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<div dir="ltr"> Datum: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:00:32 +0000<br>
Von: serhat koksal <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
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<div dir="ltr"> To the press
and the public; <br>
A group of activists
protested against the
“Scared of Murals”
exhibition held at Beyoğlu
Salt, <br>
<br>
with stencils featuring
portraits of Vehbi Koç,
Sakıp Sabancı and Şarık
Tara and the slogans “It
isn’t over! They are still
scared…<br>
”, “We are still here” and
“Waiting for the
barbarians". <br>
The activists placed their
stencils on the floor of
the gallery’s foyer and
gave a press statement. <br>
<br>
They completed their
protest by using their
stencils to paint on the
building’s façade. <br>
<br>
16 March 2013 <br>
<br>
<a
href="http://gozel.tumblr.com/post/45886522633/it-isnt-over-you-are-still"
target="_blank"> http://gozel.tumblr.com/post/45886522633/it-isnt-over-you-are-still</a><br>
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<br>
<b>It isn’t over, you are
still scared. </b><br>
The biennial was launched
with parallel events
featuring the art of the
capitalists, along with
the opening of debates on
"publicness", the
biennial’s main theme.
They try to tame every
artistic rebellion,
bringing protest art down
to their own level. There
has been an attempt to
remove all meaning from
the artistic images,
figures and methods used
throughout the history of
this country's political
uprisings, and to use them
in art performances
directed by capitalists.
These barbarians are
barbarically killing each
of these images; images
that are the expression of
the dreams, carved into
public memory, of a
“livable world, rights and
equality”. In the past, so
many young people with a
brush and paint in their
hands paid the price for
the slogans they painted
on walls with years in
prison or even with their
life. At that time these
“murals” were capitalists’
nightmare, their biggest
fear; now they announce
that they are no longer
afraid of those young
hands and hearts who used
their dreams to paint
those images on the walls.
Even though nothing has
changed, see how the
capitalists have developed
compassion. Today, instead
of beatings they have
chosen love. And they
declare this love to the
world through the artistic
events of which they are
so proud. Saying “How
wonderful for us, for our
democracy” is naïve and
turns a blind eye to their
hypocrisy. Presented as
nostalgic works of art,
these “murals” are now no
more than the memories of
naughty children who have
been brought to heel by
Doğuş Holding. The
underlying message that
the capitalists who have
brought the economy to the
most brutal level of
capitalism are trying to
give is that they are no
longer afraid of murals.
As though embracing the
philosophy of Rumi, they
say "we may drink your
blood but our arms are
open to your love, whoever
you may be". They say that
important artists give
their names to these
paintings and they are now
mere works of art with no
political meaning left.
Time and again they say
that the people who then
made these murals, now
love money even more than
they do. But what they
have forgotten is that
although the people who,
in another time, made
these paintings became the
money-loving artists who
are today slaves to
capitalism, the dreams
that they abandoned still
colour our nights. They
are a legacy; the belief
in the idea that it is
possible to live humanely
still remains on those
walls. It is these dreams
that have brought us here.
It is the fighting spirit
that is carved on those
walls that has brought us
here. These murals that
speak of equality in the
world, that say that
equality is possible, are
now being presented as
"nostalgia” under the
sponsorship of a bank that
once supported the coup
d'état. We are here
because a living thing, a
song that is still sung,
can never be nostalgia. It
lives on here, in us! That
song is still sung by the
youth of today. The spirit
that is carved into those
walls is not that of the
once naughty, now
well-behaved children of
the capitalists but that
of the artists who value
disobedience. <br>
If a bank that supported
the military coup can open
tactless exhibitions that
say that they are scared
of murals, the reason for
this is the politics of
art that has been taken
from our control. In this
exhibition, the best
example of the idea that
“there can be no art
without money”, those who
supported the military
coup try to downplay their
responsibility. We will
not stand for this! We are
still ruled by the
patched-up constitution of
the coup. Our protest is
against the capitalists
who ensured that this
constitution would destroy
the country's unions, an
act for which they now
deny any responsibility.
Our protest is against the
fact that Garanti Bank is
using art to turn the
political legacy of the
struggle of so many
artists who created these
murals into nostalgia. The
capitalists are those who
are really afraid of these
murals and who hold the
political power; yet today
they have announced that
they are no longer scared
of murals. In light of the
parallel events and
today's event <br>
on the theme of “We were
once organised”, we say to
all the artists involved
that we are still
organised, we are still
here. And we say that they
are still scared of
murals. Today’s curators,
these children of the
neo-liberal system, try to
pay their debts to their
creators by devaluing the
past of those who have
suffered in the
unconfronted history of
this country. We want you
to know that we will not
remain silent. <br>
<br>
ArtHack <br>
Emek Gençliği <br>
Gündoğusu Sanat Ve Düşün
Topluluğu <br>
Öğrenci Kolektifleri <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W735uhGMT5Q"
target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W735uhGMT5Q</a>
( 16.3.2013 )</b></font><br>
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<a
href="http://www.evrensel.net/news.php?id=51820"
target="_blank">http://www.evrensel.net/news.php?id=51820</a><br>
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<a
href="http://www.sendika.org/2013/03/saltta-protesto-biz-hala-orgutluyuz/"
target="_blank">http://www.sendika.org/2013/03/saltta-protesto-biz-hala-orgutluyuz/</a><br>
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<a
href="http://www.kizilyildiz.org/2013/03/saltanat-yklyor-bitmedi-hala-korkuyorlar.html"
target="_blank">http://www.kizilyildiz.org/2013/03/saltanat-yklyor-bitmedi-hala-korkuyorlar.html</a><br>
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href="https://www.facebook.com/AnneBenBarbarMiyim"
target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/AnneBenBarbarMiyim</a><br>
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href="http://2-5bz.tumblr.com/post/42398186787/2-5bz-hostmodern"
target="_blank">http://2-5bz.tumblr.com/post/42398186787/2-5bz-hostmodern</a><br>
<br>
<strong>bu bir dönemeçtir</strong><br>
<a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOdPx90bQpY%20"
target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOdPx90bQpY </a>
<strong>ViDEO (2009)</strong><br>
<a
href="http://gozel.tumblr.com/post/19042452309/begenal-logolu-amade-bienali"
target="_blank">http://gozel.tumblr.com/post/19042452309/begenal-logolu-amade-bienali</a><br>
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