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FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER
Videonale 18.

On what basis do we live, think and act nowadays? And how are we shaping this basis for the future? The works of the exhibition FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER open a discourse on these questions. How does our thinking of the relationship of human beings to their environment change when we no longer see the body as solid and autonomous - as it has been the case until now - but as fluid. As fluid bodies - or "Bodies of Water", as gender researcher Astrida Neimanis puts it -
we as human beings no longer stand above nature, but in interaction with it, with the living being, with the systems that surround us.
Image: © Ida Kammerloch, Resusci Anne, 2019/2020

Alexandra Meijer-Werner

Between 1993 and 2002 Alexandra Meijer-Werner's artistic work focused on creating video installations with multiple projectors, and combining sound, texture and interaction with the public. She also produced a number of documentaries which evidence her profound interest in personal transformation and the awakening of human consciousness.

Please have a look to an introduction of her work on blinkvideo.
Image: © Eugenia Meijer-Werner

Moving Images / Moving Bodies
Online screening programme in cooperation
with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria

Curated by Ludwig Seyfarth

Research into the human body and interpersonal relationships remain central themes in video and moving image art. Artists from Bulgaria and Germany, whose work is related in content, will be shown in pairs over the next weeks. The exhibition planned for November 2020 in Sofia has been postponed until 2021. Instead, a consecutive presentation of selected films by artists from Moving Bodies/Moving Images is presented on blinkvideo.
image: © Elitsa Dimitrova

Shooting Ghosts
Online screening programme in cooperation
with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria

Curators: Kalin Serapionov, Krassimir Terziev

What we propose in this programme is a highly subjective and fragmented view on current practices in moving image in the Bulgarian art scene. We focused on practices that show affinity with speculative narratives - narratives that not just record what is in front of the cinematic eye, but also capture all the ghosts that are unreachable by the apparatus, thus projecting speculative views that intend not merely to describe, but to transform the world.
image: © Veneta Androva

Featured videos

Alexandra Meijer-Werner
Kreislauf / cycle … revolution … circulation, 1997

Kreislauf is an oneiric trip about the continuous cycle of human rebirth. Our dreams create the fabric in which the threads or individual tendencies appear and disappear, only to become visible once again. The dynamic of this video is a weave of repetitions and juxtapositions of the experiences that create the dance of life. Everything is cyclic, nothing disappears; everything is perpetually mutating in landscapes of anguish and joy, violence and calm, solitude and union. The traveler is the active force of his own fate when he realizes that what is most significant in life is the act of living itself.

Björn Braun
without title (excerpt), 2012

Sandra Boeschenstein
Besuchte Linie auf Granit, 2014

I encountered the roundworm in the Alps when I attempted to repair the water catchment of the cabin after a storm. I wished for this animal found at the spring to be a visited line, then searched for potential visitors and found, just nearby, a nest of firebugs in a dried chestnut leaf, which I placed just outside of the image field. The granite slab, roundworm, bugs’ nest and a fly lived their lives within a radius of 100 meters. My part in this was to bring them into direct proximity for the duration of an hour, to focus my camera and to breathe onto the upper part of the lens, in order to increase the atmospheric depth of the picture. Finally, to come to the allegation I’ve made via the title that something was a line that actually is an animal (when normally, in a contrary approach, characteristically formed lines represent animals or the like). The combination of the simplicity in the foundation / bedrock with a simultaneous insecurity in view of scale and nature of this white line, holds my fascination.

