De­c­la­ra­tion of Sen­ti­ments/Gün

Symposium:

• ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art

• Mind the Gap

• De­c­la­ra­tion of Sen­ti­ments/Gün

• Assistant Prof. Arzu Ozkal
• Claudia Costa Pederson

Venue(s):

• Sabanci Center, Istanbul, Turkey

• Panel: Mind the Gap

  De­c­la­ra­tion of Sen­ti­ments/Gün is a col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween Arzu Ozkal and Clau­dia Costa Ped­er­son.  This pro­ject draws on the Turk­ish tra­di­tion of women’s so­cial gath­er­ings called “gün” (mean­ing “day” in Turk­ish). A gün is a ladies’ gath­er­ing for the pur­poses of con­ver­sa­tion, ac­tiv­i­ties and fes­tiv­i­ties ac­com­pa­nied by the serv­ing of Turk­ish food. These meet­ings are in­for­mal hubs of so­cial net­works, where women come to­gether to share con­cerns and skills, often gen­er­at­ing a mi­cro-econ­omy that in­volves the col­lec­tion of gold or money among the mem­bers. Dur­ing ISEA2011 we are bring­ing to­gether a num­ber of Turkey-based women to start the basis of a cul­tural-ex­change ini­tia­tive.  Guests are se­lected based on their con­tri­bu­tions to con­tem­po­rary cul­ture in Turkey in a num­ber of fields rang­ing from jour­nal­ism, vi­sual arts, music, lit­er­a­ture, new media, crafts, and de­sign. This meet­ing will be doc­u­mented in a lim­ited edi­tion book to be dis­trib­uted dur­ing the fes­ti­val.  This book will also pro­vide the basis for an on­line plat­form bring­ing Turk­ish women based in the United States and Eu­rope to the con­ver­sa­tion.  With this event we hope to spring­board the tra­di­tions of Turk­ish women’s cul­tural pro­duc­tion as a basis for ex­tend­ing the spirit of the Gün among net­worked women.

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