[artinfo] Ankara Queer Art Program artist residency 2022

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Ankara Queer Art Program artist residency 2022

Kaos GL, Ankara /Turkey
Application deadline: January 23

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Kaos GL announces the open call of Ankara Queer 
Art Program artist residency's 2022 edition to 
host visual artists whose pratice explore 
intersecting particularities of artistic 
expression and queer politics. From Turkey and 
abroad each artist-in-residence will be hosted 
for a duration of 8 weeks in Ankara. Kaos GL's 
Ankara Queer Art Program artist residency 
provides stipend for the living expenses, covers 
the expenses of round trip travel, accommodation 
and costs considered required for the materials 
of possible production. According to their 
research themes and interests Kaos GL supports 
artists-in-residence by facilitating access to 
art institutions, initiatives and archives, and 
programs meetings with artists, activists, 
scholars and curators in Turkey to provide a 
ground for the exchange of ideas.

Launched in February, 2020 Ankara Queer Art 
Program, artist residency has held in and through 
the uncertainities of the global pandemic. In 
dialogue with the community of the Ankara Queer 
Art Program the structure was rethought and 
reshaped due to the travel bans, public health 
neccessities as well as newly defined 
contemporary fragilities of the queer artists. 
The residency supported 10 artists, additionally 
invited 3 artists from Turkey to stay in the 
residency studio in Ankara in the year of 2021. 
In its first and second edition, Ankara Queer Art 
Program artist residency supported Alex Turgeon 
(Canada), Ania Nowak (Germany/Poland), Asya Leman 
(Turkey), Baha Görkem Yalžm (Netherlands/Turkey), 
Banu Çiçek Tülü (Germany/Turkey), Dante Buu 
(Montenegro), Erin Johnson (USA), Furkan Öztekin 
(Turkey), Julia E Dyck (Canada/Belgium), Saskya 
Fun Sang (Equador), Simon(e) van Saarloos 
(Netherlands/USA), S¸afak S¸ule Kemancž (Turkey) 
and Vera Hofmann (Germany). According to the 
artists' interests and proposals, they were 
brought together with artists, activists, 
scholars, writers and curators from Turkey. The 
results of the conducted conversations reflecting 
the artists' practices, works and ideas were 
published on the 
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Kaos GL
Established in Ankara, Turkey, Kaos GL 
Association has been working to eliminate the 
discrimination on the basis of language, race, 
color, gender, sexual orientation, philosophical 
conviction, religion, religious sect, locality 
that are faced by LGBTI+s. Producing political 
critique and interventions, conducting 
educational programs, organizing exhibitions and 
carrying publishing activities, Kaos GL has been 
contributing to the development of the political, 
cultural and artistic infrastructure in Ankara 
and in Turkey at large since 1994.

The City of Ankara
The capital of the Republic of Turkey, Ankara has 
been a vibrant place with its communites of 
artists, activists, and thinkers which critically 
engaged in art and politics, gathered around art 
spaces and collectives including as Galeri Nev, 
Siyah Beyaz, the METU Audio-Visual Systems 
Research and Production Center (GI™SAM), Ka, 
Videa, Vitopia, Karahaber, 25+ , Bak.ma, 
Artžkis¸ler, Anars¸iv and I™mkansžz Ars¸iv 
filling the gaps of social memory. KaosGL has 
been a member of this inspiring community of the 
city and has been collaborating with many of them 
in various forms of public events, discussions, 
gathering and parades.

Selection Committee: Fatih Özgüven (Art Critic, 
Translator, Author), Nilbar Güres¸ (Artist), 
Çelenk Bafra (Director of SAHA, Curator), Derya 
Bayraktarog˜lu (Curator, Writer), Erinç Seymen 
(Artist), Kevser Güler (Curator), Bige Örer 
(Director of the Istanbul Biennial), Ege Berensel 
(Artist, Visual Researcher), I™z Öztat (Artist), 
Aylime Aslž Demir (Editor, Curator), Ka: Space 
for Visual Culture & Artistic Thinking

Advisory Committee: Tanžl Bora (Academician, 
Author, Translator), Sibel Tekin (Academician, 
Video Activist), Funda S¸enol Cantek 
(Academician, Author) Metehan Özcan (Artist, 
Academician), Ege Berensel (Artist, Visual 
Researcher), Deniz Artun (Director of Gallery 
Nev, Curator, Author), Ayla Deniz (Academician)

Program Director: Aylime Aslž Demir

For all queries regarding applications, please 
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Kaos GL
Çankaya, Tunus PTT PK.12 Kavaklždere
06680 Ankara / Turkey

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