Call for Applications: the İş-Porta Project for Germany and Turkey based artists

BMF

02/12/2015

Deadline: 15th January 2016

İŞ-PORTA is a participatory project developed by Sinop Sustainable Development Association (Sinop/Turkey) and bi’bak (Berlin/Germany) and is supported by TANDEM Cultural Managers Exchange Turkey-EU*. İŞ-PORTA will feature site-specific works, which function as mobile carts in the neighbourhood and allow interactions within the local community. The content of the work should deal with the past, present and future of local producers, craftsmen and shop owners and their production processes.

We would like to invite artists/designers/makers and creative collectives from Turkey and Germany to send in proposals for a vehicle which functions as a mobile cart in the urban space and also triggers or involves the participation of local people. The proposed works should deal with issues of local economies and may feature exhibitory, performative or participatory functions and purposes and/or try to find a good balance between artistic forms and disciplines. We especially encourage works that make use of on-site research, oral history and archival material.

The İŞ-PORTA project will support the production of two mobile carts/ vehicles, one in Sinop and another in Berlin. The first İŞ-PORTA vehicle will go on the road in Sinop during the first half of April 2016 and the second one in Berlin at the end of April 2016. Both projects will be documented with a “making of” video and a printed publication. The documentation of both projects, as well as the vehicles themselves, will be shown in an exhibition in bi’bak in Berlin, and once again within the scope of the 6th Sinopale – International Sinop Biennale in July 2016.

Applicants from Germany should be based in Berlin and propose their project ideas for a vehicle in Berlin. Applicants from Turkey can be based in another city of Turkey but they should apply with a project idea specifically designed for Sinop. There is no restriction of age, nationality or discipline. Travel and accommodation costs (and if necessary visa fees) of selected applicants will be covered. Production costs of up to 500€ for each vehicle will also be covered.

To find out more, visit the project's official website and facebook page.

*İŞ-PORTA is a project initiated by Sinop Sustainable Development Association (Sinop/TR) and bi’bak (Berlin/DE). Curated by Mert Karacikay and Can Sungu. Kindly supported by European Cultural Association with the collaboration of Sinopale. Funded by TANDEM Turkey-EU Programme.

TANDEM – Cultural Managers Exchange Turkey – EU is an initiative of the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam), MitOst (Berlin), Anadolu Kültür (Istanbul), and supported by Stiftung Mercator (Essen).

Source:

bi-bak.de