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 [...]
Short Stories
Short Stories / Play, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, 2001
Artists: Fernando Arias Gaviria, Artemio, Davide Bertocchi, Iñaki Bonillas, Nathalie Bookchin, Tania Bruguera, Maya Churi, Alison Cornyn & Sue Johnson, Nick Crowe, Darío Escobar, Kendell Geers, Prapon Joe Kumjim, Marcello Maloberti, Ottonella Mocellin, Gabinete Ordo Amoris, Serkan Özkaya, Sener Özmen, Adrian Paci, Araya Rasjarmreansook, Josè Alejandro Restrepo, [...]
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 [...]
Exhibited: Back-Log
Exhibited, Catalog, 1994, Center for Curatorial Studies
All exhibitions have an individual dimension: they involve a public display of a private need. That they may move toward a collective end does not ultimately change their essentially private nature. But the desire to make public is not reducible to the desire to mediate art through one person’s [...]
Istanbul as Raumgeist
Catalog, 3rd Istanbul Biennial, 1992
Megalopolis, which in Greek means “the great city” reveres the town as a spiritual structure over and above its physical expansion. In the texts, the megalopolis is “transcendent” and is used to describe Athens and Troy. It is not alluded to as a “big city” but as an “insurmountable, transcendent town.”
The [...]