Daniel Garcia Andujar
dal 19/4/2010 al 26/6/2010
Segnalato da
19/4/2010
Daniel Garcia Andujar
OPAL - Contemporary Art Space, Istanbul
Postcapital. Archive 1989-2001. The project functions as a multimedia installation and open databank which is based on a digital archive of over 250,000 documents and videos from the Internet compiled by the artist over the past ten years. 'Postcapital' addresses social, political, economic, and cultural worldwide changes over the last two decades in between two important moments as 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and the attacks on September 11, 2001.
Curated by Basak Senova
Turkey has been practising incredibly rapid and immense social, political, and cultural changes, since the shift to neo-liberal economy in the beginning of the 80’s. While we have been simply experiencing these changes, neither were we able to record them nor were we aware of their speed. Our lives have been transformed. To slow down the pace of these changes and to visualize such a data would enable us to understand and to confront the details, entailed upon the reasons behind these changes and their effects on us.
Postcapital revolves around the far-reaching changes having evolved worldwide in social, political, economic, and cultural realms over the last two decades, their watershed moments emblematized in the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and the attacks on September 11, 2001. Here, Andújar views the developments subsequent to the “fall of the Wall” not as aspects of postcommunism but rather of postcapitalism. Emerging here is the question as to what extent capitalist societies have changed in the absence of their erstwhile counterparts, and which new walls have been erected through global politics following the events of 1989 and 2001.
The English term “postcapital” references financial capital as well as capital cities. As such, the project explores both the transformations of capitalist societies and the shifting of their urban loci of power.
Today, media collects and distributes images for us with immense speed and magnitude. We are surrounded by these images; and more than ever, all communication technologies -as efficient apparatuses of late capitalism- infuse our lives with vast attacks of images. Nevertheless, we have also learned from the same sources that the meaning of any image is dependent on the context. It is not only the images, but also ideologies and realities behind the images that are being created for us.
In this respect, “Postcapital”, as an ironically questioning archive developed by Daniel García Andújar, shoots back with the same gun by detecting lapses in our perception and explanation of political, cultural, economic, social, and even technological conditions and realities. He indexes our cognitive mechanisms. Andújar's project strives to make sensible connections between mediated images of an immense and chaotic pile. His intention is building a system that helps the viewer/user to correlate incidents of certain periods of different time slices of a decade via multidirectional links.
Dressler, Iris. “Postcapital. Archive 1989 – 2001” Lapses/*3. Ed. Başak Şenova. (German-English Translation: Dawn Michelle d’Atri English- Turkish Translation: Nuşin Odelli). First Ed. IKSV. Istanbul, p.134-136. ISBN: 978-975-7363-77-8
For further information please contact Ayse Gorur: ayse.gorur@rivavakfi.org
Opening 20 April 2010
OPAL - Contemporary Art Space
Ayvansaray Caddesi, 33, Balat 34087 Istanbul
Opening Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12.00-20.00 pm
Sunday from 10-18
Closed on Mondays
free admission