Situations staged two international project reunions, bringing key participants from
a recent international exhibition - inSite_05: San Diego/Tijuana and the 9th Istanbul Biennial - back together to reflect on the project from conception to final outcome. Moderated by curator Anders Kreuger, the reunions offered the opportunity to explore a recent exhibition from the perspective of different artists, curators, participants and critics. Each event gave an insight into the context of the project and the curatorial and artistic processes involved, and offered the opportunity to explore what the participants might have done differently.

International Project Reunion:
9th Istanbul Biennial
Saturday 3 March 11am - 4pm
The second in this series of reunions focused on the 9th Istanbul Biennial, which took place from 16 September to 30 October 2005. For the first time the Biennial was developed through a working collaboration between the director of van Abbemuseum, Charles Esche, and the director of Platform Garanti CAC, Vasif Kortun. Esche and Kortun worked together on an exhibition structure that sought to "fold out of and reveal its context - the city of Istanbul." Esche and Kortun were joined by exhibiting artists Solmaz Shahbazi and Hüseyin Alptekin to reflect on this significant exhibition, visited by some 51,000 people and praised by Frieze magazine as "one of the highlights of 2005".
www.iksv.org/bienal/bienal9/english/

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Section 1
Introduction by Anders Kreuger
Overview by Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun

Section 2
Presentation by Solmaz Shahbazi

Section 3
Presentation by Hüseyin Alptekin

Section 4
Open discussion chaired by Anders Kreuger

International Project Reunion:
inSITE_05: San Diego/Tijuana
Wednesday 4 October 11am – 4pm
The first in this series of reunions focused on insite_05, a network of contemporary
art programmes and commissioned projects that mapped the border zone of San Diego-Tijuana from August to November 2005. inSITE_05 was not based on a traditional biennial model, rather artists’ projects were developed as processes of collaboration and engagement in the region with varying levels of visibility.

Artistic Director Osvaldo Sanchez was joined by artists Javier Tellez and Omar Foglio, Associate Curator of the Interventions Donna Conwell, curator and writer Joshua Decter and President of the Board of Directors, Eloisa Haudenschild.
www.inSite05.org

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Download the transcript of the inSITE_05 reunion here.