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Is it the mediocracy that caused the society wide mediocrity, or the other way round?
Hanna Arendt had already revealed and warned us about what ‘the banality of evil’ would unleash.
So, what would happen when banality is itself banalized, when mediocrity itself becomes the standard mediocre?
Mediocrity, will it entrench us into idiocracy or has it already done so?
Further details https://helikonart.org/2024-residencies/mediocrity/
Fırat Yılmaz’s interview with Alp Aslan about Helikon published in https://argonotlar.com/marmara-periferisindeki-sanatci-konaklama-programlari-torna-ve-helikon/ magazine
Please check outstanding photos from ‘Insanity’ Art Residency by Denkovic.
Helikon Art Center designer and international relations manager Olha Dovhan-Levytska opened solo exhibition in Bodrum Oasis Art Gallery.
In our opening, live music and dance performace held on Değirmendere Sanat Evi on 25th of July.
For further details please click.
Goran Tomcic (Croatia), Ljubica Denkovic (Serbia), Ahmed Helmy (Egypt), Kirubel Melke Alemu (Ethiopia), Olga Grechanova (Russia), Manthanee Napanang (Thailand), Kuzgun Ayhan Işık (Türkiye), Maya Dorozhenko (Russia)
‘INSANITY’
Insanity has been imagined beyond universal norms. Therefore, it is a stigmatizing concept used by the rest of the society to define a marginal individual.
Artists are frequently being called insane. However, the art itself is developed not through ‘successfully rising’ artists, who are able to sell their artworks mainly thanks to their marketing strategies; instead the art is progressive through artists, who are often stigmatized with insanity and who have no place in a competitive art market. Nevertheless, these are real artists engaging in production, destruction and in a way rebellion.
In this context, we would like to invite artists to our residence in order to question the relationship between the artist and insanity.
“The artist is a three-dimensional explorer; simultaneously exploring his or her identity, traveling into to the darkness of society and looking for being human.”
Opening: January 21st, Helikon Art Gallery @ 17:00
Please click on the poster to go to exhibition page