We wrote the following text on May 25th, 2013. With the beginning of the protests at Gezi Park, our priorities shifted and we decided to postpone its circulation. Today, especially after “last week’s“ experiences, when we rethink what happened on May 10th, we are even more convinced of the urgency of this letter.
Yours sincerely, > We the undersigned, who are all working in the field of art, condemn the > reaction of The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) and 13th > Istanbul Biennial curatorial team, to the protest that was performed by > Public/Common Resistance Platform members at the “Public Capital” event on > May 10th 2013. > > The protest was organized and performed by a group of activists wearing > > T-shirts printed with the names of forcibly gentrifying neighborhoods in > Istanbul; at short intervals, one would stand up from the crowd and drape > him/ herself on the floor in the middle of the room using a piece of cloth > printed with the logos of related companies. The performance was finished by > IKSV team lifting the protesters up roughly and carrying them off from the > venue. > > Whilst pretending to have a “public” discourse , this applied intolerance > towards critical and different voices, the violence towards protesters, and > the attempt of detaining a platform member because he was video recording the > activity, and calling the police and taking him to police station and making > charges against him cannot be an acceptable attitude. > > The authoritative, judgmental and uncommunicative attitude of the 13th > Istanbul Biennial towards different voices of the public is highly in > contradiction with its claims to “activate social engagement and public fora > to generate a possibility for rethinking the concept of “publicness”.* > > We would kindly and urgently invite you to change this authoritarian reflex > and rethink the proposed process (structure) of the 13th Istanbul Biennial. > *http://bienal.iksv.org/en/archive/newsarchive/p/1/62 > > Please reply to [email protected] if you like to join. > > Ahmet Öğüt, Ahmet Şenkart, Ali Asker Bal, Ali Cabbar, Ali İbrahim Öcal, Ali > Mete Sancaktaroğlu, Ani Setyan, Arzu Başaran, Arzu Yayıntaş, Asena Hayal, > Asena Günal, Aslı Çetinkaya, Atalay Yeni, Atilla Atala, Aylin Kuryel, Aysel > Miman, Azra Deniz Okyay, Barış Acar, Barış Mengütay, Barış Seyitvan, Banu > Cennetoğlu, Berk Demirbaş, Bubi, Burak Karacan, Burçak Konukman, Burçin > Başar, Canan Beykal, Ceren Oykut, Çiler Belen, Demet Yalçınkaya, Deniz Erbaş, > Deniz Gökduman, Deniz Gül, Deniz Ilgaz, Deniz M. Örnek, Deniz Pireci, Derya > Aydoğdu, Didem Erk, Didem Özbek, Dilara Hançer Sebah, Dino Dinçer Şirin, Eda > Gecikmez, Ege Berensel, Elif Zeynep Karagöz, Emine Corduk, Emre Zeytinoğlu, > Endam Acar, Erdağ Aksel, Erden Kosova, Erinç Seymen, Esat Başak, Evrensel > Belgin, Evrim Altuğ, Evrim Kavcar, Fatoş Karadağ, Ferhat Özgür, Feyyaz Yaman, > Fırat Arapoğlu, Foto Akbaba, Fulya Çalışkan, Fulya Çetin, Füsun Turcan > Elmasoğlu, Gonca Sezer, Gözde Kazaz, Gül Bolulu, Gülçin Aksoy, Günay Demir, > Hakan Akçura, Hakan Kamışoğlu, Hatice Arıcı, Itır Demir, İbrahim Koç, İlhan > Sayın, İlke Yılmaz, İnci Furni, İnsel İnal, Kardelen Fincancı, Komet Gürkan > Çoşkun, Lara Fresko, Leyla Sakpınar, Lütfiye Bozdağ, Mahmut Koyuncu, Malik > Bulut, Murat Morova, Murat Seçkin, Nalan Yırtmaç, Nejat Satı, Neriman Polat, > Nihan Tahtaişleyen, Nilbar Güreş, Nur Ataibiş, Nurcan Gündoğan, Nur Gürel, > Onur Ceritoğlu, Onur Gülfidan, Onur Kaçmaz, Osman Bozkurt, Oya Kasap, Özcan > Yaman, Özge Açıkkol, Özgür Atlagan, Özgür Çimen, Raziye Kubat, Saadet > Sorgunlu, Sakine Çil, Selen Usanmaz, Selin Kocagöncü, Sema Efe, Serpil > Odabaşı, Seçil Yersel, Seçkin Aydın, Sevil Tunaboylu, Sevinç Altan, Seydi > Murat Koç, Suat Öğüt, Sylvia Kouvali, Şefik Özcan, Şehmus Atasever, Tahir Ün, > T. Melih Görgün, Ulaş Başar Gezgin, Uluç Ali Kılıç, Ümit Turgay Durgun, > Vahit Tuna, Yahya Mete Madra, Yasemin Özcan, Yasemin Nur, Yavuz Parlar, Yeşim > Ağaoğlu, Yeşim Şahin, Yeşim Us, Zeynep Yasa, Zeyno Pekünlü # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
