Disobedience Archive (The Park)
dal 21/4/2014 al 14/6/2014
Segnalato da
21/4/2014
Disobedience Archive (The Park)
Salt Beyoglu, Istanbul
An ongoing, multi-phase video archive and platform of discussion that deals with the relationship between artistic practices and political action. The archive is an itinerant and ongoing entity that changes its form and content every time it is exhibited.
Curated by Marco Scotini and Andris Brinkmanis.
The Disobedience Archive is an ongoing, multi-phase video archive and platform of discussion that deals with the relationship between artistic practices and political action. The project is an atlas of the plurality of resistance tactics such as direct action, counter-information and biological resistance. By setting in motion different signs and situations, Disobedience is presented as a network of open topics, brought together by artists, activists, film producers, philosophers and political groups.
The archive is an itinerant and ongoing entity that changes its form and content every time it is exhibited. This approach is strongly connected to the flux of contemporary politics and movements, because they can never find a definitive final shape (trade unions, party, parliament etc.) but are always under transformation. The exhibition at SALT Beyoğlu is curated by Marco Scotini and Andris Brinkmanis accordingly, with installation design by Herkes İçin Mimarlık [Architecture for All]. On this occasion the archive will include internationally sourced materials that date from the 1970s Parco Lambro uprising that took place in Italy up until the 2013 Gezi park events in Istanbul.
Disobedience Archive (The Park) at SALT Beyoğlu is a work in progress reflecting on international events as they unfold. Divided into several thematic areas: The Playground, The Park, The Street and The Square, ten of the archive's sections will be presented in İstanbul: "1977 The Italian Exit," "Protesting Capitalist Globalization," "Reclaim the Streets," "Bioresistence and Society of Control," "Argentina Fabrica Social," "Disobedience East," "Disobedience University," "Gender Politics," "The Arab Dissent" and lastly "The Park," which focuses on İstanbul with original contributions by Cem Dinlenmiş, Videoccupy and Herkes için Mimarlık.
The archive includes materials by 16 Beaver, Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée (AAA), Mitra Azar, Nanni Balestrini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Petra Bauer, Franco Berardi Bifo, Pauline Boudry, Brigitta Kuster and Renate Lorenz, Bernadette Corporation, Black Audio Film Collective, Ursula Biemann, Copenhagen Free University, Critical Art Ensemble, Cem Dinlenmiş, Dodo Brothers, Marcelo Expósito, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Rene Gabri and Ayreen Anastas, Grupo de Arte Callejero, Etcétera, Piero Gilardi, Alberto Grifi, Felix Guattari, Herkes için Mimarlık, Ashley Hunt, Sara Ishaq, Kanal B, Khaled Jarrar, John Jordan and Isabelle Fremeaux, Laboratorio di Comunicazione Militante, Carla Lonzi, Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson, Enzo Mari, Angela Melitopoulos, Mosireen, Carlos Motta, Toni Negri, Non Governamental Control Commission, Wael Noureddine, Margit Czencki/Park Fiction, R.E.P. Group, Oliver Ressler and Zanny Begg, Roy Samaha, Eyal Sivan, Hito Steyerl, Superflex, The Department of Space and Land Reclamation, Mariette Schiltz and Bert Theis, Ultra-red, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Trampoline House (Morten Goll and Tone O. Nielsen), Dmitry Vilensky and Chto Delat?, Videoccupy and James Wentzy.
Versions of the archive were previously shown at institutions including Riga Art Space, Latvia; MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, USA; Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Italy; and Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden.
Image: From the street performance Andreottile (Turin, 1977) by Piero Gilardi with Collettivo La Comune
Press contact
Ceylan Yüceoral +90 212 3342240 ceylan.yuceoral@saltonline.org
Zeynep Akan +90 212 3342245 zeynep.akan@saltonline.org
SALT Beyoğlu
İstiklal Caddesi 136 Beyoğlu 34430 İstanbul