Artspace, IMA, and Protocinema will present a public conversation with three visiting Turkish curators representing a range of independent, not-for-profit and museum sectors to Australia, Inside, Outside and In Parallel: Speculations from three curators working in the Turkish context.
Övül Durmuşoğlu, Başak Şenova, and Mari Spirito will speak about curating within the context of Turkish contemporary art, artists and institutions in the 21st century. Following their presentations, a panel discussion and Q&A led by Russell Storer, Curatorial Manager, Asian and Pacific Art, QAGOMA, Brisbane, will enable the audience to engage with a variety of methodologies specific to the Turkish context.
Spirito, Durmuşoğlu and Şenova have been brought to Australia by Artspace, Sydney, in partnership with Protocinema, Istanbul, in the lead-up to the Australian-Turkish year of collaboration (2015).
This curatorial research visit and public talk is generously supported and enabled by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
