Erdem Taşdelen | Canadian Art Interview
Sessional faculty member Erdem Taşdelen (MAA, 2010) is interviewed in Canadian Art about his recent collaborative project with Turkish-Swedish artist Meriç Algün Ringborg, titled Investigations on Artistic Subjectivity.
“How does society conceive of the artist’s role? Meriç Algün Ringborg and Erdem Taşdelen took Marcel Proust as a starting point for answering this question. Three years ago, the Turkish-born artists (now based in Stockholm and Vancouver, respectively) convened around Proust’s seven-volume, 1.3 million–word magnum opus In Search of Lost Time to develop a blueprint for thinking about artistic subjectivity. Read more…