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To learn more about piggybacking, 1:1 Scale, Artworlds (art-sustaining environments), Coefficient of art alongside many other mind opening concepts you can download a free copy from Arte Utils website. Raivo Puusemps mayorship at Rosendale, New York resulted with the dissolution of the town and its amalgamation with a larger municipality. The documentation regarding the process of this work compiled in a publication and was published by Highland Press in 1980’s iniative of Paul McCarthy. http://makinguse.artmuseum.pl/en/raivo-puusemp/ Episode recorded on Zoom in April 2020. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. Released from MÇPS Studios. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-2-zak-kyes monthly 0.5 2020-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1591903721301-2RA57W8G4STUFISIBPUY/Culture_Is_Not_Cancelled_Story.jpg Episodes - Episode 2: Zak Kyes - Episode Notes & Links Zak's studio is called Zak Group. As an international design practice, they create brand identities and digital platforms at the intersection of art, architecture, design, and fashion. https://www.zak.group Architectural Association, commonly referred to as AA is one of the most prestigious schools of architecture in the world. Established in the late 19th century, the association sought to come up with an alternative to the obsolete educational model of traditional education based on apprenticeship. The founders devised an education program that offered an intensive course of training provided by the students themselves. https://www.aaschool.ac.uk Zak Kyes was the co-founder of the infamous Bedford Press (2008-2016) an imprint of the Architectural Association and named after the school’s location at Bedford Square, London. https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/PUBLIC/AAPUBLICATIONS/bedford.php?page=2 Bedford Press also published “Ahali: An Anthology for Setting a Setting” in 2013. https://aabookshop.net/?wpsc-product=ahali-an-anthology-for-setting-a-setting Initiated by Zak “Culture Is Not Cancelled” is one of the critical reactions that emerged during the quarantine days, seeking to encourage cooperation and solidarity within the creative community. https://cultureisnotcancelled.art Bologna's modern art museum MAMBO released an open call for artists to use its facilities during the pandemic to support the production of new works. https://www.inexhibit.com/marker/in-bologna-the-mambo-is-renewed-and-launches-the-new-bakehouse/ Prof. Pelle Ehn’s lecture at Malmö University titled Design, Democracy, and Participation: Exploring the Scandinavian Participatory Design Tradition is highly recommended. The lecture delves into the historical development of collective design practices. https://archive.org/details/pelle_ehn_participatory_design_100_years Episode recorded on Zoom on May 20th 2020. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. Released from MÇPS Studios. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1591010504464-FZTIGC6DZI7FU6OPJ2TJ/ahali_podcast-03.jpg Episodes - Episode 2: Zak Kyes https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-3-ahmet-ogut monthly 0.5 2020-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1591010586532-2IDNM2SQLGYR3YN3NVXE/ahali_podcast-04.jpg Episodes - Episode 3: Ahmet Öğüt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1592586098163-Y72D3ZNWFX376MVMHEK6/gram03-ahmet-09.jpg Episodes - Episode 3: Ahmet Öğüt - Episode Notes & Links Ahmet’s website is packed with further readings and additional material on his works. http://www.ahmetogut.com Initiated by Ahmet in 2012, The Silent University is a mobile and iterative institution. As a solidarity school run by refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants, it facilitates knowledge exchange dedicated to academics that cannot share their knowledge due to bureaucratic or juridical obstacles. https://thesilentuniversity.org Co-founded by Ahmet with Burak Arıkan, Code of Acquisitions is an ongoing investigation about good and bad practices of art institutions, galleries, and studios. It’s inquiries address published policies as well as cases of misconduct and abuse. https://codeofacquisitions.org Tokyo based collective Chimpom invited artists such as Ai Weiwei, Taryn Simon, Trevor Paglen, and Ahmet Öğüt to contribute to an exhibition at Fukushima. These works are installed and waiting to be discovered by future settlers for years to come. More information about the “Dont follow the wind” exhibition. http://chimpom.jp/project/dfw.html The Guardian’s Jonathan Jones was critical of this exhibition. