ARCO 2013 ACTIVITIES AT MATADERO MADRID
With guest of honor Turkey
Date
13
28 February 2013
Venue
Matadero Madrid
Category
Institution
Matadero Madrid
As part of ARCO 2013, Matadero Madrid is hosting several different activities in the month of February. Of special note are the public showing of Here Together Now, an exercise in community-based creation done by Turkish and Spanish cultural agents in a collaboration, Estación Campo Adentro, which includes work by Can Altay, Carmen Cañibano, Emma Smith and Antje Schiffers, performance, music, and tasting, and the film series Documentales Turcos [Turkish Documentaries], which displays the best in Turkish non-fiction cinematography.
For FOCUS TURQUÍA - Here Together now, Matadero has brought together four Turkish artists, two local artists, an art critic, two architects, and a critical pedagogical collective meant to discover new paths for artistic interpretation, exhibition, and production that go beyond the customary exhibition format. From January 7 and February 13, Sibel Horada, Ïz Öztat, Dilek Winchester, and Yasemin Nur have been meeting at Nave 16.1 to work on a dialogue with several local cultural agents, and their working process will have an open house from February 13 to February 28. Here Together Now is intended as an experimental project dealing with the idea of the community as a place for creating interpersonal relationships and for finding solutions to the pressing matters of precariousness, the crisis, intimacy, and social change that characterize current society. You can follow the project's development and execution at www.heretogethernow.org.
To provide even more cultural offerings, Nave 16 will be housing Estación Campo Adentro as well. It is an inhabited istallation that presents the project on cultural strategy regarding the relationships between campo [country] and ciudad [city], and new contexts and functions for contemporary art. Throughout the duration of ARCO, selected works will be on display, and a space designed for documenting the results of the production phases will be opened, which will also house a colloquium with the artists and the towns' inhabitants, performances, and, as if it were a dinner, each day there will be gastronomic tastings provided by the participating regions. February 15 and 16.
Cineteca is also joining in on the “AfterArco” activities, offering a series of Documentales Turcos [Turkish Documentaries]. Chosen by Necati Somnez, filmmaker and director of the Istanbul documentary film fesitval “Documentarist”, the series brings together the most noteworthy Turkish films within the genre from the last ten years, offering the visitor a panorama displaying the very interesting moment that Turkish cinematography is experiencing, while showing an extensive overview of the realities of this country, a glance at the day-to-day of Turkish life, at their reflections about symbols and identity in a country in continual evolution. Thus, the chosen pictures bring us their view of Kurd-Iraki immigration, their celebration of the abolition of the death penalty in 2002, and their preoccupation with preserving the customs and cultures of different regions, while simultaneously taking the visitor on a voyage throught the immense Turkish landscapes.
Additionally, other institutions at Matadero Madrid will be holding activities within the ARCO 2013 programme framework. Thursday, February 14 Intermediae will house the conference
For FOCUS TURQUÍA - Here Together now, Matadero has brought together four Turkish artists, two local artists, an art critic, two architects, and a critical pedagogical collective meant to discover new paths for artistic interpretation, exhibition, and production that go beyond the customary exhibition format. From January 7 and February 13, Sibel Horada, Ïz Öztat, Dilek Winchester, and Yasemin Nur have been meeting at Nave 16.1 to work on a dialogue with several local cultural agents, and their working process will have an open house from February 13 to February 28. Here Together Now is intended as an experimental project dealing with the idea of the community as a place for creating interpersonal relationships and for finding solutions to the pressing matters of precariousness, the crisis, intimacy, and social change that characterize current society. You can follow the project's development and execution at www.heretogethernow.org.
To provide even more cultural offerings, Nave 16 will be housing Estación Campo Adentro as well. It is an inhabited istallation that presents the project on cultural strategy regarding the relationships between campo [country] and ciudad [city], and new contexts and functions for contemporary art. Throughout the duration of ARCO, selected works will be on display, and a space designed for documenting the results of the production phases will be opened, which will also house a colloquium with the artists and the towns' inhabitants, performances, and, as if it were a dinner, each day there will be gastronomic tastings provided by the participating regions. February 15 and 16.
Cineteca is also joining in on the “AfterArco” activities, offering a series of Documentales Turcos [Turkish Documentaries]. Chosen by Necati Somnez, filmmaker and director of the Istanbul documentary film fesitval “Documentarist”, the series brings together the most noteworthy Turkish films within the genre from the last ten years, offering the visitor a panorama displaying the very interesting moment that Turkish cinematography is experiencing, while showing an extensive overview of the realities of this country, a glance at the day-to-day of Turkish life, at their reflections about symbols and identity in a country in continual evolution. Thus, the chosen pictures bring us their view of Kurd-Iraki immigration, their celebration of the abolition of the death penalty in 2002, and their preoccupation with preserving the customs and cultures of different regions, while simultaneously taking the visitor on a voyage throught the immense Turkish landscapes.
Additionally, other institutions at Matadero Madrid will be holding activities within the ARCO 2013 programme framework. Thursday, February 14 Intermediae will house the conference
