9 Eylül 2011 Cuma

POINT ZERO - SIFIR NOKTASI

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SIFIR NOKTASI / 13 eylül - 19 Kasım 2011

artSümer Karaköy'deki yeni galeri mekânında Sıfır Noktasını sunar.

Sanatçılar: Antonio Cosentino, Ceren Oykut, Damla Tokcan Faro, Erdal Duman, Gözde İlkin, Gökçe Er, İnci Furni, Merve Çanakçı, Onur Gülfidan, Tayfun Serttaş


artSümer, Karaköy'deki açılış sergisini sanatçılarının belirlediği Sıfır Noktası ile gerçekleştiriyor. Sıfır Noktası, bienal ile eş zamanlı olarak iki yılda bir sıfırlanan gündeme bir gönderme: Keşfetmek ve koşullanmak arasında, unutmak ve hatırlamak hattında. Neredeyse ana karakterlerini yitirmiş, nötrleşmiş merkezler, kendinden kopmuş hikayeler, kesintiye uğraşmış tarih ve insanları üzerine.

Serginin sanatçıları kimi zaman iki uç arasında, karşıtlık ile, kimi zaman bağlamsız bir kendilikte mevcut sıfır kavramını aşındırıyorlar. Çizimlerinde kent kozmolojisini tepetaklak olmuş medeniyet fikriyle yorumlayan Ceren Oykut, İstanbul'un en eski buluntu alanlarından Yarımburgaz Mağarası'nın arkeolojik kazısını yapıyor bu kez. Kör bir noktada unutulmuş, üst üste binen katmanlarıyla zamansız, yersiz, boşlukta, yok bir alan. Antonio Cosentino ise hayal bir alana götürüyor izleyiciyi... Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar'ın Huzur romanında betimlediği falezlere. Cosentino, bir anlatıyı tekrar üretirken, karakterinin adını değiştirerek aynı ama farklı bir yerde, aynı ama uzak bir hissi arıyor; üretilmiş kimlikler ve süregelen algılarıyla halleşerek... Gözde İlkin bu soruyu nüfus cüzdanıyla soruyor, kimliğin hükmü geçer görüntüsünü bozarak. Anne ve baba adı arasında, pembe ve mavi arasında, evli ve bekar arasında kimlik üzerine verilen sosyal, cinsel ve inanç hükümleri, ne derece tercih ettirilmiş, ne derece tercih edilmiştir? Dönüşümün kaydının tutulamadığı ara alanı gösteriyor. Kimliğin sıfırlandığı nokta, hükümsüz bir nokta.

Köklerle ve kökenlerle, tarih ve anlatımı üzerine çalışan Tayfun Serttaş, Beyrut'tan İstanbul'a yüzyılın ilk çeyreğinden kalan iki bebek arabası taşıyor. Kolonyalizm yıllarında Fransız ailelerin Beyrut sokaklarında bebeklerini gezdirdikleri arabalar, bu kez karşılıklı olarak ip güreşi yapan iki siyah adamı ağırlamakta. Farklı hafıza merkezleri arasındaki deneyim akışının hangi göstergeler üzerine bina edildiğini araştıran sanatçı, şu günlerde Arab Baharı’na tanıklık eden post-kolonyal dönemin döngüsel atmosferine ince bir selam veriyor. Bu karşılıklı iki imge gibi, ikilik üzerinden sıfırı arayan Damla Tokcan Faro'nun kadınları soyut bir zaman örgüsünde konuşlanıyor. Bulduğu hazır Art deco siluetlerini kullanan sanatçı bir araya getirdiği yaşlı ve genç kadınının 'kim'liklerini ve 'nerede'liklerini düşündürtüyor. Bu arayış izleyiciyi aynı fikrin tezahürü bir başka ikiliğe götürebilir: Merve Çanakçı, siyahlı beyazlı tanıdık bir Hello Kitty nevresiminde idealize edilmiş kedi portresinde tekil bir kediyi, bir tekiri resmediyor. İkisi de gerçek olmamakla birlikte, resmedilmiş bir tekir, seri üretimde basılmış bir kedi idealinden daha tek, daha kendine has, daha az aynı olabilir mi? Öte yandan m60 adlı silah, belki nevresim kadar seri üretilen ve dağıtılan bir nesne, bir başlangıç ve bitiş olabilir mi aynı anda? Erdal Duman'ın m60'ı, homojenleşen coğrafyalarda tarihin bittiği nokta olarak sıfıra bir cevap niteliğinde.

