Hülya Ucar


I'm a Turkish woman, who was born and brought up in
Denmark. This gives me a double perspective, hereby I
don..t mean that everyone with a bi-cultural background
necesarely have the thoughts and perspectives that I have.
I know that I am very special in many ways and also very sensitive.

Sometimes I write short stories and poems.
Poems in Danish and short stories in Turkish.
I'm also in a film association club, called World
Cinema DK. Here we choose film from around the world to show Danes different cultures in order to help the integration of Danes and ethnic minorities.


What I really want to do with my art is to create
political and social awareness. Human rights and ethnic rights in
a Western European multicultural setting.

Visuals and innocuous pranks can take you faraway places.
VJ Polly and Ester (ak. Mai Sydendal and Tina Helen) heading for Istanbul.

TO THE FIVE BOROUGHS




"I went to get a loan and they asked my race
I wrote down human inside the space"

Beastie Boys “To The Five Boroughs”

Exclusive for the Triangle project (part 4) in Istanbul we have created a limited edition of mixtapes - 22 to be exact! The tapes are based on material from Danish arties like Gustav Winckler, Keld Heick, Johnny Reimar, Gitte Hænning, Anne Grete and many more. Cut into pieces and randomly mixed together the tapes create a mosaic of what some would characterise "the Danish music-treasure". The tapes includes tunes like "Rocken gav mig alt" (Rock music gave me everything), "Spil Whist igen" (Play Whist again), "Jeg gir mit humør en gang lak" (I'll apply some vanish to my mood), "Hils fra mig derhjemme" (Say hello from me at home) and "Lidt go' musik gør alle glade" (A little music makes everybody happy). We will hand out the tapes at the exhibition closing date. Don't miss!

By: Halfdan Mouritzen and Tina Helen

Mille Kalsmose-Hjelmborg



Video: “Who do you THINK you are” - 2008

Mille Kalsmose-Hjelmborg is making art on the borders between the traditional genres and traditional concept of art on the one side, and art as a genuine part of our lived lives, on the other.

Her work is staged as an enquiry of what it is - actions, decisions, history, a moment in time - that makes us ourselves. Her work is conceptual, but also grounded in process, as her every day life has a direct influence on her artworks. In this sense Mille’ s work is autobiographical: the artworks and reality are intimately connected in the process of creation.

She creates new connections between the individual world of experience, and the social reality permanently changing.
Here we exist in a constant tension between loosing our identity through the innumerable social relations and networks in which we are constantly being absorbed, and the need to confront this process of demolition through the permanent reshaping of our own identity.
It is crucial that this reshaping must not be an excluding process negatively directed towards the other person, but in stead must be able to receive him in his unique existence.

Thus new concepts of individual identity must be developed leading to binding social relations, and this is the task that Mille Kalsmose-Hjelmborg undertakes through her art.


By Ole Fogh Kirkeby

Website: www.millekalsmose.dk

The Triangle Project Part 4 – Fill In Blank Space


I went to get a loan and they asked my race
I wrote down human inside the space

Beastie Boys “To The Five Boroughs”


The fourth episode of The Triangle Project Adventure is subtitled: Fill In Blank Space.
The title opens up onto an understanding of space that playfully challenges the given notions of urban space.

The order to fill in the blank space raises different connotations. On one hand to a civic (perhaps even restraining) system of formulas and information retrieval attempting to formulate and control the urban landscape and culture, on the other hand the title opens up to a more positive blank space of possibility.

The blank space is used as a method to transform any predefined space into a blank space; a piece of white paper; a clean slate; a new common ground from where new ideas can grow and blossom.
The blank space turns our ideas of space and space belongings, upside down and leaves the clear definition behind in favor of the empty potential space; the space in which a true meeting can occur.

