Celebration as a collaborative way of exhibition & performance making …
Celebration
a free flowing and evolving way of exhibition making, closely related to music.
In 2006 starting with an exhibition of the same name in Tunel, Bilsar Building in Istanbul, adherents started voluntarily joining the exhibition process, and we soon recognized that what had stated as a solo exhibition was actually a community collaboration.
Celebration celebrates commnuity, evolving ideas, working with people of varying backgrounds, cultures and professions for a collaborative and free flowing process seeking new methods of celebrating love, multidimensionality, life in public and private and creating together.
Celebration’s project’s often evolve in the public space, and deal with issues pertinent to all of us in social and contemporary life.
Celebration’s first exhibition addresses the issue of surivival and change. Istanbul, a city undergoing rapid transformations daily, now and in it’s history over thousands of years was chosen as the site for a performative exhibition. Celebration as a name came from an understanding that in order to surivive in Istanbul, a balance of change with an adherance to certain structures is necessary. The music scene in istanbul was chosen as a performative space for an exhibitive narrative of photography, film, text and installation making,in the public sphere.
Celebration aimed to push and punch the boundaries of visual art presentation which relies on a closed doors policy of exhibition making, seperating the audience, artist and process of exhibition with a policy of secrecy and presention. Instead, celebration’s exhibition evolve in the sense of musical performance, with an interaction between audience and artists for the created work
Various Collaborators
melis agazat, selen akinal, kelly armendariz, baha ata, eda cabbar, orkun demirelli, dara dolunay, mey elbi, asa frankenberg, bariş ger, gunfer gunaydin, emre irmak, yasemin kahraman, kaan karacehennem, fatih karabaş, nina keigh, bugge lutzhoft, cem mirap, malene nautrup, necdet sahin, odin theatre, balim tanriöver, elif tokatlioğlu, onur uyar, henryk weiffenbach.