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/jul/20/fukushima-exclusion-zone-art-politics Find out how one of the curators Jason Waite revisited the project. https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/at-the-border/325747/the-entropic-silence-of-fukushima/ https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-4-ben-eastham monthly 0.5 2020-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1592937126807-6K8WBT0N50W4HBDIDCWR/ahali_podcast+ben-05.jpg Episodes - Episode 4: Ben Eastham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1592937443059-UNRFOO0A3KI0C68I4QAV/gram04-ben_Artboard+19+copy+07.jpg Episodes - Episode 4: Ben Eastham - Episode Notes & Links Ben has recently penned an essay for the Art Review about his experience with the rapid proliferation of online content in the art world. Unlike the skeptic majority, Ben has a fresh take, offering a stream of optimism that is much needed these days. https://artreview.com/home-viewing/ Founded by Ben Eastham and Jacques Testard in 2011, The White Review is a London based quarterly arts journal published in print and online. The magazine takes its name from LA REVUE BLANCHE, a Parisian magazine which ran from 1889 to 1903. Apart from being a top-notch publication both for the fields of literature and contemporary art, The White Review also runs prestigious short story and poets prizes. https://www.thewhitereview.org Ben is the editor-in-chief at Art Agenda, the division of e-flux dedicated to contemporary art criticism since March 2020. https://www.art-agenda.com Inspired by Emmanuelle Lainé’s exhibition at Hayward Gallery titled “Learn the Rules Like a Pro, So You Can Break Them Like an Artist!” in 2018, “Places and Things” is a piece of fiction written by Ben Eastham. Here is a link to the video documentation of Ben performing his work that took place in the exhibition space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igw3xwtDvHk Imaginary museum is Ben’s upcoming book to be published this year from Harpercollins Publishers. The book takes place in an imaginary museum as the title suggests. While Ben shows us around interfering security guards, pretentious curators, skeptical visitors, angry protestors and elusive ghosts become mediators for him to reflect upon the art of today. He taps into his memories and experiences to pose questions about contemporary art while contemplating our increasingly strange and complex times as well as the world in which we live.. http://www.beneastham.com/books/ Art Review‘s Power 100 is a list that names the so-called “most powerful” 100 people in the field of contemporary art annually. Here is the link to the 2019 edition https://artreview.com/power-100/ Episode recorded on Zoom on June 4th 2020. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-5-celine-condorelli monthly 0.5 2020-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1594459733481-VTUNCMGA9TOSBXSXEMN2/ahali_podcast-07.jpg Episodes - Episode 5: Céline Condorelli https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1594461206137-U05243MK522BKRDSVQ1L/56_18-celine-condorelli-at-chisenhalephoto-andy-keate.jpg Episodes - Episode 5: Céline Condorelli - Episode Notes & Links Condorelli’s work brings ideas, people, and objects together through staging, display, and "support". https://celinecondorelli.eu The Museum of Modern Art in New York has an enormous online archive which contains documentation on the institution's activities as well as the history of art, design, and more. https://www.moma.org/research-and-learning/archives/ As Céline pointed out, displaying plants as companions to artworks started in the 1930s and lasted until the 1980s. In 1936, MoMA presented its first and only dedicated flower show, Edward Steichen’s Delphiniums. https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2011/03/08/edward-steichen-archive-delphiniums-blue-and-white-and-pink-too/ Opening in 2020, Céline Condorelli has designed a new playground for Elmington Estate, featuring carousels, climbing structures, and colored surfaces. https://www.southlondongallery.org/projects/celine-condorelli/ Commissioned by The King’s Cross Project, a program of public temporary and permanent art, Celine has constructed sculptures with built-in seating titled Zanzibar. https://www.kingscross.co.uk/zanzibar Co-programmed with Filipa Ramos and contemporaneously shown at v-drome.org, Céline Condorelli’s Cinema Zagara / Ecodrome, was presented at the “Geometries” held at the Agricultural University of Athens in 2018. Episode recorded on Zoom on July 8th 2020. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-6-vasif-kortun monthly 0.5 2020-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1595087061328-ZZMPGBEIQC06TDNFZOK2/ahali_podcast-09-09.jpg Episodes - Episode 6: Vasıf Kortun https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1595090692220-SJ0UN5GJP98993WOKX83/v_quote Episodes - Episode 6: Vasıf Kortun - Episode Notes & Links As a one of a kind organization in its field, SALT is Turkey’s spearheading cultural institution. With a special focus on art, architecture, and social life, It holds a vast archive on the material and visual culture of Turkey. The institution is active with a variety of cultural programs that include exhibitions. www.saltonline.org https://saltonline.org/tr/2074/talk-between-charles-esche-and-manuel-borja-villel Asia Art Archive (AAA) is a nonprofit organization based in Hong Kong which focuses on documenting the recent history of contemporary art in Asia within an international context. https://aaa.org.hk/en The most noteworthy of SALT’s facilities is the building which formerly belonged to the Ottoman Bank where the SALT archive and library are located https://saltonline.org/en/42/salt-galata Our common best friend, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin (1957 – 2007) was