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 [...]
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 [...]
The Pavilion of Turkey
Arts Asia Pacific, May 2007
This year’s Venice Biennale artistic director, Robert Storr has broken with convention by inviting special pavilions into his curated exhibition, an African Contemporary Art Pavilion and a Turkey Pavilion. ArtAsiaPacific asked Turkey Pavilion commissioner Vasif Kortun, of Istanbul’s Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, to discuss his plans.
ARTASIAPACIFIC: What will you [...]
Interview with İsmet Doğan
İsmet Dogan’s objects and paintings traverse each other’s territories. As the painting begins to resemble an object by Dogan’s idiosyncratic use of the frame, the object is treated as a painting and splashed with paint. The difference between them -one being a utilitarian object and the other an nonfunctional one- is reduced. Thus, these classical [...]
A discussion between Vasif Kortun and Hüseyin Alptekin
XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo, (exh. cat.), Sao Paulo 1998
Vasif Kortun / Is there an ethics of appropriation, and how does that apply to the appropriationist? What does the cannibal defecate?
Hüseyin Alptekin/ There is no ethics in appropriation, only an intention. The instinct of appropriation is to admit, to like and admire (love and hate, [...]