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</p><h1><em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;" lang="TR">° </span></em><span style="">No Ifs, No Buts</span><span style="font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">8 September - 3 October</span><span style="font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">
2010</span><span style="" lang="EN-US"></span></h1>
<span style="font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US"></span><span style="" lang="EN-US"></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Opening: </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">7 September</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">19.00 pm</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Project
curators: </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Gulsen Bal and Walter Seidl</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Participating
artists: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Esra Ersen</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Daniel Knorr </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt;"><span class="gi"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Aglaia
Konrad</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The changing experiences with time and space formed the post-modern and
postcolonial subject, which, according to Fredric Jameson, has been exposed to
a loss of maps, and thus attaches less importance to the geographical departure
and arrival points than to interim stages, which are mostly perceived in
passing, yet producing significant visual, linguistic and cultural codes of
interaction, the economic transition flow of the past decades necessitated an
increased concentration on various forms of signification in mainly urban
environments. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CWINXPP%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><style>
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</style><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="DE">In
exploring the new ways of thinking about multiplicity of subject-positions
“that begins with the critique of its present conditions (‘being’) in order to
embark upon the careful construction of mechanisms of engagement
(‘becoming’)”[1], we are interested in how this might offer the possibility of
a “new” space. This is intended to produce relational entities in which an
interrelation takes place as “an activity of an un-framing […] which leads to a
recreation and a reinvention of the subject itself.”[2] This is where “identity-form”
can be re-evaluated beyond “I-other” dichotomy beyond representational
boundaries.<br>
<br>
This brings up a question: how is all this manifested within the realm of
creative practice and brought into the spaces of art?<br>
<br>
Revealing the rapid transformation of several turning points in pursuing a
nexus that constitutes new forms of life within the framework of different
topologies is the starting point for the exhibition project No Ifs, No Buts,
which focuses on the geopolitical implications of what governs the walls of the
East and West divide. The questions of geopolitical topology find themselves
addressed in specific cultural conditions. The latter suggests that the
sensitiveness of these issues marks the production of cultural spaces
reflecting the respective representational politics. It is therefore necessary
to engage or share an artistic platform of discussion as one of the remits of
this multi-layered project. By discussing radical modes of self-referentiality
which allow No Ifs, No Buts, thereby forming counter-strategies to globalised
forces which restrict personal space, the exhibition raises questions about
trans-cultural forms of geopolitical and economic conditions, which lead to a
new mapping of terrains on a visual and discursive level.<br>
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br>
[1] O’Sullivan, S. and Zepke, S. Deleuze and Contemporary Art, Edinburgh
University Press, 2009, p. 2<br>
[2] Guattari, F. Chaosmosis: An Ethicoaesthetic Paradigm. Translated by
Paul<span style=""> </span>Bains and Julian Pefanis, Indiana
University Press, 1995, p. 131</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Participating
artists: </span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Esra Ersen</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style=""><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US">Brothers
& Sisters</span><span style="" lang="EN-US">, video
- <span style="color: black;">23’20“<span style=""></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style=""><span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">In the video
work <i style=""><span style="">Brothers & Sisters</span></i>, Esra
Ersen<b style=""> </b>tries to challenge the usual debates on the migration issue through
taking a deeper look at daily life of African refugees who were not able to
realize their plans for travelling to central </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Europe</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">
and live illegally in </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Istanbul</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">
in early 2000. In this context </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Istanbul</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">
becomes the exit point where the city functions as the emergence of transit
conjunctures for the temporary state of the immigrations beyond the precarious
political agenda of status quo.<span style=""> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">Ersen</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-US">’s artistic practice which is mostly built
around interaction and making the <i style="">“</i>demographic
politics<i style="">” </i>visible has been a
significant aspect for the pre-production of this particular work. Ersen started filming after spending
four months of a dialogue period that define the existential ambiguity with the
participants of the work, and she has engaged with a critique of the present
conditions (‘being’) reflecting the tinted ignorance of the immigration
phenomena within Turkey through subjective stories. </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style=""><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Daniel
Knorr </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Architecture
Bucureºti 2001/2005</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">, photographs</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The work Architecture Bucureºti 2001/2005
consists of 26 unique photographs made by Nea’ Costicã, a street portrait
photographer, after the instructions of the artist. The photographs deal with
urban wasteland and the construction as well as deconstruction of new and old
buildings. The phase of urban transformation of </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Bucharest</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> is shown in
these photographs, which are made with an old-fashioned plate camera,
referencing to the uniqueness of each photograph, which exists in both positive
and negative prints, showing the ambiguities of </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Bucharest</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">’s changing
urban outlook. The black-and white images convey a spooky character of the town
as a place where corruption and dubious business is still under way. Meeting
the standards set by the EU is still a difficult task for a city, which has for
a long time been seen as Communism’s most megalomaniac city, and which is
gradually adapting to the overarching European norms. Reforms in urban planning
become a task which still seems difficult to tackle with regard to the city’s
past and future.<span style=""> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span class="gi"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Aglaia Konrad</span></b></span></p>
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Cities, </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">photographs<span class="gi"><b style=""></b></span></span></p>
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el Sadat. This is not classic architectural or documentary photography: her way
of seeing things is unadorned and draws our attention straight to the history
of the real setting. The photographs show the application of “modernist”
principles to architectural development in desert landscapes. They spotlight an
improbable dialogue between imported models and vernacular elements,
constructions and sites, desert and communities, modernity and tradition
(catalogue description). People moving into these buildings try to find a new
exclusivity for social as well as living standards. Yet, many of these new
housing projects from the 1990s are already falling into ruins and got abandoned;
raising questions about the necessity for such grand endeavours far from
traditional traffic routes. How do deserts attract attention and how easily are
the dreams of utopian places destroyed? Konrad’s
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