Evrim Kavcar – hop one two: June 24-25 events
June 24-25, 2006
Thinking with Gravity, Moving with Imagination
Wednesday, June 24, 17:30
Speakers: Sibel Yardımcı, Tuba Emiroğlu, Evrim Kavcar
As part of the exhibition hop one two, on view at Depo until June 27, the event will explore experiences of fragility, joy, repair, lightness, and place-making through encounters that extend from childhood movements to animals, objects, and diverse bodies. Moving between scientific curiosity and everyday experience, imagination and testimony, ways of making other voices audible and other languages speakable will be discussed.
Sibel Yardımcı teaches in the Department of Sociology at Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts. She earned her Ph.D. from Lancaster University. Her research spans culture, urban studies, public life, queer theory, disability studies, and posthumanist thought. She is the author of Küreselleşen İstanbul’da Bienal and is a co-editor of volumes such as Queer Tahayyül, Sakatlık Çalışmaları and Hacıyatmazı Devirmek.
Tuba Emiroğlu completed her undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, and received her MA and PhD from the Department of Sociology at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. Her doctoral research, conducted in the context of Imbros (Gökçeada), focuses on witnessing political violence, ruined landscapes, and debates on hauntology. Emiroğlu is a researcher whose work centers on the body, movement, sensation, and landscape. She continues to develop her research through performance as well as sound and image production.
Between Levels: Jumping, Stopping, and Falling
Thursday, June 25, 17:00
Speakers: Tuğçe Ulugün Tuna, Evrim Kavcar
In this performative conversation, actions of jumping, pausing, and falling will be explored from both a somatic and an artistic perspective. Drawing on developmental movement patterns, the speakers will reflect on how the body moves between different heights and levels in space, and how these experiences resonate within artistic practice.
Tuğçe Ulugün Tuna is a choreographer, contemporary dance artist, and academic (Professor at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University) who continues her work in the field of transformative activism, with a focus on dance and somatic approaches. Through her innovative choreographic practice, which explores the relationships between body, movement, and space, as well as her work as a dance educator, she is active both in Turkey and internationally. Drawing on her “somaterra” philosophy, developed over more than thirty years of practice, alongside her choreographic productions and academic work, Tuna continues her interdisciplinary research and practice in the field of dance.
“How would the brain change if it mastered flying?”
Thursday, June 25, 18:00
Speaker: Dr. Kerem Dündar
The conversation, which sparked by a question Evrim Kavcar posed to neuroscientist Dr. Dündar before the exhibition—“If we could take flight without wings or any external equipment, how would our brains change?”—will continue at this event. Drawing on the scientific references featured in hop one two and the image of the “upside-down heavy head,” relationship between the brain, learning, and transformation will be explored. This is an invitation to revisit the exhibition through the lens of neuroscience and brain-based learning, and to open up an interdisciplinary ground for thinking together.
Dr. Kerem Dündar is a neuroscientist, physician, and specialist in biophysics. A graduate of the Gülhane Military Medical Academy (GATA), Dr. Dündar specialized in biophysics and has conducted academic and applied research in neuroscience for many years. His work in neurology and behavioral sciences includes studies using electrophysiological methods and stereotactic surgery techniques. He has worked in various healthcare institutions as a physician, academician, administrator, and educator. Beginning with one-to-one consulting practice, he has carried out more than 20,000 individual sessions focused on brain-based approaches. He has translated this experience into training, talks, and consultancy in areas such as leadership, learning processes, behavioral change, and digital transformation. He is the author of “Brain at Work” and continues his work on brain-based communication and organizational models.
The events will be held in Turkish and registration is not required.
For more information:
Evrim Kavcar – hop one two
Evrim Kavcar, “a voluntary movement”, 12’ 28”, with sound
Evrim Kavcar – hop one two: June 24-25 events
Talk
June 24-25, 2006
Evrim Kavcar, “a voluntary movement”, 12’ 28”, with sound
Thinking with Gravity, Moving with Imagination
Wednesday, June 24, 17:30
Speakers: Sibel Yardımcı, Tuba Emiroğlu, Evrim Kavcar
As part of the exhibition hop one two, on view at Depo until June 27, the event will explore experiences of fragility, joy, repair, lightness, and place-making through encounters that extend from childhood movements to animals, objects, and diverse bodies. Moving between scientific curiosity and everyday experience, imagination and testimony, ways of making other voices audible and other languages speakable will be discussed.
Sibel Yardımcı teaches in the Department of Sociology at Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts. She earned her Ph.D. from Lancaster University. Her research spans culture, urban studies, public life, queer theory, disability studies, and posthumanist thought. She is the author of Küreselleşen İstanbul’da Bienal and is a co-editor of volumes such as Queer Tahayyül, Sakatlık Çalışmaları and Hacıyatmazı Devirmek.
Tuba Emiroğlu completed her undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, and received her MA and PhD from the Department of Sociology at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. Her doctoral research, conducted in the context of Imbros (Gökçeada), focuses on witnessing political violence, ruined landscapes, and debates on hauntology. Emiroğlu is a researcher whose work centers on the body, movement, sensation, and landscape. She continues to develop her research through performance as well as sound and image production.
Between Levels: Jumping, Stopping, and Falling
Thursday, June 25, 17:00
Speakers: Tuğçe Ulugün Tuna, Evrim Kavcar
In this performative conversation, actions of jumping, pausing, and falling will be explored from both a somatic and an artistic perspective. Drawing on developmental movement patterns, the speakers will reflect on how the body moves between different heights and levels in space, and how these experiences resonate within artistic practice.
Tuğçe Ulugün Tuna is a choreographer, contemporary dance artist, and academic (Professor at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University) who continues her work in the field of transformative activism, with a focus on dance and somatic approaches. Through her innovative choreographic practice, which explores the relationships between body, movement, and space, as well as her work as a dance educator, she is active both in Turkey and internationally. Drawing on her “somaterra” philosophy, developed over more than thirty years of practice, alongside her choreographic productions and academic work, Tuna continues her interdisciplinary research and practice in the field of dance.
“How would the brain change if it mastered flying?”
Thursday, June 25, 18:00
Speaker: Dr. Kerem Dündar
The conversation, which sparked by a question Evrim Kavcar posed to neuroscientist Dr. Dündar before the exhibition—“If we could take flight without wings or any external equipment, how would our brains change?”—will continue at this event. Drawing on the scientific references featured in hop one two and the image of the “upside-down heavy head,” relationship between the brain, learning, and transformation will be explored. This is an invitation to revisit the exhibition through the lens of neuroscience and brain-based learning, and to open up an interdisciplinary ground for thinking together.
Dr. Kerem Dündar is a neuroscientist, physician, and specialist in biophysics. A graduate of the Gülhane Military Medical Academy (GATA), Dr. Dündar specialized in biophysics and has conducted academic and applied research in neuroscience for many years. His work in neurology and behavioral sciences includes studies using electrophysiological methods and stereotactic surgery techniques. He has worked in various healthcare institutions as a physician, academician, administrator, and educator. Beginning with one-to-one consulting practice, he has carried out more than 20,000 individual sessions focused on brain-based approaches. He has translated this experience into training, talks, and consultancy in areas such as leadership, learning processes, behavioral change, and digital transformation. He is the author of “Brain at Work” and continues his work on brain-based communication and organizational models.
The events will be held in Turkish and registration is not required.
For more information:
Evrim Kavcar – hop one two
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