Καρσί / Karşı Izmir Gathering
Anadolu Kültür, NOUCMAS, and TAVROS are thrilled to invite you to the Καρσί / Karşı Izmir Gathering on 1 February 2025 Saturday at Izmir Mimarlık Merkezi, a public event exploring the intersecting histories, memories, migrations, and ecologies of the North Aegean.
This gathering marks the first meeting of the eight organisations from Turkey and Greece involved in the project Καρσί / Karşı: Gatherings Across the North Aegean.Together, we will examine practices —past and present— that have shaped the region, while responding to its shifting cultural and ecological landscapes.
We are pleased to welcome Bruce Clark, Angela Melitopoulos & Kerstin Schroedinger, and Hera Büyüktaşcıyan for an evening of lectures, where they share their works and insights on cross-cultural relationships across the North Aegean.
The event will start at 17:30, and the lectures will be followed by a moderated conversation with the invited speakers.
The event will be in English with simultaneous Turkish translation available.
This gathering marks the first meeting of the eight organisations from Turkey and Greece involved in the project Καρσί / Karşı: Gatherings Across the North Aegean.Together, we will examine practices —past and present— that have shaped the region, while responding to its shifting cultural and ecological landscapes.
We are pleased to welcome Bruce Clark, Angela Melitopoulos & Kerstin Schroedinger, and Hera Büyüktaşcıyan for an evening of lectures, where they share their works and insights on cross-cultural relationships across the North Aegean.
The event will start at 17:30, and the lectures will be followed by a moderated conversation with the invited speakers.
The event will be in English with simultaneous Turkish translation available.
Programme
17:30 - 17:45 Welcoming notes
17:45 - 18:25 Bruce Clark, “No longer a stranger” (lecture)
18:30 - 19:10 Angela Melitopoulos & Kerstin Schroedinger, “From a passing drama to the industries of denial” (lecture & screening)
19:15 - 19:55 Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, “On Stones, Islands and Palimpsests: An etude on retracing absence within space and memory" (lecture & screening)
19:55 - 20:15 Coffee break
20:15 - 20:45 Moderated Conversation
Speakers’ Short Bios
Bruce Clark is an author, journalist, lecturer and broadcaster who contributes to the Economist and other titles on history, culture and ideas, with a special interest in Greece and southeastern Europe. In a 40-year career as a full-time journalist, he worked for Reuters, The Times of London, the Financial Times and the Economist. He is the author of three widely acclaimed books, including Twice A Stranger (Granta and Harvard University Press), an account of the Greek-Turkish population exchange which won the Runciman Prize in 2007, and Athens, City of Wisdom (Head of Zeus and Pegasus), a narrative history of the Greek capital over 3,000 years.
Angela Melitopoulos art works consist of complex cine(so)matic cartographies that assume the form of video installations, videoessays and sound pieces in which moving bodies and site traversals create mnemonic milieus. Her ideas on the qualities of media in relation to duration, memory, geography and subjectivity highlight non-linear narrativity and their technical procedures. She showed her video in many international exhibitions since 1985. A retrospective of her work took place at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in 2023. She taught as a professor of media art at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and in the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe, Germany
Kerstin Schroedinger works with long-term research-based projects at the intersection of analogue film, video, sound and performance. She is currently a University Researcher at the University of the Arts Helsinki. She holds a PhD from the University of Westminster, London (2016). Schroedinger’s works have been screened and exhibited at numerous contemporary art museums and events across the world, including at Contemporary Image Collective CIC Cairo, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, 17th Istanbul Biennial, 2nd Kyiv Biennial, and her works have been featured at international film festivals in Berlin, Hong Kong and Toronto, among many others.
Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, in her multidisciplinary practice, unfolds ways in which memory, space, identity, and knowledge are shaped by deeply ingrained yet constantly evolving waves of history. The artist often references nature, archeology, mythology and iconography, as well as architectural structures as the foundation for her works. Büyüktaşcıyan participated in several local and international exhibitions such as Schwarz Foundation in Samos, EMST Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Tate St.Ives; 14thGwangju Biennale, Tate Modern, New Museum Triennial, The British Museum, 56th Venice Biennale and 14th Istanbul Biennale. She lives and works in Istanbul.
Visual design: Bend studio
The project is funded by Allianz Foundation, supported by Chios Navigation and TAVROS Friends, sponsored by Blue Star Ferries.
17:30 - 17:45 Welcoming notes
17:45 - 18:25 Bruce Clark, “No longer a stranger” (lecture)
18:30 - 19:10 Angela Melitopoulos & Kerstin Schroedinger, “From a passing drama to the industries of denial” (lecture & screening)
19:15 - 19:55 Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, “On Stones, Islands and Palimpsests: An etude on retracing absence within space and memory" (lecture & screening)
19:55 - 20:15 Coffee break
20:15 - 20:45 Moderated Conversation
Speakers’ Short Bios
Bruce Clark is an author, journalist, lecturer and broadcaster who contributes to the Economist and other titles on history, culture and ideas, with a special interest in Greece and southeastern Europe. In a 40-year career as a full-time journalist, he worked for Reuters, The Times of London, the Financial Times and the Economist. He is the author of three widely acclaimed books, including Twice A Stranger (Granta and Harvard University Press), an account of the Greek-Turkish population exchange which won the Runciman Prize in 2007, and Athens, City of Wisdom (Head of Zeus and Pegasus), a narrative history of the Greek capital over 3,000 years.
Angela Melitopoulos art works consist of complex cine(so)matic cartographies that assume the form of video installations, videoessays and sound pieces in which moving bodies and site traversals create mnemonic milieus. Her ideas on the qualities of media in relation to duration, memory, geography and subjectivity highlight non-linear narrativity and their technical procedures. She showed her video in many international exhibitions since 1985. A retrospective of her work took place at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in 2023. She taught as a professor of media art at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and in the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe, Germany
Kerstin Schroedinger works with long-term research-based projects at the intersection of analogue film, video, sound and performance. She is currently a University Researcher at the University of the Arts Helsinki. She holds a PhD from the University of Westminster, London (2016). Schroedinger’s works have been screened and exhibited at numerous contemporary art museums and events across the world, including at Contemporary Image Collective CIC Cairo, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, 17th Istanbul Biennial, 2nd Kyiv Biennial, and her works have been featured at international film festivals in Berlin, Hong Kong and Toronto, among many others.
Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, in her multidisciplinary practice, unfolds ways in which memory, space, identity, and knowledge are shaped by deeply ingrained yet constantly evolving waves of history. The artist often references nature, archeology, mythology and iconography, as well as architectural structures as the foundation for her works. Büyüktaşcıyan participated in several local and international exhibitions such as Schwarz Foundation in Samos, EMST Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Tate St.Ives; 14thGwangju Biennale, Tate Modern, New Museum Triennial, The British Museum, 56th Venice Biennale and 14th Istanbul Biennale. She lives and works in Istanbul.
Visual design: Bend studio
The project is funded by Allianz Foundation, supported by Chios Navigation and TAVROS Friends, sponsored by Blue Star Ferries.