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COLLECTION July 23 – August 18, 2019 CLICK FOR THE 2018

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EDUCATION Istanbul Modern presents Artists’ Film International, a program featuring videos, NOTICE
animations, and short films by artists from around the world. The focus of this
EVENTS year’s program is “gender”. While sex refers to the natural, biological differences Online museum
between women and men, gender is the entirety of cultural viewpoints and belief
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systems in society as well as the status of femininity and masculinity shaped by
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regarding gender as a sociological and cultural phenomenon, and on the invitation
of Istanbul Modern, artist Senem Gökçe Oğultekin is a participant in this year’s Purchase your tickets online to
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Established by the Whitechapel Gallery in 2008, Artists’ Film
International includes 16 global partner organizations. Every year, each partner
organization nominates the current work by an artist from its country. The selection
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of the films are made around a common theme each year and programmed as
screenings according to the curatorial decision of each organization. In the
previous years, Istanbul Modern participated in the program with videos by Ali
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Kazma, İnci Eviner, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Sefer Memişoğlu, Bengü Karaduman, Burak
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Delier, Vahap Avşar, Zeyno Pekünlü, Cengiz Tekin and Pelin Kırca.
Artists’ Film International 2019 program: CAROLINA CAYCEDO (Ballroom
Marfa, Texas, USA), THERESA TRAORE DAHLBERG (Bonniers Konsthall,
Stockholm, Sweden), ATEFA HESARİ (CCAA / The Center
for Contemporary Art Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan), LARS LAUMANN
(Tromsø Center for Contemporary Art, Tromsø, Norway), JACOPO MILIANI
(GAMeC / Bergamo Modern and Contemporary Art Center, Bergamo, Italy),
SENEM GÖKÇE OĞULTEKİN (Istanbul Modern, Turkey), MARKO TİRNANİĆ
(The Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia), HGUYEN HAI YEN (Hanoi
Doclab, Hanoi, Vietnam).

Program / Content: Öykü Özsoy, Deniz Pehlivaner

Guest of 2019:
Senem Gökçe Oğultekin

Dun (Home), 2018

Video
13’13’’
Musical Composition: Aslı Kobaner
Choreography and dance: Gasia Papazyan, Senem Gökçe Oğultekin
Artistic collaboration with Levent Duran

About the video:

Senem Gökçe Oğultekin’s video “Dun (Home)” is set among the ruins of the city of
Ani, now located in the province of Kars in eastern Turkey. An important cultural
hub in the 10th and 11th centuries, the city’s remains now overlook the
Akhurian/ArpaçayRiver which creates a natural border between Turkey and
Armenia. Setting this landscape as its backdrop and taking its name from the
Armenian word for “home”, the video develops around dynamics such as the body,
women, gender, roots, and borders. In the video we see two look-alike women,
one from Turkey played by the artist herself, and the other from Armenia. The
video displays their encounter, the conflict between them, and the unison they
eventually achieve, first through their bodies, and then their souls. Centering on
the female body’s connection to her habitat, the video visualizes the symbolization
of opposition, which it develops through two individuals who obstinately butt
heads, while the narrative woven around the rhythm of difference evolves toward
“similarity”.

About the artist:

Born in 1982 in Izmir, Senem Gökçe Oğultekin is a choreographer and
performance and video artist. Oğultekin first started dance at the Istanbul State
Opera and Ballet, then went to the Institute of Contemporary Dance at the
Folkwang University of Arts in Essen, from where she graduated in 2005. The
artist has worked with choreographers such as Pina Bausch, Va Wölfl, Meg Stuart,
Laurent Chétouane, Mara Tsironi, and many more. Having worked with
avantgarde dance companies, Oğultekin has also taken part as a dancer, singer,
and performer in various events at theaters such as the Théâtre de la Ville in
Paris, the Kaaitheater in Brussels, and Pact Zollverein in Essen. She has
participated with her performances in festivals such as the Venice Biennale,
Tanzplattform Deutschland, the Kunstenfestivaldesarts, and the Rencontres
Chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint Denis. In the videos she has
been creating since 2016, Oğultekin has been focusing on body exploration,
sound, and improvisation.

Artists’ Film International 2019 Program Partners

Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas, USA
Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia
Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
CCAA / Centre for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan
Fundacion PRÓA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
GAMeC / Galleria D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
Hanoi DOCLAB, Hanoi, Vietnam
KWM artcentre, Beijing, China
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
NCCA / National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
n.b.k. / Video-Forum of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Para Site Art Space, Hong Kong
Project 88, Mumbai, India
Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

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