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The Inspiration of Home

The Inspiration of Home THE INSPIRATION OF HOME Köken Ergun in conversation with November Paynter B orn in 1976, in Istanbul, Köken Ergun studied with actress Yıldız Kenter and playwright Güngör Dilmen at the Istanbul University Acting Department, followed by a postgraduate diploma in Ancient Greek Theatre at London’s King’s College. He holds a Masters degree from the Istanbul Bilgi University Visual Communication Design Department, with his dissertation entitled Stress on the Contemporary Body in New Media Arts. An earlier postgraduate diploma dissertation was written on The Representation of Iphigenia in Euripides, Racine, and Goethe. Ergun is currently a PhD candidate at the Theatre Dramaturgy Department of Istanbul University. Between 1998 and 2001 Ergun worked as assistant director to Robert Wilson on productions such as The Days Before: Death Destruction & Detroit III. In 2001, he presented his first solo work, a large-scale installation performance, in Istanbul’s Rumeli Fortress. This initial step into art performance led Ergun to move into the field of art video and performance and he began exhibiting in Europe and the United States at institutions including KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Arts (Helsinki), Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center (Istanbul), Exit Art (NYC), Art in General (NYC), Badischer Kunstverein (Karlsruhe), http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art MIT Press

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Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
© 2007 November Paynter
Subject
Interview
ISSN
1520-281X
eISSN
1537-9477
DOI
10.1162/pajj.2007.29.1.101
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THE INSPIRATION OF HOME Köken Ergun in conversation with November Paynter B orn in 1976, in Istanbul, Köken Ergun studied with actress Yıldız Kenter and playwright Güngör Dilmen at the Istanbul University Acting Department, followed by a postgraduate diploma in Ancient Greek Theatre at London’s King’s College. He holds a Masters degree from the Istanbul Bilgi University Visual Communication Design Department, with his dissertation entitled Stress on the Contemporary Body in New Media Arts. An earlier postgraduate diploma dissertation was written on The Representation of Iphigenia in Euripides, Racine, and Goethe. Ergun is currently a PhD candidate at the Theatre Dramaturgy Department of Istanbul University. Between 1998 and 2001 Ergun worked as assistant director to Robert Wilson on productions such as The Days Before: Death Destruction & Detroit III. In 2001, he presented his first solo work, a large-scale installation performance, in Istanbul’s Rumeli Fortress. This initial step into art performance led Ergun to move into the field of art video and performance and he began exhibiting in Europe and the United States at institutions including KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Arts (Helsinki), Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center (Istanbul), Exit Art (NYC), Art in General (NYC), Badischer Kunstverein (Karlsruhe),

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Published: Jan 1, 2007

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