Resmi Görüs

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 [...]

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. [...]

Unpublished
On September 12 1980, Turkey had the third coup d’état carried out by the Turkish Army. The ruled for three years.1 Turkey’s last dictatorship. The coup became the glue of the neoliberal economic policy for decades to come.2 Neoliberal globalisation caused a profound transformation of the field of art and culture along with their institutions [...]

In Going public ’06 : atlante mediterraneo = mediterranean atlas / Edited by Claudia Zanfi, 2006
Some notes on “Péra” in Istanbul
Most of Istanbul’s art and cultural institutions are located on and around the avenue between Taksim and Tünel. The avenue’s original name was Grande Rue de Péra, later changed to
”Avenue of independence” after the establishment [...]

A Foreigner A Traveller
Vahap Avşar,
Gülsün Karamustafa,
Hale Tenger,
H.Alptekin/M.Morris,
Bedri Baykam,
Mehmet İleri
Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, 1993
The exhibition offers neither an exotic taste, nor conforms to predispositions, but it may nevertheless give certain clues regarding where the works come from. The works offer neither a fluent international reading, nor display ‘fantasy-mythological’ roots. Away from provincialism and outside imagined centers, they [...]