can altay at spike island

Can Altay at Spike Island

Spike Island Autumn Exhibitions Opening:

October 5th, 18:00

Galeri 1: Can Altay, EY AHALI! / Setting a Setting / Letting a Setting

Go

October 6 sees the launch of Spike Island's Autumn Show, presenting

three exhibitions of new work by artists Can Altay, Henry VIII's Wives

and Andr� Sousa. All of the artists have created their work through

Spike Island's internationally acclaimed residency programme. Their

projects are loosely connected through the artists' individualized

responses to location and their use of collaboration as a mode of

contemporary artistic practice.

Istanbul artist, Can Altay, is currently undertaking a three month

residency at Spike Island, selected from an open submission call for

applications to Turkish artists, in partnership with Platform Garanti,

Contemporary Art Centre in Istanbul.

Can's project, EY AHALI! / Setting a Setting / Letting a Setting Go ,

initiates a series of themed discussions in the gallery. The title

indicates the course of action that the artist will take: "Ey Ahali!"

is the typical phrase of the traditional introduction to a public

announcement, verbally made by shouting on the streets; this will

announce the artist's intentions to generate debate in the gallery.

'Setting a Setting' asks whether it is possible to generate a setting

for ideas and discussions to take place. 'Letting a Setting Go' is the

aspiration that the discussions will follow their own course. Can is

also producing objects, films and audio works that reveal the

processes of making the exhibition. This includes an interactive sound

stage and self assembly journals, directly engaging the viewer. In

order to continuously animate the space, the artist will inhabit the