The Headless Women: A selection of Video Art in Turkey

The Headless Women: A selection of Video Art in Turkey

78 min

Presented as a screening programme, the selection made for the Turkish Beat offers a new panorama of video art in Turkey. The programme borrows its title from the first video work in Turkey, entitled The Headless Woman or the Belly Dance by Nil Yalter in 1974. The Headless Women focuses on the current artistic discourses and new tendencies in video art in Turkey in the new millennium. Homage to the prominent artist Nil Yalter, the programme is composed of videos by emerging women artists for whom Nil Yalter and her video works played a pioneering role and offered an invaluable source of inspiration.

Artists: Aslı Cavuşoğlu, Camila Rocha, CANAN, Nilbar Güreş, İnci Furni, Bengü Karaduman, İrem Tok, Özlem Sulak, Işıl Eğrikavuk

Proposed by Çelenk Bafra, the curator, and Senem Sekban, the assistant curator of İstanbul Modern.

LIST OF VIDEOS

The Petty Travel Show For A Dear Audience

2009 / 9'40"

Artist: Aslı Cavuşoğlu

Courtesy of GaleriNON

In Three

2011 / 2'45"

Artist: Camila Rocha

Courtesy of the artist

İbretnuma (Examplary)

2009 / 27'30"

Artist: CANAN

Long term loan from Dr. F. Eczacıbaşı Foundation

Undressing

2006 / 6'19"

Artist: Nilbar Güreş

Long term loan from Dr. F. Eczacıbaşı Foundation

Parrots Can't Talk

2010 / 1’20”

Artist: İnci Furni

Courtesy of the artist

We Are All In The Same Boat

2012 / 3'22"

Artist: Bengü Karaduman

Courtesy of the artist

Art or Simit

2008 / 8'38"

Artist: İrem Tok

Courtesy of the artist

Granny

2005/ 9'20”

Artist: Özlem Sulak

Courtesy of the artist

Memory Museum

2011 / 10'

Artist: Işıl Eğrikavuk

Courtesy of the artist