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Esra Ersen- Interview with the artist at the tanzimat Exhibition
5. February 2010, 22:07:14 unter Art Spaces, Artworks, Augarten Contemporary, Austria, English, Exhibitions, German, Interviews, Museums, Podcasts, Portraits, Video, Vienna
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Esra Ersen is interested in the formation of identity and its transformation in different contexts or power structures. Her work “Carousel” shown in the exhibition tanzimat (Augarten Contemporary 21.1.2010 - 16.5.2010) was produced with high school students from Cologne. Ersen asked the students to model Turkish heads out of clay.
Gulsun Karamustafa - Interview with the artist at the tanzimat Exhibition
4. February 2010, 20:30:19 unter Art Spaces, Artworks, Augarten Contemporary, Austria, English, Exhibitions, German, Interviews, Podcasts, Video, Vienna
| computer & iPod | send feedback Gulsun Karamustafa is a contemporary artist and film maker from Turkey. In 2009 she was the artist in residence at the Augarten Contemporary in Vienna. For the exhibition tanzimat (Augarten Contemporary 21.1.2010 - 16.5.2010) she produced a new piece entitled “modernity unveiled/interweaving histories”. In the interview with CYA Karamustafa talks about this piece.
Franz Kapfer - Interview with the artist at the tanzimat Exhibition
3. February 2010, 17:49:25 unter Art Spaces, Artworks, Augarten Contemporary, Austria, Exhibitions, German, Interviews, Podcasts, Video, Vienna
| computer & iPod | send feedback Franz Kapfer is an artist from Austria. His interest lies in patterns of representation.
In his work “Trophies” in exhibition tanzimat (Augarten Contemporary 21.1.2010 - 16.5.2010) he examines cliché representations of Turkish motives in Austrian architecture.
tanzimat - History is in the making
27. January 2010, 10:07:03 unter Art Spaces, Augarten Contemporary, Austria, Exhibitions, German, Interviews, Portraits, Video, ViennaDeveloped in parallel to the major Prince Eugen of Savoy exhibition at the Lower Belvedere, tanzimat at the Augarten Contemporary examines the continual reorganization of historical constructs and devices that underscore the neverending project of modernity.
| computer & iPod | send feedback It is an interesting fact that the fez, the iconic Turkish hat that was originally instituted as a “modernizing” symbol for the Ottoman Empire in 1826, was later banned in Turkey in 1925, also as part of a “modernizing” reform. It is also interesting to note that after the invention of synthetic dyes, the main manufacturer of the fez—which up until that point had been colored with native berry juice—was located in Austria, that is, until it was boycotted by Turkey in 1908 more »
Sense and Sentiment - Mistakes are closely followed by Effects
11. February 2009, 12:24:55 unter Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Art Spaces, Augarten Contemporary, Austria, Belvedere, Exhibitions, German, Museums, Podcasts, Universities, Video, Viennaa ) animals that belong to the emperor, b) embalmed ones, c) tamed ones, d) suckling pigs, e) sirens, f) fabulous ones, g) stray dogs, h) those that are included in this classification, i) those that tremble as if they were mad, j) innumerable ones, k) those that are drawn with the finest camel hair brush, l) and so on, m) those that have broken the water jug, n) those that resemble flies from a distance.
This unusual taxonomy of the organisms from the animal realm, attributed by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges to a Chinese encyclopedia, was the inspiration for the French philosopher Michel Foucault for a book about the connection between our world of words and that of things. more »
