PROJECT TEAM

About the Director and the Curator

Ece Pazarbasi works and walks on the merged borderline of curatorial practice and artistic research as her main profession. She has realised many projects over the issues of urbanism, digital and analogue public space, participatory art, alternative education as well as food and technology of the human body.

Since 2005 she works on the alternative formats of education sometimes by directing alternative education and residency programmes, at other times by being part of them. In 2007 and 2009, she has directed and curated Meeting Point: Gülpinar and Meeting Point: Buyukhusun -a mobile education, residency and festival programme that took place at the villages of Turkey. In 2015, she has co-curated Everything Under the Sun Alternative Education Programme that focused on climate change from the perspective of art and food. She is also teaching at Transart Institute, and in 2013 at Olafur Eliasson’s Institution for Spatial Experiments where she had the privilege to receive a special research grant.

In 2016, she has received a 18-month special stipend for International Fellow Curators from Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Among her other selected professional experiences are curator of “Cabinet of the Unknown” Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge (2017); Curator of “Bank Blank” main exhibition of 48 hrs Neukölln (2018); “Memory Plates” within the frame of Festival of Future Nows at Hamburger Bahnhof (2017); Curator of “Muscle Memory” Kunstraum Bethanien/ Kreuzberg; Istanbul Coordinator for New Museum - New York’s Ideas City (2012): Istanbul; in Berlin she co-curated “12/12” and “Turkish Art Nice and Simple” exhibitions at Tanas Berlin (2011-2012) together with René Block. She was the assistant curator of the 52nd Venice Biennial Turkish Pavilion (2007). In 2009 and 2010 she worked as Consultant and Program Specialist of Visual Arts for Turkey at the Strategic Planning and Development Department for Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, UAE. Among her artistic positions are her work in Neue National Galerie Berlin Festival of Future Nows within in the scope of "Sticks and Stones" an intervention by David Chipperfield (2014); curator of ‘Walk Over the City’ soundwalk series in Istanbul (2013).

About the Project Coordinator

Aurora Del Rio is an Italian/Spanish artist based in Berlin. She incorporates painting, performance, writing and sound into her practice. She holds a BA in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, and an MFA degree in Art Practice from Transart Institute Berlin/New York. Her artistic research investigates the relationship between human and nature, how the environmental space is perceived and how this perception influences the way reality is inhabited. She is interested in the space of potentiality that originates when definition is avoided or misplaced, when a structure of reality is translated, or read through another system, and the liminal space of failure.

About the Technical Maganger

Being a participant of the previous Field Kitchen Academy, Brad Nath is working to expand upon the temporal vocabulary of architecture in an effort to develop new forms of empathy between humans and their environments. Rather than understanding the built environment as a silent backdrop for life, his work positions the building as an ontological sound structure that comes into being through composed vibrations. Through his material research, live performance, music composition, and sonically-sensitive built environments, Brad seeks to amplify the collaborative performances that occur between buildings and their inhabitants. Driven by the belief that humans need to become better at listening—to themselves, to other humans, to other species, to “inanimate” objects, and even to listening itself—his work attempts to broaden our capacity to listen carefully, to design sensitively, to construct empathetically, and to inhabit performatively, because not only do we build this world, but this world also builds us. Brad studied architecture and music at Cornell University in New York and has been based in Berlin since 2018. www.bradnath.com