Residents - Alper Turan - Cité internationale des arts

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INTERVIEW

You are in residency at the Cité internationale des arts through our partner program "Be Mobile Create Together", in partnership with the Camargo Foundation, can you tell us a few words about it?

"I am very grateful to the teams at Cité internationale des arts, the Camargo Foundation and Be Mobile Create Together, who accepted my application.

Thanks to this, I am carrying out a joint programme: one month at the Cité internationale des arts and one month at the Camargo Foundation.

I'm in the middle of my residency at Cité, but I can already say that, even if the two residencies are for a very limited time, living the experience of these two cities and their respective art scenes is very beneficial for me.

Indeed, one of the residences is in the heart of Paris and in constant artistic effervescence, the other is in the Mediterranean city of Cassis. I'm therefore able to maintain a balance between work and "networking", research and socialization."

What changes and evolutions are to be noted in your work thanks to the residency at the Cité internationale des arts?

"I think it's still a little early to do this self-evaluation, but the Cité internationale des arts is a very interesting place and it's definitely an experience to spend some time here.

The team is wonderful and it puts you in contact with many interesting people with a common interest. I appreciate that very much.

I will be hosting a workshop during my residency, it will be the first time, I'm looking forward to it. I guess it would be much more difficult to organize it without the help and contacts of the Cité."

BIOGRAPHY

Alper Turan (born in 1993, Ankara) lives and works in Istanbul and Berlin.

Alper Turan is a freelance curator and co-founder of the Das Art Project, a curatorial collective. Alper Turan recently curated Positive Space, an exhibition project on HIV/AIDS in Istanbul. This project also lays the ground of his Cultural Studies master research in which he merged critical reading of artworks with (auto)ethnographic accounts. He co-curated the HIVstories exhibition which is currently traveling around Europe. Alper Turan works on curating as ethnography, queer curating and exhibition-making strategies which include fiction and appropriation. Alper Turan will start his PhD in arts at the College of Fine Arts in Hamburg (HFBK) in 2020.

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