9th Çanakkale Biennial

9th Çanakkale Biennial: LET TIME RUN ITS COURSE
The 9th edition of the Çanakkale Biennial, organized by CABININ – Çanakkale Biennial Initiative, has been bringing different communities together around contemporary art since 2008, will start on October 4th - November 11th 2024.

Venue: Korfmann Library/Troia Foundation
Curated by Ulrika Flink & Deniz Erbas

DIACHRONIC: Salvage the Past is a new commission by David Blandy for Çanakkale Biennial. A new game that considers our relationship to the past and its stories, who has access to that past and who writes that history. You play as a time traveller, an Envoy, who has a mission to retrieve artefacts in time periods before a future Explorer has a chance to destroy or pillage them.

Through a series of prompts, the player constructs a vivid world in flux, constantly under threat of collapse, as future catastrophe undermines this fragile time shift. Based on the history of Hisarlik and the city of Troy and the ultimately destructive archaeology of Heinrich Schliemann, the game asks us to consider what has been lost, and how we build new narratives.

Also showing is Dust to Data, a film by Larry Achiampong & David Blandy that tracks through the colonial history of archaeology to its present parallels in data mining of DNA & social media image banks. Originally commissioned by FACT Liverpool, Curated by Annie Jael Kwan, with thanks to Professor Larry Barnham, Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool.

Dust to Data- Larry Achiampong & David Blandy. Originally commissioned by FACT Liverpool, Curated by Annie Jael Kwan, with thanks to Professor Larry Barnham, Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool.

Blandy’s film Soil, Sinew & Bone is also on view offsite in the rural village, Adatepe, referenced in Homer’s Iliad. It was created from archival film footage, weaving a line through documentary, essay and poetry around farming and war.

Originally commissioned by John Hansard Gallery, Southampton & Towner Eastbourne Curated by Ros Carter & Noelle Collins. Supported by Arts Council England @aceagrams, The Elephant Trust & Screen Archive South East.

Supported by The British Council @turkeybritishcouncil @brit_visualarts in partnership with @johnhansardgallery

Soil, Sinew & Bone, David Blandy, 2022-23

Artists:
Ahmet Yiğider, Akın Güreş, Alper Aydın, Ani Çelik Arevyan, Ataman Girişken, ATI SUFFIX, Ayşen Urfalıoğlu, Aytuğ Aykut, Berkin Gülten, Berkin Günsay, Bilal Yılmaz, Cem Sonel, Damla Sari, David Blandy, Deniz Kulaksızoğlu & Can Yıldırım, Ecem Dilan Köse, Eda Sütunç, Edith Roux, Erdal Duman, Eric Magassa, Esra Carus, Fatih Kızılcan, Fırat Engin,Füreya Koral, Gönül Nuhoğlu, Güçlü Polat, Hakan Yılmaz, Halit Demirel, Jane Jin Kaisen, Johannes Vogl, Jun'ichiro Ishii, Kaan Tanhan, Kerem Meriç, Larry Achiampong, Madlen Hirtentreu, Murat Cem Baytok, Mustafa Akkaya, Ömür Tokgöz, Rabia Seyhan, Serhat Kiraz & Hakan Gündüz, Seyhun Topuz, Süleyman Yılmaz, Tunç Ali Çam, Vasilis Alexandrou,Vince Briffa, Volkan Babaotu, Yabancı, Yunus Aras