog (Swedish with turkish subtitle)
http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.5.swf
12-22 Mart 2009 tarihleri arasında düzenlenecek olan 20. Ankara Uluslararası Film Festivali, bu yıl izleyicilerine “Türkiye’de videonun 35 yılından 35 video” başlıklı bir özel bölüm sunuyor.
Seçkide videoları yeralan diğer sanatçılar ise şunlar: Ferhat Özgür, Selda Asal, Burkay Doğan, Ahmet Öğüt, Nancy Atakan, Ali M. Demirel, Esra Ersen, Bülent Baş, Halil Altındere, Candaş Şişman, Fikret Atay, Gülsün Karamustafa, Köken Ergun, Erkan Özgen, Şener Özmen, Servet Koçyiğit, Özlem Günyol, Mustafa Kunt, Tennur Baş.
Aşağıdaki satırlar, Festival’in bizlere bu bölüme dair çağrısını yollarken kaleme aldığı açıklamasından:
“… Sinemanın büyük resmi tarihiyle karşılaştırıldığında videonun tarihi bu topraklarda da minör olanı teslim eder. Kenarda bırakılmış, yazılmaya cesaret edilmemiş, lüzum bulunmamıştır.
İşte bu nedenlerle “Türkiye’de videonun 35 yılından 35 Video” adlı programın asıl amacı kolektif bir arşivleme, retrospektif oluşturmak, gözümüzden uzak tutulan böyle bir tarihe yakından bakmak anlamına gelecektir.
Güncel sanat içerisinde üretilen videolarla, deneysel video kategorisinde üretilen videoları mecz eden, onlara birlikte bakmayı, okumayı deneyen bir toplamı ortaya çıkarmayı deneyecektir.
Bu proje çağrısı bir yandan da gözümüzün önüne gelmeyen, gözümüzün değmediği videoları toplamak ve gözönüne çıkartmayı da amaçlamaktadır. Çünkü artık üretim koşulları değişen, özgürleşen, elektronik mecralarda kolayca yayılan bir medyuma dönüşüyor video.
Başından beri bu macerayı takip eden, ev sahipliği yapan Ankara Uluslararası Film Festivali, 20.sinde bu 30 yıla tanıklık eden videolardan oluşturulacak bir seçkinin gösterimlerini yapmayı, videozine olarak arşivleyerek dağıtmayı, uluslararası video festivallerinde ve diğer yurt dışı organizasyonlarda yer alması için çaba göstermeyi amaçlamaktadır.”