<font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span>Open Systems</span></b><span> </span><span>is pleased to
present Issue 2, </span><span>Spring</span><span>
2013, which f</span><span>ocuses
on</span><span> the 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. </span><span></span></span></font>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font><p><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Taking art as a case study, </span><span>ARTSLAB 2, Spring 2013, </span><span>looks
at forms of </span><span>how the notion of invisible
otherness is reproduced within our normative societies and its strategies.</span><span> </span><span></span></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Issue 2, Spring</span></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Guest editors: <span>Asl</span>ı<span> Çetinkaya and Merve</span> Ünsal</span></span></font></p>
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</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Title:<b> </b></span><b><span></span></b></span></font><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><b>Encounters in Critical and Contemporary Art 1990s to date: Turkey</b></span> </span></b><span></span></span></font></p>
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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>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. </span></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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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.
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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Contributors:
</span><span lang="DE">Sezgin Boynik, Burak Delier,</span><span lang="DE"> </span><span lang="DE">Elmas Deniz,</span><span lang="DE"> </span><span lang="DE">Özge Ersoy, Berin
Gölönü, İlhan Ozan<span style="color:navy"> </span></span><span></span></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span></span></b><span> </span>
</span></font><p style="margin-left:1cm"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>ARTSLAB
2, Spring</span><span> </span></span></font>
</p><p style="margin-left:1cm"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Project
curator: Işın <b><span style="font-weight:normal">Ö</span></b>nol<span></span></span></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Title of the exhibition: <b>with/in/significant other</b></span><b><span lang="DE-AT"></span></b></span></font></p>
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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>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.</span></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>P<font>articipating
artists</font></span><font><span lang="DE-AT">: </span><span>Bogomir Doringer, Shilpa Gupta, Ashley Hunt, Berat Işık</span><span><span>,</span></span><span> Ralph Kistler, Mario
Rizzi, Stefanie Wuschitz / Claudia Eipeldauer / Philipp Lammer and Zorica
Zafirovska</span></font></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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 <span style="color:black">different </span>critical perspectives on art and visual
culture to the surface in order to reach a broader audience</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">on the basis of an
essential geopolitical stand, in which a political position and a certain
creative/artistic agenda offer new potentials. </span></p>
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