FIND YOUR CALLING ISTANBUL ATELIER MUSE ART RESIDENCY PROGRAM 2018
Find Your Calling Istanbul...
…an initiative taken to open roads that reach each other in times stationary, stagnant, and non-flowing. Without waiting for anyone a turn, in an opposite way it turned into an energy that pushes everyone it touched a step forward. The Find Your Calling Istanbul residency program, which first started in 2017, is inspired by the fact that Istanbul is always beautiful while growing with time, by always flowing, by embracing what is happening despite what is happening and by always preserving its essence. The artist expanded her scope in 2018 with the creation of productive intersections by bringing together the time, space, art directors and viewers, and with the Creative Mentorship Program, experienced mentors in the field took part in “mind-shift” by working with the residency program participants. In Germany, we experienced together the different thinking in production practices with artists participating from Chile and Turkey. People who never knew each other met, cultures met and learned from each other. We are very happy that we could contribute for everyone to put something valuable in their bag from this process. With Find Your Calling Istanbul, none of us are at the point where we started, and we continue to follow our own call. Endless thanks to all those our paths intersected who have been working with their hearts and knowledge. Müge Olacak Founding Director
ATELIER MUSE Atelier Muse is a creative initiative as an arts and culture consultancy office that implements new approaches to arts and culture field by carrying out interdisciplinary cross-sectoral projects. Atelier Muse adopts a global and collaborative point of view with partners sharing the same vision as being present and actively productive in life. Find Your Calling Istanbul Residency Program, among other projects, initiated in 2017, is the realisation of a lifelong dream of its founder MĂźge Olacak to add value to life by coming together, exchanging knowledge and creativity with curiosity. The program is established to host artists from all around the world, creating a bridge of understanding between cultures and leveraging the knowhow and qualifications of arts and culture field.
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FIN D YOU R CAL LIN G IST ANB UL – 201 8
Find Your Calling Istanbul art residency program by Atelier Muse spreads in time and space, ensures participation to personal and social transformation with using bodily and contemporary art forms.
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Benedetta Reuter Benedetta Reuter is an Italian-German dancer and choreographer based in Cologne. After her dance studies in stage dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, she led her dance activities through different European countries and to several working stays on the African continent. Her work investigates the connections and interactions between dance and other arts. Starting from the interplay of sound * body * movement * environment, the exploration of the interface between music and dance is a central theme of her artistic work. In recent years she has focused on the development of performance projects developed with various musicians in especially jazz and experimental field. For example, “Electric Tire-Land”, “Basso Continuo” and “the fabric of the universe” were created in cooperation with the Tanzanian artist organisation ASEDEVA.
Benedetta Reuter
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Bassem Hawar Bassem Hawar studied Iraqi and Oriental Music with a major in djoze at the Baghdad Conservatory. He earned a degree in violin and musicology at the University of Baghdad, then spent several years teaching djoze, violin and music theory at the Conservatory and the Baghdad Music School. Hawar performed under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture in various ensembles including Al Bayariq, Al Nahar al jadid, Babel the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra. He also co-founded the group Melodic with oud player Saad Mahmood Jawad. Hawar makes his own instruments and has revolutionised the design and construction of the djoze, an ancient musical instrument dating back to Sumerian times, now is capable of playing all forms of Arabic and European music. His design is known as “Bassem’s djoze” in Iraq. Based in Germany since 2000, he has played with the Dutch jazz group Yuri Honing Trio, then co-founded the groups, Ahoar, Lagash and Sidare, which performed numerous concerts throughout Europe and in several Asian countries. In 2006, Ahoar took first place at the statewide music competition Creole NRW and won “Germany’s global music contest” in the following year. Hawar plays within different groups encompassing a wide range of musical genres, from classical Iraqi maqam (Duo Melodic, Mesopotamiens) to European medieval music (Sanstierce, La Beltatz) to Flamenco (Trio Ziryab), contemporary classical music and experimental jazz (Crossover Bagdad Köln).
Bassem Hawar
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Nicola Hein
Nicola Hein is guitarist, composer, philosopher and sound artist. As a sound artist he develops various possibilities to project the musical ontology of improvised music onto different aesthetic spaces. This happens through the creation of instruments, installations and other forms of guitar use that use the musical ontology of improvised music as a center of sound practice, but create many different sensory structures that differ from the usual practice of improvised music (e.g. by creating a scenic sensory level, etc.) He also creates sound installations that involve the recipient as part of the work. The works encourage the recipient to make a special aesthetic experience with different sounds. The aesthetics of these sounds are inspired by the aesthetics of Free Improvised Music.
