I’ve returned to this blog after a 5 month gap, as I’ve also returned to Istanbul after a 5 month gap. I’m here for 2 weeks so thought I’d post a quick update.
Since I left Istanbul in March, POST have worked together with our artist partners in Istanbul to produce one newspaper that was distributed through Liverpool. That paper charts the beginnings of our artist exchanges and was featured in Liverpool Art Month, a series of events and exhibitions profiling what artists in the city are up to.
One of our members Cecilia Kinnear came to Istanbul as part of our exchange in July and started working with Nancy Atakan, Gulcin Aksoy and Atilkunst on a second edition of the newspaper. That newspaper has just gone to print in Istanbul yesterday, so will be released at the weekend.
Susan Meyerhoff Sharples and Amanda Oliphant arrived in Istanbul late on Monday night for their short one week residencies, so hopefully further opportunities for us all to work together will happen this week.
And I’ve re-worked my ‘Watermark’ work that I trialled here in March. I’ll post a write up about that in a separate post, as I’ve already written it for my own blog, and there’s no point in doubling the amount of work to do in a short time here. But when you do read it, I’ll just add that the aches and pains from doing that work are phenomenal, I just want to sit still for a while…..