Isabella Fürnkäs
In Ekklesia, 2015

The title, ‘In Ekklesia,’ comes from the Greek word ‘ecclesia,’ which refers to the democratic parliament that served Athens in its halcyon days by being open to male citizens every other year. Solon, an Athenian legislator and a sage, allowed all citizens to serve the parliament regardless of their social class in BC 594. The Ecclesia made decisions about war, military strategies, and all judicial and administrative issues. This work satirizes various facets of humans and machines in the 21st century, unconsciously within a dystopian environment. Isabella Fürnkäs introduces a method of combining and overlaying countless images in her work, providing the new experience of sensations that act in ambiguous flows, movements, interference, and interjection. The piece is about the new metaphysical and material connections appearing through digital conversations that are divorced from the general notion of time and space, as well as isolation and alienation. Text by Hyun Jeung Kim (Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul)

Ryan Gander
Man on a bridge - (A study of David Lange) , 2008

A digital video transferred from 16 mm film shows a number of slightly differing takes of the same short sequence: A man walks over a bridge and seems to notice something over the railing to his left hand side. As he moves in for a closer inspection, the film cuts, which is then followed by another take of the same shot.

Wim Catrysse
MSR, 2014

On the Kuwait roads the journey goes in a western direction, past military bases and a line of oil transporters. Dreary sound sequences are pumped out by the radio. In the middle of rubbish heaps by the roadside a pack of wild dogs is trying to find shelter from the wind. Wim Catrysse presents the Kuwait desert both as a post-apocalyptic setting and as protagonist. During the journey, the car window is an obstacle, made even more so by the screen. The viewer, dumped in the desert, does not manage to reach it through the window. MSR, the Main Supply Route, is the main highway used to coordinate military operations in the Gulf War in 1990/91 and the War in Iraq in 2003. Filming is forbidden here, so the pack of wild dogs carries the story at first. But their behaviour keeps on bringing the desert into focus as the principal actor. Underlined by the sound track, its seeming hostility to life awakens the impression of a dystopian timelessness reminiscent of the apocalyptic scenarios in films and makes the viewer feel ill at ease. Catrysse examines conventions, both in a political-dogmatic and in a filmic sense.Nathalie Ladermann

Johanna Reich
CRAWLER, 2020

A crawler is a searchbot in the internet which Johanna Reich uses to collect special comments or phrases about the most discussed topics during the last years like A.I., climate change, digital revolution, gender and the turn of democratic systems. Johanna Reich selects several of the collected phrases composing a robot performance: self-driving projectors move across the exhibition space and project comments about a.i., gender or climate change onto the audience and architecture.

Annika Kahrs
solid surface, with hills, valleys, craters and other topographic...., 2014

solid surface,with hills,valleys,craters and other topographic features,primarily made of ice„solid surface, with hills, valleys, craters and other topographic features, primarily made of ice“ is set in a planetarium with a projected starry sky, in the center of which is situated a light spot, that explores the space. The Film deals with the moment, shortly before the actual visualization of pluto’s surface properties, whereas the entire cupola hall of the planetarium serves as a metaphorical projection surface of Pluto. The round light spot formally points to the shape of the celestial object and functions as placeholder for its soon arising image.

Ann Oren
The World Is Mine, 2017

In cosplay of the Japanese cyber diva Hatsune Miku, the artist moved to Tokyo, seeking an identity in the world of Miku fanatics, where she was drawn into a love affair with one of the fans. Miku is a Vocaloid, a vocal synthesizer software personified by a cute animated character. Her entire persona: lyrics, music and animation – is fan created, and that's her charm. She even performs sold out concerts as a hologram. By transforming herself into a Miku character through cosplay, Oren enters a world of real hardcore fans where fantasy is more real than reality and the differentiation between the two becomes obsolete. The film examines the performative nature of cosplaying – dressing up and playing the role of fictional characters – as a hybrid space where reality blurs into fetishistic fantasies and pop culture clichés. Combining fan-made lyrics and songs, Oren's trials and tribulations in the fictional Miku world unfolds through vague erotic episodes and encounters with characters whose ontological status remains mysterious, bringing to mind the adventures of a modern Alice in a virtual Wonderland.

Jonathan Monaghan
Den of Wolves, 2020

Den of Wolves is a seamlessly-looping video installation drawing on a range of references to weave a new multi-layered mythology. The work follows three bizarre wolves through a series of increasingly surreal retail stores as they search for the regalia of a monarch. Composed of one continuous camera shot, the work is an immersive, dreamlike journey drawing connections between popular culture, institutional authority and technological over-dependence.

