LET'STANBUL Experimental Art Festival on 9-15 September 2011

Bahçeşehir University Institute of Creative Ideas proudly presents:
LET'STANBUL 2011 EXPERIMENTAL ART FESTIVAL

Bahçeşehir University Institute of Creative Ideas, which made its voice heard with the 2010 Cultural Interaction Program organized as part of the European Capital of Culture events, is this time achieving a first in Türkiye by organizing an experimental art festival in Istanbul. Young artists from all over the world will take part in the LET'STANBUL 2011 Experimental Art Festival, which will be held at various venues in Istanbul from 9 to 15 September 2011 and will bring 12 experimental art practices from five different disciplines to art lovers. The aim of the project, organized entirely by university students and realized with the support of Bahçeşehir University, is to carry art from designated spaces into public spaces.

ART TAKES TO THE STREETS

With LET'STANBUL 2011, to be held with the support of Bahçeşehir University from 9 to 15 September 2011, Istanbul will meet an experimental art festival unlike anything it is used to. During the week-long festival, a creative team of 15 people from around the world and from different disciplines, all advertisers, photographers, musicians, designers and theater artists, will realize the high-visibility projects they have prepared for Istanbul and produce works within this framework. The festival, organized for the first time this year by the Institute of Creative Ideas, will consist of 12 different experimental art practices prepared on the principle that art and artistic events should be accessible, along with related side events. The goal of the LET'STANBUL 2011 Experimental Art Festival is to bring new definitions to the existing perception of art by extending the boundaries of art beyond spaces reserved for art into everyday public spaces.

Through interdisciplinary experimental art and media work, the Institute of Creative Ideas aims to bring new perspectives to the traditional perception of art, in which artistic expression finds its place in exhibitions and galleries. In line with this aim, the experimental art practices to be realized by 15 independent artists with different artistic backgrounds will also

bring about a re-evaluation of public spaces from an artistic perspective. With the LET'STANBUL 2011 Experimental Art Festival, art will become an accessible form of expression for all the people of the city without discrimination, and, just as the festival's slogan says, art will spill out onto the streets.

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