GalataPerform is active since 2003, in a second floor apartment, in the historical district of Galata. It has been the production space and main stage of Ve Diğer Şeyler Theatre Company (VEDST), founded by the playwright and theatre director Yeşim Özsoy Gülan, and has been open to artists and audiences of different disciplines. Recently its main axe is concentrated on providing a space for new writing in contemporary theater and performance while keeping its concentration on providing an independent alternative space. Various projects include Performance Art Days, Exchange Projects, Visibility Projects and New Text New Theatre Projects.
Since 2005, Visibility Project has been creating a special dynamism in the district of Galata; a special place for artists, visitors and belief systems. The project pushes the artists into the streets, out of their work spaces to interact with the public. The concept of visibility is operating between the artists and the people and also in between the different disciplines of the art itself, bringing great emphasis on the independent expression in theatre and also dynamism to the region while making the region and its agents visible to the general public.
This year Visibility Project 8 will take place on November 3rd. The Project involves a workshop period with end results being exhibited in just one single day; November 3rd 2012. The project aims to present 12 different stories in relation to Galata district’s current cultural situtation bringing together works of performance executed in public sphere.
We would like to invite for Visibility Project 2012 three artists specifically working in public sphere with the community in the fields of performance and sound art from Romania, Poland and Egypt between October 25th and November 4th to create orks for the Project.
The works can be adapted to Istanbul and the project but preferably we request the artists to create work specific to the project. The project aims to open a discussion through panels, workshops and presentations to aspects of community art.
Artists interested could send to the e-mail below a short biography with samples of their works.
GalataPerform will cover travel and accomodation fees (plane ticket – hotel – per diem).
E-mail – galataperform@gmail.com