1 Temmuz / July 2011, 17.00
Sohbet: Didem Danış, Tuna kuyucu, Jean François Perouse.
DEPO, Tütün Deposu, Lüleci Hendek Caddesi, no. 12, Tophane, İstanbul www.depoistanbul.net
Lüleci Hendek Caddesi, no. 12, Tophane, İstanbul
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On 18 June – 30 July 2011, DEPO is hosting works by Norwegian artist Knut Åsdam produced in the last two years. Abyss (2010) and Tripoli (2010) were recently shown at Tate Modern (2011) and at Bergen Kunsthall (2010) as well as in several film festivals and Åsdam and the curator would like to introduce these two films to the audience in Istanbul. The films are set in urban environments marked by dramatic change and they focus on disruption of perception and the distance between individuals, objects, places, and other inhabitants in their environments. Abyss is a film about inhabitants, immigrants and their relation to urban privatization and transformation. Tripoli focuses on the unsettled and uncanny atmosphere of the never-completed architectural complex designed by Oscar Niemeyer for the city of Tripoli in Lebanon. Through close attention to language and scenes, both works use fragmented narratives and documentary excess to deal with states of change created by architecture and urban planning, and subjects and identities that are stuck within these times and places.
Abyss, 2010
43’, 35mm to HD, 5.1 surround audio
Abyss was filmed in various locations in East London, at the Thames Gateway and on the outskirts of the area where the Olympic Arena is being constructed. The film portrays an urban reality that is affected in a variety of ways by migration: in the sense of the movements of human beings and the flow of money and power, and at the same time in the sense of a migration that takes place at another level – in the imagination. The 43-minute experimental film and installation work follows a group of protagonists and their more or less grip on language, materiality and meaning in an East London, way out of control of any singular agency.
Abyss was made possible by the support of the UK Arts Council, The Norwegian Film Institute, The Freedom of Expression Fund, Arts Council Norway and Bergen Kunsthall.
Source: www.knutasdam.net/index.php?/film/abyss-2010/
Tripoli, 2010
24’, RED to HD, colour, stereo
Tripoli emphasizes political history and architectural traces through the preserved relics of our recent past. In Tripoli in North Lebanon one finds the remains of one of the world’s most distinctive and ambitious construction projects, a stranded vision in the form of an international market place designed by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in 1966. On the outbreak of the civil war in Lebanon in 1975 all the work on the extensive project ceased, and the buildings were never completed. The civil war not only suspended the work but it also meant that the fairground was used for military purposes, as ammunition storage, as a landing spot for helicopters and in other ways. Partly an architectural documentary and partly a schizoid theatrical drama, Tripoli attempts to leave space in the film for a story of violence, disjunction and the uncanny.
Source: www.knutasdam.net/index.php?/film/tripoli/
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