Omer Ali Kazma
What Remains
04/12/2003 - 10/01/2004
Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center
276 Istiklal Caddesi, Beyoglu, Istanbul 80050
tel: 00 90 212 29 32361
fax: 00 90 212 293 3071
platform@garanti.com.tr
Image: video still, What Remains.
Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
A VIDEO INSTALLATION BY OMER ALI KAZMA
A video installation by Turkish artist Omer Ali Kazma, which explores the life of Galatasaray football clubs soccer players and their coach Fatih Terim. Culled from footage shot by the artist and his colleague over a period of 8 months and hundreds of hours of viewing material, the camera follows the players in scrimmages, trips, dressing rooms and places of non-event. The viewer is exposed not to the football games themselves, but to the moments of expectation, frustration, joy, sorrow and pain experienced by young men.
11 December
19:00, Sporting lessons
A lecture by John Peter Nilsson, freelance critic, independent curator and editor for NU-E a web-portal for text and art.
Funded in part by Swedish Institute, Sweden.
20 December
15:00, Screening of work by Roderick Buchanan: Out, Chasing 1000, Endless Column, Peloton, Love/Hate/Celtic/Rangers, and 83/03.
19:00, Lecture by artist Roderick Buchanan about sport and in particular football as a subject of his own video works and those of other contemporary artists.
Throughout the exhibition What Remains there will also be a series of screenings including artists video/DVD works, films and documentaries selected by Roderick Buchanan.
Funded in part by the British Council.
Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center
276 Istiklal Caddesi, Beyoglu, Istanbul 80050
tel: 00 90 212 29 32361
fax: 00 90 212 293 3071
email: platform@garanti.com.tr
