Culture Factory Polymer
Located in Kristiine district in
Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, Culture Factory Polymer is a
multidisciplinary center for artistic creation. Being a member of European
Centre for Independent Culture and established in 2003, CFP, with its
alternative and un-institutionalized structure, is an art center.
CFP is constituted as a place
where over thirty artists and various culture organizations live together and
work on diverse artistic fields. Being a nonprofit institution it works as a
platform. Mainly in Tallinn, CFP provides support for alternative cultural
formations and artistic creations at this platform. Besides, with its public
events, CFP performs projects based on the participation and collaboration
among the artist-audience and work. CFP aims to enrich its structure which is
open to various artistic and cultural interactions also with the Artist
Every year in August, Polymer,
organizes a two-week long International Contemporary Art Festival. During the
festival, exhibitions, workshops, concerts, films and dance performances are
made. Click on the link below for detailed information about the festival. http://kultuuritehas.ee/?page_id=11
The independent artist and
curator Seçkin Aydın, with his
project called “City As a Home”, has
been invited to the festival that is held in 2012. This project will take place
as a part of the festival with the exhibition of the documentation of workshops
simultaneously held in many cities around the world.
City As a Home
This project consists of artistic
interventions that is composed of a city which transforms itself into its own
space in which artists reside; temporarily or permanently; from its streets,
stations, side-walks to its parks, at the actual space in real time.
The exhibition aims to animate
home -symbol of privacy- outside of itself, in public. One’s privacy, which
gradually exceeds outside of its borders, eventually fractures the public space
as well. Besides the formal and informal rules, it is an individual’s
redefinition of himself in / against society and the system, under a technology
driven and controlled circumstances that dictates our daily life. It is an
attitude from public sphere against the private. It is the re-domestication of
the city which has been made ruthless by capitalism that is also ruthless
itself.
In today’s world, besides the
theoretical concerns of the contemporary art practices which aim to make the
world a more habitable place in general, other types of symmetries on the
possibilities of social life and practices are also essential and is put
forward through the exhibition.
At the same time, we also
consider a utopic world, where the possiblity of converting the capitalist
modernity’s dominant community in favor of the societies. In this sense,
addition of the democratic values of the nations and also the values of
humanity, to the additions of all democratic gains of the world, history and
society makes the contribution of artists essential and enriched.
In the reality of the global
world; countries and cities, participate in the cultural scene as they claim in
this regard. Also, financial, cultural and diplomatic alliances find an
opportunity for discussion in an open platform. When looked at contemporary
art, we can say that the last few decades have been the stage for such global
mergings and compromise.
In this sense, the exhibition
that will take place in the capital city of the northern European country
Estonia, Tallinn, in the month of August, will deal with such issues. “City As
a Home ” project focuses on the question of how an individual can expand his
social reality in a philosophical and artistic way, rather than a project that
is merely focused on the nesting of the division of public and private sphere.
Planned to take place in Tallinn,
the project is designed in the form of three divisions within a period of
nearly two years. The first part of this, the project “Once upon a space” took
place in January, 2011 in Diyarbakir. The first aim of the project, in Marx’s
words, is that a private space , home, is designed as an interspace. What this
meant was to create an interspace
that steps out of the dominant forms of production and distribution, yet,
emphasizes society and humankind. Another approach to home settlement was
brought to daylight. www.evvelmekanicinde.blogspot.com
The second section, “Existing
from home - Resettlement”, was held by curator Seckin Aydin, December 2011 in
the Czech Republic. The second section evaluated, what the individuals brings
when he settles into a new home; what level his history and his society is, or,
in his memory what are some things that transform this new habitat into his
own, as well as what some answers are to such questions. www.inthehomyspace.blogspot.com
Scheduled to take place in
August, in the project “City as a Home” , “we also plan to transform the city
into a home, under a condition to be as comfortable as we can and to design it
in a way that will free our spirits”.
In Charles Boudelaire’s
sentences; “Being away from home, but still feeling right at home; seeing the
world and being in the center of it, but hiding from it...”
Curator: Seçkin Aydın
Artists:
Arzu Arda Kosar
Aslı Işıksal
Barış Seyitvan
Burçin Ünal
Ernest Truelly
Gül Aydın
Hüsnü Dokak
Justin Tyler Tate
Menekşe Samancı
Meral Yağcı
Niyazi Selçuk
Samet Aydın
Sevda Yavuz
Sevval Şener
Şefik Özcan
Uğur Orhan
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