Stefan Panhans
HOSTEL Sequel #1: Please Be Careful Out There, Lisa Marie – H.V.Installation Mix, 2018

At transmediale, Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler show their work HOSTEL Sequel #1: Please Be Careful Out There, Lisa Marie – Hybrid Version, a new project that combines film, installation, and staccato stage reading (on blinkvideo we are showing a trailer of the integrated film). With everyday racism, celebrity worship, stereotypes, and the dominating power of the economic all on the rise, precariously and flexibly traveling cultural workers of different origin deliver a sort of spoken word battle about their experiences and dreams. They constantly switch roles and, at the same time, form a choir that clashes with the rapped reports of everyday life. As in a collaborative gymnastic exercise—surrounded by scenery made up of set pieces from outfits of airports, hostels, and courier services, from self-optimization tools and game show displays—they fight for a voice and to be heard, building new alliances along the way. for more information: opening of transmediale

Mariola Brillowska
Children Of The Devil, 2011

Mariola Brillowska’s animation film relates the total collapse of the family system in the 21st century. Six cartoon episodes present an unsparing account of how children become murderers of their parents.

Julia Charlotte Richter
Point Blank, 2019

“Point Blank” refers to a film scene from "The Misfits" (1961) that is now re-enacted and further contextualized. In the original scene, the recently divorced main character Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe) rises up against three worn-out cowboys and, in the middle of the desert, confronts the men with all their lacks and lost dreams. In “Point Blank”, we see a young woman wandering around in surreal desert landscapes, a journey into the remoteness of the world and her own inner life. With every step out into the desert, the girl descends into her own depths searching for a place that seems to be suitable for her emotions and words. Unlike Roslyn, the young woman now refers to absent addressees: "Liars", "Murderers" and "Dead Men" she screams and turns around wildly. The words, which spread like bullets in the air, fall back on her. Except for a faint echo, there is no resonance at this place that depicts the obsessions of a distorted, patriarchal society and has become a dramatic backdrop of yearnings within the collective history of cinema. Where Roslyn was able to elicit a terrified astonishment from the three men, the character in Julia Charlotte Richter's video remains to herself and unheard, the desert as the only witness of her manifesto, her anger and her strength.

Ulrich Polster
Frost, 2003 / 2004

The night city. Industrial ruins filmed in contrejour. Memories from childhood. Different places and times combined at the mountain. It is a hollow portrait of Eastern Europe that carries the traces of its history.

Ene-Liis Semper
FF REW, 1998

Dimitri Venkov
The Hymns of Muscovy, 2018

The film is a trip to the planet Muscovy, which is an upside down space twin of the city of Moscow. As the title of the work suggests, the journey also takes us back in time. Gliding along the surface of the planet, we look down to the sky and see historic architectural styles fly by - the exuberant Socialist Classicism aka Stalinist Empire, the laconic and brutish Soviet Modernism, and the hodgepodge of contemporary knock-offs and revivals of the styles of the past. An essential companion to this journey through time and space are Hymnic Variations on the Soviet anthem by the composer Alexander Manotskov. The anthem was written in 1943 and has undergone three editions of lyrics yet musically remained unchanged to now serve as the official anthem of the Russian Federation. Manotskov used an early recording of the anthem as source material to create three electronic variations each corresponding to an architectural style. As if in a twist of Goethe’s phrase, architecture plays its frozen music. Look closely, can you hear it?

