January - November 2024
İZMİR
Vranowitz Archive aimed to examine the cultural accumulation of a community that migrated from Yugoslavia, Gorno Vranovci, to Izmir in the 1950s. Vranowitz Archive, a long-term research project, focused on the compilation of the archive and the production of a video installation within the scope of the CultureCIVIC Artistic Production Fund.
Taking the migration policies between Yugoslavia and the Republic of Turkey as a starting point, the research read the official agreements through the daily life of the migrating community. It aimed at creating an alternative discourse to the official narrative, with a narrative compiled by the people of Vranowitz themselves.
Betül Aksu
Betül Aksu (b. 1990, Izmir) is an artist who explores how boundaries appear in everyday life. She focuses on the notions of familiarity, repetition and categorisation, and the influence of bureaucratic infrastructures on our relationship with movement, freedom and language. She is interested in collaborative modes of working that initiate dialogues about precarious living and working conditions in the art worlds.
Betül Aksu holds a BA in Linguistics from Hacettepe University, an MSc in Cognitive Science from Trento University, an MSc in Language Science and Technology from Saarland University, and studied for a PhD in Media and Arts Technology at Queen Mary University of London. She was a 2023/2024 fellow within the BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice, participated in the Istanbul Biennial Production and Research Programme (2022) and the School of Commons Research Residency (2021-2022). In 2023, she founded sezon, an independent art space based in Izmir, Turkey set out to explore the politics and poetics of change. Her recent solo exhibitions include Permessus at AVTO (Istanbul, 2024) and hold, place, transfer ↵ repeat at Material (Zurich, 2024).
Connections:
https://www.instagram.com/betulaksu/
This page is published on 8 December 2023.
