…Gökçe Er uses to intensify this feeling. More than one ground level rises vertically on her paintings: Entangled forests, swimming pools, deserts, seas, darkness ripped out of dreams and tropical greens reaching out for their roots. Er is searching for an upside down road map leading to identity. Her characters are in spaces that have changed places, divided and familiar; they are alone, even when together. Artist Gökçe Er was born in Çorlu in 19…
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…rts of things to give them new meanings. They walk the streets of Istanbul searching for objects, materials, and fabrics. Together they visit the markets, the bazaars, and the stores. If you are enthusiastic about seeing this presentation, we will be pleased to welcome you at the Mahalla Festival between the 1st and 10th of September 2022 at the former Greek School in the Kurtuluş district on the European site of Istanbul. The Austrian Cultural Fo…
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…o much of the former colonial power, as PM John Key states. New Zealand is searching for a new flag currently and options are plenty. A state’s flag is an important item. French sociologist Emile Durkheim called goods like this „totems“ in his works: A thing on which collective feelings can unify. A thing that reminds of higher, transcendental ideas such as a state structure. A thing representing citizenship and sometimes even a feeling of home. A…
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…han, Yaşar, lived there for years. After he left, the building was abandoned. Now its a heap of dust, Farewell beauty. This winter leaves scars on humans and urban landscapes. Monetarian games, poverty and urban ecapades. This building close to the Muhtar of Ömer Avni Mahallesi is still alive and searching for a buyer for some time. It should be protected as a precious monument of time. Monuments of time turning to dust Wooden walls like creak…
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…INDECT stands for “INtelligent information system supporting observation, searching and DEteCTion for security of citizens in urban environment”. It is a research project of the European Union launched in 2009 and planned to be finished in 2013. INDECT is a research project under the 7th Research Framework Programme of the European Union (EU). The aim is to further develop existing surveillance technologies and combine into an instrument of opera…
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…re developed from the spacial distance for all of them. An impressive show searching for approaches to the unapprochable. Exhibition at Kunbstraum Kreuzberg, 08.03.-27.04.14 Artists: Taro Chiezo, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Megumi Fukuda, Yishay Garbasz, Alireza Ghandchi, Florian Goldmann, Linda Havenstein, Idetsuki Hideaki, Leiko Ikemura, Satoshi Katono, Ryusuke Kido, Isolde Kille, Kanta Kimura, Yusuke Kimura, Aisuke Kondo, Azusa Kuno, Jens Li…
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…oration of what it means to have a hybrid existence in which one is always searching for an identity. The title “Evaporating Borders” corresponds to the idea that the erosion of boundaries and borders (both physical and metaphoric) defamiliarize the narratives of selfhood through which identities take shape and reproduce themselves. The flow of populations, commodities and information is associated with loss of traditions, memories and histories….
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…o gloss over our lifes. And we have illusions about unknown things. We are searching for the known in the unknown, we are fading out aspects, we are developing wrong imaginations.” “Art is able to emerge a space in between: we can illusionize in a conscious way. The title of the exhibition is playing with this ambiguity and with the double negation. If an illusion is a self-deception, a false illusion could be a the right imagination then. Art is…
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…school in Berlin in 2015. In the workshop the children lernt to create their dream passport. The art works of the exhibition that took palce in March at Volkshochshule Treptow Köpenick are a reflection of searching for cultural identity beyond territories and national borders. VHS Treptow-Köpenick in cooperation with Sonnenblumengrundschule, Kinderkunstprojekt Photos: Betty Stürmer…
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