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Ergin Cavusoglu

Works


Galleries

Rampa
Gizem Uslu
Sair Nedim Caddesi, No:21A, Akaretler 34357 Beşiktaş
Istanbul
Turkey

Phone: +902123270800
E-Mail: guslu@rampaistanbul.com




Biography

1968 Born in Targoviste / Bulgaria
Lives and works in London / UK

Education

2008-2009 PhD, University of Portsmouth
1994-1995 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London
1994-1995 BA Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Marmara, Istanbul
1982-1987 I. Petrov School of Fine Arts, Sofia

Selected solo exhibitions

2017
Desire Lines /Tarot & Chess/, BüroSarigedik - Temporary Presentation Room 2, Bilsart, Istanbul


2016

Which Sun Gazed Down on Your Last Dream?, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul
Cinefication (Tarot and Chess), in The Image Generator II, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp

2015
Liquid Breeding, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan

2014
Ergin Cavusoglu – Liminal Crossing, The Red House, Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia
Ergin Cavusoglu - And I Awoke, LOOP 2014, Barcelona
Adaptation – Cinefication, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul

2011
Ergin Cavusoglu - Alterity, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul
Ergin Cavusoglu - Dust Breeding, The Pavilion Downtown Dubai, UAE
Ergin Cavusoglu, Zilkha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Ergin Cavusoglu / Art in the Auditorium3/, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2010
Ergin Cavusoglu - Crystal & Flame, PEER, London
Ergin Cavusoglu - Crystal & Flame, Better Bankside pop-up space, London

2009
Ergin Cavusoglu, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
Voyage of no Return, Threshold artspace, Horsecross, Perth, Scotland
Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Haunch of Venison, London
Ergin Cavusoglu, Galerist at Rental Gallery, Cologne

2008
Quintet Without Borders, Best of Discovery, ShContemporary, Shanghaibr Ergin Cavusoglu - Place After Place, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany

2007 Quintet Without Borders, Eibank Gallery, Sofia
Quintet Without Borders, Haunch of Venison, Zurich

2006
Poised in the Infinite Ocean, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Point of Departure, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Point of Departure, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland

2004
Poised in the Infinite Ocean and Tahtakale, Haunch of Venison, London
Entanglement, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee

2002
Resonance, Galerist, Istanbul

2001
Bildbegehren, dontmiss, Frankfurt

2000
Vitrine, Transit Space, London

1998
Ergin Cavusoglu – New Works, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London

1997
Haunting Presence, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London

1996
Ergin Cavusoglu, BM Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul

1993
Ergin Cavusoglu, Yapi Kredi Bank Gallery, Istanbul

Selected group exhibitions

2017
On Anam? Where are we going?, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma, Majorca, Spain
BüroSarigedik - Temporary Presentation Room 1, Collectorspace, Istanbul
Your Story! Geschichten von Flucht und Migration, Kunsthalle Emden
A Theory of The Present, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul

2016
But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Do Boomerangs Always Come Back, Castle Oud-Rekem, Belgium

2015
Wishful Thinking; In Retrospect, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul
Apricots From Damascus (An apexart franchise exhibition), SALT, Istanbul
1 day to 5, freiraum Q21 INTERNATIONAL, Vienna
Crossing Lines, Open Space Istanbul at Gallery on the Corner, London
Artists in Their Time, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul
Video Screening Program: Illusion, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul
films4peace, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town
Back to The Future, Cube Cinema, Bristol (screening)

2014
Other Waters, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland, New Zealand
4th International Canakkale Biennial, Only the Dead have Seen the End of War (Plato), Canakkale, Turkey
Plurivocality, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul
The 1st Xinjiang International Art Biennale, Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China
this secret world that exists right there in public, Rampa Istanbul

2013
Home/s, Benaki Museum, Athens
Artists’ Film International, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul
A selection from the Elgiz Collection, Proje 4L/Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul
Ergin Cavusoglu - And I Awoke, at Kino der Kunst, Munich
And I Awoke at the 59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany - Selection by SALT

2012
films4peace, Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary art (for full list of exhibitions and screening see http://films4peace.com/screenings)
The Loitering Presence of a Rational Actor, Presented by Universal Studio, The Artist's Institute, New York
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times. Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, The First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Arsenale, Kiev, Ukraine
Migrasophia, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE

