GET A DESK: 25.09.-02.10. "Tages Kraut"/ "Daily Herbal Drawing"

Daily Herbal Drawing
Drawing Installation
September 25- October 2, 2011

Per Schumann drew impressions, images and ideas from his stay in Istanbul on a large piece of paper attached to the wall of 5533. This work grew on a daily basis to serve as a means of achieving a deeper more subtle level of perception about the immediate surroundings and of discovering the mysterious and interesting elements of everyday life. It also acted as an extension of his Gartenstudio concept that symbolizes the search for a niche or gap in the tightly-woven fabric of modern urban life.

http://www.perschumann.de

GET A DESK: 26./27.09. Finding my way

“Finding my way”
Performance by Rebecca Weeks
September 26-27

This work is a response to Istanbul, to the experience of trying to move around the city and create routes and pathways between destinations. It is also an expression of anxiety about getting physically and emotionally lost and an attempt to integrate this fear. Within the performance there are actions made as allegories to ongoing attempts to create an idiosyncratic system, an individual map as a safeguard and as a comfort. Laying wooden planks around the exterior space of 5533 created a meditative path and the regular demarcation of every second pillar through placing a protective evil eye reflects the mental, emotional and physical work that it requires to operate in a strange place. The carrying of the high heels represents the disintegration of an appearance, of a cultural construct of femininity, which fails to translate across cultures. Slowly with care and patience a new way of operating can be discovered.

http://www.rebeccaweeks.co.uk
http://cazart.drupalgardens.com

GET A DESK: 18.09.-25.09. "Boy´s Room" / "Erkek Odası"

“Boy’s Room”
Installation and performance by Doreen Maloney
September 19-25, 2011

Doreen Maloney began her research for a project about male identity as represented in male dolls in the U.S. From her local discount mega store Walmart, she purchased the seductive “Captain America” doll that plays the words, “let’s take them down” and a boy’s t-shirt that echoed the toy’s aggressive quality with the slogan, “Crush, Destroy, Win.” In Maloney’s opinion, “the martial quality of these boy’s toys and clothing is a disturbing reminder of the U.S. global imperialism project, which has bankrupted our country and is fought most often by the poor who have no other alternatives but to enlist in the army to get a college education or to have a job. I find the irony of loving our children and wanting to keep them safe, juxtaposed with the toys we ‘can’ buy for them that encourages aggression and war to be obviously incongruent.” In Istanbul she continued her research by exploring the neighborhood next to 5533 where wholesale inexpensive toys were being sold for distribution to toy stores all over Istanbul. To her surprise, she found no Turkish made military toys, with the exception of a child like doll dressed in military uniform doing a belly dance to Turkish music. Since all the military toys sold in Istanbul, were printed in English and often with U.S. flags, Maloney concluded that this further underscored how the United States is packaged as an ‘aggressor’. Continuing her project on site and using both U.S. and Turkish military images and toys, she transformed the 5533 store window into a “Boy’s Room”. Workers from the shops next to 5533, only responded to the Turkish images and toys used in the window decoration, ignoring the “Captain American” toys, but at the same time, showing pleasure that the artist had made a project against warfare and aggression that encircles the world at this time.

http://www.doreenmaloney.com/

GET A DESK: 16.09.-23.09. ReVisited

“Paradise Remade Revisited”
Installation by Roberly Bell
September 16-23, 2011

Desiring to incorporate a feminine and warm expression and communication into masculine cosmopolitan city life, at 5533, Roberly Bell continued her “The Other Landscape” project that she had previously conducted in Russia and another venue in Istanbul.

