Event overview
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What does it mean to struggle as an emerging artist-curator in an ants nest such as London? Through this new performance, artist Naz Balkaya is sharing her experience.
What does it mean to struggle as an emerging artist and curator in an ants nest such as London? Through this new performance, the artist Naz Balkaya is sharing her experience of dual ‘identity’, being an artist-curator in a foreign and capital city. A sound piece is leading you from room to room, from the outside to the inside, from hallway to toilet.
How overdue, over-criticised, and oversold is institutional critique? Why do institutions still marginalise different backgrounds, and more so, other experiences that fall just short of being or looking like 'the ideal candidate'? Who are we when entering the white cube, and who do we become upon retreat? As a Turkish cultural producer, the artist reflects on her experience as an outsider within the racist and pseudo-empowered structures that represent the local art scene, and highlights the conditions of being an immigrant and its correlation with feelings of displacement.
https://www.vagabond-projects.com/biometrichermit
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Duration: 30 mins
Performance times: 7.30pm, 8.30pm (one day only event)
For non-MFA Goldsmiths students, you need a card to access the building. Contact us on 07967309048 to be let in.
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The Change Room runs monthly events of newly commissioned or existing bodies of work that engage with environmental concerns. Project run by Oana Damir.
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About the artist
Naz Balkaya is a Turkish artist-curator based in London and a recent graduate from the MFA Curating at Goldsmiths University. Her projects generally promote collaboration, solidarity and safe networking, representing the millennial conditions and supporting emerging artists. She is the founder of the non-profit feminist institution In-Flux.., which operates in a van, that commutes and hosts exhibitions within the UK.
Artistically, Balkaya works through her artistic and curatorial collective, Panicattack Duo, which she established with Cypriot artist Emilia Demetriou in 2014. Panicattack mostly work with performance, video and photography, but also curate the series of performance exhibitions Razzmatazz since 2015. Recently, Panicattack have been selected as a part of Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018, where they staged the durational performance piece “Nothing Really Mattress”.
Balkaya is a member of Disorder Live Art where she works as an assistant curator. DisORDER is a group of international artists, theorists and curators who met at the RCA and Goldsmiths University, London. The group represent practices that usually take the form of live performances, installations and public art exploring human rights, race and social injustice, power and gender, class and minorities as well as challenging oppressive institutional structures.
Address: The Change Room, Asquith Gibbs Building, Back Gate Lewisham Southwark College, 2 Deptford Church Street, London, SE8 4RZ (next to the Birds Nest pub)
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 17 May 2019 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
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