The blank space is honest to the potentiality of the meeting between cities, cultures and people, erasing all prejudices and stereotypical notions beforehand.
The blank space can be found (or claimed) in the art space, the club scene or in public.
The blank space is not yet defined; it is for everybody to fill in…


The Artists:

Ari Alpert
Jørgen Bitsch
Rasmus Bjørn
Theis Wendt
Gordon İnc
Claus Ankersen
Therese Mørch-Jørgensen
Mai Ulrikka Sydendal
Søren Thilo Funder
Mille Kalsmose-Hjelmborg
Polly & Ester
Jon E. Nyholm
Ditte Hegelund
Lili Badawi
Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen
Bitmobilen
İlhan Sayın
Banu Birecikligil
Boysan Yakar
Güneş Resul
Bahar Onan
Hülya Ucar
Barış Ger
Nilgün Sabar
Halfdan Mouritzen
Tina Helen



Gallery exhibition at
Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları
Gazeteci Erol Dernek Sokak, No 11/4 Hanif Han, 34420 Beyoğlu İstanbul

Opening Event September 26th 2008
More info:
www.karsi.com

- intents and purposes

As Triangle Project returns to Istanbul, it's with an almost entirely new group of Danish artists and musicians representing a different part of the Danish underground cultural scene: people who take the streets as a natural setting for creation. Over the past year, this art form has seen a major revival and represents one of the most interesting cultural developments in Copenhagen in recent years. It is this experience we want to bring with us to Istanbul. Our main aim will therefore be to take Triangle out of the clubs and galleries and into the streets.

The Global Village?

With the overall purpose of the Triangle Project being a meeting between cultures, it's interesting to note that clubs and galleries often end up as representatives of a Global Village. This, in the sense that no matter how great the geographical distance, they are still the harbingers of cultural similarity. This is displayed in the social groupings that show up, the established rules for interaction, product orientation, at least a semi-commercial context and to some degree also the same artistic and musical tendencies.

That's not to say that they have nothing to offer! They often provide the financial basis as well as a socially and legally acceptable framework for developing and exhibiting new cultural tendencies. Still there's no doubt that something does get lost in that process – and it is this something we want to regain as a complement to the other parts of the project.

Dogmas

The advantages of working in the public space are manifold. We'll be able to reach a wider spectrum of the population. The art work and music will be forced to interact with and reflect on the local context. This will put the process – as opposed to a finished product – at the forefront of the project. The unpredictability of the situation will also enable us to regain an aspect of spontaneity that often gets lost when trapped between four walls. So artistically speaking, the project is based on a set of dogmas that can be summed up as:

• Public Space

• Target group: wider spectrum of the population

• Interaction

• Process-oriented

• Do It Yourself (D.I.Y.)

The Streets as a cultural meeting

For the three days of this project, everybody will meet up with an open mind, limited materials, divide into groups and prepare for excursions to different locations in Istanbul. Depending on the possibilities, one can expect projections from a ”cinema in a bag”, distorted radio transmissions, street art a'la jewels, posters, chalk paintings, pearl workshops, printing workshops, mobile acoustic jam sessions... and anything you might want to add.

We hope a lot of people from Istanbul will join in. Either by defining their own street interventions, contributing to some of ours, providing us with know-how, documenting the different events, helping us with translations and communication ... or simply for having a good time.

The intention is to create situations that will redraw a pre-defined public space and turn it into a blank space to be filled in by everybody anew. It thereby becomes an empty potential space that can constitute the foundation for a new and more direct form of communication – a tool used to create the basis for a more unmediated meeting between cultures.

Even in Copenhagen, these types of interventions have unpredictable outcomes. By putting ourselves in a context that we know near to nothing about, it becomes almost impossible to second guess. This is pushed to the limit by the fact that we have no permissions to do street happenings. Nor do we have a budget to rely on. Still it is also on the streets that we'll learn most about both the cultural differences and similarities.The uncertainty and unpredictability of the project therefore not only represents its greatest challenge – artistically, culturally and socially – but is precisely what gives it its greatest potential.




To provide a practical foundation for Triangle on the Streets, we've integrated it with the other locations in the project.

Sunday 21th – Friday 26th (11:00-19:30)

”Triangle Pt. 4 - Fill in the Blank Space” gallery exhibition at Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları
Gazeteci Erol Dernek Sokak, No 11/4 Hanif Han, 34420 Beyoğlu İstanbul

Group exhibition with works by both Danish and Turkish artists. This will provide a presentation of the Danish artists and musicians and a space to interact with Turkish artists.