With this communicative project, she invited her audience to participate by taking potted plants from the gallery space out into the city. In exchange for this gift of a potted flower, she asked recipients to send her photographs of the flowers in their new environments.

http://www.roberleybell.com

GET A DESK: 11.09.-16.09. "Space for a Woman: Walking through the city"

"Harem", "Eminonu Mosque"

Space for a Woman: Walking through the city
Victoria Rance
September 11-16, 2011

The purpose of Victoria Rance’s research trip was to subjectively experience personal and shared spaces in the city, in particular she searched for ambivalence about spaces for women. She wanted to experience how they are negotiated and demarcated in comparison to those in London. Her quest began at the Harem in Topkapi Palace, a historical designated space for women that has played an important role in the western imagination. She found the harem quieter, cooler, and more pleasant than the rest of the palace filled with noisy tourists. Similarly, in the mosques, the areas designed for women were sheltered from the noisy hustle and bustle of everyday life. In the Eminönü mosque, she witnessed children playing, chasing, and learning to walk in the shared prayer space. She learned that the demarcation of spaces is more complex than a westerner might suppose. For example, when walking to 5533 she became aware of the impact felt from the different perceptions from different routes. When arriving from the front over the Atatürk Bridge, the building felt very modern and dislocated from the small market streets behind, but when approached from the back, where children play between small local shops and a bath house, the building acts as a barrier separating the market from the busy motorway.

http://www.victoriarance.com

GET A DESK: 11.09.-18.09. MIND THE GAP

“MIND THE GAP”
Multi-media project
September 13-15, 2011

MIND THE GAP is a multi-media, multi-platform arts initiative that was headquartered at IMC 5533 art space September 13-15, 2011. Created by Alexia Mellor and co-organized with Michelle Dunn, MIND THE GAP presented performative and new media work by emerging artists from around the globe addressing gaps and borders of all kinds: geographic and social borders, and technological and spatial gaps. IMC5533 served as a central location for visitors from the community to view video works, participate in interactive works, and get information on the site-specific pieces. With site-specific performances in public spaces around Istanbul, daily guided boat tours on the Bosphorus that offered a new perspective on orientation and the sea, and a virtual interactive mapping project, MIND THE GAP created unique and participatory experiences to revision the ways we experience art.

“Our experience of presenting MIND THE GAP at IMC5533 was a fabulous one that allowed us to see another aspect of the fabric of Istanbul,” says Mellor. “I wanted MIND THE GAP to serve as an alternative means of experiencing art, and the location of IMC5533 allowed us to take these pieces and insert them into a part of the community that really does not interact with tourists, does not typically speak English, and does not frequent the ‘art institution’. It was exactly the type of experience I had hoped to have. We are grateful to the participating artists for being open to this multi-platform presentation format and were excited to see how pleased everyone was with it!”

“We would like to give special thanks to Nancy Atakan and Hannah Sieben for all their support in making this cross-Atlantic project a success,” says organizer Michelle Dunn. “We hope to have the opportunity to work with IMC5533 again in the future.”

In an effort to bridge gaps in location, MIND THE GAP has made all of the included artist projects available online so that they can be accessed from around the world. Although the exhibition at IMC5533 took place September 13-15, the virtual mapping project, Map the Gap, continues. Participants are asked to consider “gaps” of all kinds: gaps in relationships, gaps in space, gaps in time, and photograph them, write about them, create an audio file. Email your documentation (jpg, mp3, pdf) to icont.cept@gmail.com and selected files will be displayed on the tumblr page.

http://projectmindthegap.wordpress.com
http://twitter.com/#!/mindthegap4

GET A DESK

From the beginning of June until the end of October, 2011, our off space, 5533, begins a new activity, a Working Table Program, for artists, curators, writers, students and others. 5533 provides a working space for visitors to conduct their work and research. This activity continues to support networking and dialogue - concepts that 5533 has emphasized since its founding. As a part of the Working Table Program guests will rent a desk in the space. As a result of daily interaction and exchange among the guests, an atmosphere for dialogue and networking will be encouraged. In addition to conducting their individual research and materializing their projects, the guests who desire may organize presentations, talks, meeting and workshops. To support their research or to help them complete their projects, 5533 will offer assistance and information about opportunities to be found in the city, access to the 5533’s artist, curator, and institution archives as well as a connection to free Internet. Desks can be rented daily, weekly or monthly.

