…eyin traveled with his friends Ahmet Senkart and Yildirim Arici to Sochi in 2000 to present the Sea Elephant Travel Agency to a group of interested people. In a video directed by Yildirim Arici Hüseyin explains the Travel Agency. He takes us to the beach and describes his art works he did within the frame of the Sea Elephant Travel Agency. excerpt of a video by Yildirim Arici Guardians of the Threshold Notes by Hüseyin Alptekin, on Guardians of…
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International Forum 2000, Sochi, Russia Hüseyin traveled with his friends Ahmet Senkart and Yildirim Arici to Sochi in 2000 to present the Sea Elephant Travel Agency to a group of interested people. In a video directed by Yildirim Arici Hüseyin explains the Travel Agency. He takes us to the beach and describes his art works he did within the frame of the Sea Elephant Travel Agency. excerpt of a video by Yildirim Arici Guardians of the Threshold…
Read More…e notion of guest, visitor, outsider, stranger changes within and through out the hospis. The notion of the mod of space is always omni-present in my works.” This 2000 NTV interview with Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin describes Jules Verne’s “Kéraban the Inflexible”….
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Sinopale (Fourth Sinop Biennial in Turkey): Art in the Era of Corrupted Information The Fourth Sinop Biennial invites artists and curators to deal with the notion of spreading information through shadows and darkness rather than through light as a response to the existing global politics surrounding development projects in the city of Sinop along the Black Sea coast. The artists are mainly invited to produce interactive work to receive the direct…
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The famous Pera Palas Hotel in Istanbul labels one of his rooms for rent “Ahmet Ümit”. Turkish crime story writer Ahmet Ümit is working on a new book. It’s main character is an assassin of the abolished Ottoman Regime in the early days of the Turkish Republic. The New Regime consists out of a group of former Ottoman Officers going for the idea of a National state with a Western Modernization vision. The main character in the novel takes a room in…
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Given the nature of performance as an experiential medium, this exhibition features a variety of performance documentation in the form of photography and video. In other instances, artists have performed directly for the camera, and thus the records of these events are both art and document. The exhibition also includes objects used in performance or performance relics, installations and constructions that serve as the remains of these performanc…
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… [widgetkit id=9145] Images from SALT Research Hüseyin-Alptekin-Archive A Propos de Kéraban – Institut Français, 2000, Istanbul, Turkey…
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…500 liters of waterbased environmentally-friendly paint on asphalt spread by 2000 cars on Rosenthaler Platz Berlin. By IEPE & the anonymous crew. Directed by AKIZ http://iepe.net…
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…atives such as the Valletta International Visual Arts festival (VIVA). From 2000, he has enjoyed several artist residencies around the world, and his artworks have been exhibited in many international contexts. Currently, he is also an Associate Professor at the University of Malta and has worked extensively to promote the work of emerging Maltese artists (1). Raphael Vella participated in the Mahalla Festival – Murmuration– 2021 in Istanbul with…
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