Outpost in Istanbul
Arzu Arda Kosar & Nancy Popp
Knit graffiti installations and public art performance on the streets of Istanbul
In conjunction with the 12th Istanbul Biennial
September 14-25, 2011
Outpost is pleased to announce two overlapping public installations/performances: Arzu Arda Kosar's "Wish I Were There" knit graffiti interventions. and Nancy Popp’s Untitled (Street Performances) series.
Since 2005 Nancy Popp has travelled internationally to urban areas, starting with several days of research and scouting in the selected city, culminating in a live public action where Popp free-scales vertical structures, most often a street light or lamp post, as a performative intervention. Her performances encourage witnesses to reevaluate their relationship to the built environment and urge them to create paths to liberate the individual from the confines of the modern urban environment. The action is recorded via still photography and video; informal interviews with local audience are recorded during the action, detailing their response to the work and it's effect on public space in their city.
Kosar's work focuses on psycho-geography, intergroup relations, territorialism, mapmaking and street art. For "Wish I Were There" she has corresponded with members of the Turkish diaspora, old/new Istanbul residents as well as visitors to city to create a psychological map of the city that considers nostalgia, aspirations and fantasy as well as systems of inclusion/exclusion. Knit bands spelling "Wish I Were There" in embroidered letters will be installed at predetermined points in the city. Materials from both Kosar’s and Popp’s projects will be edited and presented during future exhibitions at Outpost as part of the forthcoming Turkish cycle.
Kosar & Popp travel to Istanbul as resident artists from Outpost for Contemporary Arts to promote artistic exchange between Los Angeles, CA/ USA and Istanbul, Turkey.
Follow Kosar & Popp in Istanbul on their blog here
For more information about Outpost, please contact Ronald Lopez, Director, Outpost for Contemporary Art, at ronald@outpost-art.org
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