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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 done, the [...]

‘Artistik Patinaj’a 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, [...]

Political/Minimal at Kunst Werke, Berlin

xurban_collective is participating to a group show called ‘Political/Minimal’ at Kunst Werke, Berlin. In addition to the installation, we produced a poster/brochure to be circulated freely during the course of the exhibition. To download, click: The Containment Contained, 2003-2007
Dates: November 30, 2008 – January 25, 2009
The exhibition Political/Minimal presents art works from the past forty [...]

Istanbul’u Terketin!

İSTANBUL’U TERKEDİN!
Ahmet Atif Akin, Gokce Taskan, Ali M. Demirel
Büyük Londra Oteli Teras
Meşrutiyet Caddesi
Tepebaşı İstanbul
Sergi süresi:
26 Haziran – 26 Temmuz 2008 gün batımından gün ağarana kadar
Yama ekranı için geliştirilen proje, Anadoludaki deprem sensörlerinden gelen verileri gerçek zamanlı bir biçimde grafiklerle şehire sunuyor ve sismik aktivitenin olduu anda, şimdi, izlenmesine imkan veriyor.

Art Work

A small temporary public art work placed in Berlin Biennial sculpture garden. The space is defined by an other art work made out of same type of material.

Networked Cultures – The Dialogues (May to December 2008)

xurban_collective contributed to a book project “Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space“  co-edited by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer.
It includes essays by Adrian Blackwell, Marina Grzinic, Irit Rogoff and AbdouMaliq Simone, and conversations with Özge Açıkkol, Azra Aksamija, Ayreen Anastas, Ricardo Basbaum, Jochen Becker, Matei Bejenaru, Ursula Biemann, Sylvie Blocher, Stefano Boeri, [...]

Radikal Sanat Etkinligi

Radikal Gazetesinin organize etmis oldugu kamusal sanat projesine “Imam Bayildi” isimli bir proje ile katildik. Proje detaylarini ve katilimcilarin islerini bu linkten bulabilirsiniz>>> Radikal Gazetesi

Sangay Bienali’nden bir iki ciziktirme

Yabanci yatirimlar sehre akadursun, ve basta da Cinliler en cok bu ise sasiyor olsun, Asya’nin incisi ya da eski deyimiyle “fahisesi,” ulkesinin ekonomik vitrini Sangay, gecen hafta sanat dunyasinin uyelerini bir araya getirdi. Agustos’un basina kadar hala basin bultenini cikaramamis Sangay Bienali, cesitli sikintilar sonunda nihayet acildi.
Bu sene onuncusu duzenlenen bienalin kisaca tarihine bakacak olursak [...]

Deep Depression: An Introduction

The labor power of creative industries, cultural producers of new economy, art laborers, artists, designers, architects, writers and so on, are constantly complaining about their working conditions, their bosses, their institutions, their universities, their social networks. It seems that being in a buffer zone (like in creative industries) does not leave any option for actualized [...]

Dansistan

Visit our friend Gurur Ertem’s performance art blog;
http://www.dansistan.org/
“Dansistan is a “place” dedicated exclusively to reviews, articles, essays, commentaries, debates, reflections, stories, histories, and possible itineraries on/of contemporary dance and performance art – as well as other related creative forms. It is international in scope, although the blogger is mostly based in Istanbul and New York. [...]

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