Urban Commons (Surplus of Urban Collective Action and Art Practices) Participants: Yelta Köm, Eda Soyal, Artıkişler video collective (Özge Çelikaslan, Alper Şen), Ayşe Çavdar, Sevgi Ortaç, Önder Özengi, Seçkin Aydın, Ahmet Öğüt. Curator: Pelin Tan The project aims to look at in trans-local level of practices from Diyarbakır to Ankara and to Istanbul considering several art as urban praxis. Furthermore, it aims to create a crossreference discussion and representation among artists, architects, social scientists, and activists. After Gezi resistance, there is a deeper transformation of creation of modalities especially within neighboring territories and cities in context of practices of “commons”. The keywords that defined under commons are: state of exception/policy, surplus/labor, refugees/borders, and solidarity/modalities. Artists, architect, researchers and activists of this project are from different generation and angle of knowledge production of Turkey. My curatorial vision in this project is: Spatial practices in conflicted urban spaces instigated society to invent a new collective dictionary not only for the constrained environment of the recent socio-political and economic crisis, but also to rebuild a collective consciousness that can refer to our communal co-existence. This project, aims to be a think thank, a collective that participants would not only precede their projects but also will collaborate to each other and foster thinking on further methodologies of artistic research on urban praxis. https://vimeo.com/140058586 http://blog.goethe.de/actopolis/pages/urban-commons_en.html ACTPOLIS – Art of Action (2015 – 2017) A project of the Goethe-Institut and Urbane Künste Ruhr. Head of project: Juliane Stegner (Goethe-Institut Athens) Project coordination: Natalia Sartori (Goethe-Institut Athens) Project management Urbane Künste Ruhr: Daniel Klemm Concept: Angelika Fitz Artistic directors: Katja Aßmann; Angelika Fitz Web Project Management: Internet Department, Goethe-Institut Headquarters Munich, Germany Graphic Design & Web Design: NODE Berlin Oslo, Berlin, Germany (Based on the Europoly web concept and design by Laura Oldenbourg and Micz Flor, Berlin, Germany) Web Navigation Concept & Web Implementation: eskima and allesweisz, Cologne, Germany Curators: Ankara/Mardin: Pelin Tan, Athens: Elpida Karaba/Glykeria Stathopoulou, Belgrade: Boba Mirjana Stojadinović, Bucharest: Stefan Gheniciulescu/Raluca Voinea, Oberhausen: Geheimagentur, Sarajevo: Danijela Dugandžić, Zagreb: Ana Dana Beroš Co-Production: Goethe-Institut Ankara (Thomas Lier, Raimund Wördemann); Goethe-Institut Belgrade (Matthias Müller-Wieferig); Goethe-Institut Bucharest (Beate Köhler, Evelin Hust); Goethe-Institut Bosnia and Herzegovina (Charlotte Hermelink); Goethe-Institut Croatia (Katrin Ostwald-Richter), Theater Oberhausen (Peter Carp)
Translations into English: Jane Michael Translations into German: Dr. Achim Wurm The leading idea behind ACTOPOLIS, and the specific objective of the project, is not a single huge event, but rather the passing on of experience and the joint development of artistic, urban and activist tools. Under the artistic direction of Angelika Fitz and Katja Aßmann and together with co-curators from seven cities, the ACTOPOLIS Laboratory aims to hone our view of current urban questions as well as testing strategies for action. Intervention and critical reflection are both characteristics of ACTOPOLIS. The unusual feature is that the individual project ideas are being exchanged even at the development stage (2015), before they are implemented in local interventions in Athens, Belgrade, Bucharest, Ankara/Mardin, Oberhausen, Sarajevo and Zagreb (2016). During the third year (2017) the local events will be assembled and examined in a trans-regional touring exhibition, a conference and a publication. The transnational work processes and the routes towards local implementation can be followed and commented on in the blog on the website. Goethe-Institut Athens
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