Left: A Moving Target, Erdem Tasdelen, Computer-generated montage sequence with 100 silent UHD videos, approx. 100 mins., 2021-2022
Right: Unmade Films, Erdem Tasdelen. 16 inkjet printed movie posters, 32" x 45" (81.3 x 114.3 cm) each, 2022
THIRDSPACE Masterclasses: Staging Narratives
🗓️ Saturdays July 4, 11 and 18
🕜 1:00 to 4:00 pm
📍OCAD University
This three-part masterclass series led by Erdem Tasdelen introduces technical and conceptual strategies for working across graphic design, moving image and sound as narrative tools for reimagined storytelling.
Each session draws from a project in Taşdelen's own practice, using it as a springboard for hands-on work in Adobe Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and Audition. Through hands-on exercises, participants will develop skills in writing, image-making and sound design, while approaching narrative as a flexible and experimental process.
In these three masterclasses, you will:
- Learn basic techniques in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and Audition
- Use text and image to construct speculative narrative frameworks
- Apply design principles to create a cohesive movie poster composition
- Capture video footage using a mobile device with attention to framing, light, and movement
- Edit clips to create a short video study composed of observational fragments
- Record and edit audio using basic techniques
- Produce a short sound piece that communicates a narrative through audio
Learn more about all three workshops here.
About Erdem Tasdelen, 2026 OCAD U Summer Artist and Mentor-in-Residence:
Erdem Taşdelen is an artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. Through the use of diverse materials and media, he constructs semi-fictional narratives that incorporate unique historical figures, events and texts to implicate contemporary sociopolitical realities. At the core of his artistic practice lies an exploration of how narrative interacts with its form, and how different forms “stage” narratives.
Taşdelen has exhibited at venues including The Power Plant, Aga Khan Museum and Mercer Union in Toronto; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; VOX, Montréal; Framer Framed, Amsterdam; Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg; and Pera Museum, Istanbul. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Delfina Foundation and Studio Voltaire, London; Hangar, Lisbon; Rupert, Vilnius; and KulturKontakt, Vienna. He was awarded the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize in Visual Arts by the Canada Council in 2016, the Charles Pachter Prize by Hnatyshyn Foundation in 2014, long-listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2019, and selected as a finalist for the Taoyuan International Art Award in 2025.
