STEP 47 | Is This Your First Time In Batman?
with Gizem Üstüner

Πέμπτη
9 Μαΐου 2024
19:00 - 22:00

Συνεπιμέλεια Βασιλική Σηφοστρατουδάκη και την  Eliana Otta σε στενό διάλογο με την καλλιτέχνη  Gizem Üstüner.
Συμβουλος έρευνας και κείμενο από την Eliana Otta.
Παραγωγός και διαχειρίστρια έργου Δάφνη Κουφοπάνου Μπερτ.

Gizem Üstüner is a visual artist who lives and works between Amsterdam and Istanbul. While navigating her existence in these two cities, facing bureaucratic challenges as a migrant in Northern Europe, and yearning to be closer to home, she arrived at Yellow Brick in Athens. During her residency, she engaged in conversations with Athens-based art and cultural practitioners whom she encountered in nightlife, curious about the methodologies they employ to make their work possible in this familiar yet foreign city for her.

Is This Your First Time in Batman? is a following step of her ongoing research, Low-Budget Projects in Athens, which explores how art workers develop alternative survival economies and strategies for handling their crisis on a daily basis, while examining the capital flows and private institutions that shape cultural production. The project weaves and puts into circulation vulnerable narratives shared in environments of trust, following up organic routes shaped by her lived experience here. By working with text, drawings, and printed work, Gizem adds to her long-term commitment to investigating ways to defy precarious labour and its effects in the art and cultural field. By stimulating one-to-one exchange and collaborations beyond borders, she expands a growing network nurturing solidarity and complicity among peers. Low-Budget Projects is her present approach to spreading everyday survival tactics and resistances, departing from her views and experiences with precarity, migration, and feminism.

By connecting personal and collective challenges, she illuminates the power structures shaping our daily life. In the process, she adapted to local habits, discovered bars, made new friends, and re-encountered the reasons why struggling for art can be worthwhile.

Η Gizem Üstüner δραστηριοποιείται μεταξύ του Άμστερνταμ και της Κωνσταντινούπολης. Η εικαστική της πρακτικη εξετάζει καθημερινές τακτικές επιβίωσης και αντίστασης, δίνοντας έμφαση στις κοινωνικές επισφαλής συνθήκες, στη μετανάστευση και τις φεμινιστικές πρακτικές.

Υπο την ευγενική χορηγία του Mondriaan Fonds.