part of the first generation of Turkish artists considered to be globally active and nationally influential, Alptekin is considered one of the most significant figures in the established contemporary art scene of Istanbul.https://saltonline.org/en/2225/salt-research-huseyin-bahri-alptekin-archive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hüseyin_Bahri_Alptekin L'Internationale is a confederation that brings together seven major European art institutions: MG+MSUM (Ljubljana, Slovenia); Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain); MACBA (Barcelona, Spain); M HKA, (Antwerp, Belgium); MSN (Warsaw, Poland), SALT (Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey) and Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, the Netherlands). https://www.internationaleonline.org/about/ Founded by Vasıf Kortun, ICAP Istanbul Contemporary Art Project (1998-2000) consisted of a bureau and a library that held a vast collection of books on contemporary art which later on evolved to SALT’s library. Episode recorded on Zoom on June 19th 2020. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-7-kemi-ilesanmi monthly 0.5 2020-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1596816198445-5E772PD4YRZNRIQCICO0/ahali_podcast-09.jpg Episodes - Episode 7: Kemi Ilesanmi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1596816276275-DSDL0OCF5TJPCMX1AYEL/gram07-kemi_Artboard+19+copy+4.jpg Episodes - Episode 7: Kemi Ilesanmi - Episode Notes & Links Located in New York, the ‘Laundromat Project’ brings art, artists, and arts programming into laundromats and other everyday spaces, thus amplifying the creativity that already exists within communities. They empower their surroundings with the power of kindness and solidarity to build community networks, solve problems, and enhance our sense of ownership in the places where we live, work, and grow. https://www.laundromatproject.org How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age was on display in Walker Art Center in 2003. The exhibition sought to examine the role and function of globalization or the internationalism in art on shaping visual culture. The flash site of the exhibition is still up and running. http://latitudes.walkerart.org/ Artists Jaclyn Reyes and Xenia Diente collaborate on an artistic project with a solid social impact titled Little Manila. Aiming to activate the Filipino community in New York, they seek to generate cooperation between artists and the Filipino community and businesses. http://littlemanilaqueens.org/ Partnered with the Black Alliance of Just Immigration, LP’s resident artist Lizania Cruz worked on a project that focuses on issues regarding public memory. Through a series of intimate meetings where Cruz documented individual immigrants' stories to create zines. The project sought to render the African Diaspora's presence more visible and their memory less ephemeral. Dedicated to propagate the immigrant experience, “We the News” zines were free to take away and later on displayed on newsstands placed on sidewalks. https://www.laundromatproject.org/project/we-the-news/ The LP is one of the few cultural organizations ran by people of color in the U.S. Referring themselves as a POC centered institution, they elaborate on the importance of this and how it is relevant to their mission. A comprehensive set of information regarding the vision, values, principles, and policies could be found on their web site. https://www.laundromatproject.org/pocprinciples/ https://www.laundromatproject.org/strategic-vision/ ArtsBlack is a journal of art criticism from Black perspectives predicated on the belief that art criticism should be an accessible dialogue. It was founded by editors Taylor Renee and Jessica Lynne to support, uplift, and cultivate a new generation of Black art critics. https://arts.black/ Colored Criticism is a media platform for cultural heritage stories. Through a variety of media such as writing and youtube videos they especially target millennials, naming them as the most diverse and ethical generation ever. http://colorcritics.com/ Siddhartha Mitter’s article titled Monuments & Civic Imagination thoroughly unpacks how protests over the murder of George Floyd opened up a new chapter in the U.S to rethink places of memory. Monuments & Civic Imagination. https://theintercept.com/2020/07/19/confederate-statues-monuments-local/ Episode recorded on Zoom on July 29th 2020. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-8-salmoncreekfarm monthly 0.5 2020-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1601926362436-5LCI1B157CE08L2MW9HF/Fritz+Haeg Episodes - Episode 8: Fritz Haeg - Episode Notes & Links You can find out more about the Salmon Creek Farm and Fritz Haeg’s work here: http://www.fritzhaeg.com/wikidiary/salmon-creek-farm/ More on Salmon Creek Farm: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/t-magazine/design/fritz-haeg-salmon-creek-farm-commune.html http://www.sugar-vs-the-reef.net/growing-plants-and-community-at-salmon-creek-farm/ One of the original communards put it this way: It was not ‘‘dropping out,’’ argued River, in her 1974 book ‘‘Dwelling,’’ but an active search for ‘‘a new pattern of ­living’’ that does not ‘‘rip off the planet or any of her inhabitants.’If