Nazlı Gürlek ve Ali Kazma konuşması

Nazlı Gürlek ve Ali Kazma konuşması, 5533, 14 Mayıs 2011 Cumartesi, 15:00
5533 5. Blok İMÇ, Unkapanı, İstanbul www.imc5533.blogspot.com imc5533@gmail.com



Ali Kazma'nın video işleri, tıp, sanayi, sanat ve zanaat alanlarında çalışan birey ve grupları, tekstil fabrikası, tamir ve tasarım atölyeleri, mezbaha, ameliyathane ve dans stüdyosu gibi üretim ve onarım mekanlarını kapsayan iş ortamlarında çalışırken gösterir. Kazma'nın konularına yaklaşımı, zamanla, insan aktivitesini gözlemleyerek ilişkiye geçen arkeolojik yöntemle yakınlık gösterir. Her ikisi de zamanla benzer yöntemlerle ilişki kurmaya çalışır, ancak farklı şekilde, arkeoloji insanoğlunun geçmiş yaşantı ve kültürlerini anlamaya çalışırken, Kazma'nın video işleri, günümüzün artefaktlarının üretim biçimleri üstünden şimdiyi, bugünü, bu anı kazır, inceler, derler, belgeler.
Ali Kazma, şu anda, önceki işlerinde izlediğinden farklı bir yaklaşımla, geçmiş ve şimdiyi bir arada düşünen bir ''kitap projesi'' üstünde çalışıyor. İsviçreli Editions Take 5 yayınevi tarafından yayınlanacak olan bu sanatçı kitabında, kitap yapımını ve saklanmasını belgeleyen fotoğraflar yer alacak: İsviçre ve Fransa'daki yayınevleri, offset ve arkaik teknikleri kullanan matbaalar, ciltciler, modern grafik tasarımcılar, ulusal kütüphanelerde saklanan ender eserlerden Shakespeare'in yayınlanmış ilk toplu eserlerinden, Kuran'lara, 2000 yıllık Antik Yunan eserlerinden Borges'in elyazmalarından e-kitaplara kadar kitaplar üstüne herşeyi belgeleyen yüzlerce fotoğraftan oluşan geniş bir görsel arşiv.
5533 Ali Kazma'yı bu projesi üstünde konuşmaya davet etti. Konuşma, sanatçıya ve çevresindekilere, sürmekte olan projeyle ilgili fikirleri paylaşma, beraber düşünme ve deneme için bir alan açacak.
Nazlı Gürlek ve Ali Kazma konuşması 14 Mayıs Cumartesi saat 15:00'da.

Nazlı Gürlek in conversation with Ali Kazma, 5533, Saturday 14th May 2011, 3 pm
5533 5. Blok İMÇ, Unkapanı, İstanbul www.imc5533.blogspot.com imc5533@gmail.com



Ali Kazma's video works show individuals and groups of people performing routine tasks relevant to their professions in medicine, industry, art and crafts. The filmed spaces include a textile factory, repair and design workshops, a slaughterhouse, an operating room and a dance studio. Kazma's approach to his subjects resemble archeology in that it relates to time by means of tracing the human activity. While archeology explores the past lives and cultures of the human beings, Kazma's video work inscibes, studies, collects and documents now, today, the present moment through modes of production of today's artifacts.
Ali Kazma is now working, with a slightly different approach, on a ''book project'' which simultaneously reflects upon the past and present. Being prepared for publication by the Swiss publishing house Editions Take 5, this artist's book includes a selection of photographs taken by Kazma that document the production and conservation processes of books: a large archive of work made at publishers in Switzerland and France, inside the shops that work with both offset and arcaic printing and binding methods and techniques, modern graphic designers, as well as documentation of rare books preserved at various national libraries that range from the first collected works of Shakespeare, to Qurans, from 2000-year-old Greek pieces, to Borges' manuscripts and to e-books.
5533 invites Ali Kazma to talk and expand on his work in progress. The talk will offer the artist and the people around him the possibility to view, reflect upon and try out ideas in relation to this project.
Nazlı Gürlek will be in conversation with Ali Kazma on Saturday 14th May 2011, 3 pm.

