with Kea Wienand

Duration: 3 hours
Location: Exhibition room of the house
Workshop for adults aged 18 and over
With registration by July 25, 2014
mona.tiltsch@stadt-oldenburg.de, 0441 235 3275

In her performances and video works, Sükran Moral deals with themes and places in Turkish society that have also been of interest to Western academia, especially female researchers, for over a hundred years: the role of women, polygamy, the brothel, the hamam and the harem. The Western gaze “sees” in them above all the cliché of a sensual Orient that serves as a devalued and at the same time coveted counter-image to its own culture.

In the workshop we want to talk about what happens when Western eyes encounter Moral’s works. Do Moral’s works unveil “something”? Do they counter the Western gaze? How can we talk about Moral’s art without only thematizing our own? And: who is “we” anyway?

Kea Wienand is an art and cultural scientist. She has been a research assistant at the Institute for Art and Visual Culture at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg since 2009. In 2007 she worked as an art mediator at documenta 12, Kassel, and was involved in the accompanying research of the mediation. 2004 – 2006 she was a scholarship holder in the DFG Research Training Group “Identity and Difference. Gender Constructions and Interculturality”, University of Trier.

Lectureships at the University of Oldenburg, at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg; at the Center for Interdisciplinary Media Studies at the Georg-August-University Göttingen and at the University of the Arts, Bremen. Art educator at various institutions.