A CORNER IN THE WORLD

A Corner in the World is an organization for curatorial practice working at the intersection of arts, culture and creative industries. We are based in İstanbul and İzmir but our practice expands to various cities nationally and internationally.

Curations

Our curatorial approach is rooted in the interaction of performing arts, cultural studies and social sciences. We create diverse curatorial content aiming to discuss timely issues through the possibilities of performance and its interaction with other disciplines.

A Corner in the World is an organization for curatorial practice working at the intersection ofarts, culture and creative industries. We create content and organize events guided by a curiosity towards the interaction of different contemporary ideas and practices. Our work takes place in various spaces, with the participation of different actors and explores transdisciplinary possibilities.

We curate festivals and artistic programs, design collaborative events and projects including conferences, training and workshops, conduct research and create research-based content.

We are based in İstanbul and İzmir but our practice expands to various cities nationally and internationally.
Our Approach

Innovative Interaction
We think outside of the box and look for new ways to put things together. We create new propositions beyond the conventional by synthesizing creative ideas in interaction with various disciplines and practices.

 

Dynamic Plurality
With a strong belief in the exchange and interaction of disciplines, backgrounds and practices, we aim to facilitate creations in various forms, promote new voices and contribute to the cultural and artistic landscape of cities and communities.

 

Decentralized Internationalization
We work towards decentralizing artistic production and point to opportunities beyond conventional approaches, spaces and audiences. Our international focus is on fostering exchange, mobility and collaborations between Turkey and its surrounding regions, with which we have very few platforms to come together despite our geographical proximity.

Walk Around the Corner is a performance walk where the audience gets to walk around the streets of a chosen neighborhood and is exposed to short performances in various spaces.

We choose a neighborhood and design a route that will allow us to look at its spaces, the history hidden therein and the present with fresh eyes, and to see the urban space from different perspectives. We design site-specific performances for places on this route and encounter them as we walk. Our stops include different areas embedded in the fabric of the city: streets, courtyards, historical buildings, iconic buildings, parks, art venues and more.

Walk Around the Corner can take place in any city and neighborhood. So far, we realized it in Yeldeğirmeni, Bomonti and Bağdat Street in İstanbul through different partnerships. We are working to organize walks in various cities and neighborhoods.

Artists and Works

Concept and Design: A Corner in the World

Design and Choreography: Ekin Tunçeli

Creative Dancers: Ekin Tunçeli, Berkcan Ceylan, Rüçhan Eylül Ercan

Artists and Works

Coal-black Pohjan Neito – Canan Yücel Pekiçten, bomontiada COURTYARD

Vertical – Metehan Kayan- Umut Sevgül, bomontiada COURTYARD

Encounters – Dilek Üstünalan, bomontiada COURTYARD, Şişli Gençlik Spor soccer field, Halepli Şükrü Street

‘4’ – Fırat Kuşçu, Fransız Fakirhanesi

Head to Toe – Front Back Right and Left, Cemal Acet, Fransız Fakirhanesi

Machine – Volkan Ergen, Fransız Fakirhanesi Temporary Blindness – Ezgi Bilgin, The House Hotel courtyard

Magnetism Experiments – Nursev Irmak Demirbaş, Kozmos Cafe

Artists and Works

Hippies for Sale, Gizem Aksu,bomontiada AVLU

Doppelganger, Nadir Sönmez, bomontiada AVLU

Don’t be Afraid of My Questions, I am Just a Dramaturge, Evren Erbatur, bomontiada ALT

Der Zwerg, Canan Yücel Pekiçten, bomontiada bahçe

Dis/connection, Seçil Demircan, bomontiada ALT

Broken, Korhan Başaran, bomontiada ALT

Attention, Lana Shmeit, bomontiada ALT

Halwa, Zinnure Türe, bomontiada bahçe Heaped Up in a Corner, Derin Çankaya, bomontiada arka bahçe

Artists and Works

Pendulum, Sedat Can Güvenç, Lara Aysal, Street
[Little Black Fish], Pırıltı Onukar, Street
Enstasis, Şafak Ersözlü, TAK
Voiceless, Deniz Atlı, Hangart
On Relativity, Dadans, TAK
Anonymous, Nadir Sönmez, Arthere
36°39’01″N 29°06’07″E, Ozan Tekin, Kargart

Team

A Corner in the World is a curious team who believe in the creative potential of human beings to reimagine the world we live in. It is a community of creative individuals operating in various fields in the creative industries.

Event and Program Design

Our event and program design approach focuses on interdisciplinary creative and cultural practices and collaboration. We work with various partners to design tailor-based events and programs with an innovative approach.

