Organisation
Fabrikartgroup Contemporary Art Festival 2008
Contact information / hard facts
Kapadokya Meslek Yüksek Okulu Mustafapasa
Nevsehir
Turkey
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THEMA: WATER!=BRIGHT?
Disciplines: Visual Arts (painting, photograph, sculpture, ceramic, installation), Art of Video/Short Film, Performances (theatre & music)
Activities: Exhibitions, Workshops, Seminaries, Lectures, Video Geoglyph, Film & Drama presentations, Performances and Assemblies.
Artists: Those who are invited through invitations and the ones whose applications are accepted will be joining to the festival. All applications sent through the website and by mail will be evaluated. Artists will be chosen by FabrikArtGroup in accordance with their artistic value and their consistency with the theme.
Festival Period
12–22 July 2008, Mustafapasa, Cappadocia, Nevsehir Province, Turkey.
The Programme
About FabrikArtGroup
FabrikArtGroup is an art group with artists’ members. It is concerned with the contemporary arts. The group arranges exhibitions, conferences and seminaries. It sets collective projects with the invited artists and associations. It aims to gather different art disciplines under the same framework and arranges art festivals without any intention of profit. It makes the artists who are from the Turkish region; Europe and different continents come together during the festival arranged at Cappadocia and hosts the artists during different time periods. It arranges workshops and hands in the products to civil government so that they are exhibited. It supports the artists dealing with different subjects and disciplines in order to make them work cooperatively during the festival. The annual festival to be arranged in 2008 is the third one.
FabrikArtGroup and the aims of the festival:
• To organize an Annual Contemporary Arts Festival with a theme, to be joined by artists from several disciplines.
• To create an international platform for contemporary artists and high quality contemporary art works both indoors and outdoors (as explained below) and to exhibit them during the festival period.
• To create a sense of interaction and sharing by means of the participation of Turkish and artists from abroad.
• By organizing the festival, FabrikArtGroup aims to create a ground for creativity by making different art disciplines interact with each other and by benefiting from the blending of the artists’ cultural and artistic pasts with Cappadocia’s cultural and environmental atmosphere.
• The effects and outcome of the Contemporary Arts have the potential of creating a turning point for the development of the region. For that reason, cooperation between the artists and the people living there is crucial. Local production is focused on creating art works by using volcanic material, art of ceramic and weaving. Contemporary artists may benefit from those abilities and experiences. FabrikArtGroup counts Contemporary Arts as an element of this list, too.
Who is FabrikArtGroup?
Gülhan Sarı: the founder of the FabrikArtGroup formation, a teacher, an artist, the art director of the festival.
Sibel Payyu: the founder of the FabrikArtGroup formation, a teacher, an artist and also she is a member of the organization committee of the festival.
Nazile Arda: the founder of the FabrikArtGroup formation, a graphic artist, an artist and also she is a member of the organization committee of the festival.
Kaan Sarı: the founder of the FabrikArtGroup formation.
Information suppliers from abroad
Willemijn Bouman: Art Director of Babayan Culture House - Art Residency, an artist.
Martha Hauser: Director of Hayal, creative workshops.
Paul Broekman: Babayan Culture House, an artist, a musician.
Özge Celikaslan: Coordinator of Ankara KozaVisual.
Water!=Bright? Explanation of the theme
The theme of 2008
FabrikArtGroup decided to organize the festival by focusing on issues related to ecology, culture and environment. Every year, a topic will be chosen for the participant artists to handle it with a wide perspective.
Apart from its geographical features, Cappadocia is an interesting region both in terms of culture and history. The region is still peaceful and far away from the fast contemporary world and as a result, a perfect place for art production and exhibition.
Examining and being closer to the region is easier, more delightful and charming due to its open-air museums, cave churches, historical places and dovecotes. Hand made buildings and statue-like volcanic environment on a 40.000 km2 land astonishes all the visitors. The region becomes familiar to the world step by step with all its environmental deficiencies in infrastructure.
For that reason, the theme of 2008 is Water!=Bright?
Cappadocia is on UNESCO’s world protection heritage list and for that reason the festival aims to introduce the region to the world and to find solutions to its problems. Here is a summary of the problems: deficiency of drinking water and sewage system, waste water systems on the open lands, garbage dumping in the valleys and environment, open air dumping grounds, harm given to environment by cars and motorcycles used for touristy purposes and the plan to bring direct waste water to the Kizilirmak River.
Beside producing and exhibiting art objects, FabrikArtGroup expects to educate and inform the local people about the ecologic and careful usage of environment. It aims to reveal the necessity of using environment in a careful way if we want to use it in the future too.
Artists may handle the theme with a wide artistic perspective and produce something specific for the festival or they may be invited to the festival due to their former works related to the theme.
