Curated by Barış Çavuşoğlu

Featured works by:
Balfua
Cheng Hsu Chung
Arius Zihaee
Gabriel Gabriel Garble
Paul Plane
Lukas Anderson
Alex Louvenaz
Carter Amelia Davis
Sabrina Ratte
Amanda Bonaiuto
Georgia Reid & Josh Cloud
Mark Prendergast

Hosted by Hellavision Television Network

DEBT QUEST is an animated action-adventure RPG created by Lije Morgan. It is a hybrid Story/Open Call episode of Hellavision Television, featuring contributions from many animators.

THE SHIVERING TRUTH is a stop-motion animated sci-fi horror comedy television series created by Vernon Chatman and directed by both Chatman and Cat Solen. It premiered on Adult Swim in 2018 and ran for two seasons until 2020. Including the pilot episode,the series consists of 13 episodes, each with a runtime of approximately 10 minutes.

Co-curated by Griffin Conner & Noah Grossman

Featured works by:
Griffin Conner
Barış Çavuşoğlu
Ericka Beckman
Patrick Faulkner
Shana Moulton
Keith Rankin
Daisy Patricia Mairead Gallaher
Walkedoutneimans
David Cardoza
Hank Allen
Margaret Chardiet
Max Rooney
Willam Banks
Funnypat
Evan Alpert
Yabancı

"Smoke it" by Sasha Yakutina immerses the viewer in a world where digital art, sculpture, and installations intersect. The theme of the exhibition refers to phenomena such as merchandising, consumerism, and artifacts that resemble objects forgotten on the street. Sasha Yakutina's works manipulate the viewer's attention, playing with optics and perception, where the main method of self-expression becomes the effect itself.

Photographed by Emirkan Cörüt
Text by Sasha Yazov

Desbridar is a duo piece with two performers interacting alongside with robotic prosthesis, exploring and exhausting the possibilities of that long term interaction. The term Desbridar (in English “debride”) comes from a surgical exfoliation process for the removal of dead, damaged or infected tissue in order to improve the healing of the remaining tissue.

Direction & performance: Post-Organic Bauplan, Josefina Maro & Salvador Marino
Choreography: Josefina Maro
Development of robotic prostheses: Salvador Marino
Music composition & performance: Oliver Torr
Design and lights operation: Kevin Koen
Costume: Victor Clavelly

Curated by Phoebe Jane Hart

Featured works by:
Nicolas Snyder
Phoebe Jane Hart
Tom CJ Brown
Maks Rzontkowski
Kerstin Zemp
Bianca Caderas
Calleen Koh Yee Lin

Curated by Jonah Primiano

The films in this program span a half century and many disparate styles, but when viewed through the telescope of the present their similarities form a constellation of techniques. These films are active archives vibrating collaged images to produce unexpected meaning. Their universes of collected media unique to each author speaks to the production of identity, practice of memory, and experience of culture in the image landscapes of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Featured works by:
Kara Gut
Paul Glabicki
Mengxi Yang
Frank & Caroline Mouris
David De La Fuente
Holly & Mat Herndon
Mary Beams
Cauleen Smith
Annapurna Kumar
Robert Breer
Jackie Turpin

In ‘evim yuva’, an exhibition by artist Barış Çavuşoğlu, the home is a place of protection and refuge. Inspired by his childhood home, which Çavuşoğlu compares to a well-oiled machine, the exhibition consists of two central sculptures that borrow from the visual language of industrial design to reimagine the domestic sphere as a well-structured and self-regulated ecosystem, where everything functions as it should.

Curated by Serra Duran Paralı
Text by Günseli Yalçınkaya
Photographed by Barış Özçetin

Curated by Çağıl Harmandar

Ano Ne… is a screening of short animation films from Japan, curated by Çağıl Harmandar. These films draw inspiration from the artists’ daily lives, dreams, myths and folklore. Employing a variety of techniques, including stop motion, digital animation, pixellation, hand-drawn animation on paper, and cyanotypes. The program offers a glimpse into the inner worlds of independent animators working in Japan.

Featured works by:
Koji Yamamura
Shinobu Soejima
Asaki Nishino
Amane Oda
Zehao Li
Çağıl Harmandar
Takashi Ito
Saki Muramoto

Curated by Ela Kazdal

'as long as possible' is a screening offering varying perspectives on life and labour in the Anthropocene epoch. Set across different timelines and aesthetics, the films unravel contemporary anxieties, a soft spot for efficiency, and optimistic nihilism coupled with carcinogens.

Featured works by:
Demon Lovers Inc.
Pedro Gossler
Chino Moya

Star & Stan is a performance duo from artists, Kate Williams and Reed Rushes. Focused on issues of gender and sexuality Williams and Rushes perform as a fantasy couple; the heterosexual, his and her, power couple, Star & Stan.

Star, played by Williams, wears faux-geisha makeup combined with the fashion of white upper class American women inspired by William’s suburban home town. As Stan, Rushes, is a high powered business man, painted silver with assless trousers. Described as “something people have never seen before”( Elephant Magazine) the pair unpack structures of power, labor, gender and capital through the mechanism of gay shame.

They mix the perverse and the absurd with pop culture and Americana tropes creating surreal wild shows that merge “lovemaking and conflict” (Paper Magazine), “passion and aggression” (Brooklyn Rail). The high glamour, grotesque, fame hungry fantasy world of Star & Stan leaves audiences with the sensation that they’ve done “poppers in a bathtub full of money” (audience member).

Bora Akıncıtürk presents a new body of work revolving around a recent reproduction of a “lost” (stolen?) painting he made during a residency in Prague in 2018. The painting is accompanied by a group of objects that Akıncıtürk and some of his friends have come across—sometimes found, sometimes obtained very cheaply, or without permission. Starfish Decay draws on personal stories to explore notions of possession, appropriation, occupation and reconstruction. Known for employing multiple stylistic approaches in his work, Akıncıtürk continues his exploration of the modern individual and the burdens of navigating life in an era of constant online interaction.

Graphic Design by Berk Çakmakçı
Text by Mehmet Ekinci
Photographed by Barış Özçetin