“How do we work together?” Focusing on the concepts and experiences of community, work, togetherness, the 8th Çanakkale Biennial is getting ready to meet art lovers at 1 different locations in Çanakkale on October 11st.
The 8th Çanakkale Biennial, with nearly 40 artists and 6 art initiatives it invited, “How do we produce together?”, “How do we live together?”, “How do we work together?” It aims to explore the connections/nodal points of the complex relationships between human-human, human-nature, human-animal, animal-animal and all living-non-living structures through basic and overarching questions such as: While discussing different concepts such as hospitality, friendship, cooperation, labor, responsibility, justice, forgiveness, memory, mourning, joy, he also emphasizes the paradoxes, impossibilities and singular chances that haunt the necessity of "living together" with question marks and exclamations. The biennial, which will meet with the audience in 11 venues spread across the city, hopes to embrace new collaborations and productions. The 1th Çanakkale Biennial, which will start on October 8, will continue until November 5 with its main exhibitions, as well as a program of panels, workshops, film screenings and parallel events.
The Giungla Festival, independent of Lucca, Italy, was invited to the biennial, which focuses on the issue of working together, with the initiatives of AVTO (Istanbul), Monitor (Izmir), Are Projects (Antalya), Ka Atölye (Ankara) and Garp Sessions from Çanakkale, which present original models of togetherness. It is desired that each of the initiatives participate in the artistic content of the biennial with exhibitions and projects reflecting their perspectives on art as well as their own production and working practices in venues that reflect Çanakkale's unique urban heritage, such as the Korfmann Library, Mekor Hayim Synagogue, and Palamut Warehouses. MAHAL, The FeHAN, Bordeaux Building, Dardanel Sports Facilities and ÇTSO Çanakkale House are preparing to host the main exhibitions of the biennial. Çanakkale Biennial, maintaining its sensitivity towards the memory and historical processes of art in this edition, brings together Alparslan Baloğlu's retrospective exhibition and his new project, where he reads Troy again and from today, in the magical atmosphere of the Troy Museum.
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