Wherefrom Whereabouts 01: Esteti.ka

Independent Network will be hosting, from February onwards, an artistic research atelier, titled WHEREFROM WHEREABOUTS in Contemporary Performing Arts?: Esteti.ka Histori.ka Politi.ka. The atelier's complete list of 18 participants consists of creators (choreographers, directors, and designers) and theoreticians (academicians, critics, and researchers) currently involved in the fields of contemporary dance, theatre and performance in Turkey.

General aims of the atelier can be summarized as:

• producing an up-to-date map of artistic production in the field of contemporary performance in Turkey;


• revealing the aesthetic, historical and political reference-points of this map at a both global and local level;


• re-opening, through these references, the works themselves to critical scrutiny and investigation; and, in this way


• developing a response to the lack of textual / documentary / informative material in the field.

In total, three consecutive panel-meetings will be realized within the atelier's framework. While leaving the ground for a different set of 6 participants at each session, all three meetings will be open to the rest of the participants along with general public.

The first step of WHEREFROM WHEREABOUTS? (Esteti.ka) will take place:
- with the participation of Aysin Candan, Bedirhan Dehmen, Naz Erayda, Gurur Ertem, Nihal Koldas and Tugce Tuna,
- on 20th February 2008, Wednesday, at 19.00,
- at Roxy Activity Platform...

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