I want to introduce this intermediatic place, in a second floor apartment, in the historical district of Galata. It has been the production space and main stage of Ve Diğer Şeyler Theatre Company, founded by the playwright and theatre director Yeşim Özsoy Gülan, and has been open to artists and audiences of different disiplines.
The program has contemporary theatre, performance art, dance, video, internet art and new music, as its main ax. It provides an alternative venue for artists where audiences meet marginal and experimental art productions, with a mission is to create a platform for the production of free, authentic, contemporary thoughts and actions, debating prejudices to activate a peaceful project of the future.
The space of GalataPerform, composed of an informal cafe and a performing studio, is not a white cube gallery, neither a hi-tec concert hall. In this respect, it is a space of intensified living or possibilities to spring out among the art work, the venue and the participant. In this space, the performances and the presented images are open to the incidental impact of the venue and of the visitor; in this chaotic order, the art works can't impose themselves, as they can't turn into object-products. The work of art is an energy which serves to create signs, forms, acts or objects, sometimes, in daily a
mbiences. Consequently, the borders between art and daily life, and the borders between different disciplines disappear. In GalataPerform, the process that the artists and participants live and create all together, becomes a collective work; an organism that keeps on evolving. The elements that form the organism focused on process and not on object, are individual and common thoughts, relations and acts that arise through the presentation or absence of the artistic processes, objects and acts. In this space, nothing remains of the fetish conventional art forms. Artistic processes beyond time and category are perceived.(taken from their web-site)
There are two events taking place until the end of November.
16 November, Thursday 7.00 pm- Theatre: In the context of "New Text New Theatre" Project there is a talk with Sibel Arslan Yeşilay who is a faculty member of Haliç University Conservatory Theatre Department.
For more information on the Project: www.newtextnewtheatre.org
25 November, Saturday 9.30 pm- Electronic Music: Islak Köpek, free emprovization of five musicians of five different approach.
fee: 10YTL; student: 7.5 YTL
2 comments:
Hello,
First of all, thank you for this post. Your blog seems quite nice. I am working at VeDSt Theatre Company (Ve Diger Seyler Toplulugu) / Galata Perform. I am assisting Yesim Ozsoy Gulan by producing and directing the theatre pieces staged by VeDST. Besides, I am also coordinating the project "New Text New Theatre" together with my friend Ceren Ercan, who works as a dramaturg at the Municipal Theatre of Bakirkoy in Istanbul.
Right after seeing your blog, I informed my colleagues Yesim, her husband Genco Gulan, Deniz Aygun, Mark Levitas and Ceren Ercan about your blog.
I am very curious to know who you are. If it's possible, could you introduce yourself to us, too?
Kind Regards,
Dilek
Hi,
This is the semi-official web-log of a course given in Boğaziçi University. The Intermedia course, given by Jeffrey Baykal Rollins, aims at "artist" experiences at the blurred space between seemingly rigid disciplines.
On 26th of December, we have a happening in the campus to which eact student will contribute with their separate projects. We also plan to keep such events going out of campus as a permeable body of students who have taken this course.
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