Interview with Hale Tenger [1993 - 1996]
The text below is from the book “Mission Impossible”, Galeri Nev Publications, Istanbul, June 1997, translated from Turkish by Fred Stark, edited by David Frankel, Zeynep Tenger
Part one of this interview was done in the spring of 1993. Three years later, using a transcript from those tapes and trying to remain faithful to the flow [...]
Where art worlds meet
Text of Talk at the International Symposium Where art worlds meet: multiple modernities and the global salon, December 9-12, 2005, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Campo Santo Stefano, Venezia
with Giandomenico Romanelli, Robert Storr, Bruno S. Frey, Ackbar Abbas, Anna Cestelli Guidi, Beatriz Colomina, Lynne Cooke, Jean-Hubert Martin, Angela Vettese, Daniel [...]
Networked Cultures
Interview with Peter Moertenboeck and Helge Mooshammer in Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and The Politics of Space, NAI Publishers, 2008.
PM/HM: İstanbul has become a very popular site in the recent discourse on contested urban spaces, particularly in the art world. When you curated the 9th International Istanbul Biennial together with Charles Esche in 2005, you [...]
Working Space
Working Space
Catalog Text for Yildiz Technical University Faculty of Art and Design, 2006-2007 Student Projects Exhibition, 2007 at the Pera Museum.
An important aspect of the European Union acquis communautaire with regard to universities is the “Bologna Process.” The aim of Bologna is to condition universities to uniformity. It also facilitates transfers between schools and creates [...]
Notes on the Biennial
SSamzie Space International lecture series
Shift and change: Locating Korean art now
Hunyee Jung, Vasıf Kortun, Wan-kyung Sung, Marc-Olivier Wahler, Seoul, 2008
Even though “the biennial” in hardly an isolated topic to write on, I will take a stab at it here in a succession of scattered notes and articulations.
I spoke recently of the demise of the biennials. [...]