Friday 26th (18:00-22:00)

Opening/Closing party at Karşı Sanat
Opening talk explaining about the project and plans
Lineup:
Acoustic jam with Ali Kaj
Ladybox (dj)
Bitmobilen (live)
DJ Gazi
DJ St. Marcus


This will provide the possibility for all the Danish and Turkish artists, musicians and other curious people to meet up, get a feel for the project and possibly plan the next few days.

DIRTY (22:00-04:00)
Triangle Project Pt. 4 - Fill in Blank Space - electronic
Erol Dernek Sok. No:11/1 Hanif Han Apt. - Beyoğlu

Lineup:
Ladybox (dj)
Bitmobilen (live)
DJ Gazi & DJ Triangle Lover
DJ Ari
DJ St. Marcus
DJ Taylan (AUF)

Saturday 27th

13:00 - 16:00 Meet at Dogzstarz for the preparation for daily street happenings

16:00 - 22:00 Street music, art and work shops in the area of Akarsu cd. Beyoglu

Anybody interested should show up, contribute with their own project, collaborate with one of the groups or just come along to help out with translation or documentation

Dogzstar (22:00-04:00)
Triangle Project Pt. 4 - Fill in Blank Space – mash up
Lineup:
ExBoyfriendsClub
Ali Kaj (live)
Ladybox (dj)
Bitmobilen (live)
Fidel Astro (dj)
DJ St. Marcus


VJs:
Reality Rocks
Polly & Ester
Jon E. Nyholm

Sunday 28th

13.00: 16:00 meet at Dogzstar's for preparations
16:00 - 19:00 Street music, art and work shops in the area of Akarsu cd. Beyoglu

19:00 New York Street Food Potluck Dinner

A food culture collaboration between The Triangle Project's Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen and Active Ingredient's Julie Upmeyer.

For more information and directions: www.active-ingredient.net
OR
The Triangle Project Facebook Group

Tuesday 30th
13.00 meet at Dogzstar for preparation for the final street party:
Building instruments, city wall projections.....
Everybody is very welcome to join in!

20:00 Final Street Party a'la Seker Bayram at Galata Square
...celebrating the end of Ramadan
Acoustic jams, live music sets, DJ-sets, visuals on the walls, and different art projects. All the art works from the street projects will be given out or used for decorating the streets. Come and help us!

INVITE ALL YOUR FRIENDS!!!

THEIS WENDT

My work deals with the understanding of space and human behaviour. Hierarchy, architectural and social relations are challenged and staged in spaces where “reality” and abstracted forms are merged together in another space.


Figures that we know perform actions out of its usual context, showing no clue of logical behavioural systems, in spaces where floating and sometimes almost organic holes creates an idea of something else.


A gap in time, a flaw in architecture, an empty face and twisted social environments are presented through drawings, paintings, installations or whatever media fits the context of the piece.


I seek and wish to present works that moves in and out of contemporary discourses, raising questions on the ideas of right and wrong, but never presented in a dictating way.

web:
www.theiswendt.com

Gordon Inc.


I am Gordon Inc. Danish writer and multi-artist, 44, named after the American cartoon-hero Flash Gordon.

I have written 3 books, done numerous spoken word-shows and movies, castrated myself in public television and exhibited myself naked in a glass cage for 32 days at an art-gallery under the title "Man is the greatest work of art."

I am in Istanbul to seek inspiration and knowledge and do a spoken word preaching about the unifications of all religions, hopefully in the Hagia Sophia.

After my visit to Istanbul I will travel on to Aleppo, Damaskus, Bagdad and Iran.



I come as a friendly ambassador from Denmark. I consider myself as a spiritual rock..n..roller.
My mission is to re-brand the name of Denmark in a positive way in the middle east.

On the Web:

http://www.myspace.com/gordoninc
facebook: Claus Winther
www.gordoninc.dk
Youtube films

Istanbul på Bryggen

- Support Event for the Triangle artists going to Istanbul for Part 4


Everybody Loves The Sunshine