you want to learn more about the background story of the farm, listen to interviews with original Salmon Creek Farm communards River and Moonlight from the KZYX series Promise of Paradise. https://www.kzyx.org/post/promise-paradise-episode-15-river#stream/0 One of the rare video interviews of Fritz is a must see to picture how it's like at the farm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPp8z0_OIEw Ahali communard Derya Yıldız’s writing on Fritz: https://m-est.org/2017/01/05/invented-pieces-of-architecture-estates-of-fritz-haeg/ On the Maintenance Art of Mierle Laderman Ukeles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mierle_Laderman_Ukeles#:~:text=Mierle%20Laderman%20Ukeles%20 Fritz says that his biggest influence on what to build on the land was artist Andrea Zittel who also focuses on questions of living, habitation, and human nature with her practice. https://www.zittel.org Episode recorded on Zoom on September 24th 2020. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1601925238102-1TUZ2NCVMN449DF5KSIC/ahali_podcast_label-10.jpg Episodes - Episode 8: Fritz Haeg https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-9-marianapestana monthly 0.5 2020-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1602695373533-V5Q5FU5F5B491JR5RLGD/ahali_podcast-11.jpg Episodes - Episode 9: Mariana Pestana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1602696240011-86NY3I0Z8AJJE9NYRRPS/gram09-mari_Artboard+19+copy+02.jpg Episodes - Episode 9: Mariana Pestana - Episode Notes & Links Curated by Mariana, the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial titled “Emphaty Revisited” is set to open on October 15th 2020. https://tasarimbienali.iksv.org/en/news/5th-istanbul-design-biennial-to-tackle-origins-of-empathy Curated by Mariana and Rori Hyde, “Future Starts Here” was an exhibition at V&A Museum that took place in 2018. It posed questions about the ways that emerging technologies will affect our lives in the near future, and what choices we have, as citizens, to influence their development. https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/about-the-future-starts-here-exhibition Co-curated with Pedro Gadanho, “ECO VISIONARIES – ART AND ARCHITECTURE AFTER THE ANTHROPOCENE” at MAAT Lisbon centered on practices that propose critical and creative visions vis-à-vis the environmental transformations that are disturbing the world right now. https://www.maat.pt/index.php/en/exhibition/eco-visionaries-art-and-architecture-after-anthropocene Studio Ossidiana is based in Rotterdam, working with an international team of architects, designers and researchers, and is actively involved locally and globally with projects across the Netherlands, Italy, Turkey, and the US. http://www.studio-ossidiana.com/about Founded by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, Dunne & Raby is a London based practice that uses design as a medium to stimulate discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of existing and emerging technologies. http://dunneandraby.co.uk/content/biography Orkan Telhan is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher whose investigations focus on the design of interrogative objects, interfaces, and media, engaging with critical issues in social, cultural, and environmental responsibility. https://www.orkantelhan.com/about Elii is an office of architecture based in Madrid. http://elii.es/en/projects2/ The Decorators is a multidisciplinary design collective founded by Suzanne O’Connell, Xavi Llarch Font, Carolina Caicedo and Mariana Pestana. http://the-decorators.net/About From November 2013 to April 2014, Chrisp Street Market was host to a project entitled 'Chrisp Street On Air' - a pilot exercise in rejuvenating London markets. The project, conceived by the Decorators, began with a radio station set up within the market and available online. The radio station invited locals to explore the market's history, character, and future. The radio component also informed a further programme of events in conjunction with local organisations, such as a boxing exhibition with the Lansbury Amateur Boxing Club. http://www.designcurial.com/news/this-is-temporary-transient-architecture-4802906/ public works is a not-for-profit critical design practice set up in 2004 that occupies the terrain in-between architecture, art and performance. https://www.publicworksgroup.net/about/ Tools for Conviviality is a 1973 book by Ivan Illich about the proper use of technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tools_for_Conviviality Episode recorded on Zoom on October 2nd 2020. