OF OUR OWN MAKING: Summer Screenıng Tour In Turkey Premıers At Beykoz Kundura
Projected for the first time in Turkey at Kundura Sinemaon Sunday, June 16, Protocinema’s Of Our Own Makingis a series of single channel videos by
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Ahmet Öğüt,Hera Büyüktaşcıyan,
Vajiko Chachkhiani, Lara Ögel, Hale Tengerand Theo Triantafyllidis.
Hale Tenger, still, Under,2019, courtesy Green Art Gallery, Dubai; Galeri Nev, Istanbul; Alserkal Arts Foundation, Dubai; Protocinema, Istanbul, New York
The videos within Of Our Own Making reflect the voices and concerns of the artists and their regions as well as offering empathy towards shared universal experiences. The screening will be held between 13.00-14.00, followed by a picnic by Bosphorus at Beykoz Kundura. Guests are also invited to watch the talented French New Wave director Jean Luc Godard’s Alphaville, which will be screened at 16.00 within Kundura Sinema’a June Film Programme.
Inviting film lovers to an alternative cultural experience in its historical environment with its curated film and parallel activities programme, Kundura Sinema is delighted to collaborate with Protocinema, highlighting its mission to collaborate with different arts organisations to enhance multi-disciplinary dialogue.
Of Our Own Making highlights themes of constraints of constructed urban life and psychological impacts of societal developments - ancient, historical and forthcoming - from multiple perspectives. Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Lara Ögel, and Hale Tenger use folktales, history and story-telling in contemporary narratives to address aspects of societies that may have changed yet remain the same in a different guise. Theo Triantafyllidis’ video is a recording of a VR (Virtual Reality) live performance, which carries ideas of how images and ideas had been created in the past, while fully in the future-present. Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Ahmet Öğüt work with specific individuals and recent events to speak out against policies in place by governing bodies that are unequivocally unjust. Specifically, Abbas and Abou-Rahme, have created avatars based on themselves and participants of the “March of Return” that took place on the Gaza border while Ahmet Öğüt works with policemen in Mexico who have been denied safety and healthcare.
The program is co-organized by Protocinema’s Executive Director, Mari Spirito, in collaboration with Asli Seven, independent curator and researcher based in Istanbul and Paris. Featured artists have received or are currently working on future Site-aware commissions, Protocinema’s international program. These artists share a dynamic affinity and are committed to raising consciousness on a range of issues, often using personal narratives to interrogate socio-political and racial constructs.
Protocinema Summer Screening Tour Venues throughout Summer 2019:
Protocinema Summer Screening Tour premieres at Protocinema (Istanbul, Turkey) at Kundura Sinema, Beykoz and is followed by six tour venues across four regions: Rampa (Porto, Portugal); Sculpture Center (Long Island City, New York;) Cinémathèque de Tangier (Tangier, Morocco); The Museum of Cycladic Art (Athens, Greece); sub, (Çanakkale, Turkey),Teatro Union (Honda, Colombia).
PROTOCINEMA VIDEO PROGRAM:
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, 10:00 min. - At those terrifying frontiers where the existence and disappearance of people fade into each other, 2019
Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, 10:10 min. - Neither on the Ground, nor in the Sky, 2019
Vajiko Chachkhiani, 10:07 min- Shivering Heart, 2018
Lara Ögel, 5;20 min (estimated) - Dream Lives of Debris,2019
Ahmet Öğüt, 10:04 min - The Missing T, 2018
Hale Tenger, 2:31 min. - Under,2018
Theo Triantafyllidis, 11:49 min. - Studio Visit 09: Painting Preview, 2018
Special Thanks to: AKI AORA Residency, Mexico; Alserkal Art Foundation, Dubai; The Breeder, Athens; Green Art Gallery, Dubai; KOW Gallery, Berlin; Meredith Rosen, New York; Galeri Nev, Istanbul; Daniel Marzona, Berlin; SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo; YARAT Contemporary Art Centre, Baku.
Protocinema commissions and presents Site-Aware Art around the world. We produce context-specific projects of the highest artistic quality that are accessible to everyone.
Protocinema evokes empathy towards understanding of difference, across regions though exhibitions, public programing and mentorship. Founded by Mari Spirito in 2011, Protocinema is a non-profit 501(c)3, free of 'brick and mortar', sites vary to respond both to global concerns and changing conditions on the ground.
A landmark of Turkey’s industrial and cultural heritage, Beykoz Kundura factory revived
a cinematic legacy with the launch of Kundura Sinema in November 2018. The Boiler Room, which formed the heart of the factory complex, has been restored for the Kundura Sinema and Kundura Sahne projects to serve as one of the newest, and yet most historic, cultural platforms in Istanbul supported by a programme of curated screenings, performances and parallel activities.
