KONSERVE
“Cultural and social changes brought about by globalization continue to transform societies and more than ever we ask ourselves how we can protect the values of our intangible cultural heritage: Which practices can we use to prevent the divide between urban and rural, whilst transmitting the endemic knowledge? How can we involve local communities in treating and making visible such values employing artistic practices? How can we carry artistic programs to the rural areas by abstaining from the approach of ‘exporting culture’?”
konserve/консерва, focuses on how to render the intangible cultural heritage with inclusion of local rural communities through participative, artistic, and creative methods while aiming to create a sustainable archive of the projects carried out by activists, artists, collectives, and civil society organizations looking for an answer to the foregoing questions in various parts of the world since 2010.


THE CHALLENGE
THE APPROACH
konserve/консерва network, aims to develop a model which allows the treatment of intangible cultural heritage in artistic practices and makes the inhabitants of rural areas effective participants in content production. While developing this model with a participatory manner, it invites independent artists, initiatives, cultural managers, curators, and civic organizations with an ongoing open call to participate in the expansion process of this ever growing network. Please feel free to drop us a line by sending a mail to info@konserveproject.com

You can access the project publication prepared in Turkish, English and Bulgarian here:
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CO-DIRECTORS
Sarp KESKİNER (KARANTİNA collective – Teos Arts and Culture Association, İzmir)
Gökçe SÜVARİ KANTÜRK (KARANTİNA collective, İzmir)
Diana NEDEVA (Meeting Points, Sofia)
Vesy DEYANOVA (Meeting Points, Sofia)
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR
Yanina TANEVA (Ideas Factory, Sofia)
GRAPHIC DESIGN AND APPLICATION
Emre DUYGU
GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION
Alexandra NIKOLOVA
PHOTOGRAPHER – EDITOR IN CHIEF
Sarp KESKİNER
CO EDITOR – TRANSLATOR
Hale ERYILMAZ
PROOF READERS
Will BUCKINGHAM (Wind & Bones, UK)
Hannah STEVENS (Wind & Bones, UK)
Sarp KESKİNER
DESTEKÇİLER
Branimir MORFOV
Borga KANTÜRK (KARANTİNA collective)
Esra OKYAY (A Rook of One’s Own Arts Initiative)
Melih ERGEN (Teos Arts and Culture Association)
Yaşar KOÇAK (Teos Arts and Culture Association)
FOUNDER ASSOCIATES OF KONSERVE NETWORK
ORGANIZATIONS
The House of Activity and Creativity
Daiva Vaišnorienė – LITHUANIA
Koopkultur e.V.
Petronela Bordeianu – ROMANIA – GERMANY
Eithne
Ruxandra Lupu – ROMANIA
Pro Feelfolu Association
János Kovács – ROMANIA
Transylvania Art Therapy Centre
Ruth Borgfjord – ROMANIA
Sofia University
Nelly Stoeva – BULGARIA
Art Tours Berlin
Pauline Georgieva – GERMANY
IRE theatre-art-culture FOUNDATION
Plamen Radev – BULGARIA
LALETA
Tsvetomila Mihaylova – BULGARIA
NPO Daskal Geno Serafimov
Hristina Taseva – BULGARIA
Discovered Spaces
Milena Stanojevic – BULGARIA
Varna Dance Theater
Karina Ilieva – BULGARIA
Business Foundation for Education
Nadezhda Paunova – BULGARIA
B-Arts
Martin Gooding – Kath Walton – UNITED KINGDOM
Senza Studio
Marco Terranova – ITALY
Theater Arbeit Duisburg TAD
Stella Cristofolini – GERMANY
Forte Organization
Marlene Flora Geißelbrecht – AUSTRIA
A Corner in the World
Fatih Gençkal – TURKEY
K2 Güncel Sanat Merkezi
Ayşegül Kurtel – TURKEY
İzmir Sinema Evi
Tahsin İşbilen – TURKEY
Sarı Denizaltı Sanat İnisiyatifi
Günseli Baki – TURKEY
Atölye Deneme Sanat ve Ekoloji Der.
Ekin Özdemirci – Pelin Topçu – TURKEY
Nomadmind
Çiçek Tezer – TURKEY
TIAFI
Anne O’Rorke – TURKEY
SUB Collective
İlayda Tunca – TURKEY
Barbaros Su Mirası Projesi
Hazal Öztetikler – TURKEY
Ne Yerde Ne Gökte Derneği
Nesrin Ermiş – TURKEY
Mersin Üniversitesi
Nurseren Tort – TURKEY
INDIVIDUALS
Daniela Andrade – PORTUGAL
Melina Vlachou – GREECE
Nesrin Ermiş Pavlis – TURKEY
Mila Buria Strashimirova – BULGARIA
Elena Stoycheva – BULGARIA
Mirela Petrova – BULGARIA-GERMANY
Janine Boehl – GERMANY



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Research and networking phase of konserve/консерва is funded by Civil Society Exchange [CSE] Program that intends to contribute to the formation of a resilient civil society through supporting stronger relations among the CSOs and civil initiatives based in Turkey and EU. The goal of the program is to develop the capacity of CSOs from Turkey and Europe by providing them international mobility possibilities, as well as space for mutual learning.