Fulya Erdemci new director of SKOR
'The raison d’être of any art project in public space is to create a contrast'

features  08.12.08  Ingrid Commandeur

In July this year Fulya Erdemci was appointed as the new director of SKOR, Foundation for Art and Public Space. Erdemci was the director of the Istanbul Biennial (1994 to 2000) and of Proje4L- Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul (2003-2004). She was part of the curatorial team for the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2007 and most recently co-curator of the 5th SCAPE Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space in New Zealand. What are her plans for the future of SKOR?

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Love Thy Neighbourhood
The Revival of Community Arts

01/08/07  Lotte Haagsma

There is nothing new about art going into the neighbourhood. In the 1990s, especially, it was common for artists to seek contact with the residents of the neighbourhoods in which they lived, in an effort to make a form of art that had direct sociocultural implications. This tendency seemed to be somewhat on the decline, but is now undergoing a striking revival in response to political influences.

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