Snapshot, 2013
Işıl Eğrikavuk
Snapshot, 2013
Performance
Performance still
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Photo by Alfredo Rubio
Overview
Snapshot is a collective reconstruction of news stories in the United Arab Emirates over the last four decades. Eğrikavuk has conducted research in UAE news archives and chosen more than a hundred headlines from major newspapers and magazines. Each headline is printed on a piece of paper and distributed to viewers, who are asked to reconstruct the story in writing. Their fictional reports are then read out by a professional news anchor.
Earlier versions of Snapshot were performed in Istanbul and Chicago in 2007, with Turkish and American news stories respectively.
2013
This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 11
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Project Images
Snapshot
Işıl Eğrikavuk
2013
Performance
Performance still
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Photo by Alfredo Rubio
Snapshot
Işıl Eğrikavuk
2013
Performance
Performance still
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Photo by Alfredo Rubio
Snapshot
Işıl Eğrikavuk
2013
Performance
Performance still
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Photo by Alfredo Rubio
Snapshot
Işıl Eğrikavuk
2013
Performance
Performance still
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Photo by Alfredo Rubio
Related
Eğrikavuk, Işıl
In addition to creating videos and performances, Işıl Eğrikavuk works as a journalist and teaches media and video art at Istanbul Bilgi University.
March Meeting 2013: Towards a New Cultural Cartography
This publication takes as its starting point Yuko Hasegawa’s curatorial concept for Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:Emerge – Towards a New Cultural Cartography and March Meeting 2013.