Interview with Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin
Brochure / Pavilion of Turkey / 52nd Venice Biennial, 2007
“One of the most bewildering paradoxes revealed in our time is that on the fast globalizing planet politics tends to be passionately and self-consciously local.”
Liquid Times, Living in an Age of Uncertainty
Zygmunt Bauman
Vasıf Kortun: Steering clear of any resemblance to illuminated advertisement signs, you preferred to [...]
Interview with Paola Nicolin
Published in Abitare, May 2007
Paola Nicolin: how did you find when you came back to Istanbul from US?
Vasif Kortun: Except for the biennial, Istanbul was not all that different from those sluggish backwater towns that are now making competitive claims to global visibility. I want to dissociate two things: The congenital aspects of a city, [...]
Interview with David Elliott
Istanbul was lucky to have David Elliott as the director of the istanbul modern. I fely happy to have a generous and critical colleague around. Here is a short interview with David in the spring of 2006 only a few months after he had arrived.
The turkish version has been published by art-ist magazine.
Vasif Kortun: How [...]