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Hospitality Zone
Lost in Translation International Workshop for Art Academies
Dates of the workshop: September 5-18, 2005 The workshop Lost in Translation will be organised to start before and continue throughout the opening days of the Biennial. Over 80 students and lecturers from 12 international art academies will participate and at the end of the workshop the physical results of their work in İstanbul will be exhibited. The theme of the 9th Biennial is the city of İstanbul itself, and the task of the workshop is to reflect different strategies of art practices outside the white cube, activating the cityscape, defining ways of visual communication within the city and questioning the possibilities and demands of site specific art. The workshop will be an official part of the biennial. Each morning the students will begin with a lecture or presentation, which will lead into discussions about the future structure and development of the project. The results of Lost in Translation will be presented at the 2nd floor of Antrepo no. 5 -building. This project has been initiated by Helsinki Art Academy (Helsinki) and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center (Istanbul). Partaking academies: Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb; Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki; Manchester Metropolitan University; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Art Academy of Valand, Gothenburg; School of Photography and Film at Gothenburg University; Art Academy of Weissensee, Berlin; University of Fine Arts, Hamburg; Academy of Fine Arts, Braunschweig; Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Tel Aviv; Istanbul Technical University, Architecture Faculty; Malmö Art Academy, Lund University; Art Academy of Jutland Sponsors: Helsinki Fine Art Academy; Embassy of Finland, Ankara; FRAME - Finnish Fund for Art Exchange; KONE Istanbul.
Main coordinators of the workshop:
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