Breaking the Stereotype 2010. From Orient and Occident to a Mutual Understanding of Images
The Exhibition
Free Entry
Location 1: DEPO, Lüleci Hendek Cad.12, Koltukçular Çıkmazı 1, Tophane-Istanbul (main building,
1st and second floor)
Date: 14 May – 27 June, 2010
Opening Hours: 11:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday – Sunday; Mondays closed)
Exhibition Opening: 13 May, 2010, 18:30 (DEPO)
Location 2: The Gallery at the Austrian St. George’s High School (Österreichisches St. Georgskolleg Istanbul/ Özel St. Georg Avusturya Lisesi ve Ticaret Okulu), Kart Çınar Sok. 2, Karaköy –
İstanbul
Date: 13 September – 23 October, 2010
Opening Hours: 10:00 - 17:00 (Monday – Saturday)
Exhibition Finale (Finissage): 22 October, 2010, 17:00
Special guest at exhibition closing: to be announced
The exhibition contrasts the representations of cultural perception concerning the Orient and the Occident against the representations of Oriental and Occidental self-perception as they appear in
literature, the media and every day life in order to break the stereotypes. In order to differentiate the problem even further the representations of cultural perception are contrasted against
the perception-in return of this perception and by migrant perspectives.
This is done by selecting a limited number of topical fields which are subject to Orientalist and Occidentalist stereotyping: women, men, Europeans/ Occidentals, Orientals, the veil, the headscarf, freedom, nudity, Istanbul, Paris, Nathan the Wise.
Part of the visual material shown in the exhibition is taken from the “Breaking the Stereotype”
photocontest, which Kadir Has University and the University of Innsbruck launched in cooperation with fotoalem.com, other exhibits have been designed by students of Innsbruck University and Notre
Dame University of Beirut, and by young Austrian and German artists
Please, also find us on the Istanbul 2010 homepage:
http://www.en.istanbul2010.org/GENERIC/GP_545047.
Team Exhibition Stage 3 (2009-2010)
General responsibility: Cultures in Contact, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck, and cooperating universities, institutions and organizations: GenderLink, Salzburg/ Austria; Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey (Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences), Ege University, Izmir/ Turkey (English Language and Literature Department); Notre Dame University, Beirut/ Lebanon (VCD-Department).
Planning, coordination and final editing: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Veronika Bernard, Cultures in Contact, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck.
Planning, coordinating and editing team (in alphabetical order): Assoc. Prof. Dr. Veronika Bernard (Leopold-Franzens-University, Innsbruck/ Austria), Ass. Prof. Dr. İsmail Boyacı (Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir/ Turkey), Prof. Dr. Günseli İşçi (Ege University, Izmir/ Turkey), Ass. Prof. Dr. Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous (Notre Dame University, Beirut/ Lebanon).
Scientific team (theoretical background, research; in alphabetical order): Vedat Akman (Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sedat Aybar (Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Veronika Bernard (Leopold-Franzens-University, Innsbruck/ Austria), Ass. Prof. Dr. İsmail Boyacı (Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir/ Turkey), Prof. Dr. Günseli İşçi (Ege University, Izmir/ Turkey), Ass. Prof. Dr. Uğur Özgöker (Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serhan Oksay (Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey), Erika Pircher (LibanLink/ Salzburg), Ass. Prof. Dr. Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous (Notre Dame University, Beirut/ Lebanon), Hilmi Songur (Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey).
Creative team (exhibit and exhibition design; in alphabetical order): Assoc. Prof. Dr. Veronika Bernard (Leopold-Franzens-University, Innsbruck/ Austria), Isabel Becker (Vienna/ Austria), Carine Gengler (Vienna/ Austria), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serhan Oksay (Kadir Has University, Istanbul/ Turkey).
Consultants (in alphabetical order):
Dr. Linda Choueiri Notre Dame University, Beirut/ Lebanon), Dr. Dima Dabbous-Sensenig (Lebanese American University, Beirut/ Lebanon), Dr. Guita Hourani (Notre Dame University, Beirut/ Lebanon), Erika Pircher (GenderLink, Salzburg/ Austria).