[spectre] Open Systems NEWSLETTER | May 2013

[Open Space]

*Open Systems* is pleased to present Issue 2, Spring 2013, which
focuses onthe trajectory of contemporary art in Turkey for the past 20
years and
evaluates the extent of knowledge and content production within this field
and also discusses the meanings and potentials of institutional critique
within the current dynamics of the contemporary art world.

Taking art as a case study, ARTSLAB 2, Spring 2013, looks at forms of how
the notion of invisible otherness is reproduced within our normative
societies and its strategies.

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Issue 2, Spring


Guest editors: Aslı Çetinkaya and Merve Ünsal


Title:* ****Encounters in Critical and Contemporary Art 1990s to
date: Turkey *



It can be widely agreed upon that contemporary art in Turkey which gained a
significant momentum in early 1990s has a relatively established structure
now, with its institutions and a growing market. However it is also often
said that the political and social vein which shaped many practices and
senses of community and collaboration seem to have left the contemporary
art scene with the growing institutionalization. The texts brought together
here, which have diverse perspectives on the issues of then and now, might
be understood as suggesting a critical review of the trajectory of
contemporary art in Turkey for the past 20 years.


This issue of Open Systems begins by acknowledging the impossibility of a
deductive reasoning in talking about a place whose very contemporaneity is
marked by disruptions. Embracing this discontinuity, the authors look at
subjects of interest that reveal a collation of pursuits, a horizontal
synergy that seems to have been at the core of the 90s and furthermore,
they provide us with different ways and perspectives of dealing with issues
of historicization.



Contributors: Sezgin Boynik, Burak Delier, Elmas Deniz, Özge Ersoy, Berin
Gölönü, İlhan Ozan
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ARTSLAB 2, Spring

Project curator: Işın *Ö*nol

Title of the exhibition: *with/in/significant other***


The exhibition focuses on how the notion of invisible otherness is
reproduced within our normative societies and the strategies within which
the artists, litterateurs and avant-garde thinkers embrace the supressed
dark image, which is the subaltern, the unsolicited, the uncanny, the
disregarded, the overlooked; the dark and insignificant other under the
violence of the glittering power.

Participating artists: Bogomir Doringer, Shilpa Gupta, Ashley Hunt, Berat
Işık, Ralph Kistler, Mario Rizzi, Stefanie Wuschitz / Claudia Eipeldauer /
Philipp Lammer and Zorica Zafirovska



*supported by*:


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**bm:ukk

ERSTE Foundation

Stadt Wien - Kulturabteilung MA 7

SAHA - supporting contemporary art from Turkey

MA 7 - Interkulturelle und Internationale Aktivitäten

Stadt Wien - Film, Kino, Neue  Medien




*About us:*



*Open Systems* - Verein zur Förderung und Vermittlung von Kultur is an
online forum to publish a quarterly journal on various subjects as well as
host an interdisciplinary online exhibition within the context of ARTSLAB.
Its primary focus is to bring different critical perspectives on art and
visual culture to the surface in order to reach a broader audience on the
basis of an essential geopolitical stand, in which a political position and
a certain creative/artistic agenda offer new potentials.


 Für mehr Information: office at openspace-zkp.org



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