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Protocinema Presents Rossella Biscotti's New Five-Channel Video Installation 'The City'

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ISTANBUL, Turkey & NEW YORK - Sept. 18, 2018 - PRLog -- Protocinema presents Rossella Biscotti's new five-channel video installation, The City, 2018, in a subterranean space in Istanbul from September 28 – October 27, 2018. A public conversation with Rossella Biscotti and Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, and opening reception, will be held on September 28th, 18-21pm.

The City visits Çatalhöyük, a 9,000-year-old neolithic archeological site, recognized as the earliest urban development, to reflect on the society that is being dug up, and the society that is doing the digging.

Empowerment becomes a line, as conversations occur regarding current events at that time, and the potential socio-economic impact of these events. The first narrative of Biscotti's installation depicts the present, how an emergent international living-community comes together, forming a network of relationships between specialists, excavators, academics and local staff as professional knowledge mingles with personal living histories. Biscotti allows the archeologists' questions to move throughout the site, creating a thread between their modern voices and the ancient buildings they are unearthing.

The parallel narrative of The City, looks at the past, by way of 'ontologies' of specific archeological objects. Biscotti's camera follows the journey of a given object, how it is handled, decontextualized from its location and re-contextualized within an archaeological narrative: from excavation pit, to lab, to archive, and so forth. The process of this removal gives way to an emotional distance from both societies, the dead and the living, to a third possibility that opens up perceptions of time; to a potential future, by way of a subtle shift from documentary to fiction, marked by a silence of conversations. "From here on there are no words."[2] Over the duration of this fifty minute video, we, the viewers, are in the present, alongside the diggers. Towards the end of this immersion, we are suggested to be part of the past, watching a future excavation of the present. Biscotti's images create an atmosphere where the viewer is led from the details of the excavation's techniques and materiality, to the archeologists' theories on the societal structures of the ancient civilization, and aims to result in a questioning of the formation of ideologies and relationships within contemporary society.
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1. "Universalism And Particularism In Archaeological Theory Sociology Essay." UKessays.com. 11 2013. All Answers Ltd. 12 2015
2. Rossella Biscotti and Ines Goldbach, Director, Kunsthaus Baselland

Exhibition Details
Friday, September 28:
18:00 - PUBLIC CONVERSATION, Rossella Biscotti with Vassilis Oikonomopoulos,
19:00 - 21:00 pm – Opening Reception

Exhibition Dates: September 28 – October 27, 2018
Hours: Wed. – Sat, 12:00 – 6:00 pm
Sıraselviler Cad. No. 35, Beyoğlu İstanbul
at Taksim Square, formerly Mixer

About the Artist
Rossella Biscotti was born in 1978 in Molfetta, Italy. For the past decade she has been living and working between the Netherlands and her research sites. Artists-in-Berlin Programme, DAAD, Berlin (2018). Selected Solo Exhibitions: Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (2018); V-A-C Foundation at Gulag Museum, Moscow (2016), Museion, Bozen (2015), Haus Lange and Haus Esters, Krefeld, WIELS, Brussels and Sculpture Center, New York (2014) e-flux, New York and Secession, Vienna (2013), and CAC, Vilnius (2012). Selected group exhibitions: Contour Biennial 8, Mechelen, Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2017), Swiss Institute in New York and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2016), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2015), ICA London (2014), MAXXI, Rome, Witte de With, Rotterdam and Museu Serralves, Porto (2010). Biscotti has taken part in major international exhibitions including the 55th Venice Biennale and the 13th Istanbul Biennale (2013), dOCUMENTA 13 (2012) and Manifesta 9 (2012).

About Protocinema
Protocinema is an itinerant art organization realizing site-aware exhibitions in the world. We produce context specific projects of the highest artistic quality that are accessible to everyone. Through our public programming, Protocinema evokes empathy towards understanding of difference, across regions. Founded by Mari Spirito in 2011, Protocinema is free of 'brick and mortar', sites vary to respond both to global concerns and changing conditions on the ground. Protocinema.org

Special Thanks to: Prof. Ian Hodder, Catalhoyuk Research Project, Stanford University Stanford Archaeology Center; Mondriaan Fund; Kunsthaus Baselland, Ines Goldbach; Italian Cultural Institute, Istanbul, Dr. Gianni Vinciguerra,; SAHA Research Award and Independent Curators International (ICI) to Mari Spirito and Övül Durmuşoğlu for Ancient Works/Asar-ı Atika, at The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Turkey, out of which The City evolved; Ghaith Mofeed; Max Mosca; Attila Faravelli; Elif Temizkan; Bengü Gün, Hamit Hamutçu, Mixer, Istanbul; Rossella Biscotti is represented by Wilfried Lentz Gallery, Rotterdam and morcharpentier, Paris.

Contact
Fikriye Selen-Okatan
***@protocinema.org

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