Figürlerini birbirleri ve etrafıyla çelişkide, adeta yoklukta resmeden Onur Gülfidan belki de tüm işlerinde bağlamdan bağımsızlaşmış figürler yaratarak bir sıfır noktası aramakta. Bu kez üst üste ilişkilendirdiği iki tuval arasında, seçenin beklentilerinde ve seçilenin vaatlerinde, her noktada sıfırlanan ve yeniden başlayan bir politik gündemle. Gökçe Er'in iki karakteri ise vaatlerini bulmuş bir dünyadan kaçmışlar gibi. "Her şey sıfır noktasına geldiğinde bir de ondan kaçma durumu ortaya çıkar" diyor sanatçı, "Kaçılan güzel, izole, az önce terkedilmiş bir yer..."

İnci Furni'nin noktayı kaçırmış personası ise -birçok eserinden aşina olduğumuz astronotu- başını kolları arasına kapıyor; tüm ikiliklerin ve anlam katmanlarının döngüsü aksine, sıfırdaki dünyasından kalkıp, gemilerini batırmaya gelmiş, tam tersi istikamette.

İki arada bir deredelikten, var olmak ile yok olmak arasındaki sonsuz döngüden, dön dolaşlardan, git gellerden yorulanlara bir nefes... Sıfır Noktası 13 Eylül'de artSümer'in Karaköy'deki yeni galeri mekanında izleyici ile buluşuyor.

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POINT ZERO / 13 September - 19 November 2011

Artist: Antonio Cosentino, Ceren Oykut, Damla Tokcan Faro, Erdal Duman, Gözde İlkin, Gökçe Er, İnci Furni, Merve Çanakçı, Onur Gülfidan, Tayfun Serttaş

artSumer's opening exhibition in Karaköy is Point Zero, an exhibition conceived by the artists. Point Zero, simultaneous with the biennial, is a reference to the agenda that changes every two years: between exploration and conditioning, on the line between forgetting and remembering. It is about stories that lost their protagonists with neutralized centers and interrupted history with its people.

The artists included in the exhibition engage with the two extremes; sometimes with antagonism, sometimes a detached singularity, corroding the concept of zero. Ceren Oykut performs an archaeological dig of Yarımburgaz Cave, one of the oldest sites in Istanbul. A non-existent area in a blind spot, buried under layers of buildings, timeless, placeless, in the void. Antonio Cosentino takes the viewer to an imaginary space... The cliffs described by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar in his novel Huzur [Serenity]. Cosentino re-produces this narrative, changing the characters' names in the same but different space, searching for a feeling of closeness that is also distant, coping with produced identities and set perceptions... Gözde İlkin asks this question with her state ID, by ruining its legitimacy. Between the mother's name and the father's name, blue and pink, single and married, how much of the identification has been pre-determined by social, sexual and religious norms? She exposes the in-between area in which there is no recording. A moment where the identification has been zeroed, a moot point.

Tayfun Serttaş, who works with roots and origins, history and historical narratives, brings two strollers to Istanbul from Beirut, dating back to the first quarter of teh century. The strollers that the French used on Beirut's streets during the years of colonialism, now host two black men doing a tug of war. The artist, who researches the indicators on which experiential flows between different memory centers are constructed, subtly greets the post-colonial cyclical atmosphere now witnessing the Arab Spring. In parallel to the two images that confront each other, Damla Tokcan Faro seeks zero in dualities, situating women in an abstract web of time. The artist, who utilizes Art deco silhouettes that she found, makes the viewers think about the identities and whereabouts of old and young women. This search can take the viewer to another expression of the same idea, another duality: Merve Çanakçı's familiar black and white Hello Kitty quilt has an image of an idealized cat, a tabby cat. Although both are not real, could a singularly represented cat be more precious, more unique than a mass-produced cat? On the other hand, could an m60, a gun, mass-produced and distributed as widely as a quilt, be a beginning and an end at the same time? Erdal Duman's m60 is an answer to the end of histories in homogenized areas.

