Artists partners

GET TO KNOW- Gökçe Uygun and Juan Pablo Margenat they are working together in the virtual creation residency (RE)SHAPE in this project between From February to May 2023.

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Gökçe Uygun (TR)

Gökçe Uygun’s live multimedia performance EMPTY ROOM (2022). A visual and auditory experience is presented in which the presence of two people on stage is accompanied by simultaneous, fixed video reflections, and the continuity of action and time is constantly broken. It is an artistic experience that explores the connection between an individual and the space they occupy.

TNGRM (ARG)

Juan Pablo Margenat’s work NYX y sus Bicicletas UMBRASONICAS which is a horde of nocturnal bicycles with different sound capacities to interpret the brightness and ambient of the cities and other territories. This is a proposal for research and technological integration between electronics and bicycles to build a small bicycle orchestra for urban performances.

Mentors

Fabián Wagmister (ARG)

Fabian Wagmister teaches audiovisual creativity at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a professor in the department of Theater, Film and Television, he was instrumental to the creation and growth of the Laboratory for New Media, a curricular environment for the exploration of digital aesthetics. He has also created and chairs the Program on Digital Cultures at UCLA's Latin American Center

Shirin Zeraaty (TR)

Shirin Zeraaty (born in 1992 - Zahedan) is a contemporary artist, curator, a researcher from Iran, Currently based in Munich and Istanbul.She graduated with Bachelor in Sculpture at the Art University of Tehran and currently is working on her Final project in Fine arts at The Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. She is the founder of TheArtCornerofTehran online platform where she cooperates with Iranian artists to provide an alternative space for them to present their work and introduce themselves. She is a member of arthereistanbul . Her works deal with language, Biography, and interpretation of works when put in the context of nationality, gender, and constitutional structures.

(RE)SHAPE

(RE)SHAPE is a virtual creation residency program seeking to question the nature of virtual collaboration in its possibilities of expanding the physical realm. From January to April 2023, artists from Argentina, Chile, Mozambique, Iran, Turkey and Switzerland have been working together in couples in a virtual-analogue form, shifting and molding each others’ creative processes. This year’s processes have been shaped by sounding bodies, script-writing, interacting with new forms of technology, synchronicity in movement, finding common ground in shared personal experiences, chatting, storytelling, singing and mapping. Through asynchronous time and abstract space, the artists co-created works that touch upon human and non-human relations, notions of intimacy and pleasure, feminism, escapism, and the challenges of translation. In these virtual connections, one can find paradoxical re-connections and opportunities to discuss differences, similarities and possibilities.

(RE)SHAPE

(RE)SHAPE is an international collaboration between the partners Work it Out (CH/DE), Fundación Mar Adentro (CL), Wixutta Knowledge Center (MOZ), The Art Corner of Tehran (IRN) and cheLA (ARG).

(RE)SHAPE is supported by a «To-gather» International Collaboration grant from Pro Helvetia – the Swiss Arts Council, the Südkulturfond, Fundación Mar Adentro and Tanzhaus Zürich.

Project coordination: Lea Moro / Julia Keren Turbahn