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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, 1957-2007
ArtsAsiaPacific, March - April, 3008
Born in 1957 in Ankara, Turkish artist Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin died of a heart attack in his Istanbul studio on December 31, 2007. A towering figure, Alptekin was known for his generosity, wit and intelligence. His personal and artistic dictums included Democratic Luxury; Modest Optimism; Ornamentation without Aesthetics; Global Mockery; Mythology [...]