Onur Gülfidan, who paints figures who are in contradiction with each other and their surroundings, who exist in voids, seeks a point of zero by creating figures that are emancipated from context. This time, the artist has a political agenda that is zeroed and re-started, in the two canvases he positions on top of each other, the expectations of the chooser, the expectations of the chosen. Gökçe Er's two characters seem to have escaped a world in which they found what was promised to them. The artist says, "When everything comes to the point of zero, there is a situation of escaping that. The escaped is beautiful, isolated, a place just abandoned..."

İnci Furni's persona who missed the point—the astronaut we recognize from many of her other works—puts his head between his arms; he is going in the opposite direction, away from all dualities, all layers of meaning, leaving his world at zero, seeking to sink his ships.

A breath of air for those who are tired from the in-betweenness, existence and destruction, endless cycles, go-arounds, tides of back and forths. Point Zero meets viewers in artSumer's new gallery space in Karakoy on September 13th.

7 Eylül 2011 Çarşamba

artbeat

Becoming İstanbul
























Becoming Istanbul explores contemporary Istanbul through an interactive database of over 400 media. An up-to-date collection of artists’ videos, photography series, documentaries, news reports, cartoons and architectural projects, the database is organized according to 80 concepts that instrumentalize typical discourses relating to the city and suggest new points of view. Its media include the visual productions of artists and researchers who have problematized actors and phenomena typically disregarded in urban discourse, as well as the declarations of decision makers involved in Istanbul’s current transformations.

The exhibition’s structure is far from linear. Each viewer may chart his or her own course through the database, making each experience of Becoming Istanbul original. The internal dynamics of the database’s content as a whole, not visible in individual navigations, will also be interpreted by Burak Arıkan in a work deciphering the relationships between concepts and time.

The conceptual framework of Becoming Istanbul was set by Pelin Derviş, Bülent Tanju and Uğur Tanyeli in 2008. Designed by Evren Yantaç and scripted by Hüseyin Kuşçu, the Becoming Istanbul database can be accessed at http://database.becomingistanbul.org/, where viewers may determine their course even before the exhibition’s opening.

The graphic and spatial design of these projects, to be presented on SALT Beyoğlu’s second and third floors, is carried out in collaboration with design firms Project Projects and Superpool. The design solutions allowing the Becoming Istanbul database to be viewed individually or collectively are also intended to enrich the experience of viewers. Keep in mind that some of the media will only be available during the exhibition at SALT Beyoğlu.

6 Eylül 2011 Salı

Emel ile Batı Beyrut'da küçük bir mola

Son 5-6 aydır inboxumdan büyük obsesyonum yok. Sabah göz kapaklarım henüz açılmamışken başlayan ve gece aynı göz kapaklarım önüme düşene kadar hınca hınç devam eden sayısız müsabaka. Fonda, parmaklarım ve klavye tuşları arasındaki hızdan üreyen hep o aynı tıknaz melodi. Bazen kendimi piano çalıyormuş gibi kandırıp eğlenmeyi denesem de, klavyem piano değil. Çıkarttığı seste aslında hiç güzel değil. İnsan hayatının her döneminde tanıklık edilemeyecek türden bir yoğunluk sınavından geçiyorum. Gün boyunca yüzlerce adres arasında gidip gelen sayısız iş takibi içerisinde kaybolurken dün aniden düştü mail boxuma, küçük bir ileti. Emel Beyrut'a gitmiş, derken aklına ben gelmişim. Benim Beyrut notlarım. Gerçekte çok az taslağı son haline getirip buradan paylaşabildiğim yüzlerce Beyrut notundan birisi, vesile olan bize. Tanışmıyoruz gerçekte Emel ile.. Anladığım kadarıyla dönmüş ve de bir şekilde adresimi bulup, kısa bir mail atmış. Başlığı BEYRUT;

BEYRUTA GİTTİĞİMDEN BERİ ÇARPILMIŞ GİBİYİM. GİTMEDEN ÖNCE NE O COK ÖVÜLEN GECE HAYATINI, NE ZENGİNLİĞİNİ, NE TURİZMİNİ MERAK ETTİM.(HEPSİNE DAHA KOLAY BİÇİMDE TR DE ULAŞABİLECEĞİMDEN EMİNİM)

12 YIL ÖNCE SEYRETTİĞİM BATI BEYRUT FİLMİ ÇOCUK AKLIMLA BENİ DERİNDEN ETKİLEMİŞTİ.

NE DİYEYİM.

