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Reprototypes, Triangulations and Road Tests

…aspirational nature of Prouvé’s 1950’s roof structure, Shed – a wing-like design that owes as much to aviation and automobile engineering as it does to functionalism in architecture – and puts it to the test under somewhat absurd but never the less fitting circumstances. The multi-part installation Exposition, 2004 even proposes the juxtaposition of various historical events. The work collapses contemporary technology onte the developments of the…

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They even Stole the Rainbow: New Stamp by Khaled Jarrar

…ollowing requests for participation from all over the world, Khaled Jarrar designed a new stamp that explicitly addresses the current situation.     The new stamp is different to the previous designs which pleased the eye and depicted the Palestine Sunbird and the Anemone Shaqiqat Al Nu’man. We want you to look at it, understand how it makes you feel and in which ways it challenges your aesthetics and expectations towards art and/or a stamp. For n…

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Imagining a center for İstanbul – a talk by Orhan Esen

…radigm, the idea behind the “Barracks-Mall for profit.” “We spent our last week, last month, last year, last ten years, regularly discussing Taksim in changing contexts; before, it wasn’t different. We just took the discussion to the next level; we changed the means. The question of ‘how to intervene in Taksim’ has long been synonymous with how to make the city, even the country, appear. Now we have begun talking about Turkey through the mediation…

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Final Destination Open Society Europe

…he Dark Times, a film dealing with the subject of refugees and migrants in Istanbul)   Refugees at Istanbul bus terminal Turkey is overwhelmed by nearly 3 million refugees. Thus, Turkey can’t deal with the crisis aside from the humanitarian emergency. Integration in the society, exchange with the local population, as well as the conferment of the status of political asylum are mostly missing for these forced migrants from Arabic countries currentl…

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Becoming Istanbul

…fines the relationship with Istanbul.   Visit the online database Becoming Istanbul   Becoming Istanbul is as well a multi-authored bedside book which discusses the current changes that the city undergoes within 152 different items. These items focus on problematics which are discussion points in Istanbul today, many of them being subjects of anxiety. They can be summarized as standard opinions, explanation patterns and stereotype complaints, in g…

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Becoming Istanbul

…fines the relationship with Istanbul.   Visit the online database Becoming Istanbul   Becoming Istanbul is as well a multi-authored bedside book which discusses the current changes that the city undergoes within 152 different items. These items focus on problematics which are discussion points in Istanbul today, many of them being subjects of anxiety. They can be summarized as standard opinions, explanation patterns and stereotype complaints, in g…

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An Istanbul Memory

…ganized by InEnArt in cooperation with Manzara Istanbul under the topic An Istanbul Memory. An Istanbul Memory or also titled Memory Games was invented by the architect in resident of the Manzara residency program defining her work in progress in Istanbul. After Berkin Elvan`s burial, photo by Eren Aytug, NAR Photos collective, 2014 In solidarity with Berkin Elvan – the youngster who died on March 11 after 269 days in coma – and on the occasion of…

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Contemplative Whirls

…ng – almost two hour – performance, Ziya Azazi silently places certificates of attendance next to every dancer. These may help them never to forget which great work they have been doing together in just one week.   Entiteled „Searching Traces“ InEnArt is planning to arrange another workshop with Ziya Azazi in Istanbul soon. We will publish dates and application forms here as soon as possible….

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The Coup of the Blameless Men

…lously, they spell out the gestural vocabulary of politics, they precisely observe the body language of the politicians, not in order to compromise them, but in order to lay open the framework of the public – and the published – poses. The artist group G.R.A.M. had the Istanbul artists in residence from Austria in 2015. In the frame of the Istanbul biennial 2015 they participated into the exhibition Imagination and Orchestration with works by the…

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