RE-DIRECTING: EAST. Conversations # 14:
Övül Ö. Durmusoglu, Turkey
Working with the Publics: Imaginative, Speculative, Performative.

October 16, 2013 at 6 p.m., Laboratory Building CCA
The presentations are held in English.



Working with the Publics: Imaginative, Speculative, Performative
Our experience of the streets and squares in different forms of protest has made "What is public?" question acquire another sort of vitality. Engaging with the publics in the context of contemporary art, on the other hand, has already developed into new departments and programs for institutions. Övül Ö. Durmusoglu will make a brief cross analysis of her three different curatorial engagements of working with the publics in dOCUMENTA (13), Sofia Contemporary 2013, and 13th Istanbul Biennial and ask the question what Gezi changed in her perception of the publics.

Övül Ö. Durmusoglu is a curator and writer living between Berlin and Istanbul. As a Goethe Institute fellow, she organized several programs at Maybe Education and Public Programs in dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel such as "What is Thinking? Or a Taste That Hates Itself," "Readers Circle: 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts," and "Paper Mornings: Book Presentations at dOCUMENTA (13)." She has written for different catalogues, publications, and magazines including WdW Review, Frieze d/e, Flash Art International. Durmusoglu also curated Sofia Contemporary 2013, which took place in different locations of Sofia with the title "Near, Closer, Together: Exercises for a Common Ground." She is currently one of the curatorial collaborators of 13th International Istanbul Biennial.