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TOM SKIPP – FILM WORKS – CARAVAN SUITE
FILM DETAILS
12 videos. Colour. HD video
Sound: Stereo.
Filmed in Turkey and Syria, 2010.
Production: My Oscillating Identity, Transit Festival and Tom Skipp.
CAST
Dancers: Nilay Ariöz, Yanaël Plumet,
Defne Erdur Bekdik, Tara Pilbrow
Musicians:
Anil Eraslan, Forent Merlet and Artur Vidal
Stills Photography: Ezgi Göç
Direction, photography, editing: Tom Skipp
INFO
Write to: estrellasonora@gmail.com
SYNOPSIS
So far 7 short films have been produced as part of the Caravan Project - a site specific improvised dance, music and video project which travelled through Turkey and Syria in summer 2010 creating video works in Uchisar, Antakya, Samandagi, St. Simeon and Aleppo. The video works are designed to be shown together or separately. These short works in progress (which will eventually number 12 videos) reflect the dancers and musicians progress through these places and their interaction with its people, architecture, sounds and colours.
STILLS GALLERY
MAKING THE FILM
©Ezgi Göç
TRAILERS
ABOUT THE CARAVAN PROJECT
The travelling spirit has been inherent to the concept of Transit since its inception. Having hosted international groups of artists over the years, we were eager to go further in the traveling mode by using its potential of discovery, human and cultural exchange as a framework and thread for our artistic adventures. Our first Caravan Project took place this summer place and linked Cappadocia to Antakya to Aleppo in Syria. It travelled through a geographical zone cradle of complex history and mixed cultures with outstanding architectural heritage, natural sites and unique urban atmospheres. Both Cappadocia and Aleppo are listed as world heritage by the UNESCO. The aim is to construct an entire trip as an artistic journey with moments of observation, exchange with local population and other artists, performances, and the making and gathering of traces to be processed at a later stage. Each stop over was an occasion to interact with a specific site using improvised music, dance and video art to translate our presence through a creative process rooted in the ephemeral nature of each moment. This Caravan Project gathered together a team of 9 artists, dancers, musicians, video artist, photographer coming from Turkey, France, Spain and England.ABOUT TRANSIT
TRANSIT is an ongoing international project with variable geographies that gathers artists and audiences from different backgrounds in and around the practice of improvisation and performance art.
With Dance, Music and Image as areas of predilection, TRANSIT enables encounters between these different disciplines by opening new spaces of collaboration for artists in the field.
Fed by a voyaging spirit, TRANSIT choses specific sites and environments using their natural, cultural, social and architectural characteristics as practical frameworks and source of inspiration.
TRANSIT tightly combines pedagogy, multi disciplinary performance and cultural exchange, inventing unique configurations for each time and space in which it unfolds.
By making TRANSIT we believe that Arts and Culture can create a common ground to integrate complex differences into a pacified comprehension of today’s world. This ground is in constant movement ; so is TRANSIT.
TRANSIT was initiated by the french cultural association COMPAGNIE COULISSE in 2006 and is based in Istanbul.
Transit website http://www.transit-istanbul.org/
SHORT BIOGRAPHIES
Yanaël Plumet - Dancer, Project Director
Engaged in the practise of improvisation since several years, Yanaël confronts it to the different contexts encountered on the way. Teaching, performing, experiencing orient the curves of the course where the body like a territory finds his own lanscape throughout the journey. Dance, like a wavelength, shapes his way of meeting the world and the others.
Defne Erdur Bekdik - Dancer, Project Coordinator
Defne is a performance artist, mainly working on instant composition and site specific work. She has worked with many pioneers in the fields of Somatics (Yoga, Experiential Anatomy and Massage Therapy), Improvised Dance and Expressive Art Therapies. She is interested in collaborating with artists coming from different backgrounds and integrating the various fields of arts and social sciences in her performative and pedagogic work. Currently she has two on going pieces; “moment is yours” : a series of multi-disciplinary group performances in public spaces of Istanbul and “inbetween prayers” : a series of solo dance performance in autobiographical nature.
Tara Pilbrow - Dancer
Tara has been working with improvised dance for the past six years. Having trained with artists such as Julyen Hamilton, Kirstie Simson, Olivier Besson, and David Zambrano, Tara then continued to perform with various dance companies, as part of improvisation collectives, and in her own pieces. She also teaches and performs Argentine Tango, as well as continuing to work with various contemporary dance companies both in France, and abroad. Recent examples of her own work include The Jukebox Installation (in collaboration with Yanael Plumet, Paris 2007, Istanbul 2008) and Noli Me Tanguere (in collaboration with Tristan Mace, Paris 2008/2009).
