On Produceabilty is an international composed and organised groupshow that has its starting point in Istanbul and is then going to travel and develop throughout European venues.

What
Our project is about products, production and their placement in society. We invite artists to Istanbul to reflect on and refer to local conditions and global dimensions of production by creating new artworks.
In Istanbul the steps of the production processes are often located in the immediate neighbourhood and become transparent and accessible. They are not externalised like in most service societies like Germany or other EU countries. Manufacturing is still part of the everyday life. While Turkey is a preferred production location of Europe in the context of world industry the parameters are shifting from a production based to a consumption oriented society with overwhelming shopping malls and standardised franchise companies. The rapidity and the simultaneousness of this development creates a situation that is highly vibrant. Our interest is to observe, understand and interfere this state of society being in transisssion represented by its products.
With their travel to Istanbul the artists have the possibility and opportunity to use the huge number of large and small manufacturing places to take advantage of and to use this transparency of production for their artistic purpose.
We are convinced that the high grade of accessibility and interfereability of production processes in Istanbul will lead to unique works of art.

Who
„On Produceability“ is a collaborative project between the two off spaces Alti Aylik from Istanbul and nüans from Düsseldorf.
Our collaboration arose from the desire to merge the dynamics of the local scenes with their international contents and potentials aside the institutional frameworks.
By complementing each other in our diversity we aim to reach intensive exchange that results in highquality output.
Our Collaboration embraces the steps of planning, development and implementation. Organisation and preparation is carried out via internet and vis-a-vis meetings in Istanbul and Düsseldorf.
The recurrent stages of production and installment are accompanied by a program of events created by our artists.

Kristina Kramer, Öykü Özsoy
Altiaylik.blogspot.com
Anna Heidenhain, Maki Umehara, Elmar Hermann
www.nuans.de

Invited Artists until now:

Ahmet Öğüt Istanbul / Amsterdam, Aslı Cavuşoğlu Istanbul, Elmas Deniz Istanbul, Adrian Lee London, Anna Blessmann & Peter Saville London, The Centre of Attention London, Handelszentrum Frau Böhm Düsseldorf, Allen Grubesic Stockholm, Isa Melsheimer Berlin / Istanbul, bliin Amsterdam, Kristina Stoyanova Düsseldorf, Claudia Weber Berlin, Reinaart Vanhoe Rotterdam, Kim Schönstadt Los Angeles, Dirk van Lieshout Rotterdam / Seoul, Jerome Symons Rotterdam, Jakob Kolding Berlin, Marjolijn Dijkman Rotterdam, Esther Kläs Düsseldorf, Wynn Dan Paris

Upcoming Tour:

Like products are often made in other countries than where they will be sold and used; also our artproducts will be placed and presented in different situations and countries. The stations of our tournee are chosen according to our networks as well as to our artists´ backgrounds in order to meet and reach a wide and manifolde audience.

April – September 2008

April 26th - May 17th, Istanbul, Alti Aylik and 5533
May 10th -18th, Amsterdam, Kunstvlaai
July 2008, Istanbul, Alti Aylik
August 2008, Cologne, nüans

Furthermore participating artists have proposed off-spaces from Stockholm, Rotterdam, Los Angeles and the Balkans who are interested to collaborate with “On Produceability”. Specific dates are not confirmed yet.

Parallel to the exhibitions we will compile a publication including documentation of the artworks and details on the places where they were produced. Furthermore Elmas Deniz will accompany the artists through local workshops and factories and shoot a documentary which will be shown within the Danish Art TV project “tv-tv” in fall 2008.

Support :
Kunststiftung Nordrhein Westfalen, Goethe Institut Istanbul, British Council, Kunstvlaai Amsterdam, Swedish Consulate Istanbul, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center Istanbul