---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: uqbar <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:49 PM Subject: TALK: Erden Kosova: "From Miracle to Crisis. Contemporary Art Practice in Turkey", 22 November 2011, h 19:30, uqbar To:
** *From Miracle to Crisis. Contemporary Art Practice in Turkey *A talk by *Erden Kosova When:* Tuesday, 22 November 2011, h 19:30 *Where:* uqbar e.V., Schwedenstrasse 16, 13357 Berlin In the mid-nineties, the emerging and expanding field of contemporary art was received by a young generation as an attractive platform that can be utilised for articulating a political outcry -as a reaction to the tense atmosphere of Turkey of that time. Yet, in the last decade a series of social changes caused stagnation in terms of art production: firstly, the political matters that have been the prime concentration of this art practice were no more taboos but have become manifest within wide-scale public discussion; and consequently the art practice have lost its previous edgy character and could not replace it with a fresh formula; secondly, the drastic, nauseating process of institutionalisation of the field by the sudden interest of the prominent bourgeois families and corporate firms created a schizophrenic atmosphere for any political tone with the art practice --the general view on contemporary art by the public and the local intellectuals was that it became the ultimate field of cultural decadance -contemporary art field have not been able to elaborate a response to this criticism yet. Do all these occurances sign at a crisis? *Erden Kosova* is in the editorial board of the e-journal* red-thread.org *and member of the Back to School Initiative, an Istanbul based collective. He works and lives in Istanbul. Erden Kosova's talk is taking place in the framework of the cooperation between the initiative Back to School (Istanbul) and uqbar e.V. (Berlin), on the occasion of the international project TANDEM: http://www.ecflabs.org/tandem. TANDEM is implemented by MitOst (Berlin), İstanbul Bilgi University (Istanbul) and Anadolu Kültür (Istanbul) with the support of Stiftung Mercator (Essen) and European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam). For further information on the project please visit Anadolu Kültür www.anadolukultur.org / MitOst www.mitost.org ** ***uqbar* a project by | ein Projekt von Dorothee Bienert, Dortje Drechsel, Marina Sorbello, Antje Weitzel Schwedenstrasse 16 | D -13357 Berlin | T + 49 (0)30 460 69 107 [email protected] | http://projectspace.uqbar-ev.de U8/U9/M13 Osloer Straße Fr., Sa., Sunday Wedding, 2 - 7 p.m. and by appointment | 14 – 19 h und nach Vereinbarung <http://www.knotland.net/index.php?id=13&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=483&cHash=903daf1680a47402cb27df41501fbcbe>
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