Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Ben Bir Entegrasyon Harikasıyım / Bin Ich Ein Wunder Der Integration, Aktion in Berlin, 03-07-2011 / 10-07-2011




"Ben Bir Entegrasyon Harikasıyım"
Yeniden geri dönmek için geldim. 
3 Dakikada portreniz yapılır!
"Bin ich ein Wunder der Integration"
Ich bin hier hin gekommen um wieder zurückzufahren. 
Hier gibt es porträtieren in 3 Minuten!
Portre Standı / Der Porträt Stand
Mauer Park Bit Pazarı / Mauer Park Flohmarkt, Berlin
03-07-2011 Pazar/Sonntag
10-07-2011 Pazar/Sonntag
The project "I am a Wonder of Integration" is a long term project starts on July 2011 and consists of different steps. It is based on integration and adaptation issues that includes public aktions, drawing book series, interviews and related side products and events such as hand made t-shirts, music albüms and concerts.

There are two related approaches to Integration issue in this project: Research and questioning of Integration strategies for immigrants and visa topics in the frame of the relationship between Turkey and Germany, And the second is taking integration and adaptation concepts in the frame of everyday life -such as adapting from one situation to another so many times during the day in multicultural urban life- in order to carry the issue from the level of the relationship of the states to a personal-individual aspect.

The first public aktion held in Mauer Park Flea Market in Berlin on 10-07-2011. Mauer Park is a big flea market that run by Turkish people. Local people as well as immigrants sell their hand made products or their any kind of old stuff there. Besides it is such a place that huge amount of people comes to spend all sunday in the park also with karaoke contest, live music and biking, sports etc.

Simply it was opening a portrait stand in the flea market as a temporary immigrant portrait painter. The the banner on the stand says: I am a wonder of integration. I came here to leave again. Here is your portrait in 3 min. The idea was being face to face with local people as well as immigrants and tourists for 3 minutes.

I positioned myself as a nomad immigrant who is travelling periodically and integrating to different environments, people and mentalities. Today we are in a period that even middle class people from different professions started to travel often around the world mostly for work in the global system. Nevertheless nationalist policies put new borders between people and the countries. While states fail on integration policies for immigrants, and ...
(will continue) 

"Videoakt" and "Loop Festival" at Malverde, Barcelona, 2011

Tak Topuk / Tak-Heel, video, 05:21", 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9C52C_GdNs 
http://www.loop-barcelona.com/es/off.php

"Ateşin Düştüğü Yer", Türkiye İnsan Hakları Vakfı 20. Yıl Sergisi, Depo, Mart 2011

 
Konsolosluk Adası / Consulate Island
        
Memurun Merakı / Curiosity of the Officer

Tuesday, 27 April 2010

iaab - Artist in Residency Program, january - march 2010, Basel, CH

"OTOZİT-PARAZİT" Concert Tour Project

performance at "Pilot" Kaserne, Basel, CH 
15-02-2010
 http://vimeo.com/9798721
Playback Presentation Performance and  Live Music     



Traces from iaab, 02/27-03-2010, Gallery Dock, Basel, CH
Sook Jin So & Özgür Erkök 
Opening Performance: Attached Sleep





  Lecture:
Brno University of Technology-Faculty of Fine Arts, CZ
"working models in collectives and collaborations - Ha Za Vu Zu" 17-03-2010
Performance at Salon Daguerre, Brno, CZ 16-03-2010


‘Becoming İstanbul’: Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), Frankfurt, 2009

video: Balkon / Balcony, 00:56, 2008
http://database.becomingistanbul.com/#/media/267/6843778 .

video: 5 saat / 5 hours, 05:28, 2008
http://vimeo.com/16616283 

Friday, 24 July 2009

Sakinimli Birikinti-Circumspect Accumulation, Özgür Erkök, solo exhibition, Hafriyat Karakoy, 2009

gallery altkat-basement

yatay opucuk-horizontal kiss, body hair, 42 x 15 x 15 cm, 2009


durmadan şarkı söyleyen insan kostümü - costume for a non stop singing person, 2007
untitled, digital print, 44 x 31 cm, 2008

gallery ust kat-upstairs
balerina kiracı - balleria tenant, digital print installation, 375 x 250 cm, 2007

sanırım inanabilirim - i think i can beleive (detail), digital print, 270 x 1,9 cm, 2009

untitled, digital print, 29 x 12,5 cm, 2008


gallery ust kat-upstairs
misafir - the guest, digital print, 250 x 166 cm, 2008
gece bahçesi - night garden, digital print, 300 x 200 cm, 2008

flash-portrait, digital print, 150 x 100 cm, 2008

metropol, digital print, 460 x 250 cm, 2008

untitled, digital print, 375 x 250 cm, 2008
koyulmuş orman-installed forest, digital print, 375 x 250 cm, 2008