Artist Statement:
I have an interdisciplinary practice that includes sculpture, photography, and print work, but have recently experimented extensively with social sculpture as a medium in which I facilitate social performance/gatherings around or about an installation/place. These social events/happenings bring together wide-ranging modes of critique, prompting reflection on gender, political authority, and questions of transcendence in life/sustenance and death/grief. I often focus on the situation of groups or individuals that are from various reasons excluded, discriminated, silenced. I try to find alternative ways of expression for those who are not able to communicate and integrate in the standard way as a result of social, political, economical and ecological forces.
works
**Ghost Spring @gruntgallery (Vancouver 2018 with Derya Akay) http://grunt.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Ghost_Spring_Glenn_Alteen.pdf
ARK164 @44A Art Gallery 2014 "Howl" 2014
- About the work (Turkish)
HAPPENING ARK163 @2014 LGBTI Pride Week Exhibition "Union Ceremonies"
- ARK163 (2014) (About Union Ceremony) (Turkish)
- ARK163 (2014) (About Union Ceremony) (English)
- ARK163 (2014) (About Union Ceremony Agreement Form) (Turkish)
- ARK163 (2014) (About Union Ceremony Agreement Form) (English)
HAPPENING ARK170 @Mardin Biennial "Mythologies" (May 2015)
- About the work (English draft)
- About the work (Turkish draft)
HAPPENING Funeral Walk @MountainView Cemetery Vancouver Jan2018 with Derya Akay https://vimeo.com/277548268
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