Exchange: Turkey
Social Challenge: Gender Equality
Artist: Heidi Boisvert
Exchange: Turkey
Social Challenge: Gender Equality
Artist: Heidi Boisvert
Istanbul, Turkey
Heidi Boisvert will travel to Istanbul to work with participants on addressing gender equality by blending various digital technologies and using her “play as process” approach. Her workshops encourage participants to connect personal experiences of trauma to a collective narrative by transforming embedded somatic scripts and historical patterns into live drawings and music, all generated from their body data.
Video by Kayra Sercan Çanakçı.
Community Projects
Eleğimsağma
Photo by: Kayra Sercan Çanakçı “Eleğimsağma” is an interactive installation based on a story written by Ömer Seyfettin in 1917. A young girl...
A Woman’s Scream
Photo by: Kayra Sercan Çanakçı “A Woman’s Scream” is a kinetic sculpture that requires two participants to activate the experience. Participants...
Escape Yourself
Photo by: Kayra Sercan Çanakçı “Escape Yourself” is an escape room that makes participants face the conditions that lead to domestic violence...
Blog
Tackling Gender Equity & Women’s Empowerment through Embodied Play
What an exhilarating and whirlwind of a month in Istanbul! 16 participants (across a wide range of disciplines) and I explored gender equity and women’s empowerment through participatory design, movement, writing, drawing, skill-building workshops employing different...
Transforming Epigenetic Trauma through Biomedia, Performance, and Play
Heidi Boisvert, [radical] signs of life. Camera, Jim DeSeve; Editing, Yoni Turkienicz. For the past 15 years, I anticipated future tech trends and used emerging media and technology to support social justice campaigns addressing violence and advancing values of...
| Title | Address | Description |
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U.S. Consulate General Istanbul — Turkey | Istanbul, Turecko | |
Istanbul, Turkey | Istanbul, Turecko | Exchange Location |
Istanbul, Turkey
Exchange Location
U.S. Consulate General Istanbul — Turkey
About Our Host Partner, InogarART
INOGAR is an incubation center that combines innovation and enterprise culture with civil society, private sector, sustainable development, cultural arts, and technology. They aim to lead the way in sustainable development, creativity, and technology-based transformation of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Turkey.
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