2011
Zwölf im Zwölften, Tanas, Berlin
Pop-Up. Veure és afegir, Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona
How We Move - Ergin Cavusoglu - Empire (after Andy Warhol) 2008 - SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul
Seven New Works, Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul
Babel Festival, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Elgiz 10 Istanbul, Proje 4L/Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul
Art in the Auditorium 3, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas
Art in the Auditorium, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway
Art in the Auditorium, Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Art in the Auditorium, 3rd Edition, GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
Paradise Lost, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
Midnight in the city, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

2010
Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain
Midnight in the city, Centre d'Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain
Port Izmir 2 - Silence_Storm, Izmir, Turkey
Divercity. Learning from Istanbul, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
fast forward 2 The Power of Motion, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
ID’s please!, Cer Modern, Ankara, Turkey
Journey's with no return, Kurt-Kurt, Berlin, Germany
Indefinite Destinations, The Red House - Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria
Artes Mundi 4, National Museum, Cardiff, Wales
Distance and Sensibility, Calvert22, London
The First Mediterranean Biennial of Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel
Journey's with no return, A Foundation, London
HomeLessHome, Museum on the Seam, Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Indefinite Destinations, DEPO, Istanbul

2009
Dream and Reality. Contemporary Art from the Near East, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern Switzerland
Atlantis – Reflections of Tomorrow, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
There is no Road, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón
The Temptation of CHALGA - Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2008
wie du mir, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz
3rd Guangzhou Triennial, 'Fresh Moves' tank.tv screening, Guangzhou, China
Still Cinema 6: Light-speed travel, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
ZERO GRAVITY the architecture of social space, Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv
Peace And Agriculture In A Pre-Romantic Idea Landscape Without Sublime Terrors, Haunch of Venison Berlin
The Morning After. Videoworks from the Goetz Collection, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst Bremen
Gone City, Magazin4 - Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz
M-tel Awards for Contemporary Bulgarian Art, ATA Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv
Night A Time Between, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Screenings, Haunch of Venison, London
All Inclusive – A Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
The Temporary Zones, Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte Vienna
Fresh Moves, tank.tv (screening), Phoenix Arts Centre, Leicester

2007
CASZ – Contemporary Art Screen Zuidas, Amsterdam
Rencontres Internationales, Le laboratoire, Paris
Fresh Moves, tank.tv (screening), ICA, London
Imagine There is an Art Work, BM-Suma Center for Visual Art, Istanbul
Every Wind That Blows, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
Between Borders, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, MARCO
Nobody's Story, /Seconds, http://www.slashseconds.org
Radikal Art, Istanbul

2006
British Art Show 6, Arnolfini, Bristol
British Art Show 6, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham
Forest Man, The New Gallery, Jerusalem
Strangers With Angelic Faces, Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul
British Art Show 6, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester

2005
Something of the Night 1875-2005, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Video London, Espai Ubú, Barcelona
Radiance - Glasgow Festival of Light, Merchant City, Glasgow
British Art Show 6, BALTIC, Gateshead
Der Knochen der Zunge, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
Contaging With Nature, Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul
On Patrol, De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam

2004
Perspective, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
Public Media Space, Armenian Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan
The Progressive Development Plan, The Empire, London
Whitstable Biennale 2004, Kent
Britannia Works, organised by The British Council, Xippas Gallery, Athens
Beck’s Futures 2004, ICA, London, CCA, Glasgow
3rd berlin biennial for contemporary art, Berlin

2003
Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
La Biennale di Venezia 50th International Art Exhibition, The Turkish Pavilion, Venice
SPACE Open 2003, The Triangle, London

2002
Look Again, Proje4L Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art
FAIR, Royal College of Art Galleries, London
Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions I: Nisantasi. Personal Geographies, Global Maps, Istanbul
60 Years 60 Artists, Eczacibasi Virtual Museum, Istanbul

