Dr. Filiz Cicek
Dr. Filiz Cicek studied medicine, art, language and social sciences in Istanbul, Turkey, Florence, Italy and Indiana University, USA. She is an artist, scholar and journalist who served as a Fulbright specialist for the Arts. Dr. Cicek received her MFA and PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington and has been teaching gender, art and cinema courses at Bogazici University summer school in Istanbul, DePauw University, Ivy Tech Community College, Indiana University, and. As a curator, she met HH Dalia Lama in 2010 and upon his request organized BloomingtonKatmandu International Art Exhibit exploring the concept of home in the 21st century. Dr. Cicek also curated other international art exhibits such as the Museum of Broken Relationships and Women Exposed International Art Exhibits. As an artist, she exhibited her work in the museums and galleries in New York, Chicago, California, The Kinsey Institute, IU School of Fine Arts Gallery and various venues in Bloomington. In 2016 Dr. Cicek took time off from art and academia and served as a Peace Volunteer trainer in Indonesia.Since 2009, Dr. Cicek has been contributing to The Ryder Magazine as a co-editor, writer, artist, graphic designer, and an event coordinator. As such she traveled to Cannes, Berlinale and Istanbul international film festivals as a film critic. She has been published in local national and international journals and newspapers on art, gender and cinema. Her essay on Orientalism and cinema, titled, “Engendering Orientalism: Fatih Akin’s Head-On and The Edge of Heaven” in Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond just got published this month by IGI Global Inc. Dr. Cicek also produces the weekly art program ArtBeat! for the WFHB community radio. She is currently serving as the regional coordinator for Istanbul, The Feminist Art Project based in Rutgers University, New York.
Supervisors: Professor Colin J Williams, IUPUI Department of Sociology
Supervisors: Professor Colin J Williams, IUPUI Department of Sociology
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1974-79 Yemek Ziyafeti adlı kadın tarihine adanmış ilk anıtsal yapıtı yüzlerce gönüllünün de yardımları ile tamamladı. Yemek Ziyareti'ni altı değisik ülkede milyonu aşkın izleyici gördü. Yapıt Amerikan Senatosu da dahil olmak üzere Amerika'da büyük tartışmalara yol açtı. 1980-1985 Doğum Projesini tamamladı. Amerika'nın değişik yerlerinden Chicago'ya gelen sanatçılar yapıtın tamamlanmasına yardım ettiler. Eser 100 değisik yerde sergilendi, değisik müzeler tarafindan satın alındı. 1996 Chicago Artur ve Elisabeth Schlesinger Kütüphanesi Kadın Tarihi bölümünde yer alan ilk yaşayan kadın sanatçı oldu. Fotoğrafçı Donald Wodman ile birlikte üzerinde çaliştığı Holocaust Projesi: Karanlıktan Aydınlığa adlı yapıtı Chicago Spertus Müzesinde sergilendi.
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As inthe form of environmentAl Activism
By Filiz Cicek
“Who wants to see a rose bloom in the depths
of winter?” Goethe once asked. “only a
fool could want this untimely intoxication.
everything to its own time. leaves, buds,
and flowers." He was talking about revolutions,
which to him seemed uncontrollable. And
as such, they destroyed as much as they
created. But today, from Al Gore to the
Dalai lama, from Arundhati roy to the
Green sisters, many are contending that a
Green revolution is in order. for some, it is
happening on the runway.
Before there were male gods, there were fertility goddesses, bare-chested priestesses. In time the Amazons were defeated. Pagan priestesses were burned at the stake in Spanish Inquisitions. The male Greek god of fertility, Pan, would become the most ubiquitous devil. Once a symbol of renewal, the serpent would evolve into Eve’s slithering aide as she bit into a forbidden apple. The biblical female, the first mother, is forever guilty of knowledge. Adam had no will power against his temptress sinner, born of his own rib. Adam did not have an Adam, Eve did not have an Eve.
Published by Dogan Yayinlari
1974-79 Yemek Ziyafeti adlı kadın tarihine adanmış ilk anıtsal yapıtı yüzlerce gönüllünün de yardımları ile tamamladı. Yemek Ziyareti'ni altı değisik ülkede milyonu aşkın izleyici gördü. Yapıt Amerikan Senatosu da dahil olmak üzere Amerika'da büyük tartışmalara yol açtı. 1980-1985 Doğum Projesini tamamladı. Amerika'nın değişik yerlerinden Chicago'ya gelen sanatçılar yapıtın tamamlanmasına yardım ettiler. Eser 100 değisik yerde sergilendi, değisik müzeler tarafindan satın alındı. 1996 Chicago Artur ve Elisabeth Schlesinger Kütüphanesi Kadın Tarihi bölümünde yer alan ilk yaşayan kadın sanatçı oldu. Fotoğrafçı Donald Wodman ile birlikte üzerinde çaliştığı Holocaust Projesi: Karanlıktan Aydınlığa adlı yapıtı Chicago Spertus Müzesinde sergilendi.
Copyright of Conference Papers -- International Communication Association is the property of International Communication Association and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
As inthe form of environmentAl Activism
By Filiz Cicek
“Who wants to see a rose bloom in the depths
of winter?” Goethe once asked. “only a
fool could want this untimely intoxication.
everything to its own time. leaves, buds,
and flowers." He was talking about revolutions,
which to him seemed uncontrollable. And
as such, they destroyed as much as they
created. But today, from Al Gore to the
Dalai lama, from Arundhati roy to the
Green sisters, many are contending that a
Green revolution is in order. for some, it is
happening on the runway.
