an example of doing that is really an example of undoing – here, from the puff for an exhibition at WKV Stuttgart called ‘Giving Form to the Impatience of Liberty’ featuring the artists Manuela Beck, Banu Cennetoglu / Yasemin Özcan, Stefan Constantinescu,
The exhibition’s point of origin rests in the younger forms and discourses of a (re)politicization of the arts, which are meant to be probed in terms of their heterogeneity and antagonisms. These are artistic practices which subject the aesthetic utopias of modernism that were said to have floundered
Erkka Nissinen in an example of undoing – here, Arnold Schoenberg
Erkka Nissinen in an example of undoing – here, the social contract
Tilaa massa tilassa massa litas…
join the undoing movement and undo poverty, property, hunger, waste, debt, hurt, wrong, and all your petty mistakes
undo it all now
other colours
hearing Orhan Pamuk talking to Robert Harrison (link to audio) – Pamuk, the Nobel Laureate, self-confessedly conservative and superficial – superficial enough that winning the Nobel makes him happy – conservative in wanting to keep the language of Turkey ‘as it is’ – the ‘dictionary of the streets’ – and not turkify or alter
The prayers
– Julien Spianti, 2013, oil on canvas, 210 x 140 cm