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dv22000Afise Exhibition

4 – 18 June 2010
Yuksel Sabanci Art Center
Yildiz Technical University, İstanbul

Participants: .-_-., Ahmet Öğüt, Burak Delier, Ekin Saçlıoğlu, Erinç Seymen, Güneş Terkol, İnci Eviner, İz Öztat, Önder Özengi, Özgür Erkök, Seda Hepsev, Sergin Keyder, Şafak Çatalbaş, Zeren Göktan, Zeynep Günsür, Züleyha Altıntaş.

Afişe is an event that emerged out of dialogues, meetings, correspondences and readings realized by a group of artists, who inhabit(ed) Y.T.Ü. Art and Design Faculty and believe that there still are places for free expression and creative dialogues.

The exhibition is not structured just around defining and publicizing the current condition. It tries to place the situation in a wider perspective and intends to start an open-ended process of dialogue, which places the problem in a wider context.

Some institutions, habits, practices and experiences, in different geographies at urban and world scale, are subject to top-down governance and prevailing market driven tendencies. These tendencies legitimize themselves through the rhetoric of surplus value, profit, utility and productivity. Legitimization of “creative destruction” can be traced in the process of demolishing Emek Cinema, among the justifications of silently relocating Beyoğlu Olgunlastirma Institute, closing down of Middlesex University Philosophy Department and in the aims of Bologna Process, which restructures knowledge production in service of the neoliberal condition.

Relying on the transformative energy of art, Afişe exhibition takes a position towards the situation. Through posters, a carnival and food at the opening, we invite you to speak about this process, share the responsibility with “joy” and produce discourse about the current condition.6

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Afise Exhibition

4 – 18 June 2010
Yuksel Sabanci Art Center
Yildiz Technical University, İstanbul

Participants: .-_-., Ahmet Öğüt, Burak Delier, Ekin Saçlıoğlu, Erinç Seymen, Güneş Terkol, İnci Eviner, İz Öztat, Önder Özengi, Özgür Erkök, Seda Hepsev, Sergin Keyder, Şafak Çatalbaş, Zeren Göktan, Zeynep Günsür, Züleyha Altıntaş.

Afişe is an event that emerged out of dialogues, meetings, correspondences and readings realized by a group of artists, who inhabit(ed) Y.T.Ü. Art and Design Faculty and believe that there still are places for free expression and creative dialogues.

The exhibition is not structured just around defining and publicizing the current condition. It tries to place the situation in a wider perspective and intends to start an open-ended process of dialogue, which places the problem in a wider context.

Some institutions, habits, practices and experiences, in different geographies at urban and world scale, are subject to top-down governance and prevailing market driven tendencies. These tendencies legitimize themselves through the rhetoric of surplus value, profit, utility and productivity. Legitimization of “creative destruction” can be traced in the process of demolishing Emek Cinema, among the justifications of silently relocating Beyoğlu Olgunlastirma Institute, closing down of Middlesex University Philosophy Department and in the aims of Bologna Process, which restructures knowledge production in service of the neoliberal condition.

Relying on the transformative energy of art, Afişe exhibition takes a position towards the situation. Through posters, a carnival and food at the opening, we invite you to speak about this process, share the responsibility with “joy” and produce discourse about the current condition.

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Afise Exhibition

4 – 18 June 2010
Yuksel Sabanci Art Center
Yildiz Technical University, İstanbul

Participants: .-_-., Ahmet Öğüt, Burak Delier, Ekin Saçlıoğlu, Erinç Seymen, Güneş Terkol, İnci Eviner, İz Öztat, Önder Özengi, Özgür Erkök, Seda Hepsev, Sergin Keyder, Şafak Çatalbaş, Zeren Göktan, Zeynep Günsür, Züleyha Altıntaş.

Afişe is an event that emerged out of dialogues, meetings, correspondences and readings realized by a group of artists, who inhabit(ed) Y.T.Ü. Art and Design Faculty and believe that there still are places for free expression and creative dialogues.

The exhibition is not structured just around defining and publicizing the current condition. It tries to place the situation in a wider perspective and intends to start an open-ended process of dialogue, which places the problem in a wider context.

Some institutions, habits, practices and experiences, in different geographies at urban and world scale, are subject to top-down governance and prevailing market driven tendencies. These tendencies legitimize themselves through the rhetoric of surplus value, profit, utility and productivity. Legitimization of “creative destruction” can be traced in the process of demolishing Emek Cinema, among the justifications of silently relocating Beyoğlu Olgunlastirma Institute, closing down of Middlesex University Philosophy Department and in the aims of Bologna Process, which restructures knowledge production in service of the neoliberal condition.

Relying on the transformative energy of art, Afişe exhibition takes a position towards the situation. Through posters, a carnival and food at the opening, we invite you to speak about this process, share the responsibility with “joy” and produce discourse about the current condition.

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Afise Exhibition

4 – 18 June 2010
Yuksel Sabanci Art Center
Yildiz Technical University, İstanbul

Participants: .-_-., Ahmet Öğüt, Burak Delier, Ekin Saçlıoğlu, Erinç Seymen, Güneş Terkol, İnci Eviner, İz Öztat, Önder Özengi, Özgür Erkök, Seda Hepsev, Sergin Keyder, Şafak Çatalbaş, Zeren Göktan, Zeynep Günsür, Züleyha Altıntaş.

Afişe is an event that emerged out of dialogues, meetings, correspondences and readings realized by a group of artists, who inhabit(ed) Y.T.Ü. Art and Design Faculty and believe that there still are places for free expression and creative dialogues.

The exhibition is not structured just around defining and publicizing the current condition. It tries to place the situation in a wider perspective and intends to start an open-ended process of dialogue, which places the problem in a wider context.

Some institutions, habits, practices and experiences, in different geographies at urban and world scale, are subject to top-down governance and prevailing market driven tendencies. These tendencies legitimize themselves through the rhetoric of surplus value, profit, utility and productivity. Legitimization of “creative destruction” can be traced in the process of demolishing Emek Cinema, among the justifications of silently relocating Beyoğlu Olgunlastirma Institute, closing down of Middlesex University Philosophy Department and in the aims of Bologna Process, which restructures knowledge production in service of the neoliberal condition.

Relying on the transformative energy of art, Afişe exhibition takes a position towards the situation. Through posters, a carnival and food at the opening, we invite you to speak about this process, share the responsibility with “joy” and produce discourse about the current condition.

Art and design at the Arctic Circle

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I spent a day at Rovaniemi in Lapland, just a few kilometers from the Arctic Circle. During the day I visited the University of Lapland. Here's the main hall of their Faculty of Art and Design. November 2007.