ÜRPERTİ ÇOK TARİF EDİLEBİLEN BİR HİS DEĞİL, YALNIZ ''ÜRPERTİ'' YETER BİR TARİF DEĞİL.. O OTELİN KARŞISINDA DURURKEN TAM OLARAK NE DÜŞÜNDÜĞÜMÜ BİLMİYORUM BULANIK, AMA NE HİSSETTİĞİMİ BİLİYORUM. GÜRÜLTÜ, ÇOCUKLAR.. GECE..

YAZIN TAM OLARAK HİSLERİME TERCÜMAN OLDU.
http://tayfunserttas.blogspot.com/2010/05/yklan-beyrut-yaplan-beyrut.html


Önce ne olduğunu anlamayıp çok hızlı okudum. Adresi tanımıyorum. Yakın dönemde Beyrut'a giden arkadaşlarımdan ve onların arkadaşlarından hiçbirisinin adı değil Emel. Bir mola verdim. Kendime güzel bir kavhe hazırlayıp tekrar okumalıydım, bu kısacık notu. Öyle yaptım, hem de yanında bir sigara yaktım. O oteli, Batı Beyrut'u, Sabra ve Şatilla'yı, çok kereler bedenime battığını hissettiğim dikenli telleri ve Doğu Akdeniz'in zeytin gözlü oğlanlarını düşündüm. Düşünürken, ağlamışım yine farkına varmadan. Zamanlar daracık olsa da, unutmalar çok hızlı oluyor. Birkaç ay öncesine dair unuttuğum ne varsa, zihnimi bir anda orada buluverdim. Günün en beklemediğim saatinde, sayısız monoton yazışmanın orta yerinde, önce küçük bir şaşkınlık geçirtip ertesinde derin bir mola verdirdi bana, Emel. O bilmiyor ama ben, Batı Beyrut'u yıllarca kere izledim. Aynı şehirleri aynı duygularla anlayan ve hisseden insanlar arasındaki ruh dili ne güzel. Duygudaşlık ne güzel.

Bir blog ne işe yaramalı diye çok düşündüm bu blogu açmadan önce. Birçokları sanatçı blogu diye izlemeyi tercih etse de, aylarca burada sanat dışında herşeyi konuştuğum çok oluyor.. Çünkü benim sanatçı portfolyom değil bu blog. Kaldı ki gündelik hayatta bile "sanatçı olmakla" pek ilgilenmeyen ben, blogumu bir dizi davetiye, imaj, sergi bülteni ve artistik enformasyona hapsedecek halde değildim. Çok daha rastlantısal bir yöntemdi kurmak istediğim. Çok daha içgüdüsel. O nedenle gerektiğinde buradan küstüm, buradan kavga ettim, buradan şikayet ettim, buradan sevdim ve de buradan hatırlattım. Şimdi bir "sanatçı blogundan" beklenmeyecek geri dönüşler alıyorsam, ne mutlu bana. Blogları soğuk cv duvarları olmaktan çıkartıp, bazen onlara hissederek yazmak ve de sadece yazmak ne güzel.

Teşekkürler bu derin mola için Emel.

4 Eylül 2011 Pazar

Kalfayan Galleries presents Tayfun Serttaş


Kalfayan Galleries
Tayfun Serttaş - The Other The Other and Beyond


At ReMap3, Kalfayan Galleries will present a solo show of the performance video of Tayfun Serttaş titled ‘The Other The Other and Beyond’ (2005).

Tayfun Serttas’s performance video “The Other The Other and Beyond” (2005) is composed of recordings in thirty buildings that have been abandoned by Istanbul’s minorities. These forsaken buildings in the city’s historical centers, with their sculptural silhouettes, hold a special place in the urban memory although they are no longer in use. Legal battles persist over the property that was once owned by the Greek, Armenian and Jewish communities of Istanbul. Simultaneous to the video, cooking and sharing in homage to an old ceremony, the artist explains:

“Allegory, as a visual and literary method, is based on the representation of situations, people and objects in different forms through fiction. The main difference between this fiction and other fictions is that it refers to itself in the most indirect way by creating coherence outside the story which it tackles. And in situations where it is impossible for the narration to be direct, allegory steps in as a necessary mechanism rather than an artistic choice.”

