Cevdet erek biography of christopher

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Etel Adnan (1925 - 2021); Ouassila Arras (1993); Yael Bartana (1970); Nikola Bojić (1986); Damir Gamulin (1974); Miodrag Gladović; Damir Prizmić; Cihad Caner (1990); Ali Demirel (1972); Simon Denny (1982); Otto Dix (1891 - 1969); Cevdet Erek (1974); Marco Fusinato (1964); Mariam Ghani (1978); Shilpa Gupta (1976); Jina Khayyer (1975); Käthe Kollwitz (1867 - 1945); Kateryna Lysovenko (1989); Sabelo Mlangeni (1980); Mohammad Salemy; Erinc Seymen (1980);

Çağla Ilk; Adnan Yildiz; Sandeep Sodhi;

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Subtext presents new work by the Istanbul based artist and musician Cevdet Erek in extracts from his soundtrack to the Turkish political thriller Frenzy, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2015 Venice Film Festival.

These two compositions shed light on Erek's diverse sonic background, both as a member of the seminal band Nekropsi and as a celebrated conceptual artist presenting sound and installation works internationally such as his Room of Rhythms, which has been shown at Documenta, as well as the Istanbul and Sydney biennials. He has just been chosen to represent Turkey at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017.

The first track presents a tense and driving percussive wall of sound that mirrors Frenzy's dramatic storyline set against a backdrop of political violence in Istanbul. Accompanying this is a textural recording exploring aspects of warped time and shifting geometry that references the films disturbing subtext of social paranoia.

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Iterations, a new series of commissioned performances, launches with a new work bygd Cevdet Erek.

The new performance and installation by Cevdet Erek (born 1974, Istanbul), chiçiçiçichiciçi, takes its cue from daily life: how footsteps strike the pavement; how one’s fingers gently play a railing or a fence; or how beats, rhythms, and sonic patterns affect the movement of people on the street. Each sound is a percussive proposal and designates a different motion or relationship to the architectures and objects that are part of this everyday soundscape. 

Erek’s practice as a musician, architect, and visual artist revolves around sound as a measure for space, time, and the world around us. Erek’s new work, chiçiçiçichiciçi, uses the gallery vägg in the museum’s Griffin Court as instrument, soundtrack, and graphic notation. Conflating representation and performance, Erek adds various forms of visual and written language to the wall—all variations of the work’s onoma