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Pelin Tan is a Professor in Film at the Fine Arts Academy, Batman University, Turkey. She is the 6th recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism (2019). Tan was a fellow at the Human Rights Program and the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), Bard College, New York, and she is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Arts, Design and Social Research, Boston. Tan is a board member of the IMECE Solidarity Association, Cesme/Izmir, and a member of the spatial research collective Arazi Assembly, Mardin, Turkey.
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Joana Hadjithomas films from her plane landing in İzmir to show a clear aerial image of its urban spaces and its seashore, a reflection of the imaginary cartography of the place shown to her as a child. The camera often returns to the sea and waves that connect Etel’s living room to Joana’s first visit to the city. The gaze panning the horizon and the seashore reflects the catastrophe that prompted their estrangement from the place. ISMYRNA often depicts the landscape of İzmir as well as several old and current maps. As film subjects, the mountains, the sea, the seashore, and even the urbanization of İzmir seem like such innocent bystanders.
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