“The Other The Other and Beyond is a decryption that I dedicate, based on selected details of my personal life history, to all personal life histories. It belongs to the projection of my personal struggle against an opposite allegory of a historical reality that for many years I was permitted to fictionalize only allegorically. ”

Artist, writer and researcher Tayfun Serttaş (Born in Turkey, 1982) lives in Istanbul and Bodrum. His installation-focused work is often formed of the multilayered engagement of various media including ready-mades, found objects, sculptures, videos, photographs, artist’s books and drawings around a documentary theme. The artist graduated from the Istanbul University Social Anthropology Department in 2004 with a thesis on “Urban Anthropology”. He completed his masters at the Yıldız Technical University Art and Design Faculty Interdisciplinary Art program in 2007 with a thesis titled “Photography And Minorities In Istanbul In The Context Of Modernism And Cultural Representation”. Since 2000 he has taken part in numerous academic projects, both in Turkey and internationally. Themes he works on include urban anthropology, social gender, the cultural heritage of the other, the critique of civil society, the sociology of everyday life, minorities, urban transformation, sex workers, immigration and change, socio-political strategies and minor politics. Residencies: AIF Residency Program, Arab Image Foundation (2011, Beirut , Lebanon); Accented Residency Program, The Delfina Foundation (2010, London, United Kingdom); Istanbul Artist Residency Program, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center (2009, Istanbul, Turkey)

"Orient"

28 Ağustos 2011 Pazar

The 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale


OLD INTERSECTIONS-MAKE IT NEW

The 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art under the title Old Intersection-Make it New, introduces itself to the public from September 18 to December 18, 2011 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

The Biennale of 2011 differs from the previous ones, not only in the area of interest and its realization time, but in its collaborating institutions as well. The State Museum of Contemporary Art is the leader of the team which is comprised by museums-members of the “Thessaloniki – 5 Museums Movement” (5M): Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Teloglion Foundation of Art AUTH.

The 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art under the general title Old Intersection-Make it New focuses on the Mediterranean region and is framed by a main and a parallel programme of artistic events, such as exhibitions by the “5M”, the International Workshop of Young Artists “Domino”, the Performance Festival, and a symposium.

The 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art is funded under the Operational Programme Macedonia – Thrace 2007-2013, implemented by the SMCA and co-financed by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund).

The Biennale is also part of the “Thessaloniki: Cultural Crossroads” programme of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism, focussing this year on the Middle East, and running under the Municipality of Thessaloniki, Department of Culture, Education and Tourism, the 9th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities and other cultural and educational partners jointly.

* Director: Katerina Koskina, SMCA President
* International Advisory Committee:
o Catherine David
o Maria Rosa Girace Pieralisi
o Jannis Kounellis
o Jessica Morgan
o Denys Zacharopoulos
* Main programme curators: Paolo Colombo, Marina Fokidis, Mahita El Bacha Urieta

CURATORS’ TEXT


In the current climate of gathering instability that holds great promise as well as danger, this title, A Rock and a Hard Place, resonates powerfully. It captures the sense of fragility and jeopardy that looms over the wider politics of the Mediterranean and the psychology of the individual. The title refers to the expression “Being caught between a rock and a hard place” which indicates psychological, social, and political dilemmas that often present painful alternatives. The saying originates in Greek mythology, in “The Odyssey”. In his efforts to return home, Odysseus must pass between Scylla and Charybdis. Scylla was a horrible man-eating monster that struck from above the cliffs – the “rock” – while Charydbis was a treacherous whirlpool – the “hard place”. Humanity is capable of both great joys and great miseries. There are no easy solutions as all possible outcomes generally entail a degree of discomfort or a price to pay. The space between a Rock and a Hard Place is indeed a precarious trajectory which, paradoxically, also has the potential to become a positive and productive transition in hindsight.

Affected by a sense of impending danger and ‘Hamletic’ doubt, contemporary artists produce work that is often characterised by a defensive, ironic stance. Leaving behind the strong, iconic gestures and sweeping political statements of the past, A Rock and a Hard Place examines the changes, the shifts, and the different perspectives of more than 50 artists with a special focus on the Eastern Mediterranean. Engaging with the historical significance of the venues and of Thessaloniki — a crucible of cultures for the past 2500 years — the Biennial explores a number of topical issues ranging from social conflict to the quandaries of the individual caught in an economic and existential crisis in the context of the Eastern Mediterranean.

