Interview with Dan Cameron
The decoded conversation with Dan Cameron, curator of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City and director of the 8th Istanbul Biennial at the Yapi Kredi Cultural Center Sermet Çifter Gallery.
September 4th 2003
Vasıf Kortun: Dan Cameron is going to give other interviews and panels on the Biennial. This is going to be [...]
Eye with suspicion those who favor things over the experience of things
Brochure of Veronica Wiman’s satellite project in Istanbul during the 8th Istanbul Biennial. The project consisted of interventions in the public space.
I agree that the notion of “responsibility” harkens back to European religious art, but not to modernism. Modernism was the moment, I believe, when the artist was “liberated” from the notion of responsibility. [...]
2. Ceramic Biennale
Catalog Text was for the 2nd Ceramics Biennale in Albisola that I was one of the curators of.
Hale Tenger, Nedko Solakov, Bjorn Kjeltoff and Gabriel Lester.
You can never say to a child that raisins are candy and get away with it. ceramic art is like the raisins of the artworld.
Bjorn Kjeltoff
During my first trip to [...]
Undesire
Brochure of Apex Art
Undesire
curated by Vasif Kortun
April 18 - May 17, 2003
Artists: Fikret Atay, Phil Collins, Inci Eviner and Dan Perjovschi
Undesire came on the heels of the so-called coalition forces’ invasion of Iraq. The war prompted me to seek a different exhibition altogether; I was already extremely worried with the swift [...]
Lunds Konsthall Catalog Text
On Füsun Onur, Hale Tenger, Aydan Murtezaoglu, 2003
You will not find them in the coveted stables of the Istanbul’s commercial galleries. You could however occasion upon them once in a few years in gallery institutions that that have willingly removed themselves, at the risk of marginalization, from the crass commercialization of the marketplace that better [...]