Trainer: Ayça Ceylan
Duration: 2 sessions (3 hours)
Date: 30 June-1 July / 17:00 - 18:30

Participants will have information about the history of the body and body politics in different cultures through female artists positions the body to the center in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Workshop two sessions, 3 hours total (90 minutes each session)

Program

Session I
Paganism-Christianity-Islam and the perception of the body
Body and mass production after the industrial revolution
Soviet Russia and biomechanical body
Recording the body through photography and cinema
Artists producing in different disciplines and their approaches to the body
Diane Arbus, Francesca Woodman, Nan Goldin - photo art, unwanted body and America
Shirin Neshat: video art, female body and the Middle East

Session II
Artists producing in different disciplines and their approaches to the body:
Tracey Emin-installation, unnormal and multiculturalism
Yayoi Kusama- multidiscipline, obsession and Far Asia
Sophie Calle- conceptual art, surveillance and documentation
Ana Mendieta, Marina Abramovic and ORLAN- performance art, body limits and social movements
The effect of social media on body politics in the 21st century