Seminar: The Current Situation in Arts Management
Speaker: Esra A. Aysun
Date: 27 December 2021, Monday
Time: 18:00-20:00
Venue: Zoom
In this module, Aysun will discuss “art management”, which is accused of instilling business culture and instrumentalizing art by creating a conflict and paradox, with cultural diversity, inclusivity and sustainability focus within the framework of today's practices.
Esra A. Aysun, Head of Arts at the British Council in Turkey
Esra A. Aysun, is an arts administrator, working as a consultant, lecturer and writer in the creative sector in Istanbul,. She has been acting as Head of Arts at the British Council in Turkey to date since 2014 and is a board member of Arter since 2019. Aysun completed her BA at the Sociology Department of Boğaziçi University (Istanbul) and MA at the New York University, Administration of Performing Arts (New York). Since 2003, she has led a career of management and consultancy at various institutions of culture and arts in Istanbul like Gallerist, Dot and Museum of Innocence; as well as lecturing on Arts Management at universities of Yıldız Teknik, Yeditepe, İTÜ MİAM and Mimar Sinan from 2005 to 2013.
Aysun has been an advisory board member of the IETM Informal Network for Contemporary Performing Arts (Brussels), Balkan Express (Slovenia) and a board member of the Cimetta Fund (Paris) and AICA (Istanbul) (2008-2013). Aysun also served as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Pavilion of Turkey in the 55th Venice Biennale (2013). Aysun undertook the editorship of the Current Issues booklet of the arts magazine Sanat Dünyamız in 2014-15 and is the editor of the book Sanat Yönetimi Üzerine Konuşmalar (Talks on Arts Management) published by Yapi Kredi Publications in 2014. As the curator of WOW- Women of the World Festival Istanbul, which will be organized in Istanbul by the British Council in 2021, Aysun curated and hosted Festival Alanı, a radio show on gender equality at Açık Radyo on air from May to October 2020. Aysun is the Curator of the WOW - Women of the World Festival Istanbul 2021.
Single seminar fee is 100 TL. The number of participants is limited to 20 people. For detailed information: apply@curatingcontemporaryart.org