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  • The Octopus – Special Programme in Kassel

    8-9/03/2022// The third travel of the Octopus Programme participants: Meeting at ruruHaus, Documenta Fifteen with Noor Abed. Dinner with the ruruHaus team and some Documenta Fifteen artists. Octopus Meetings. Visiting Grimmwelt Museum.

  • The Octopus – Special Programme in Helsinki

    3-7/03/2022// The second travel of the Octopus Programme participants: Meeting with Egle Oddo and Timo Tuhkanen at Myymälä2. Planning Meeting with Paul O’Neill and Eliisa Suvanto at publics.Visiting the Helsinki Central Library Oodi, Kallio Library, and the National Library of Finland. Noor Abed’s artist talk and screening at publics. Dinner with Helsinki-based artists: Egle Oddo,…

  • The Octopus – Workshop and Exchange Programme / the Angewandte-UP-SAHA

    01/02/2022 //  A selection of stories accompanied by still and moving images, shared and discussed by the participants. These stories were accumulated through a “Story Telling Workshop” in collaboration with SAHA Studio Artists, University of Pretoria Fine Arts MFA and PhD Students, and the Octopus Programme and a Booklet was produced. 

  • The Octopus – Special Programme in Stockholm

    10-14/12/2021 // The first travel of the Octopus Programme participants: Meeting at index. Dinner with Maria Lanz, Rector of Konstfack. Meeting with Jonathan Habib Engqvist. Guided tour by Abir Boukhari for the All Art Now exhibition. Meeting with Magnus Bärtås at Moderna Museet and Ashik Zaman at SKF / Konstnärshuset. Bochra Taboubi’s artist talk “Cluster…

  • “Triptychos” by Levan Songulashvili at GNM, Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery, Tblisi

    08/11/2021 // Curated by Basak Senova, Levan Songlushvili’s solo exhibition “Triptychos” unfolds by constituting a plotted assembly in three stages and settings. In its most performative way, the exhibition suggests three separate but interwoven acts for the viewer to encourage them to rethink the challenging and continuous transformations in life. Each room was designed to give…

  • Lecture and Workshop “Practicing Agency” at “Art, Access and Agency—Art Sites of Enabling” Conference, School of the Arts at the University of Pretoria

    08/10/2021 // A joint lecture and postgraduate workshop in Fine Arts: “Practicing Agency” with Dr Johan Thom, “Art, Access and Agency—Art Sites of Enabling” Conference, organised by Dr. Johan Thom and Prof Lize Kriel at the School of the Arts, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria in collaboration with the Transformation Directorate, University of Pretoria, South…

  • Lecture: “On Curatorial Methodologies and the CrossSections Project” for MA Curatorial Practice at SVA, New York City, NY

    27/01/2021 11:00 // By taking the CrossSections project at the heart of the lecture, the focus was on the curatorial methodologies in relation to communicating the artistic research through exhibitions . The lecture was given for the Curatorial Roundtable, organised by the Master’s Program in Curatorial Practice at SVA (School of Visual Arts), New York City,…

  • PASS, Journal of the International Biennial Association

    PASS: Journal of the International Biennial Association is online in conjunction to the annual gathering. The editorial board of PASS is Sylvie Fortin (Chief Editor), Anne Barlow, Basak Senova, and Bige Örer. PASS is designed by Studio Gusto. The public program of the International Biennial Association (IBA), PASS was launched in December 2018 as an…

  • Panel: Thriving Otherwise: Pandemic, Justice and Sustainability (IBA General Assembly)

    04/12/2020 14:30 // Sylvie Fortin and Basak Senova are moderating a panel to celebrate the launch of PASS as an online platform during the International Biennial Association General Assembly. Entitled “Thriving Otherwise: Pandemic, Justice and Sustainability”, this panel brings together artist Adam Khalil, theorist Denise Ferreira Da Silva, and architects/curators Andrés Jaque and Marina Otero…

  • Lecture: “Acts of Resilience” for LVA (Lectures for Future 2020/2021)

    25/11/2020 16:30 // BOKU (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna) 30 /11/2020 17:00 // TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) LVA is the interdisciplinary lecture series by the Scientists for Future with the Austrian universities. Remarkably for the last two decades, many artists and scholars produced and demonstrated many works, responding to environmental…