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Istanbul Biennial, 2013

Istanbul Biennial, 2013 / © Foto: Haupt and Binder, Universes in Universe

13th Istanbul Biennial 2013

Istanbul, Turkey

14 September - 20 October 2013

Curator: Fulya Erdemci

Public Alchemy
Public programme, co-curated by
Fulya Erdemci and Andrea Phillips

88 artists and collectives

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Mom, am I barbarian?

Fulya ErdemciFulya Erdemci is the curator of the 13th Istanbul Biennial in 2013 (see the biography).

As an exhibition in a dialogue with the city, the 13th Istanbul Biennial’s focal point will be the notion of the public domain as a political forum. This highly contested concept will serve as a matrix to generate ideas and develop practices that question contemporary forms of democracy, challenge current models of spatioeconomic politics, problematise given concepts of civilization and barbarity, and most importantly, highlight the role of art in this context.

The 13th Istanbul Biennial will use public buildings which are left temporarily vacant by urban transformation as exhibition venues. These may include public buildings such as courthouses, schools, military structures or post offices, former transportation hubs like train stations, ex-industrial sites such as warehouses, dockyards as well as the very contested Taksim Square and Gezi Park. Furthermore, the hallmarks of current urbanism such as shopping malls, hotels and office-residential towers are being considered as sites for artistic interventions.

The title of this edition of the Istanbul Biennial, "Mom, am I barbarian?", is a quote from the Turkish poet Lale Müldür's book of the same title.

Conceptual framework


Public programme: Public Alchemy

An integral part of the exhibition, the public programme will bring artistic production and knowledge production together in the months prior to and throughout the exhibition. Artists, architects, planners, theoreticians, activists, poets and musicians will come together to examine the ways in which publicness can be reclaimed as an artistic and political tool in the context of global financial imperialism and local social fracture.
Co-curated by Fulya Erdemci and Dr. Andrea Phillips who is currently Reader in Fine Art in the Department of Art and Director of the Doctoral Research Programmes in Fine Art and Curating, Goldsmiths, University of London.

(From press information)


Organizer:

Istanbul Biennial
Istanbul Foundation For Culture and Arts
Nejat Eczacıbaşı Binası
Sadi Konuralp Caddesi No:5
Şişhane 34433 İstanbul
Turkey
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