5533 DEĞİŞİYOR.
2008 Şubat ayından beri İmç 5.blok’ta 5533 numaralı dükkanda faliyetlerini sürdüren bağımsız güncel sanat mekanı 5533, yeni yıla Nazlı Gürlek direktörlüğünde giriyor.
Bundan sonra 5533’ün direktörü yazar ve küratör Nazlı Gürlek olacaktır. Gürlek'in bağımsız küratöryel pratiğini yazarlık, editörlük ve sergi yapımcılığı olmak üzere üç alanda, bir arada yürüttüğü aktiviteler oluşturur. Nazlı Gürlek, (d. 1981, İstanbul, Türkiye) Floransa’da Resim ve Sanat Tarihi lisansını bitirdikten sonra Londra Goldsmiths Kolej’de Küratörlük yüksek lisans derecesini aldı. 53. Venedik Bienali (İtalya, 2009) Türk Pavyonu’nunda yardımcı küratör olarak çalıştı. İngiltere, İtalya, İspanya, Hollanda ve Türkiye'de bağımsiz ve kurumsal pozisyonlarda çalışmalar gerçekleştirdi. IMpress adlı uluslararası ve bağımsız yayınevinin kurucularındandır. IMpress, 2007 yılında Londra'da kurulmuş olan ve bugün 4 üyesinin İstanbul, Roma, Barselona, Londra ve Dublin şehirlerinde yaşamakta olduğu bir oluşumdur. Sanat yayını ve sergisi arasındaki gittikçe ön plana çıkmakta olan ilişkilere odaklı basılı projeler üretir.
Bu değişim ve yenilenme çalışmaları için 5533 18 Aralık’ta gerçekleştireceği iki etkinlikle çalışmalarına Mart ayına kadar ara verecektir. Bu süre zarfında Video Kurye-uluslararası video arşivi-ve 5533 arşivi randevu ile ziyaretçilere açık olacaktır.
Daha detaylı bilgi ve iletişim için www.imc5533.blogpot.com – imc5533@gmail.com

GARAJ SATIŞI
Açıldığı tarihten bu yana 5533, 15 sergi, 10 sunum, 11 gösterim, 5 konuşmaya ev sahipliği yaptı. Bütün bu etkinliklerden geriye bazı parçalar kaldı. Bunlar arasında renkleri sorunlu olan televizyon, şişme bot, vitrin mankenleri ve parçaları, raflar, ışıklar, defterler gibi çeşitli malzemeler bulunmakta. Bütün bu eşyaları hem mekanın üçüncü yılını kutlamak hem de yeni yıl öncesi bir araya gelmek için temsili ücretlerle satışa çıkarıyoruz.

SIRKÜLASYON & BLOW UP 16:00

Günlük yaşamda önemsiz gibi görünen boş su şişeleri ve alışıldık SMS tınıları, geri-dönüşüm sürecine karşı beklenmedik hikayeler ve sesler üretiyor.
Berlinli sanatçılar Steffi Weismann ve Barbara Loreck, taşınabilir teknolojiler olarak biliinen cep telefonları veya hoparlörleri vucütlarına bağlayarak kimlikler ve tasarımlar üzerine yeni perspektifler yaratmayı planlıyor. İki performans da seyircilerle performansçılar arasında iletişimsel bir yakınlık kuruyor.

