Arter announces 2022 program

A subsidiary of the Vehbi Koç Foundation, Arter continues its multidisciplinary program comprised of exhibitions, events, learning, and publications at its building in Istanbul.

As of Feb. 17, a group exhibition entitled "ThisPlay," curated by Emre Baykal from the Arter Collection, will revolve around childhood. The exhibition will explore the liberating aspect of play, its defiant capacity to suspend and reconstruct reality, and the ways it transcends the humdrum of daily life to create unique systems and structures of meaning of its own, within the context of artworks, and the experiences they offer.

Approaching art both as a maker and breaker of play through concepts such as competition, tension, chance, imitation, ritual, magic, trance and pleasure, the exhibition will open up space for play for both adults and children where there is no winner or everyone wins.

The world premiere of a sound/video installation commissioned by Arter from Bill Fontana, entitled "Resounding Io" will be presented as of March 10 as the fifth edition of "Sound Art Projects" series under the curation of Arter's Founding Director Melih Fereli.

Based on research surveys conducted by Fontana with a portable recording studio consisting of an eight-channel digital recorder, acoustic microphones, hydrophones and accelerometers, whereby the artist made video and sound recordings, some underwater, at numerous locations along the Bosphorus, as well as in two Byzantine cisterns, namely the Theodosius "Şerefiye" (built by Emperor Theodosius II between 428 and 443) and the Basilica "Yerebatan" (built by Emperor Justinian I between 527 and 565), the installation titled "Resounding Io" will welcome visitors.

Taking full advantage of the advanced technical...

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