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Media Award for Standing Man / Duran Adam

August 27, 2013May 3, 2019 Wu Ming

…ent had forbidden to protest or demonstrate at all, the performance artist Erdem Gündüz stood in the same place without moving for eight hours on June 17, staring at the flag of modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on the Atatürk Culture Center, that should be demolished by the will of the recent prime minister Erdogan. Gündüz was soon joined by a group of around 300 fellow demonstrators, who all came to stand in silence beside him, stari…

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Creative Dissent

May 20, 2014May 3, 2019 Thomas Büsch

…ze for Creative Dissent. The 2014 laureates are Turkish performance artist Erdem Gündüz together with Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot. The Human Rights Foundation founded the Havel Prize with the endorsement of Dagmar Havlová, widow of the late poet, playwright, and statesman Václav Havel. The Prize celebrates those who, with bravery and ingenuity, unmask the lie of dictatorship by living in truth. Past laureates include Chinese artist Ai We…

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Frozen Dreams

June 11, 2014November 14, 2019 Johanna Fröhlich

…. One of the participating artists is the Turkish dancer and choreographer Erdem Gündüz who became famous with his performance of the Standing Man during the Gezi Protests in Istanbul 2013. As a symbol for peaceful demonstration afterwards, his personal initiative remained unique. This spirit of peacefully expressing an opinion and showing emotions through sole presence is captured in videos by Sabine Küper-Büsch and Thomas Büsch. His current perf…

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Don’t say you didn’t see. Don’t say you didn’t hear.

November 2, 2015November 3, 2015 Josefine Berkholz

…rybody who signs up for it. And than, there is the art works. According to Erdem Varol, participating in the festival with his project „Free Fall“, only a few, big names were specifically invited to join the festival. All of the others applied directly to the festival with an exhibition or project according to the motto „Lives of Others“, following an open call. The insights of what 44 people from all over the world consider as „the Others“ are as…

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The POPUP – Exhibition

February 18, 2015May 3, 2018 Thomas Büsch

…l Genç, Pınar Derin Gençer, Pilar Guinea Gil, Leonhard Grond, Genco Gülan, Erdem Gündüz, Asena Hayal, Burçak Konukman, Raziye Kubat, Batool Mohamad, İlhan Sayın, Yeşim Şahin, Sevil Tunaboylu, Ján Valík , Joen Vedel The participating artists from the residency programms are Ruben Aubrecht (Berlin Senat), Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond (Austria), Joen Vedel (Denmark), Jan Valik and Pilar Guinea Gil (maumau). Photos by Katharina Schmidt and Sabine…

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Tear Gas and Graffiti

October 30, 2013November 7, 2015 Thomas Büsch

…n with English subtitles Featering NAR Photos collective, Mehmet Güleryüz, Erdem Gündüz, Ziya Azazi, Kardeş Türküler and others.- Music – 2-5BZ with Photos by NAR Photos Assistant – Asena Hayal Camera – Sabine Küper-Büsch / Thomas Büsch / Deniz Akgündüz Editor – Thomas Büsch Production – Ralf Scherer ©ZDF/3Sat – 2013 2014 Best Shorts award at the Best Shorts Competition in La Jolla, California, Award of Merit 2014 Mediterranean Journalist Award TV…

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Not just any scarf

April 22, 2015 Thomas Büsch

…displaying their way of life as AKP states? Or a strategy fostering the presence of religious elements in public, changing the whole country for the more conservative, as critics fear? One who already brought this issue up in Turkey is Erdem Gündüz, later known for his silent resistance during the Gezi protests. „The standing man“ entered a university wearing a headscarf already in 2004 as a performance. So maybe now the time to get used to men we…

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Slogan workshop at the three-sided football match

September 13, 2013September 13, 2013 Lousia Döderlein

…earn how to create slogans, which will be shouted during the match. The workshop starts at 2 pm also at the football pitch. In the workshop the turkish team, existing of Özcan Cezan, Doðu Yücel, Serkan Öz, Birol Namoðlu, Özgür Erdönmez, Amir Necim, Ecdet Dikici, and Alpay Erdem will participate as well as players of the german team Dynamo Windrad and the english team Philosophy Football FC. The pressconference will be at 3 pm. Everybody is warmly…

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An Istanbul Memory

March 14, 2014March 18, 2014 Thomas Büsch

…n the head. The movie is featuring NAR Photos collective, Mehmet Güleryüz, Erdem Gündüz, Ziya Aziza, Kardeş Türküler and others. An Istanbul Memory, photo by Florentine Schmidt, 2014 Under the title An Istanbul Memory Florentine Schmidt – the current Manzara architecture resident from Germany – gave an insight into her work she prepared during her 2 month stay in Istanbul. The photo documents reveal an in the depth view on the urban transformation…