Caglar Kimyoncu is a digital and video artist as well as a curator and arts consultant. Improvisation is central to the development and production of Caglar\u2019s single and multi-screen film art. His continuing interest is in alternative representations of excluded voices, voices perceived as ‘other’, whether they be from a sexual, gender, disability or ethnic perspective. Much of Caglar\u2019s work focuses on conscientious objection, conscription and non-violence.<\/p>\n
Over the past 15 years, Caglar has worked and collaborated with other artists in a variety of media, including film and video production, website design, theatre sceneography, video and photo documentary, and script development. His practice includes collaborating with and mentoring artists, consulting with international arts organisations and film festivals, and curating digital arts. From 1999 to 2006, Caglar was the Artistic Director of the London Disability Film Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":625,"template":"","tags":[],"artist-theme":[],"artform":[17,18],"curated":[15],"country":[7],"acf":{"simple_layout":false,"featured_image":"","featured_image_alt_text":"","strapline":"Improvisation-led filmmaker, curator and consultant with a continued interest in alternative representations of excluded voices of all kinds including conscientious objection.","artistic_directors":"","contact_name":"Mette Philipsen","contact_title":"Artist Assistant","company_address":"filmpro, Studio BG-06\r\nBow Arts Trust\r\n183 Bow Road\r\nLondon E3 2SJ\r\nEngland","company_email":"intouch@caglark.com","company_url":"http:\/\/www.caglark.com","twitter":"@_caglark","facebook_url":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/filmpro","instagram_url":"","wrap_around_work":"An artist talk and a discussion on improvisation in contemporary artist film and art practices. The exhibition is equipped with access features (closed captions, audio descriptions) and accessible to the widest possible audience on matters to do with conscientious objection and excluded voices.","press_comments":"
'Improvisation is the lifeblood of Caglar\u2019s film art. He invariably forgoes script in favour of an approach which puts the cast and crew deep inside the creative process and removes all familiar signposts for both actors and audience. From relentless improvisation, COnscription grew into a film installation based around a single long take of four actors exploring the ways in which psychiatric assessment for compulsory military service affects people on the outside of mainstream society.'<\/blockquote>\r\nJoe McConnell, Disability Arts Online\r\n'This is a kind of storytelling which brings you incredibly close to the protagonists but denies you any easy answers or comforting explanations.'<\/blockquote>\r\nJoe McConnell, Disability Arts Online\r\n'Conscientious objection is little enough dealt with in mainstream political discourse, let alone as the subject for a gallery installation. So it was encouraging, and probably groundbreaking in a London context, that filmpro made conscientious objection (and, in particular, conscientious objection in Turkey) the subject of a two-week installation at an east London gallery during May, called COnscription.'<\/blockquote>\r\nAlbert Beale, War Resisters International","video":null,"photo_slider":[{"upload_photo":625,"photo_title":"COnscription Exhibition\r\nHaydar K\u00f6yel as G\u00f6kmen Do\u011fan, Hemi Yeroham as Yi\u011fit \u00d6zpetek and G\u00fcnalp Ko\u00e7ak as Ali D\u00f6nmez.","copyright_text":"Photo: Zeynep Dagli","alt_text":"Two men wearing pyjamas, one of whom is sitting on the edge of a white metal framed bed, the other is in partial shot, in the foreground of the photograph.","long_desc":"A photograph from Caglar Kimyoncu's CONSCRIPTION EXHIBITION depicting two men wearing pyjamas, one of whom is sitting on the edge of a white metal framed bed, the other is in partial shot, in the foreground of the photograph. 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