Nicola Hein
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In FRAGIL UND AGIL – dancer and choreographer Benedetta Reuter with musicians Bassem Hawar (focus on Iraqi oriental music) and Nicola Hein (focus on free jazz and new music) explore the relationship between contemporary dance and contemporary sound art with influences from nonEuropean music cultures in the context of aesthetic perspectives. In the development of an interdisciplinary musical dance performance, European and oriental music cultures come together, different horizons of understanding and manifestations of the two art forms enter into a direct dialogue.
Özlem G.
Born in 1981, Özlem G. was raised in an atmosphere where literary and musical studies were a natural part of life. She studied Political Science and Public Administration at Hacettepe University. While working for finance companies more than 10 years, she founded a hiking and mountaineering club, sang as a chorist for Ankara Bach Choir and Ladies and Gentleman İstanbul, attended to several creative writing workshops, published her essays on Feminist Politika, vliegendenederlander.blogspot.com as well as some other online magazines. She has been a feminist activist organizing “workshops” with her “sisters”. At the moment, she is publishing her essays on Gaia Dergi and studying for a master’s degree in North American Literature and Culture at the Free University of Berlin.
Özlem G.
ARTISTS
“Purple and Metallic Grey� is a work of confusion. In the age of technological revolution we are becoming more and more part of the machine while we are trying to keep the organic being in us. Evolution is inevitable. The time we spend alone are increasing and technology is in every second of our lives. The question is how we are going to balance the organic needs and our relationship with technology. What is the role of the ideas in our lives? Do I write just for the sake of writing or is it the last and lively weapon I have to struggle for a better world?
Sole Medina Sole Medina studied Theater in “Teatro Imagen” Chile (2000- 2004.) She pursued Kalaripayattu and vocal training in Hindustan Kalari Sangam in India. Her dance has integrated influences from Martial Arts, Butoh, Bodyweather training and all her accidents trough her life. With contact improvisation (CI) she got into other kind of awareness and somatic practices. Got her B.A in contemporary dance. P.E.T, U.D.L.A (2013). She is interested in submerging in creative processes that friction concepts around the body and perception in their possibilities of encounter, intimacy and affectation with others. Fields to explore, the unpredictable, the intuition, the animality and the state of time in movement. She questions how these can create choreographic proposals. She has worked in the creation and collaboration of; Cuerpo (2004), Lugares Inciertos (2011), Spaguetti 2065 (2012) Projecto Ciervo (2017) She has been performing in several festivals in Chile, Spain, France and Canada collaborating with national and international artists in research projects around improvisation as a performance practice. She has been teaching CI in different festivals in Chile, Peru, Spain, France, Canada, México, Turkey and New Zealand.
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"Untitle Things" is given shape in the framework of the concept of ‘affordances’. It is a solo dance performance. This performance explore loneliness and togetherness of things. It is interested in living creatures. It is a research project that traces the progressive boundaries between human and things and their relationship’s effects to our idea about reality. The aim of Untitle Things is to explore a physical exploration of mobility affected by things and all transformations that we experience and perceive in the contemporary world as living matters.
Yeşim Us Graduated from Anadolu University, Department of Labor Economics & Industrial Relations and Kocaeli University Ceramics Department, Yeşim Us gained artistic experience in the Glass Furnace Foundation and Keramiek De Atelier, in Belgium. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Ceramics Glass at Sakarya University and pedagogical formation at Marmara University while teaching in various foundations, institutions and organisations and producing in her studio, Studio Dutluk. Us took part in public art, urban transformation, street art projects and actions by Public Art Laboratory, Sanat Tanımı Community and Sehrine Ses Ver. Using the possibilities, indicators and contexts of the ceramic material, she searches for new expressions in contemporary art and productions based on its own cultural codes. She believes that, this geography, art should be nourished with sociological, political and cultural structures. Her researches are mainly on independent art players, considering that artist should question their presence and position, and re-exist in the existing structure of today’s technology, perception and speed.
Yeşim Us
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Starting with the data that the technology encodes us in everyday life, the movement we make every day emerges from the effect of the act of going to places on our existence. We do not think that ordinaryness left on our body, we ask questions. I have used for a long time, google maps, mapping all the places I've gone all the time for me to remove the digital map daily. It's about how much ordinary my personal maps become, as they grow up, when I associate all the data with my personal memory.