A Corner in the World is a curious team who believe in the creative potential of human beings to reimagine the world we live in. It is a community of creative individuals operating in various fields in the creative industries.
Our Story
A Corner in the World started out as an international festival for contemporary performing arts bringing together artists from Turkey and its surrounding regions. A Corner in the World Festival was initiated and produced in 2015 by Köşe, a performance space in Yeldeğirmeni, İstanbul founded by Fatih Gençkal, Onur Karaoğlu, Hilal Polat and Utku Kara. After two editions of the festival, we grew into an organization with a new team consisting of Burcu Yılmaz Deniz, Claire Zerhouni and Fatih Gençkal as our work expanded with the idea to nurture new voices and foster new connections in collaboration with independent actors and institutions spreading around the city. We ran a full time multidisciplinary artistic program in bomontiada ALT from 2017 to 2019 where our community also expanded. Since 2020, founding partners Burcu and Fatih lead the organization while we have a large community of creative individuals we grow with.
Burcu Yılmaz Deniz

Burcu Yılmaz Deniz

Founding Partner, Co-Director

burcu@acornerintheworld.com

She is a curator, performer and cultural manager. She is the co-director of A Corner in the World. She had a background in cultural heritage and arts management and performing arts and got her education in Turkey and France. She worked with national and international organizations including Anadolu Kültür (TR), Friche Laiterie (FR), Global Heritage Fund (USA) and as a consultant for Creative Europe. She performed for Villa Theatre (FR),Altenburg State Theatre (GR) and Atta Festival ( TR) among others and toured in France, Greece, Germany and Italy. As a trainer on creative dance,improvisation and soundpainting, she works with different groups including mostly children.

Fatih Gençkal

Fatih Gençkal

Founding Partner, Co-Director

fatih@acornerintheworld.com

He is a performing artist and curator. He is the co-director of A Corner in the World and tibia x fibula company. With a background in Political Science, Acting and Contemporary Dance, he has been involved in performing, directing, teaching, cultural management and curating nationally and internationally. His performance work has been seen in Theater Freiburg, TheaterFormen (GER), Julidans (NL), PS122 (USA) and İstanbul Theater Festival among others. Fatih is a nominee for New Theater Magazine Beklan Algan Actor Award (2014) and recipient of Direklerarası New Space Manager Award (2015), an advisory committee member for Komünitas İzmir, a Mophradat grants selection committee member in 2020.

Onur Çelikkol

Onur Çelikkol

Project Coordinator

onur@acornerintheworld.com

He has a bachelor degree in Management of Performing Arts from Istanbul Bilgi University. Since 2015, he took many roles and positions such as booking agent, manager, tour manager, festival promoter and director and label director. He worked at XJAZZ Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara and Berlin, and was a part of the founding team of Bozcaada Jazz Festival and Bergama Theatre Festival. Since 2021, he coordinates operations and research at A Corner in the World. He is also taking programming/coding classes in order to bring his experience and observations gained through his art and culture background together with innovation and technology.

Partners

With a strong belief in the exchange and interaction of different ideas and practices, our work thrives in collaborations. We operate through partnerships with, receive support from and provide services for various organizations.

Research and Consultancy

We provide research and consultancy services for organizations and institutions. The research work focuses on current issues in the larger ecosystem of the creative industries including cultural policy, creative economy and impact. Our consultancy includes providing training to organizations in program and event design, curatorial and cultural management as well as co-designing the curatorial approaches and strategies of organizations.

Creative Industries Research: Analysis of the Cultural and Creative Sector in the Region of Izmir and Antalya
January 2022

This study marks our first commissioned research work. The work is commissioned by Goethe Institut Izmir. We worked as a team to map out and analyze the creative industries stakeholders in İzmir and Antalya region with a specific focus on industrial design, architectural design, gaming, extended reality (XR) and UX/UI design. The research contained four steps including desktop research, mapping survey, listening circles and case study analysis. At the end of the research, we drafted a report as well as created a graph commons map to present all the stakeholders and their web of relations in the region.

Framing Culture and Arts Projects
September 12 - 13, 2019
Gaziantep

We designed and implemented a Capacity Building Training Program for cultural practitioners in Gaziantep with the invitation of Spaces of Culture. The 2 day program consisted of talks, film screenings, and mentored project development workshops.

 

Mentors: Burcu Yılmaz, Claire Zerhouni (A Corner in the World), Ayşıl Gül Tokcan (SEIBA Hikaye Anlatıcılığı Merkezi), Özcan Yurdalan (Nar Photos), Eda Yiğit (Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları) Burcu Yıldız

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We are open to thinking together to design new content, programs and events.

 

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