"A Love Story" by Amar Kanwar
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İstanbul Biennial has announced that it will open two artist films to online access every Friday in weekly periods.
Referring to the recent times "when we reconsider the boundaries of our lives around the world" amid pandemic conditions, the announcement on the İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) has read, "We hope that today, art will find an even greater outreach, and reckon that imagination is incredibly vast to be defined by physical boundaries."
Accordingly, with the cooperation of the artists who have contributed to the biennial for 33 years now, a selection of thirty films will be available online on the website and vimeo account of the İstanbul Biennial.
The following films can be viewed in June:
June 5, 2020:
"A Bathroom of One's Own", Zeyno Pekünlü, 14. İstanbul Biennial
"Angels of Hell", Halil Altındere, 5., 9. and 13. İstanbul Biennials
June 12, 2020:
"Something Old, Something New", Song Ming-Ang, 14. İstanbul Biennial
"Winter Which was not There", Vajiko Chachkhiani, 15. İstanbul Biennial
June 19, 2020:
"A Love Story", Amar Kanwar, 13. İstanbul Biennial
"The Fall of Artists' Republic", Pelin Tan and Anton Vidokle, 14. İstanbul Biennial
June 26, 2020:
"Monochrome", Ozan Atalan, 16. İstanbul Biennial
"Alpi", Armin Linke, 16. İstanbul Biennial
The artists who will take part in the online selection with their films in the coming weeks are Halil Altındere, Francis Alÿs, Volkan Aslan, Ozan Atalan, Ed Atkins, Alper Aydın, Rossella Biscotti, Kristina Buch, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Jonathas de Andrade, Elmas Deniz, Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe, Jorge Galindo & Santiago Sierra, Theaster Gates, Suzanne Husky, Pierre Huyghe, Emre Hüner, Rashid Johnson, Georgie Nettell, Armin Linke, Amar Kanwar, Maider López, Basim Magdy, Melvin Moti, Erkan Özgen, Zeyno Pekünlü, Cheng Ran, Mika Rottenberg, Pelin Tan and Anton Vidokle, Kaari Upson, Adrián Villar Rojas and Phillip Zach.
(AÖ/SD)
