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New articles at “Notion” section

I uploaded two articles that I recently published: Domestic Labor, Knitting and alternative networks: Knit++ , Fe Feminist Journal, Winter 2010 We Are Not Professionals for Arthub Publication, December 2009 imam.

LAST INSTANCE: CONFINEMENT: CONTAINMENT REDUX

The following text is produced for the last installation of “The Containment Contained” presented at Muzeum Sztuki. With this instance we finalized the project. LAST INSTANCE: CONFINEMENT: CONTAINMENT REDUX, June 2009 The object is irrelevant, the gesture is immaterial, the political is not politics, a situation is contingent, an intervention cannot be retrieved, harm is [...]

Financial District Exhibition

Works by Olivier Babin, Elena Bajo, Beth Campbell, Alexandra do Carmo, Lotte Lindner & Till Steinbrenner, Mads Lynnerup, Rä di Martino, Isola and Norzi, Marisa Olson, Anna Ostoya, Miguel Palma, Carlos Roque, Antonio Rovaldi, Andrea Schneemeier, Nedko Solakov, Marko Tadić, Brina Thurston, Alex Villar, and Zimmerfrei Artists’ writings and books by Michael Blum, Elmgreen & [...]

Fortified Zones

A Conversation by Hakan Topal/xurban_collective and Alex Villar This presentation is part of an exhibition project called Financial District, organized by Miguel Amado, curator-in-residence in 2009. The Financial District marks the urban landscape of all major American cities. More than an architectural feature or a geographical location, the Financial District represents an ideology, that of [...]

Artistik Patinaja Karsi

xurban_collective sanat girişimi olarak son sekiz yıl içinde Türkiye’de ve dünyanın farklı kentlerinde sergilere katıldık, sanatsal ifadelere dönüşen araştırma ve belgeleme çalışmaları yürüttük ve bunlarla bağlantılı olarak yazdıklarımızı farklı mecralarda yayınlama fırsatımız oldu. Bu çalışmaların önemli bir kısmı sanat kurumlarının maddi desteği ile gerçekleşti. Ticari galeriler hariç, uluslararası bienaller, toplu sergiler, sanatçı mekanları gibi mecralarda, [...]

New School is Re-occupied, Students Are Arrested

We support any kind of civil, peaceful disobedience against power. We believe that the only way to constitute a true democracy, is to develop a strong sense of scepticism against governing bodies. We beleive participation, conflict, and dialogue. If there is no resistance, there is no democracy, a very simple equation. When New School students [...]

Ornamantasyon, 2004

This are the pictures for xurban archives. We used them for the Ornamantasyon project. It was more like an experiment, bringing various existing and non existing facades from Istanbul and New York together on the same surface.

GOD, UNLEASHED

We all want to believe that deep inside, people are decent. This applies to the people of Israel, naturally. So everytime we see the Israeli cabinet on the television screen, in their casual wear and plaid shirts, almost like our neighbors next door, we sympathize. Then we begin to wonder how these ordinary looking middle-aged [...]

Hampstead Heath Tree Typology

Boundary Signal

Opening: 15 January 2009 | 16 January – 7 February 2009 Project curator: Fatih Aydoğdu Participant artist: 2/5 BZ aka Serhat Köksal [Istanbul] Ricarda Denzer [Vienna] Martin Ebner [Berlin] Mathias Fuchs [Manchester] Bernhard Loibner [Vienna] Bob Ostertag [Los Angeles] Florian Schmeisser [Vienna] xUrban Collective [Istanbul, Izmir, New York] Arye Wachsmuth [Vienna] Florian Zeyfang [Berlin] In [...]

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