Artist Talk
January 27, 2016
As part of the program “Music Embodied” parallel to the exhibition This is Not a Love Song: Video Art and Pop Music Crossovers, Pera Museum presents a series of talks about performance art and its interdisciplinary collaborations in collaboration with biriken. CANAN, an artist known for her works in various disciplines, talks about her practice at Pera Museum on Wednesday 27 October at 18:30. Her talk titled “The artist’s body as an instrument of struggle” focuses on her performances and where performance stands in her overall practice. She discusses the idea of artist staging herself, and the relationship between feminism and performance art.
About CANAN
CANAN graduated from Marmara University, Fine Arts Faculty. She has participated in residency programs in Istanbul, USA and Germany. Her solo exhibitions include the “I Beg You Please Do Not Speak To Me Of Love”, Siyah Beyaz Gallery, Ankara (2014); “Turkish Delight” (2012) and “Even a Cat Has a Mustache” (2010) at Gallery X-ist, Istanbul. “Segregate”, KIBLA Multimedia Center, Maribor (2010); “Bahname”, Masa Project, Istanbul (2007); “Behind the Curtains”, Festival De Rode, Amsterdam (2006); and “...finally you are in me”, Istanbul (2000) among others. CANAN lives and works in Istanbul.
Free of admissions, drop in.
This event will take place in the auditorium.
The talk will be in Turkish.
in collaboration
Pera Museum Blog is launching a new series of creepy stories in collaboration with Turkey’s Fantasy and Science Fiction Arts Association (FABISAD). The Association’s member writers are presenting newly commissioned short horror stories inspired by the artworks of Mario Prassinos as part of the Museum’s In Pursuit of an Artist: Istanbul-Paris-Istanbul exhibition. The third story is by Murat Başekim! The stories will be published online throughout the exhibition. Stay tuned!
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Pera Museum invites artist Benoît Hamet to reinterpret key pieces from its collections, casting a humourous eye over ‘historical’ events, both imagined and factual.
Men were the first nudes in Turkish painting. The majority of these paintings were academic studies executed in oil paint; they were part of the education of artists that had finally attained the opportunity to work from the live model. The gender of the models constituted an obstacle in the way of characterizing these paintings as ‘nudes’.
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