Before there were male gods, there were fertility goddesses, bare-chested priestesses. In time the Amazons were defeated. Pagan priestesses were burned at the stake in Spanish Inquisitions. The male Greek god of fertility, Pan, would become the most ubiquitous devil. Once a symbol of renewal, the serpent would evolve into Eve’s slithering aide as she bit into a forbidden apple. The biblical female, the first mother, is forever guilty of knowledge. Adam had no will power against his temptress sinner, born of his own rib. Adam did not have an Adam, Eve did not have an Eve.
Olinka and Drazen decided to store and exhibit the artifacts of their love safely in a museum, perhaps to be revisited in a future date. As they consoled other friends in similar states of emotional despair, they began to collect keepsakes from them as well, telling them that some day they may look back with a different eye and a different perspective and come to cherish these items once more. Hence was born the Museum of Broken Relationships.
On April 29, artists and volunteers from all over the world will gather for WE’s 6th annual opening at Lodge 101. This year’s theme is “Every Body: Form, Formlessness and Transfiguration.”WE was started by a group headed by Margaret Belton, former IU art student and Middle Way House volunteer. It was in her capacity as a barista at Soma Cafe that she recruited me as an artist. At the time I was deeply involved in my Inscribing Tradition on Female Body project, which dealt with women in religion, particularly in Islam. It seemed like a perfect fit for my work, not to mention a good cause and an opportunity to meet local artists. I gave her a piece and went to the opening at Gallery North. There I met fellow local women artists—strong, kind and talented women, beautiful both inside and out. We had a blast!
Love dominates the programming. Love found, love lost, temporary love, surviving love, surviving in love, pretend love, teenage love, everlasting love, love on high heels, until death do us part love.
It had been a long day in the hot Florida sun. But in a few minutes Jigme would arrive at his rendezvous point, where he would meet his traveling companions.
There were no streetlights and the little natural light that filtered down from the moon and stars was obscured by trees that lined the side of the road. Consequently the driver of the dark grey Kia could not see Jigme; he was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:30 p.m. on February 14th, 2011. He was 45 years old.
Kennedy’s invitation to Frost demonstrated his desire to include arts in government and to celebrate the role of the artist in society. Kennedy stated that “the artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state….If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice.” And that
“we must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.” And the truth can often be inconvenient to those in power.
Kennedy, like Thomas Jefferson, was a lover of arts. The latter was a true renaissance man who produced the declaration of independence. Indeed the age of enlightenment gave rise to revolutions, separation of church of state, rejection of monarchy and the embrace of democracy. One thing the West did not embrace however, was the practice of homosexuality.
Looking Forward, Looking Back
The Looking Forward Looking Back theme developed organically out of a number of beautiful discoveries as we planned and met with community partners over the last year.
The first of these discoveries was the Women’s Kit at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education (CWSE) at OISE.The Women’s Kit was a box of feminist resources that its curators distributed to secondary and postsecondary institutions in the early 1970s. In a meeting about a panel partnership with the CWSE, the Women’s Kit was literally pulled out of a closet and placed on a table.
"While we went through the gorgeous pamphlets, slides, records and films out of the box, themes of media representation, beauty standards, economic disparity, and erasure of women’s art emerged from the colourful archives of posters, poetry and recorded conversations between artists like Joyce Wieland and Vera Frenkel.
The contents of this box begged the questions: What has happened within the feminist art movement since the 1970s? What inroads have been made? What victories, if any, have been won? Are we still speaking about the same issues in our work? Are we repeating the same messages, making the same mistakes, saying the same thing? What is different between then and now?
At that table was Frieda Forman, professor, writer and activist, now 77. She talked about organizing the first feminist art conference at OCA in 1973 called Women’s Work. She urged us to go to the archives at OCADU to see if there was any record of the event happening."
running back and forth. It is 7.30 in the morning.
A man has thrown himself in front of the train
outside of Marseille. “It is probably mafia related,”
says the man sitting next to me. At noon I ask if
I can get off for a few minutes to get a cup of tea.
“No Madame,” the guard says sternly, “If you
step off of this train, we must stop everything and
come searching for you.” I feel as if I am in a James
Bond film. Until the Justice Department arrives
to determine the cause of death, the train will not
move and no one is allowed to get off. “Maybe it
was about unrequited love,” the young woman
from Strasbourg says, “after all, this is France.” We
arrive in Cannes 6 hours late. I run straight to the
Palais to catch the opening press conference of the
65th Cannes Film Festival.
Some of us are forced to leave; some of us leave
by choice for a place far away; and some of us are
permanent, post-modern cultural nomads.
Local, international, exiled and nomadic artists
were asked to choose or create art representing
what they call “home“ for BloomingtonKatmandu,
which will take place on May 28th at the Tibetan
Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center. The show
is meant to reflect the impermanency and the
mobility of the 21st century‘s ever-changing
geographical, emotional, and physical borders
that we humans cross daily.
the Palestinians by the Israeli government that was written
on the Common Dreams website prompted several
hundred email responses to the author. The essay had been
reposted to many listservs and other websites around the
world. In a case study approach, we track the repostings
and qualitatively and quantitatively analyze the responses to
that editorial, to determine the nature of the discourse in
an electronic environment. The study found that readers of
the essay were prompted to write to the author largely
when they agreed with her position because of their
political or religious views, linked to their own experience
or feelings, wished to relate their own personal stories, and
when they were male.