The Seesaw Talks | Burçak Bingöl & Fatih Altuğ

The Seesaw Talks
Burçak Bingöl & Fatih Altuğ

strata & flora of the city

20.05.2022, Friday 19:30

Artist Burçak Bingöl and literary critic and writer Fatih Altuğ will have a conversation based on Tanpınar's Istanbul and discuss the interactions between the city, surfaces and literature in terms of their transformative effect on each other. They will explore the layers of time that bring forth the city's unique texture and perception by tracing the words frequently used by Tanpınar. They will talk about how Bingöl interprets this literary sensibility through ceramics and how she translates a sense of past time into clay material.
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Born in Görele, raised in Ankara, Burcak Bingol has completed her art education on PhD level in the Fine Arts Faculty at Hacettepe University, Ankara. She also completed programs on Music at Ankara State Conservatory between 1985-91 and on Photography at New School, New York in 2009. She realized eight solo shows in New York, Ankara, Istanbul and Berlin and was part of many group shows in Turkey and abroad, including the 15th Istanbul Biennial, A Good Neighbour. As a curator, she organized four exhibitions in Ankara and Istanbul. Within this culturally and personally charged scope of examination, her works emerge through a constant re-working of images, objects and forms, converging in a repetitive act where fiction and failure merge. As such, their architectural, sensorial and conceptual relations to space open up a research field of visual exploration.

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Born in Görele, raised in Ankara, Burcak Bingol has completed her art education on PhD level in the Fine Arts Faculty at Hacettepe University, Ankara. She also completed programs on Music at Ankara State Conservatory between 1985-91 and on Photography at New School, New York in 2009. She realized eight solo shows in New York, Ankara, Istanbul and Berlin and was part of many group shows in Turkey and abroad, including the 15th Istanbul Biennial, A Good Neighbour. As a curator, she organized four exhibitions in Ankara and Istanbul. Within this culturally and personally charged scope of examination, her works emerge through a constant re-working of images, objects and forms, converging in a repetitive act where fiction and failure merge. As such, their architectural, sensorial and conceptual relations to space open up a research field of visual exploration.

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Fatih Altuğ completed undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees at Boğaziçi University, Department of Turkish Language and Literature. He took part in the editorial board of Yeni Yazı, Mizan, Kritik and Monograf magazines. He published the book ‘Kapalı İktisat Açık Metin’ on Selim İleri's book ‘Kapalı İktisat’. He edited ‘Tanzimat ve Edebiyat: Osmanlı İstanbul'unda Modern Edebi Kültür’ with Mehmet Fatih Uslu, and edited ‘Standartlar Nasıl İşler?’ with Ebru Kayaalp. His articles on such as Leylâ Erbil, Sevim Burak, Tomris Uyar, Orhan Kocak, Halid Ziya Usaklıgil, Namık Kemal and Sait Faik Abasıyanık have published in various maganizes and books. He gave lectures at Koc University, İstanbul Sehir University, Mainz Johannes Gutenberg University, Bilkent University and Bogazici University.

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This event is funded by the International Relief Fund for Organisations in Culture and Education 2021 of the German Federal Foreign Office, the Goethe-Institut and other partners: www.goethe.de/relieffund