Videoist is alternative to what?

42 artist initiatives from different countries participate to the 1st International Artist Initiatives İstanbul Meeting. "Videoist" is one of these. Below you will find the answers given by "Videoist" to our questions regarding the ocassion...



Motivation: Our motivation is to meet with domestic and foreign artist initiatives, to present our projects, to get to know their projects and research the ways to develop collaborative work.

When: 2003

Where: Mobile

What: Video art, actual art

Who: Hülya Özdemir, Ferhat Satıcı, Çağrı Saray

How: Collective group work

Why: We research the possibilities of new exhibition/screening on actual art by creating a documentary perspective of the video art, the approaches to find out the meaning layers of artworks, the possibilities of alternative, non profit organisation which focus on the artist.

Context: Commercialisation, curatorial practices...

Ambition: We don’t have such an ambition.