2001
Look Away, Platform Gallery, ARCO Madrid

1999
Medway Open, Royal Engineers Museum Gallery, Gillingham
Multiples, Borusan Culture and Art Centre, Istanbul
Evil Eye, True Gaze, Pamukbank Photography Gallery, Istanbul

1998
Roundtrip, Borusan Culture and Art Centre, Istanbul
Minus, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London
The Whitechapel Open, London

1997
Big Popas – Ten Deep, Coins, London

1996 Future Vision, The Photographers' Gallery, London

Awards

2014 The Jarman Award, nomination
2012
Future of Europe, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst / Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, nomination
2009 Artes Mundi Prize 2010, shortlist
2008 M-tel Awards for Contemporary Art, Bulgaria, nomination
2004 Beck’s Futures, shortlist, ICA, London, UK

Ergin Cavusoglu
1968 Born in Targoviste / Bulgaria Lives and works in London / UK Education 2008-2009 PhD, University of Portsmouth 1994-1995 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London 1994-1995 BA Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Marmara, Istanbul 1982-1987 I. Petrov School of Fine Arts, Sofia Selected solo exhibitions2017 Desire Lines /Tarot & Chess/, BüroSarigedik - Temporary Presentation Room 2, Bilsart, Istanbul 2016Which Sun Gazed Down on Your Last Dream?, Rampa Gallery, IstanbulCinefication (Tarot and Chess), in The Image Generator II, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp 2015 Liquid Breeding, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan 2014 Ergin Cavusoglu – Liminal Crossing, The Red House, Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia Ergin Cavusoglu - And I Awoke, LOOP 2014, Barcelona Adaptation – Cinefication, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul 2011 Ergin Cavusoglu - Alterity, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul Ergin Cavusoglu - Dust Breeding, The Pavilion Downtown Dubai, UAE Ergin Cavusoglu, Zilkha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery, London Ergin Cavusoglu / Art in the Auditorium3/, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2010 Ergin Cavusoglu - Crystal & Flame, PEER, London Ergin Cavusoglu - Crystal & Flame, Better Bankside pop-up space, London 2009 Ergin Cavusoglu, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen Voyage of no Return, Threshold artspace, Horsecross, Perth, Scotland Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Haunch of Venison, London Ergin Cavusoglu, Galerist at Rental Gallery, Cologne 2008 Quintet Without Borders, Best of Discovery, ShContemporary, Shanghaibr Ergin Cavusoglu - Place After Place, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany 2007 Quintet Without Borders, Eibank Gallery, Sofia Quintet Without Borders, Haunch of Venison, Zurich 2006 Poised in the Infinite Ocean, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds Point of Departure, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton Point of Departure, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland 2004 Poised in the Infinite Ocean and Tahtakale, Haunch of Venison, London Entanglement, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee 2002 Resonance, Galerist, Istanbul 2001 Bildbegehren, dontmiss, Frankfurt 2000 Vitrine, Transit Space, London 1998 Ergin Cavusoglu – New Works, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London 1997 Haunting Presence, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London 1996 Ergin Cavusoglu, BM Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul 1993 Ergin Cavusoglu, Yapi Kredi Bank Gallery, Istanbul Selected group exhibitions2017On Anam? Where are we going?, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma, Majorca, SpainBüroSarigedik - Temporary Presentation Room 1, Collectorspace, IstanbulYour Story! Geschichten von Flucht und Migration, Kunsthalle EmdenA Theory of The Present, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul2016But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New YorkDo Boomerangs Always Come Back, Castle Oud-Rekem, Belgium 2015Wishful Thinking; In Retrospect, Rampa Gallery, IstanbulApricots From Damascus (An apexart franchise exhibition), SALT, Istanbul1 day to 5, freiraum Q21 INTERNATIONAL, ViennaCrossing Lines, Open Space Istanbul at Gallery on the Corner, LondonArtists in Their Time, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul Video Screening Program: Illusion, Rampa Gallery, Istanbul films4peace, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town Back to The Future, Cube Cinema, Bristol (screening) 2014 Other Waters, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland, New Zealand 4th International Canakkale Biennial, Only the Dead have Seen the End of War (Plato), Canakkale, Turkey Plurivocality, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul The 1st Xinjiang International Art Biennale, Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China this secret world that exists right there in public, Rampa Istanbul 2013 Home/s, Benaki Museum, Athens Artists’ Film International, Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Istanbul A selection from the Elgiz Collection, Proje 4L/Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul Ergin Cavusoglu - And I Awoke, at Kino der Kunst, Munich And I Awoke at the 59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany - Selection by SALT 2012 films4peace, Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary art (for full list of exhibitions and screening see http://films4peace.com/screenings) The Loitering Presence of a Rational Actor, Presented by Universal Studio, The Artist's Institute, New York The Best of Times, The Worst of Times. Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, The First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Arsenale, Kiev, Ukraine Migrasophia, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE 2011 Zwölf im Zwölften, Tanas, Berlin Pop-Up. Veure és afegir, Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona How We Move - Ergin Cavusoglu - Empire (after Andy Warhol) 2008 - SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul Seven New Works, Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul Babel Festival, Bellinzona, Switzerland Elgiz 10 Istanbul, Proje 4L/Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul Art in the Auditorium 3, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas Art in the Auditorium, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway Art in the Auditorium, Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Art in the Auditorium, 3rd Edition, GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy Paradise Lost, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey Midnight in the city, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain 2010 Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain Midnight in the city, Centre d'Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain Port Izmir 2 - Silence_Storm, Izmir, Turkey Divercity. 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Ergin Cavusoglu
And I awoke

