Recent Works: Bedri Baykam
Catalog, 1992
Since 1987, Bedri Baykam’s works operate as a kind of repository. They review and exhaust the limits of the intelligibility of painting in paradigms of styles and currents.
In 1987 Baykam reused a number of Nineteenth Century European Paintings. Ingres’ Turkish Bath, and a juxtaposition of Gérome’s Steam Bath, and The Grand Bath at Bursa [...]
The Pavilion of Turkey
Arts Asia Pacific, May 2007
This year’s Venice Biennale artistic director, Robert Storr has broken with convention by inviting special pavilions into his curated exhibition, an African Contemporary Art Pavilion and a Turkey Pavilion. ArtAsiaPacific asked Turkey Pavilion commissioner Vasif Kortun, of Istanbul’s Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, to discuss his plans.
ARTASIAPACIFIC: What will you [...]
It goes with the territory
Is Geography Destiny Panel / AICA/CAA Talk, 1994, New York
As communities wake up from a long nightmare to the concrete reality of their immediate neighbors, Geography as a social condition deserves more consideration.
Recently, a Chicano friend sent me a book. He had changed his name from Dick to Roberto in the late 60’s upon becoming [...]
The Other Side of the Water
ACME MAGAZINE. VOLUME 1 NO 3
I would not call this a conspiracy. It is much more like a dream coming true. To chase the Muslims out of Europe is the European dream. To cleanse Europe of “the Turks” was the dying thought of the greatest figure of Enlightenment: “It is not enough to humiliate them, [...]
Venice Biennale
LOADING: Una nave pirata per immaginare la Biennale di Venezia del terzo millenio, 2008
A Corsair for a Concept for the Biennale in the Third Century 1895-2007, An Ideas Forum for Reformingthe Venice Biennale, Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice
Transcript of contribution to the Forum
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I don’t come with a prescription for the Biennale.
I listened to the [...]