[spectre] Fwd: A Consumption of Justice

[EAF Director]

>A Consumption of Justice
>1-22 May 2005 
>
>Curator: Beral Madra
>Place: DSM, Diyarbakžr Municipality Art Gallery
><http://www.diyarbakirsanat.org>http://www.diyarbakirsanat.org
>
>Artists: Ali Aksakal, Andrej Derkovic, Behrang 
>Samadzadegan, Evrensel Belgin, Heba Farid, Iliko 
>Zautashvilli, Lamia Jeorge, Oliver Musovik, 
>Orkhan Huseynov, Panayiotis Michael, Ruben 
>Arevshatyan, Zehra Sonya, Maha Abu Ayyash 
>
>The exhibition “A Consumption of Justice” will 
>bring together current art and culture 
>production from the Balkans, Caucasus, Middle 
>East and East Mediterrenean in Diyarbakžr Arts 
>Center, and Diyarbakžr Greater Municipality 
>Exhibition Hall...
>
>Curated by internationally reknowned curator and 
>art critic Beral Madra, this exhibition is an 
>endeavor to extend a fundamental network of 
>neighboring countries with common historical 
>background, current political and economical 
>interests and inherent social / cultural 
>exchange. 
>
>The intrinsic idea of this network generates 
>from the artists themselves, who are determined 
>to make dream and reality became equated in this 
>region of the world, to overcome the drastic 
>transformations and traumas, to overpower the 
>machinery of corporate ideology and to master 
>the everyday life with creativity and alertness.
>
>In 1988, in the famed "A Discussion" Beuys was 
>saying "
but we have to talk about a future 
>culture understanding, which generates from the 
>art; since it cannot any more generate from 
>another level of the society. This understanding 
>neither generates from the propelling economic 
>power nor from the justice; since in there the 
>money lays in the state of absolute injustice. 
>That means, the money is not a passport for the 
>justice and responsibilities. In it anarchistic 
>for those who can make a gain out of it; since 
>he/she can have everything on the expenditure of 
>the other. 
>
>And when no production takes its course, the war 
>will be inflamed, arms will be produced; 
>obviously this is always a good business". 
>Re-thinking Beuys is not a popular exercise, but 
>the current world affairs still leads us to his 
>ideas and to the truth that artists are indeed 
>far sighted and visionary; despite the 
>globalization trends procreated by the art 
>business/business art system, which places the 
>artist into the transitory context.
>
>Curiously enough, the same art system with all 
>its new and refined strategies and statements 
>sifted its dust of modernism and pursued a 
>reconciliation ground for mutual understanding 
>between the artists of different territories and 
>cultures. This kind of prosaic expressions of 
>many curators since the end of the 80's was 
>based on the apparently idealistic principles of 
>globalization. 
>
>During the many experiences in and out of the 
>biennials, multi-culture exhibitions, workshops, 
>seminars and forums, particularly during the 
>unity of Europe, many artists of the 
>post-periphery were in rosy expectations. The 
>process is still going on, but with strategic 
>changes in defining the position of the 
>de-territorialized artist. At the beginning the 
>pregnant concepts such as "the other", "the 
>emigrant", "diaspora" were popular and promising 
>and, the modernist borders seemed to melt away.
>
>Successively the tone and color of the 
>exhibitions and other cultural encounters became 
>pallid for those who looked for subsequent 
>practices and possibilities, when not to say for 
>the admission into the art market, precisely 
>empowered by the multinational companies and 
>Western private enterprise. 
>
>Gradually, it was understood, that the tender 
>hand of the curator extended to the artist, was 
>not sufficient to transform the prevailing 
>systems of the Post-Soviet countries and the 
>Muslim Nation States. There is no commensurate 
>cultural life in the world, even if the 
>corporate structure in the form of globalization 
>is forging it to be. The art and culture network 
>of the EU is flourishing.
>
>The aesthetic realms of EU and North America 
>formulating, when not dictating ideologies, 
>concepts and trends with their vast culture 
>industry of museums, art-centers, galleries, 
>foundations, collectioners, and publications. 
>The artists on the perimeters of this system, 
>with their traditionally diverse and abundant 
>inspirations are either entitled to surf into 
>the waves of the system or use their energy to 
>exploit it for a prerogative. To close the gap 
>between an accomplished extrovert system and a 
>decayed introvert system exposes a new conflict 
>of injustice. It is paradoxal, that they have 
>the task to master the consumption of justice in 
>culture and art; when ideology of consumption is 
>what they challenge and justice is what they 
>pursue for.
>
>Exhibition Concept Prepared by: Beral Madra
>
>With valuable support of 
><http://www.diyarbakirsanat.org/www.princeclausfund.nl>Prince 
>Claus Foundation
>
>
>Oliver Musovik
>
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>MK 1050 Skopje - Dracevo
>Macedonia
>
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>
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