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EIBANK Gallery

Ergin Çavusoglu and
Konstantin Bojanov
Quintet Without Borders 2007
2 November - 30 November 2007
Mon to Fr 11 am - 7 pm
Sat and Sun 3 - 7 pm
Opening - November 2, 7 pm
EIBANK Gallery
2 Slavyanska str., Sofia

http://gallery.eibank.bg

This new exhibition from contemporary artists Ergin Çavusoglu and Konstantin Bojanov at EIBANK Gallery, Sofia, focuses on the role of music in communicating cultural identity.

In 2006, Çavusoglu and Bojanov commissioned five virtuoso Roma musicians from the small border town of Kesan, Turkey, to perform several pieces from traditional repertoire. Kesan is the centre of a Roma (Gypsy) community and is in an area referred to by Çavusoglu as “the end points of the European idea”. The Romany population of the town was forced to settle in the region in the 1923 population exchange and is subsequently steeped in Greek, Turkish and Bulgarian musical traditions and history.

Çavusoglu and Bojanov asked the musicians to choose an “ideal” location for a performance in or around Kesan where their music would resonate best. The locations included an old brick factory, an abandoned children’s swing by the beach, the forest in the outskirts of town, a pigeon coop, the ruins of an 18th century house and the small bedroom of a Roma house. The artist produced several films which reflect the joyful and melancholic expressions of a generation of nomadic people - a generation who, until recently, have been restricted from traveling and relocating. Çavusoglu and Bojanov also created several bronze and aluminum sculptures based on traditional musical instruments and everyday household objects used by the Roma in Kesan.

The focus of the installation is a multi-screen video projection that was presented earlier this year at Haunch of Venison, Zurich. It brings together footage of the individual musicians to create a harmonious audio-visual piece that synchronizes both sound and imagery. Shot separately, each musician plays their part in the surroundings and context of their choice. The music travels through a range of styles including Turkish, Greek, Roma, Jewish, Bulgarian, Armenian and Arabian.

In the current exhibition Çavusoglu and Bojanov will show two sculpture pieces and two single channel video pieces which show the solo performances of the musicians, as well as footage that reflects the artists’ own experiences during the creation of Quintet Without Borders.

Çavusoglu is known for his poetic and unsettling video installations that explore our relationship with the space we inhabit and live in, the borders we live with, and how we create them. While producing personal portraits of his subjects, his work often examines the border between East and West, place and non-place. Çavusoglu combines multiple projections and viewpoints, filmed in diverse, often marginalised locations. More ‘poetic description’ than documentary, these works reflect upon shifts in the global geopolitical order, often drawing upon the artist’s own personal experience of migration.

By capturing a poetic rhythm of light and movement, both individually through editing and collectively through the juxtaposition of screens, Çavusoglu’s work reframes our sense of space and reality. Çavusoglu uses darkness and sound as means to unsettle our sense of our surroundings and evoke the presence of the unseen.

Bojanov, as an artist and filmmaker, is known for his unflinching and uncompromising eye. His films and photographs are eye opening, fearless, sensitive observations - incisive yet respectful. He allows the viewer to empathize with his subjects, without preaching, judging, or sensationalizing them. For his film Invisible, Bojanov was hailed as “an artistic humanitarian, who has created one of the more realistic and informative explorations of drug abuse ever filmed.”

The musicians lead by Selim Sesler have also been featured in the films Head-On and Crossing the Bridge by German/Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akin.

Selim Sesler has been playing clarinet since childhood and was named “one of the greatest clarinettists in the world” in The Guardian.
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1716377,00.html

For further information and images please contact:
Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva
Call +3592 9399 280 or e-mail skuymjieva@hq.eibank.bg or fax +3592 981 25 26

Image above:
Ergin Cavusoglu and Konstantin Bojanov
Quintet Without Borders (Clarinet) 2007
Single channel video, stereo sound
10:08 min, continuous loop
and
Monumentum Kesan I (Drums) 2007
Bronze
137 x 58 x 54 cm
Installation still
Courtesy the artists and Haunch of Venison London/Zurich
Copyright: Photography by Jon Etter 2007

