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Dr. Selçuk Gürışık was born in Istanbul in 1954. After studying at Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, he graduated from Central Martins College of Art and Design’s Textile and Fashion Department. Completing his master’s degree at Manchester Metropolitan University of Fashion Department in 1982, he returned to Turkey. While he was working as a designer/merchandiser for export-oriented market and representing foreign companies in Turkey from 1990 to 1996, he was also lecturing at Mimar Sinan University, the Textile and Fashion Department. Between 1983 and 97, he worked as an art director, costumes and stage designer for national and international projects in performance art, theatre/dance and future films in Spoleto, New York, and Istanbul. He is also one of the founding members of the ‘Assos Performance Arts’ Festival. On the completion of his Ph.D.′s degree at University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design researching into Anatolian Felt Making, he worked on international interior design projects. Currently, he is participating in community projects and organizing workshops/exhibitions (social responsibility). These are representing/emphasizing upon the importance of the disappearing regional cultural-identities under threat from globalization. His practice-based interdisciplinary design approach enables the production of a broad range of artifacts bringing an appreciation of the cultural inheritances. The combination of multi-medium fabric-making techniques enables the transformation between traditional and contemporary concepts representing the aspects of the post postmodernism.
Exhibitions:
1882-2006: Art Directing for commercial and future films and TV serials, 1990: Exhibition from the Archive of "Sadberk Hanım Museum" in Istanbul/Turkey, 1990-94: Assos Performance Art Festival in Behramkale/Turkey, 1992: Costume designing to folk-opera "Yunus" in LaMaMa Theatre in NY/USA, 1994: Organizing "Fashion Symposium" in Mimar Sinan University, 1997: Directing performance "Medea" in Istanbul/Turkey. 2002: "Nomadic Traffic" Exhibition in Bandirma/Turkey; "Medea" dance-performance in "Cağdaş Bale Topluluğu", Istanbul Turkey; Presenting a paper in ITU Design History Association, Istanbul/Turkey; Lecturing at the Anthropology Department in British Museum, London/England, 2003: Publishing an article and delivering a lecture in Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford Asian Textile Group, Oxford/England; "Felt It Again" Exhibition in Topkapı Palace Museum, Istanbul/Turkey; "Design Fair 3" in Turkey/Istanbul; Organizing one-day Conference in Topkapı Palace Museum in Istanbul/Turkey, 2004: "Call Me Istanbul" Exhibition in ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe/Germany; Set and costume designing for "Seven Against Thebes" in La MaMa in NY/USA, 2005: "Felt It Again 2" Exhibition in Latheby Gallery, London/England, 2006: Presenting a lecture at Sabanci University in Istanbul/Turkey; Publishing paper in Design History Association Conference in Delft/Holland, 2007: Delivering a series of Lectures at SOAS London University London/England; Organizing hand-craft workshops with regional artisans in Kars/Turkey; Participating in Poster Session of ICOC Symposium in Istanbul/Turkey, 2008: "Felt It Again3", "Keçe Yeniden" Exhibition in Namaik Kemal toplum evi, Kars/Turkey. |
