K2
K2, Izmir, Turkey
K2 is an Izmir based, nonprofit, artists-run organization which is active since 2003. K2 offers a platform where art is created, discussed and mediated to the public. K2 intends to be an open and inviting place for the local public and to play an active role on both the national and international art scene. There are 12 artists studios. Besides permanent studios K2 offers a guest studio for international artists. It is an important tool to create interaction with the local artists and public.
In the framework of ON-AIR, K2 hosted the fifth and last seminar in February 2012.
The ON-AiR contactperson at K2 is Aysegul Kurtel: kurtela@hotmail.com
Additional Information
K2 Residency program
K2 Residency program is an experimental one which can not offer any educational facilities to the applicants. 25 squaremeters artists studios are accessible from 7.30 am to 11 pm. There are 16 artist studios are already in use by the local artists and 2 Studios offered to international guest artists. Unfortunately they are not able to provide hi-tech facilities for the artists but in special cases they can also search for these necessary equipments by the sponsorship before their arrival. Artists can show their works/projects -that produced during their residency period- at the K2 gallery, available places in the building or in the city. K2 can also arrange meeting with the art professionals especially from Istanbul. Artists can give talk in K2 as well as Platform Garanti CAC (or Apartment Project, Pist) in Istanbul. Read more here.
Open Studio Izmir, October 11-16, 2011.
11-16 Ekim 2011 tarihleri arasında K2 Güncel Sanat Merkezi’nde “Open Studio” çalışmaları düzenlenecektir. SCCA Güncel Sanat Merkezi ve K2 Güncel Sanat Merkezi işbirliğiyle düzenlenen bu proje, Neven Korda ve Borut Savski yönetiminde katılımcılarla yürütülecek atölye çalışmaları ile izleyiciye açık olan konferanslar, tartışmalar ve video gösterimlerinden oluşur. Projenin katılım ve program detayları ilişiktedir.
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Open Studio is an interdisciplinary project and platform with screenings, discussions, presentations and workshop with a focus on videodance and sound art. Open Studio is conceived as a collaborative project between SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts-Ljubljana (Slovenia) and K2 – Contemporary Art Center from Izmir (Turkey).
There will be a public program with a presentation of Dancemania & DIVA Station in Izmir, Studio 6, Artservis’ mobile suitcase and finally a public presentation of the final result of the workshop itself.
WORKSHOP PROGRAM FOR THE PARTICIPANTS
Wednesday, October 12-Saturday, October 15, from 10am to 16.00pm
The workshop will explore relationship between dance, interactive performance/live act, sound and video through theoretical introduction and practical work. The workshop’s objective is to introduce workshop participants with the interdisciplinary potential of video and sound as a technological tool and artistic means of expression and its capacity of manipulation in real-time.
The theoretical part will outline videodance genre and the transmission of live act to performative video. It will show video document as research material and archive.
The practical part: The participants will discover different layers of interactive performance: the layer of geometrical movement, the layer of choreographed dance, the layer of sound surrounding, and the layer of image. The collaboration between the participants will result as a project-in-process that will take place in real space and real time and will be publicly demonstrated at the end of the workshop.
The participants: The workshop is dedicated for visual, video and sound artists, dancers/performers, dramaturges, choreographers, VJ’s… with professional expertise or with a need to acquire it. They will obtain basic experience about: interaction of performers’ movements with interventions by dramaturgy; choreography and video; simultaneous transmission on screens and loudspeakers; computer manipulation with streamed data; computer manipulation with sound; capture of different data with the help of different sensor technology/instruments, manipulation of time.
How to apply? Send your CV and motivation letter (max. 800 caracters) to K2, Selin Demirham (celinta@yahoo.com). If you have experience with audio-visual manipulation or editing, write what kind of and what equipment you use.
More information on SCCAs website!