Sezen Tonguz She is the founder of “bazen” blending her experiences in vast areas from artistic creation and production to fundraising and project management, from technical and customer support to consultancy and communication. She studied contemporary dance at ÇATI Dance Studio and she is one of the core members of this association. She is the initiator of the network of artists, (Re)union and coordinates its international projects. She is a cofounder of co-dance - an initiative of 9 international artists who live in Lisbon, share a dance studio, artistic practices and processes. Recently, she curates a series of artistic residencies in 2018, in scope of “Artist as curator” project at Núcleo/ Forum Dança. She graduated from MA Communication and Arts in New University of Lisbon (NOVA) and now a PhD candidate in Artistic Studies – Art and Mediations. She integrated to APA - Apoio Produtores e Artistas, a program created by Alkantara providing co-work space and formation to independent artists and producers. She is interested in performance, choreography and dance. In this framework, she has collaborated with different artists, produced and curated many organisations.
Sezen Tonguz
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"Invisible Act" reflects on the nature of our smallest actions and their effects on the world we live in. Territories we’ve never stepped before lies at the tip of our finger. The boundaries between what belongs to us; where we belong tend to shift from one minute to the next. We form a collective body that belongs to multiple origins, languages, geographies and nations continuously re-composing our ecosystem.
PUBLIC PROGRAM
17 December – Dance Performance : Untitle Things / Sole Medina / Kadıköy Theatron 16 December – Workshop: Let’s Dance / Sole Medina / Kadıköy Theatron 8 December – Workshop: Mapping The Fall / Sole Medina / ÇATI Contemporary Dance Artists Association 1 December- Workshop: Ceramics – Free Circulation / Yeşim Us / Studio Dutluk 23 & 28 October – Performance: Fragil And Agil / Benedetta Reuter, Bassem Hawar, Nicola Hein / ÇATI Contemporary Dance Artists Association www.ateliermuse.org / @ateliermuseist
Untitle Things
17 December 2018 Kadıköy Theatron Sole Medina is interested in working with the theory of Affordances which is coined by psychologist James Gibson in 1977. The central question for the theory of affordances is that information is available in ambient light for perceiving them. Untitle Things is given shape in the framework of the concept of ‘affordances’. It is a solo dance performance. This performance explore loneliness and togetherness of things. It is a research project that traces the progressive boundaries between human and things and their relationship’s effects to our idea about reality. It’s a reflection about our own nature and the multiplicity of micro perception and relation. The aim of Untitle Things is to explore a physical exploration of mobility affected by things and all transformations that we experience and perceive in the contemporary world as living matters.
PERFORMANCE
Sole Medina
Let's Dance 16 December Kadıköy Theatron Space for the practice of improvisation, an invitation to enter, explore, play and reflect on what emerges from the body in movement. We will observe, active, shake, and move around the possibilities to create presence with our spatial awareness. Working on perception of inner space, in/outside body rhythms, outer sensory/spatial awareness. The space that surround us, the space we create together. Creating new spaces and ‘in-between spaces’, In order to enable the creative game of composing together, creating score, opening the possibility of having a common body. Let’s zoom in zoom in exploring exercises, that open our perception through weight, flow and organicity, and its possibility of transformation and variation to spirals, curves, and elliptical forces observing the relation with the ground and the space, aiming to enrich the physical skills that enable us to improvise with our present moment.
WORKSHOP
Sole Medina
Mapping The Fall
8 December ÇATI Contemporary Dance Artists Association Fall, Fall in between, Fall between the fall. What are we sensing as we go through the fall? Can we grasp something in those brief moments? What are our GPS devices in the pathway of the fall? Every step is a little fall through space-time. In Mapping the Fall // we are a space-time for the practice of contemporary dance and contact improvisation, an invitation to enter, explore, and reflect on that which emerges from the body in movement. We create our dances mapping and exploring touch through movement, modulating tone and differentiating pressure/weight. Hands are open and awake. We catch, we hold, we project, we invite, we embrace, we caress; this is happening all the time. We are observing the multiplicity of ways in which we consent, doubt, or collaborate through touch, exploring the micro-universes of how we do these. We are paying attention to how any movement can also be seen as falling; that instability leads to mobility and that we are surrounded by the sense of touch.