Nilay Arioz - Dancer
Nilay studied Contemporary Dance in Istanbul Technical University in parallel with her studies in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering. She attended classes with Mustafa Kaplan. After graduating in 1999 she started working as an engineer but continued her dance training with Tugce Tuna. She has attended many workshops and classes in CATI as an active member. In 2003 she started to work with several dance artists on improvisation in public spaces. She directed 3 short videos "Y?" (2003), "Inai" (2004) and "Goz Kirp" (2004) which won the 3rd place at the 3rd National Short Film Festival. in 2005 she choreographed the pieces "Umbrella" and "MyCycle", danced in "Underground Passage" by Malcolm Shute and initiated a video and improvisation project in public places called "Could you please take a video of me for a minute?". Currently she is working as a software performance specialist and continuing in dance and video as an independent artist. She has attended Transit Festival 3 times before 2010 and she is a very happy follower of the festival.
Florent Merlet - Musician
Florent is currently in the direction team of the St Pulchery High School where he has been teaching computer sciences since 2004. He is also a drummer and is very active in the Istanbul improvised music scene being a member of several groups (Karosri Kasap, Have you seen my bird) and shares projects with many other artists in the field. He has been working for and participating to the Transit Festival since the beginning.
Anil Eraslan - Musician
Anil graduated and got his masters degree from Strasbourg Conservatory where he studied under Frank van Lamsweerde and Marc Coppey. Studying contemporary music, jazz, and free improvising with Vincent Courtois, Anssi Kartunnen, Eric Watson, Benjamin Moussay, he gave solo concerts and concerts with jazz and contemporary music ensembles, was invited to Musica and Jazz d’Or festivals. His group Auditive Connection has been accepted to L’Illiade Young Talents Festival, and performed in Turkish Season in France and in ?stanbul. His duo with Christine Ott, a prominent Ondes Martenot player, participated to Yann Tiersen’s tour in 2009. He played also with Matt Elliot, Eric Groleau, Marc Sens, Sevket Akinci in concerts and recordings. Besides, he plays with Sumru A??ryürüyen, O?uz Büyükberber and Cenk Erdo?an as project "5" and teaches cello and improvised music in Strasbourg, Illkirch School of Music.
Artur Matamoro Vidal - Musician
Artur was initiated to jazz, free jazz, and contemporany music improvisation through classes, workshops and meetings with some of the most interesting french and international musiciens like Fred Frith, André Villéger, Jean Marc Padovani, François Corneloup, Mary Oliver, Fred Blondy, Ruswell Rudd, François Merville, or Bernard Lubat. He begins to work with dance improvisation thanks to worksohps and performances with the Magpie Company, some of the Instant Composer Pool musiciens based in Amsterdam Julyen Hamilton and Barre Phillips . Now he’s playing with the collectif In-Sit-U (improvised music), Ressac (sound « detournement » of silent films) and he’s working with improvised dance in the company Ekla ,Orbitallink (Paris), and This Torsion Dance Theatre Company (Dublin).
Tom Skipp - Video Artist
Tom Skipp, a British videoartist, lives in Madrid, Spain. He studied at the Arts Educational School in the Barbican, London, and at Warwick university. His work has been shown at film festivals and art institutions around the world, including Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Edge Zones, Miami and Urban Research, Berlin. He has also curated a number of art exhibitions including "Tadeusz Kantor - The Theatre of Memory" at Telefonica and Fundació La Caixa de Catalunya, and "Real Spanish Art" at the Nagasaki Prefectural Museum, Japan. In December 2009, his short film "Something Old" was awarded a "Palmares" at the recent Festival d’Images Artistiques Vidéo, in Catania.
Ezgi Göc - Photographer
Ezgi Goc was born in Ankara in 1988. She studied Translation and Interpreting at Bogazici University, where she is now doing her M.A. in Critical and Cultural Studies. She has been seriously involved in photography since she came first in a small-scale competition in 2003. At university, she was also a part of Bogazici Contemporary Dance Group, a student initiative and she worked for Galataperform for two years, participating in the organization of various festivals and projects such as Visibility Project and Performance Days. She has been an ardent fan and voluntary photographer of Transit-Istanbul for the last two festivals.
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