Opening & public conversation at Lokaal 01: Friday 9 December at 20:00

As part of a collaboration between the arts festival 0090, Lokaal 01 and Extra City Caner Aslan is invited for a residency and presentation of his work in Lokaal 01. Afterwards, he will continue his residency in AIR Antwerpen until 10 February 2012, where he will work on his project 'Rehearsals for Pedagogy in the Field'.

Caner Aslan’s practice is based on extensive paper – and image research. Through collage and appropriation techniques he uses found material and pictures. He presents them in new relations and contexts and amongst other media like film. During his residency in AIR Antwerpen he will work further around “village institutes” in rural areas in Turkey. It was an experimental educational program initiated during WWII and immediately stopped only 5 years later. It was one of the most utopic plans the new republic initiated in that time. The institutes were organised around the idea to change children into teachers that would take knowledge back to their hometown.

"In the final scene of the movie Planet of Apes, Taylor and Nova follow the shoreline and eventually discover the charred remnants of the Statue of Liberty. What Taylor and audience thought as a distant alien planet since the beginning of the movie turns out to be the very planet earth in its future post-apocalyptic condition. A few years ago watching an old family tape, edited on camera, collage of banal scenes from various excursions mostly on rural areas, one scene stroke my eye. Recalling the same feeling of the Statue of Liberty ruin, an amphitheater in the middle of the forest was standing like an ancient ruin." (Caner Aslan)

Caner Aslan (1981, Malatya, Turkey) lives and works between Istanbul and Ankara. He studied at the Ateliers in Amsterdam (2006/07). His works were shown in the following group exhibitions: When Ideas Become Crime, Depo, Istanbul, 2010; Relative Positions and Conclusions, Suriye Pasaji, Istanbul, 2009; Straw Poll, Salford, 2009; Berlin Biënnial, 2008; Offspring, de Ateliers, Amsterdam, 2008.

Public presentation and exhibition in Lokaal 01, Provinciestraat 287, 2018 Antwerpen

Opening hours: Saturday 10 until Sunday 18 December, 14-19 (closed on Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 December)

Language English