WORKSHOP
Sole Medina
Ceramics - Free Circulation 1 December Studio Dutluk
We exist with our name, our profession, our title, our definitions, our feelings and our judgments. What we are is more visible than what we are not. But there are gaps, which reveal the existing, visible part. Our bodies, minds and souls are starting to enter a pattern within this framework. As long as you release the body and move it out of shape, what are the rest of the body doing? Is a free circulation possible from forms we are jammed into formlessness? Where does the movement come out? How does the mind and the body respond when they just start looking at what is in this silence? What is the story that the words of silence tell us?
YeĹ&#x;im Us
WORKSHOP
Fragil & Agil 28 October ÇATI Contemporary Dance Artists Association
In FRAGIL UND AGIL – dancer and choreographer Benedetta Reuter and musicians Bassem Hawar (focus on Iraqi oriental music) and Nicola Hein (focus on free jazz and new music) explore the relationship between contemporary dance and contemporary sound art with influences from non-European music cultures in the context of aesthetic perspectives. In the development of an interdisciplinary musical dance performance, European and oriental music cultures come together, different horizons of understanding and manifestations of the two art forms enter into a direct dialogue. Another component of FRAGIL UND AGIL is the mediation work, which is carried out by the Syrian mediator and archaeologist Jabbar Abdullah. During the rehearsals, an intensive, curious and eye-level exchange with new arrivals takes place through rehearsal visits and on the evenings of the event. Habits of seeing are discussed in the context of one’s own experiences. Through this exchange, the participants want to reach as diverse an audience as possible with and without a migration biography or escape experience.
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Creative Mentorship
"Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction." John C. Crosby
Creative Mentorship Program is developed to answer the need in arts and culture field to be equipped in business development and management, entrepreneurship as well as, artistic production with the experience of our founder via professional, experienced creative entrepreneurs and business minds. www.ateliermuse.org / @ateliermuseist
Mentors Müge Olacak Atelier Muse, Founding Director Müge Olacak, artist, researcher and business mind is the Founding Director of Atelier Muse, the new age creative initiative. She graduated from Boğaziçi University Business Administration and has gained experience from various multinational companies. She moved to Poland to continue contemporary dance and choreography education that she started in Turkey. She has been producing on contemporary dance, performance, interdisciplinary basis in addition to leading projects with the focus on woman, freedom of speech, taboos, personal and social relationship issues. She has granted and awarded on multicultural level with her efforts in artistic and organisational mindset. She calls herself as the initiator and motivated to share her initiatives with people/communities and get them move.
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Cihan Şirolu 700 DCC, Co-founder
Cihan Sirolu, Co-founder of 700DCC, comes from the background of product design with an academic curriculum; sales and marketing between Canada. His credit and work done with international design organisations, design marketing & cıntemporary arts management such as curatorial issues. His marketing translators put themselves in the mindset of the target audience, and have a “creative license” to adapted the text accordingly: Humor, metaphors, idioms, shapes, beliefs, traditions or connotations may have different meanings across cultures and industry.
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Sezen Tonguz bazen, Founder Sezen Tonguz is the founder of “bazen” blending her experiences in vast areas from artistic creation and production to fundraising and project management, from technical and customer support to consultancy and communication. She studied contemporary dance at ÇATI Dance Studio and she is one of the core members of this association. She is the initiator of the network of artists, (Re)union and coordinates its international projects. She is a co-founder of co-dance - an initiative of 9 international artists who live in Lisbon, share a dance studio, artistic practices and processes. Recently, she curates a series of artistic residencies in 2018, in scope of “Artist as curator” project at Núcleo/ Forum Dança. She graduated from MA Communication and Arts in New University of Lisbon (NOVA) and now a PhD candidate in Artistic Studies – Art and Mediations. She integrated to APA - Apoio Produtores e Artistas, a program created by Alkantara providing co-work space and formation to independent artists and producers. She is interested in performance, choreography and dance. In this framework, she has collaborated with different artists, produced and curated many organizations.
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Endorsements
"Helpful artistic feedback and ideas for development/ cooperations referring to a artistic project and future collaborations."
- Caroline Skibinski Producer "This mentoring support prioritises the details according to your wishes. And it expands your awareness by giving you specific support."
- YeĹ&#x;im Us Artist "The program made me face weaknesses in my proposition, I felt challenged to decide how to continue keeping loyal to it."
- Benedetta Reuter Dancer & Choreographer
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