The artist should relate his work to the theme but he is free to form the content of his work.
FabrikArtGroup will analyze the works both in terms of artistic value and relevancy to the theme.
FabrikArtGroup Contemporary Art Festival 2007:
FabrikArtGroup Art Festival was eventuated with the participation of 60 artists. The artists from Turkey, Holland, Germany and Iran exhibited their products and took part in workshops.
2'nd FabrikArtGroup Art Festival Participants List:
AYHAN ÇELİK
BEHDAD LAHOOTİ
DENİZ GÖKDUMAN
ENGİN BİLGİN
GÜLHAN SARI
KAAN SARI
KATİA BEREN
LEO VAN VELZEN
LEYLA KAHRAMAN
MUSTAFA GÜRHAN YETKİN
MUSTAFA ÖZBAKIR
NAZAN AZERİ
NAZİLE ARDA
NİLAY KUTLU
NONA VAFAEİ
SARA MAANİSEMRA TOKSOY
SEZA GÜNEŞ
SİBEL PAYYU
MEHMET VANLIOĞLU
TAHİR ÜN
VOLKAN ASLAN
VİLDAN IŞIK
YELİZ SELVİ
YEŞİM AĞAOĞLU
VAROL TOPAÇWİLLY SMİTS
WİLLEMİJN BOUMAN
2008 Partners and Areas to be Used During the Festival
1. Accomodation and Food
a- Dormitory of Kapadokya Vocational School (rooms with three beds, baths and hot water during the day), breakfast and dinner will be available at the mess hall.
b- Karlık Evi: 10 painters will be hosted at Uçhisar at a boutique hotel (breakfast and dinner are included).
c- Avanos Art and Culture Association will host 5 ceramics artist and supply breakfast and dinner for them.
d- Babayan Culture House - art residency houses granted professional artists for long-stay working periods. Some of the artists projects based on the water theme will be shown in the festival.
2. Exhibition and Work Areas
a- At Uçhisar; exhibition hall of Karlık evi, which is at Uçhisar, will be used for the studies and exhibition of 10 painters.
b- At Mustafapaşa; studies and exhibitions at Madrasah building belonging to Kapadokya Vocational School, exhibition at Eleni Church, studies at Gibos Valley, during the festival there will be activities guided by people in charge at Mustafapaşa.
c- At Avanos; studies and exhibitions of 5 ceramics artists’ will take place at Hacı Nuri Bey Mansion belonging to Kapadokya Vocational School.
d- Hayal-creative workshop- performances and film workshops will be organized at theatres of Cappadocia and local people and foreigners.
e-At Ibrahimpaşa; workshops, studies and exhibitions will take place in situ at the areas determined by the Babayan Culture House - art residency.
Application (7-2-2008, 15-5-2008)
Terms of Application
1. If your branch is painting, sculpting, photograph, ceramics, video, short film or performance, you should send the pictures of your four products produced in the last two years through shipload, post or internet (If you are using the internet, high resolution is needed for the photographs).
2. If you are applying with short films, you need to send two copies of the film on CDs, copies of the film in VCD and DVD formats and the application form to the address below.
3. You can apply to
info@FabrikArtGroup.org or send your applications to Kapadokya Meslek Yüksek Okulu Mustafapaşa / Ürgüp/ Nevşehir by post. Please address your applications to FabrikArtGroup.
4. After the deadline of the applications, the final list of the participants, the festival programme and the detailed information about the exhibition will be announced at our website on 01-06-2008.
5. Until 10-06-2008, the artists accepted to the festival (the list will be announced on
20-05-2008) should send at least their two products which have not been exhibited yet to this address: Kapadokya Meslek Yüksek Okulu Mustafapaşa /Ürgüp/Nevşehir (payments by the participant. FabrikArtGroup is not responsible for any damage on the works after or before the festival).
6. The festival will last for 10 days.
7. FabrikArtGroup and its associates will be responsible for accommodation.
8. Participants will leave one of their products to The Contemporary Arts Museum at Mustafapaşa. The artist will decide the product he will leave. Leaving a product is obligatory. The artists not willing to leave a product cannot join to the festival.
9. Those applying with false and lacking information will not be accepted.
10. Those applying but not sending products cannot apply to join the festival during following years.
11. The final participant list will be announced at our website on 20-05-2008. It is essential that the artists who have applied should check our website for that reason. There will be no other special announcement.
12. FabrikArtGroup and its partners are not responsible for the people coming with the accepted artists.
13. The deadline for the applications is 15-05-2008, 17:30.
Contact:
info@FabrikArtGroup.orgPartners:
Kapadokya Vocational School
Avanos Art and Culture Association
Karlık House (Uçhisar)
Babayan Culture House art-in-residence (Ibrahimpasa)
Hayal Creative Work-Shop (Antalya)
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