13th Istanbul Biennial event series continues

ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News

Curator of the biennial, Fulya Erdemci (R), will speak about Public Capital.

Public Alchemy, the Public Program of the 13th Istanbul Biennial titled “Mom, am I barbarian?” continues with its third event series on May 10 and May 11.

“Public Capital,” the third cluster of the biennial Public Program will feature a discussion on the relations between private capital and contemporary artistic production and the making of publics in the context of Istanbul’s burgeoning art scene.

Organized by the 13th Istanbul Biennial in the scope of Public Alchemy and aiming to bring together artistic production and knowledge production, “Public Capital” will take place on May 10 at The Marmara Taksim and May 11 at Salon IKSV. The program of the 13th Istanbul Biennial is co-curated by Fulya Erdemci and Dr. Andrea Phillips, who works as a reader in Fine Art in the Department of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, and the director of the Doctoral Research Programs in Fine Art and Curating.

Questions explored in the two day event will include: how the art market shapes the ways in which contemporary art is made public; the impact of money on “autonomous” artistic production; the relations between structures of the art market and broader questions of contemporary financing; the position of artistic labor within the logic of the capitalist market; the relation between contemporary art market and cultural and arts institutions; the impact of private sponsorship and changing fund-raising conditions on artistic production and the institutions in which contemporary art is exhibited and disseminated. The event will be free of charge.