Garaj Satışı, Sirkülasyon – canlı medya gösterisi – ve 5533’ün yeni direktörü ve ekibi ile yılın son çay ve tost toplantısı için 18 Aralık Cumartesi günü 14:00- 18:00 arası sizleri bekliyoruz.
5533 ekibi.
Adres: 5533 5th Block IMC, Unkapani, Istanbul
İletişi: imc5533@gmail.com



CHANGES ARE TAKING PLACE AT 5533.
Nazlı Gürlek will begin the New Year as the director of the independent contemporary art center 5533 that has sponsored art events since February of 2008 in the store numbered 5533 of the 5th Block of IMC, Unkapani, Istanbul.
Nazlı Gürlek is the new director of 5533. Nazlı Gürlek, (b. 1981, Istanbul, Turkey) whose independent curatorial practice is developed simultaneously through and around 3 modes of production that includes writing, editorship and exhibition making. After obtaining a BA in Painting and Art history from the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, Italy, she received her MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths College, London. She held the position of Assistant Curator for the Pavilion of Turkey at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia (Italy, 2009). She also held various independent and institutional positions in the UK, Italy, Spain, Netherlands and Turkey. She is a founding member of IMpress, an independent and international publishing house founded in 2007 in London, whose members are based between Barcelona, Dublin, Istanbul, London and Rome, and projects aim to explore the evolving relationship and dissolving distinction between art exhibition and art publication.
The directorial change and renovation of 5533 will begin after the two events scheduled for 5533 on December 18, 2010. Until March 2011, access to visitors of 5533’s archive and Video Kurye’s international video archive can be obtained by appointment only.
For more information and communication contact
www.imc5533.blogspot.com
imc5533@gmail.com

GARAGE SALE
Since 5533 opened in 2008, it has housed 15 exhibitions, 10 presentations, 11 performances, and 5 talks. Various bits and pieces including a television with a color problem, a rubber boat, a display case, manikins, manikin parts, shelves, lights, and an array of notebooks have been left from these activities. To celebrate the completion of three years at 5533 and to bring everyone together before the New Year, we are selling this miscellaneous array of goods at reasonable prices.

SIRKÜLASYON & BLOW UP 16:00
Seemingly insignificant elements of every day life, empty water bottles and ordinary SMS (text messages), are subject to a recycling process through narration and sound. Eventually, they become loaded with unforeseen meanings and a big bubble is ready to burst. The Berlin based artists, Steffi Weismann and Barbara Loreck, use portable technical devices such as loudspeakers directly attached to the moving body and mobile phones to open up surprising perspectives regarding identity and self-construction. Both performances trigger a communicative situation between performer and audience. Please bring your cell phone.
The new director and all of the 5533 group hope to see you at the last of this year’s tea and toast meetings for the Garage Sale and Sirkülasyon-Live Media Performance on Saturday, December 18, 2010.
Address: 5533 5th Block IMC, Unkapani, Istanbul
Contact: imc5533@gmail.com

Bu bir kapanış yazısı değildir. / This is not a Farewell letter!

Aralık 15, 2010
Bu bir kapanış yazısı değildir.

Nancy Atakan, Volkan Aslan ve Marcus Graf tarafından Şubat 2008’de açılan 5533 geride bıraktığı üç sene içerisinde, onlarca sergi, gösterim, sunum ve söyleşilerin yanı sıra bir çok sanatçı, küratör ve inisiyatifleri elinden geldiği en iyi şekilde misafir etmeye çalıştı. Farklı birçok meslek grubundan ve disiplinlerden inanlarla çalıştı ve komşusundan izleyicisine herkesin üzerinde emeği bulunan bir yapıya dönüştü.

Nancy Atakan’ın fikriyle başlayan bu yapılanma Adnan Yıldız’ın cesaretlendirmesiyle gerçeğe dönüştü ve 5533 isimlerine tek tek yer veremeyeceğimiz birçok kişinin emeğiyle ortaya çıktı. Geçtiğimiz üç yıl içerisinde 5533 15 sergi, 10 sunum, 11 gösterim, 5 konuşmaya ev sahipliği yaptı. Bütün bu etkinliklerin yanı sıra birçok sanatçı inisiyatifini ve kolektifini bir araya getirdi.

