configuring animal
Founder, curator, organizer, and coordinator of "Visibility in Arts Festival/ Sanatta Görünürlük Festivali
Visibility in Art Festival İstanbul and İzmir, the seeds of which were planted in 2014 by the students led by Metehan Kayan and Su Güzey at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Contemporary Dance Department (MSGSÜ/ÇDASD) in collaboration with ASD and which sprang to İzmir in 2016 focused on developing transitivity between the venues and the audience during its initial two year period by presenting works from various disciplines in different venues under the slogans of “Artizliğin Kime?” (Who are you a Smartass Towards?) and “Gören Gözler Güzel” (Beautiful are the Eyes that See). Thus it provoked the audience and the artists towards leaving their comfort zones by creating new encounters. This year it focuses on the theme of “bak-IŞ” (look-ING) and emphasizes the inter-disciplinary potential of contemporary performance and draws attention to the performance’s (all kinds of artistic productions based on performance which are realized here and now, including theatre, dance, music and performance art) shared creation processes with different disciplines through free events.
VAF İzmir ’18 official information:
Video links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyzx51D5wj0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShwbLzhp5U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dxUq2nimaM