A Rock and a Hard Place will take place in historical buildings of the city: Alatza Imaret, Bazaar Hamam, Bey Hamam, Casa Bianca, Yeni Djami, The Old Pumping station at the port, as well as in five museums: The State Museum of Contemporary Art, The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, The Teloglion Foundation of Art, The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and The Museum of Byzantine Culture, which are part of the consortium that organises the Biennial.

The Biennale will relate to the city of Thessaloniki as a metaphor for its vigorous multicultural character of the past. Each of the buildings, which will house Biennale exhibitions, will form single episodes of the Main Programme’s overall narrative. These episodes will be inspired from the past and present usage of these buildings: their past and contemporary contributions to the social life of the city and to its political under-skin. Current trademarks of specific local neighbourhoods of the city, each of these buildings and their specific character will together determine the content for this biennale.

A Rock and a Hard Place will consist of a historical prologue (prodrome) at the Casa Bianca, a rehearsal for a “futuristic pluralism” at the Alatza Imaret and a polyphony that references the multiple lives of Yeni Djami.

Casa Bianca will be turned into a house for reflection and for conversation: a salon which lifetime spans from the period of its construction until our present day. It will be a place where the history of Thessaloniki will have a bearing and will usher a number of contemporary works that examine the tradition of writing and of narrative in literature: an “ideal library” for artists and visitors alike.

Alatza Imaret will be re-transformed to a colourful “hostel”, as its name indicates (alatza means colourful, and Imaret means house of the poor): A place where a variety of voices-even conflicting ones -will coincide vivaciously , eliminating ostensible discrepancies. The city ‘s hybrid past will resonate through a number of contemporary works. A backyard of relief, Alatza Imaret will grow to be a rehearsal for meaningful conviviality for both the artists and the visitors .

The Yeni Djami will become an anachronistic space where several site-specific artist interventions will create a poetical polyphony where different periods of the city of Thessaloniki – which can all be seen referenced in the Yeni Djami today – will simultaneously resound: Spanish, Moorish, Islamic, Turkish, Ottoman, Jewish…

These three exhibitions will form the heart of the Main Programme, which will also include displays in the five collaborating museums, installations in a number of Islamic monuments, and an information centre that will be an integral part of the exhibition. In addition, a series of performances and interactions will address cultural and popular issues in the Mediterranean area and several artist interventions will link up the buildings that form the constellation of the different parts of the Biennale.

Paolo Colombo, Mahita El Bacha Urieta, Marina Fokidis

The artists

98 Weeks, Mounira Al Solh, Archive (Francesca Boenzi, Paolo Caffoni, Chiara Figone, Ignas Petronis), Francis Alÿs, Arab Image Foundation, Rasheed Araeen, Athanasios Argianas, Katerina Athanasopoulou, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Manfredi Beninati, Christoph Büchel, Pierpaolo Campanini, Vlassis Caniaris, Spartacus Chetwynd, Cinemathèque de Tanger, Keren Cytter, Christina Dimitriadis, e-flux project (Julieta Aranda & Anton Vidokle), Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh (in collaboration with Arab Image Foundation), Thomas Dworzak, Andreas Embirikos, Mounir Fatmi, Emmanuel Finkiel, Penelope Georgiou, Steven C.Harvey, IKONOTV, Mahmoud Kaabour, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Ali Kazma, William Kentridge, Khatt Foundation, Alexander Kluge, Panos Koutroubousis, Nikolaj B.S. Larsen, Solon Lekkas, Sifis Likakis, Katariina Lillqvist, Zeina Maasri, Margherita Manzelli, Irini Miga, Nasreldin Moataz, Bruce Nauman, Pavlos Nikolakopoulos, Olaf Nikolai, Jockum Nordström, Pantelis Pantelopoulos, Alessandro Pessoli, Michail Pirgelis, Angelos Plessas, PRISM TV (Nikos Katsaounis & Nina Paschalidou), Imran Qureshi, Jean-Marc Rochette, Marwan Sahmarani, Yiorgos Sapountzis, Hrair Sarkissian, Yehudit Sasportas, Alberto Savinio, Tayfun Serttas, Ahlam Shibli, Slavs and Tatars, Socratis Socratous, Christiana Soulou, Naoko Takahashi, Ryan Trecartin, Kostas Tsioukas, Andreas Vais, Nanos Valaoritis, Kostis Velonis, Pae White, Constantinos Xenakis, Akram Zaatari.