Artist Ergin Cavusoglu
Year 2012
Duration 5:01 min
Edition 5 + 2 AE
Technical info Single channel (1920 x 1080) HD video, audio
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About the video

“Central to my practice are broader concepts that probe the notions of space, non-place, liminality and the conditions of cultural production, which I have been exploring in a diversity of media.

The work reflects on the complexities of the human subconscious and the struggle for inner peace. Contextually, the scene echoes the final dream sequence in Leo Tolstoy’s A Confession. The book was written at a turning point of the author’s life, when he was seeking to understand the meaning of life and its moral values, consulting philosophical, religious and scientific texts in the process. In the dream, Tolstoy sees his body entangled in wires lying on a bed that is hanging, suspended in what Tolstoy defines as ‘infinite space’. The inner struggle and helplessness push him to resist the gravitational force of the suspense.”


Credits

Director of photography: Jean-Louis Schuller
Performer: Ted Sikström
Music composed by Esben Tjalve
Music performed by Falgren Strings Production
Line producer: Xanthe Hamilton
Aerial rigger: Ezra Trigg
Rigger’s assistant: Tim Trotman
Runner: Yoshiteru Shinagawa
Editor: Ergin Çavuşoğlu
Based on a passage from the book A Confession by Leo Tolstoy
Special thanks to films4peace, Soda Pictures, Shooting People, Gorilla Circus, Focus24, Loco Soho, Mark Coetzee, Cath Le Couteur, Eve Gabereau, Fiona Fletcher, Owen Martin

Ergin Cavusoglu - And I awoke
“Central to my practice are broader concepts that probe the notions of space, non-place, liminality and the conditions of cultural production, which I have been exploring in a diversity of media. The work reflects on the complexities of the human subconscious and the struggle for inner peace. Contextually, the scene echoes the final dream sequence in Leo Tolstoy’s A Confession. The book was written at a turning point of the author’s life, when he was seeking to understand the meaning of life and its moral values, consulting philosophical, religious and scientific texts in the process. In the dream, Tolstoy sees his body entangled in wires lying on a bed that is hanging, suspended in what Tolstoy defines as ‘infinite space’. The inner struggle and helplessness push him to resist the gravitational force of the suspense.”

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