Bundan sonra 5533’ün direktörü yazar ve küratör Nazlı Gürlek olacaktır. Gürlek'in bağımsız küratöryel pratiğini yazarlık, editörlük ve sergi yapımcılığı olmak üzere üç alanda, bir arada yürüttüğü aktiviteler oluşturur. Nazlı Gürlek, (d. 1981, İstanbul, Türkiye) Floransa’da Resim ve Sanat Tarihi lisansını bitirdikten sonra Londra Goldsmiths Kolej’de Küratörlük yüksek lisans derecesini aldı. 53. Venedik Bienali (İtalya, 2009) Türk Pavyonu’nunda yardımcı küratör olarak çalıştı. İngiltere, İtalya, İspanya, Hollanda ve Türkiye'de bağımsiz ve kurumsal pozisyonlarda çalışmalar gerçekleştirdi. IMpress adlı uluslararası ve bağımsız yayınevinin kurucularındandır. IMpress, 2007 yılında Londra'da kurulmuş olan ve bugün 4 üyesinin İstanbul, Roma, Barselona, Londra ve Dublin şehirlerinde yaşamakta olduğu bir oluşumdur. Sanat yayını ve sergisi arasındaki gittikçe ön plana çıkmakta olan ilişkilere odaklı basılı projeler üretir.
Bundan sonra Gürlek yönetiminde olacak olan 5533 Mart ayı içerisinde yeni yapısıyla izleyici karşısına çıkacaktır. Bu nedenle 18 Aralık’ta gerçekleştireceği iki etkinlikten sonra Mart ayına kadar çalışmalarına ara verecektir.
Her zaman olduğu gibi 5533 yeni projelere ve önerilere açık olacaktır. Bu süre zarfı içerisinde 5533 arşivi ve Video Kurye Uluslararası Video Arşivi ziyaretçilere randevu ile açık olacaktır.
Geride bıraktığımız 3 yıl içerisinde emeği geçen sizlere teşekkür ederiz. Yeni yılda aynı mekanda görüşmek üzere.

5533 ekibi.

İletişim için : imc5533@gmail.com
www.imc5533.blogspot.com
5533 İMÇ 5.Blok no:5533 Unkapanı /İstanbul


December 15, 2010
This is not a Farewell letter!

During the three years since Nancy Atakan, Volkan Aslan and Marcus Graf opened 5533, they have hosted numerous exhibitions, performances, presentations and conferences as well as give support to a large number of artists, curators and initiatives. Working together with people from difference professions and disciplines who believed in its potential and with the efforts of both spectators and neighbors, 5533 became a functioning space.
Initially Adnan Yildiz’s initiative transformed Nancy Atakan’s idea into reality, but the joint efforts of innumerable people made 5533. Over the past three years 5533 sponsored 15 exhibitions, 10 presentations, 11 performances, and 5 talks. In addition to these activities, it also brought together several artist initiatives and collectives.
Nazlı Gürlek is the new director of 5533. Nazlı Gürlek, (b. 1981, Istanbul, Turkey) whose independent curatorial practice is developed simultaneously through and around 3 modes of production that includes writing, editorship and exhibition making. After obtaining a BA in Painting and Art history from the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, Italy, she received her MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths College, London. She held the position of Assistant Curator for the Pavilion of Turkey at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia (Italy, 2009). She also held various independent and institutional positions in the UK, Italy, Spain, Netherlands and Turkey. She is a founding member of IMpress, an independent and international publishing house founded in 2007 in London, whose members are based between Barcelona, Dublin, Istanbul, London and Rome, and projects aim to explore the evolving relationship and dissolving distinction between art exhibition and art publication.
Under the directorship of Gurlek, 5533 will re-open in March of 2011. Consequently, the events taking place on December 18th will be the last of this season.
As usual, 5533 will be open to suggestions, propositions, and proposals for new projects. Until March, 5533’s archive and Kurye Video’s film archive will be open by appointment only.
We thank everyone who has helped to make 5533 successful over the past three years. We look forward to seeing you again in the same space next year.
The 5533 Group

Contacts: imc5533@gmail.com
www.imc5533.blogspot.com
Address: 5533 İMÇ 5.Blok no:5533 Unkapanı /İstanbul