Kunstverein Hildesheim

Ana Roldán
Jede Reaktion ist eher von der augenblicklichen Gegebenheit bestimmt, als vom Talent jedes Spielers
Installation, Aluminium, Papier, 2007
Courtesy: Galerie Annex 14, Bern

into it
24 November 2007 - 27 January 2008
Opening 23 November 2007, 7:00 p.m.
Kunstverein Hildesheim
Kehrwieder 2
31134 Hildesheim
Tel. +49 5121 2959 736
Opening Hours
Thursday to Sunday 3pm to 6pm

http://www.kunstverein-hildesheim.de
http://www.into-it.info

Intuition is generally understood to be the power of the unconscious, gut instinct, direct insight, a form of unconscious knowledge, or a flash of inspiration. Intuitive thinkingought is currently receiving a great deal of attention in various social sectors and scientific disciplines. In spite of recent discoveries in the natural sciences, along with experiences as to how one can put intuition to practical use, it is nonetheless still not totally clear how intuition actually works. The exhibition into it investigates–also against the background of the recourse to concepts of modernism undertaken by many contemporary artists–the current significance of intuition in contemporary art. The point of departure is the conviction that today intuition can no longer be understood as an independent, purely subjective, self-reflective, metaphysical act of cognition, but that it always occurs on the basis of rational concepts and knowledge. The exhibition presents works which focus on
modes of intellectual intuition, direct cognition, the process of artistic insight, and decision-making, but also on their transformation in the course of art history and through the influence of the media. In this endeavor, the artists also reflect the intuitive perspective of the viewer. Both the exhibition and the accompanying conference inquire into the contemporaneity and relevance of intuition in art and society. Accompanying the exhibition will be a catalogue which provides a concluding documentation and summary, not only of the exhibition, but also of the presentations made during the conference.

Participating Artists:
Michael Beutler, Christoph Girardet & Volker Schreiner, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Miltos Manetas, Marcellvs L., Falke Pisano, Ana Roldán, T.A. Straub

Curator: Thomas Thiel

Conference Accompanying the Exhibition “into it” Exhibition conference on 24 November 24, 2007

Program Schedule:

2:00 p.m. — Prof. Dr. Ludger Schwarte, “Outline of a Theory of Intuition”

How is it possible for us to perceive something which we do not already know? How can we comprehend something in its quality of differentness? The concept of intuition is suitable for examining a perceptual process which is fundamentally different from information processing and the constructive power of imagination on the one hand, and from genuine guessing and parapsychological sensitivity on the other. In my lecture I seek to systematically differentiate intuition from other perceptual techniques, as well as to analyze the necessary preconditions which are the basis for this sort of intuitive perceptual process.

(This lectureLecture is in German)

3:30 p.m. — Prof. Dr. Friedrich W. Heubach, “What is Intuition? And Where Does Today’s Interest in this Question Come From? A Psychological Answer”

Psychological observations, not only about intuition, but also about the increased interest in the non-rational aspects of human activity such as, for example, “creativity,” “inspiration” and “emotional intelligence.”

(This lecture is in German)

5 p.m — Adrian Piper “Intellectual Intuition in Kant’s first Critique and in Samkhya/Yoga/Vedanta Philosophy”

Why does Kant think intellectual intuition is impossible for human beings, and why are the philosophies of Samkhya, Yoga and Vedanta so sure that it is? The answer lies in the contrasting conceptions of the self, objectivity, and methods of rational inquiry which each of these two perspectives ultimately presuppose. In the end, the second perspective finds a greater variety of capacities for knowledge in us, and therefore expects more of us. Some forms of artistic practice realize these capacities — and so fulfill the expectations that Kant claims we must not have.

(This lecture isLecture in English.)

6:00 p.m. Snack

7:00 p.m. Artists’ Conversation with the aAttending aArrtists of the Eexhibition into it

The exhibition is being supported by funds from the State of Lower Saxony, from the city of Hildesheim, and from Pro Helvetia.

For more information on the exhibition or images please contact Elke Falat
via kontakt@kunstverein-hildesheim.de