Call me Istanbul ist mein Name
dal 16/4/2004 al 8/8/2004
Segnalato da
16/4/2004
Call me Istanbul ist mein Name
ZKM_Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
The exhibition Call me Istanbul ist mein Name is witness to the rich dialogue now taking place between the new urban agglomeration that is Istanbul and the architects, artists, urbanists, designers, and researchers who are thinking, working, and playing within that space. The exhibition includes photography, design, media art, acoustic installations as well as specially conceived projects that reflect and deal with the cities variety.
Karlsruhe exhibition as part of the European Cultural Festival 2004
The exhibition Call me ISTANBUL ist mein Name is witness to the rich dialogue now taking place between the new urban agglomeration that is Istanbul and the architects, artists, urbanists, designers, and researchers who are thinking, working, and playing within that space. The exhibition includes photography, design, media art, acoustic installations as well as specially conceived projects that reflect and deal with the cities variety.
Ways of how Istanbul functions are presented- as a sort of creative process, an almost genetic power which finds solutions of its own to turn the dysfunctional into something functional. As much as Istanbul is a city of ancient icons and ocularcentricity, it is also a city of audition. In the exhibition hall, as in the city's immense urban space, discontinuous events proliferate. Material fluctuates. Sounds drain substance. Sights, smells, textures, and voices mingle the animal, the mechanical and the human. Istanbul can also be seen as a permeable time/space membrane, a transparent film between the present city of Istanbul and the Europe of the future, as a role model for the European multi-cities to come, as a flexible and vibrating system. This exhibition offers an encounter with some signals coming from that metapolis, a place of places, that never stopped transforming itself.
The exhibition is being generously funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation and is one of the main events of the 17th European culture days 2004 in Karlsruhe (18.04.-08.05.2004) which are dedicated to the topic 'Istanbul. It is curated by Roger Conover, Eda Cufer and Peter Weibel. Call me ISTANBUL ist mein Namewill be accompanied by a wide-ranging programme of supporting events (including film, music and literature features) and a two-day symposium at the ZKM - media theatre(April 23 – 25, 2004 – conference language: German).
In the image: ermin Sherif, Scarlet scarf, 2001.
Opening April 17, 4pm
An exhibition catalogue will be available.
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