Babel!

2nd meeting for Babel: 01.03.2007
Time & Place: TBA

PERFORMANCE TIME 07 @ GalataPerform

For information, please visit the web page!!!

An Intermediatic Body Art'ist: Youri Messen-Jaschin

"Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms of body art are tattoos and body piercings, but other types include scarification, branding, scalpelling, shaping (for example tight-lacing of corsets), full body tattoo and body painting.

More extreme body art can involve things such as mutilation or pushing the body to its physical limits. For example, one of Marina Abramovic's works involved dancing until she collapsed from exhaustion, while one of Dennis Oppenheim's better-known works saw him lying in the sunlight with a book on his chest, until his skin, excluding that covered by the book, was badly sunburned. It can even consist of the arrangement and dissection of preserved bodies in an artistic fashion, as in the case of the plastinated bodies used in the travelling Body Worlds exhibit. Important strategies that question the human body are: implants, body in symbiosis with the new technologies, virtual body etc. A special case of the body art strategies is the absence of body. The most important artists that performed the "absence" of body through their artwoks were: Keith Arnatt, Andy Warhol, Anthony Gormley and Davor Džalto."

Blogs he posts his work pretty often:
http://bodyartdefinition.blogspot.com/
http://yourimessenjaschinbodyart.blogspot.com/
http://bodyartpaintingvideosyouri.blogspot.com/

Destricted

!f Istanbul seems to be great this year. This film ,Destricted,
described as

The films highlight controversial issues about the representation of sexuality in art; opening up the question of whether art can be disguised as pornography, pornography disguised as art, or something else altogether. The result is a collection of sexy, stimulating, challenging, provocative, strange and sometimes humourous scenarios that leave it up to the viewer/voyeur to decide.

And the other part that is worth-telling is that the people behind this film are the artists we write about on this blog.

Marina-or-Maria Abramovic, a performance artist from Balkans and Matthew Barney.
The director is Gaspar Noe, the director of Irreversible.


All other informations are here.

http://www.ifistanbul.com/Filmler_Detay.aspx?Kategori=7&Film=33#

!F Istanbul Film Fest 2007.

Next: A Primer On Urban Painting

here is the link for the film that will be shown at !f Istanbul Film Fest,
It is about street art a.k.a urban painting...


http://www.ifistanbul.com/english/Filmler_Detay.aspx?Kategori=4&Film=17

Meeting for Babel

It is time to start "babbling" about "Babel". There will be a meeting
this Wednesday, February 7, from 17:30 to 19:00 at GalataPerfrom to
begin our collaboration, and you are strongly encouraged to attend.
GalataPerform is located at:

Büyük Hendek Caddesi No:37/1 Galata Kuledibi, Beyoðlu
Tel: 0090 212 2439991, 0090 535 880 3339
info@galataperform.com

Because it can be hard to find the first time, we will meet directly
in front of the Galata Tower at 17:25 and then walk to GalataPerform.

See you then,

Jeffrey

An Intermediatic Game: Kısa Met-Yaz

How many people can tell a story? Or, rather how many stories can be told through a certain number of narratives?
Nothing much serious, we will play a game trying to tell a cite-specific short story.

Plan of the Game:
Some people -who look like a large group of friends- get on the metro at Taksim Station. They sit in separate places, surprisingly, and immediately take off a piece of paper and start writing. They write untill they reach The 4th Levent, which takes less than 15 minutes.
They write separate short stories that take place in the metro, or that are closely related to it.
Afterwards everyone will have a copy of each story and merge them all in a final one.
That is to say, in the very end we will have as many stories as the number participants. The other day we will read them all in the metro.
Just a game; nothing more, nothing less. Would you like to be participant authors? Contact me at ozgeuraz@hotmail.com

Vincent Price

It's been a long time since I wanted to share this video with you.
Vincent Price is one of my favorites.



Vincent Tim Burton - Court métrage