Exhibition of Berlin Senate Istanbul Scholarship Artists

Curated by Beral Madra

BM Contemporary Art Center Istanbul

24 March-14 April 2009

Gabriele Basch, Susanne Bosch, Thomas Buesch, Erik Goengrich, Natasha Sadr Hadgighian, Isa Melsheimar, Catrin Otto, Nada Sebestyen, Yuan Shun, Roland Stratmann

Subject that don't count, places that don't matter

Excerpts of my archive of ordinary life and by-the-way observations and a number of transcribed excerpts of migration biographie
Multi-media installation with 3 sound tracks, 96 films and 400 images
from the Balkans, Germany, Turkey, Thailand, Burma and Ireland

The audio-visual installation presents the transformation of a number of transcribed excerpts of migration biographies and soundscapes from the archive of ordinary life and by-the-way observations by Susanne Bosch.
The selected migration biographies reflect the problematic and failed sides of a migratory movement. It also reveals its consequences on a life - like refused asylum statuses, deportation, torture and detainment, broken families, generational and gender conflicts.
Every migratory movements stats with the aspiration and expectation of a positive chance of the current situation- and non of these movements is 100%, predictable or controllable.

In Istanbul, zwischen Ankunft und Abfahrt

24.3.-14.4.2009, BM Contemporary Art Center Istanbul
AUSSTELLUNG DER KÜNSTLER/INNEN DES BERLINER SENAT ISTANBUL STIPENDIUMS, u.a.
Gabriele Basch, Susanne Bosch, Thomas Buesch, Erik Goengrich, Natasha Sadr Hadgighian, Isa Melsheimar, Catrin Otto, Nada Sebestyen, Yuan Shun, Roland Stratmann
Kuratorin: Beral Madra

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