| INTERDISCIPLINARY ART |
| The 1st Interdisciplinary Art Work |
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“Oh Beautiful Istanbul” by Sevil Soyer
Sevil Soyer has founded “the first interdisciplinary
art work” in 1994. It was also the first time in the
world.
She started to work on her project a year
before and she got together 45 artists from
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different disciplines. She worked very hard on this
project as the curator, creative director and artist. The
concept was “ Istanbul “. She created this concept
and gave the name “ Oh Beautiful Istanbul “. Under
this "umbrella concept" , all the artists from different
disciplines worked together to create an art show.
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the same time Sevil Soyer created two projects under
this umbrella concept with
the other artists from
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different disciplines, which was named; “The Area Outside of the
Program” and“Still Transformation”. The Cultural Minister of Turkey
opened the Yildiz Palace, Hasbahce to the artists and to the public
just for this project . “Oh Beautiful Istanbul” was showed throughout
the three days and it was visited by
thousands of visitors.
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| The 1st Interdisciplinary Artist Group |
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Creative Director,
Artist and Curator: Sevil Soyer
Participating Artists: Sevil Soyer (Installation) |
| Sadik Altinok (Installation), Birol Yayla, Aziz Senol Filiz (Music), Emre Basoglu (Installation), |
| Berrak Yedek, Candas Bas (Dance), Genco Gulan (Installation), Alican Yaras (Theatre), Cemal Unlu (Theatre), |
| Pinokyo (Pre-School), Ruhi Goruney (Installation), Saba Celik (Dance), Omer Ahunbay (Music), |
| Hakan Ozer (Music), Umran Gokalp (Opera – Music), Dikmen Seymen (Pantomime), |
| Rahmi Aksungur (Sculpture), Muammer Ketencoglu (Music), Burcu Ozguven (Architecture), |
| Meltem Tezmen (Dance), Prof. Onay Sozer (Text), Gabriella Baptist (Text), Erdal Alantar (Installation), |
| Mehpare Aksoy Yigit (Sculpture), Emre Koyuncuoglu (Choreography), Yesil Uzumler (Dance Theatre), |
| Oguz Buyukberber (Composition and Clarnet), Babek Sophi (Ceramics,Sculpture), Ebru Erol (Installation), |
| Yagmur Denizhan (Literature),Levent Oget (Photography), Erkan Simsek (Architecture), |
| Prof. Devrim Erbil (Painting), Gonul Pacaci (Turkish Music), Murat Ersan (Dance), Ipek Ersan (Dance), |
| Cigdem Gur (Dance), Asli Ongoren (Dance), Arif Akkaya (Theatre), Group BLOB (Dance). |
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| The 2nd Interdisciplinary Art Work |
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“Purple Rain” by Sevil Soyer
Sevil Soyer started to live in Michigan after 1999. She
created her 2nd interdisciplinary art project there. She
invited artists from different disciplines to create an
art show under the “ rain “ concept. This performance
includedinstallation, poetry, music, special lighting and
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 Sevil Soyer hung hundreds of multicolored strings from the ceiling in the
gallery, which represented rain. R. Lida Pelc wrote a poem about rain, Melvin
Kangas improvised music with the kantele and Joe Kirkish narrated the poem.
Soyer used special rain effects produced by Omer Ahunbay and Hakan Ozer
from Turkey.
 “ Art is important, especially for young people. I want them to watch, listen
and see, and (in return) they will think or feel something. Purple is lonely
and melancholy…Rain is very important for life and life can be happy and sad
at the same time. Life has two faces” Sevil Soyer said in the interview by
Daily Mining Gazette,October 23, 2003. |
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MANIFESTO of Interdisciplinary Art
“In interdisciplinary work, the disciplines work together while learning from each other. An early example is Plato’s Dialogue, in which famous writers, politicians, and artists of fifth century, B.C. Athens came together with the philosopher Socrates to try to define love. Interdisciplinary work has been defined in many ways throughout history but today, interdisciplinary approach to complex problems is necessary in a way that neither the Renaissance nor the Bauhaus could have foreseen…....Art is a kind of action in distance (actions from distance, therefore the “inter” of the “interdisciplinary” forms) the actual point of collective art. Being interdisciplinary is the complete opposite of jumping from one branch to another; it keeps the meaning longer and in a deeper way in the artist’s discipline, but at the same time it interprets the deepness of his/her own art through the distance from other arts and disciplines. It takes this distance into itself and lets it out, in short, living with distance. Here the active thing is not the other discipline but the relationship we have with it. Art is branches concerning any subjects and as long as it works in a subject, it will always be interdisciplinary. At this point the “potential” which used to be in the background has moved to the foreground and makes the relationship of disciplines an inevitable fact.
Bringing the consciousness of all intervals and distances onto the surface and to make it creative, this showing how distant nearness is… This the main aim of interdisciplinary art.”
Sevil Soyer & Onay Sozer |
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