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-10-chusmartinez monthly 0.5 2020-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1605298147154-IW52NIJBEPHVF75CRZU8/gram10-chuz-15.jpg Episodes - Episode 10: Chus Martinez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1605299217530-8JB75AJJ6PNT1I7A9EAH/gram10-chuz_Artboard+19+copy+9.jpg Episodes - Episode 10: Chus Martinez - Episode Notes & Links Chus is currently the director of the Art Institute at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design. https://institut-kunst.ch/en/we-are/studium-master/ Chus was writing a short story a day and keeping the doctor away during the first COVID-19 outbreak. She published her stories through Instagram and later on compiled them into a book titled “Let life Happen to You” published by Lenz Press. https://lenz.press/products/corona-tales-let-life-happen-to-you Suzi Gablik is an artist and a professor of art history and art criticism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzi_Gablik Deep ecology is an environmental philosophy which promotes the inherent worth of all living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs, plus the restructuring of modern human societies in accordance with such ideas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is a writer, art historian and curator whom was the Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA (13). TBA21–Academy is an institutiton that promotes ocean literacy, research, and advocacy through the arts. The Academy is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the ocean in order to engendering creative solutions to its most pressing issues. https://www.tba21.org/#item--academy--1819 Donna Haraway is a leading scholar in the field of science and technology studies with a focus on contemporary ecofeminism, associated with post-humanism and new materialism movements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway Stephen Wright is a writer and gardener based in France. He was the guest of the first episode of Ahali. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-1-stephen-wright Promise No Promises! is a podcasts series produced by the Womxn’s Center for Excellence, a research project between the Art Institute and the Instituto Susch—a joint venture with Grażyna Kulczyk and Art Stations Foundation. It features a special chapter titled Feminism Under Corona chapter with Sonia Fernandez Pan is a Spanish thinker, curator and writer and according to Chus, a fantastic person :) https://institut-kunst.ch/we-explore/podcast-promise-no-promises/ Phenomenal Ocean is a podcast series produced by Institut Kunst and TBA-21 Academy to pose questions in pursuit of a non-binary understanding of the coexistence of culture and nature, of us as living beings and the ocean. https://institut-kunst.ch/we-explore/podcast-phenomenal-ocean/ Joan Jonas is a pioneer artist whose work typically encompasses video, performance, installation, sound, text, and drawing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Jonas Jon Mikel Euba is an artist whose work is grounded in drawing as a procedure, and sculpture as a program, resolved in diverse media. https://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/6012/jon-mikel-euba Itziar Okariz is an artist whose work examines the ties between landscape and architecture, sign and ritual, or sexuality and territory. Joan Jonas’ work “Moving Off the Land" (2016–ongoing) includes video, sculpture, drawing, and sound, centering on the oceans as a totemic, spiritual, and ecological touchstone. The performance was commissioned by TBA21–Academy and first presented in parallel to the 2016 Kochi – Muziris Biennale, and again in collaboration with Tate Modern at the Turbine Hall in 2018. https://www.ocean-space.org/exhibitions/joan-jonas-moving-off-land David Gruber is a marine biologist, and Presidential Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gruber Episode recorded on Zoom on November 9th 2020. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-11-collecteurs monthly 0.5 2020-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1608307672904-HZASK75E3PBX4QKK7OUB/gram11-kollekto_Artboard+19+copy+10.jpg Episodes - Episode 11: Collecteurs - Episode Notes & Links Founded by Evrim and Jessica Oralkan and developed at the New Museum’s cultural incubator, Collecteurs is an independent public-benefit corporation with a mission to give the public access to the world's unseen private art collections. https://www.collecteurs.com/about-us https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/arts/design/art-collection-digital-museum.html https://observer.com/2019/05/collecteurs-jessica-evrim-oralkan-qa/ The International Council of Museums establishes professional and ethical standards for museum activities. https://icom.museum/en/about-us/missions-and-objectives/ Episode recorded on Zoom on October 8th 2020. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1608307408261-CCHSVI7YC76PUMPKS4X7/gram11-kollekto-08.jpg Episodes - Episode 11: Collecteurs https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-12-filiparamos monthly 0.5 2021-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1608308734407-J3B21ZMG1O6H0JQR60WV/gram12-flippa_Artboard+19+copy+9.jpg Episodes - Episode 12: Filipa Ramos - Episode Notes & Links Filipa's writing and research on art, film, and nature have been published in magazines and catalogs worldwide. She authored "Lost and Found" (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2009) https://en.silvanaeditoriale.it/libro/9788836613397 and edited "Animals" (London: Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, 2016). https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/documents-contemporary-art-animals/ She curated "Animalesque", a group exhibition on becoming other at the Bildmuseet Umeå (Summer 2019) http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/exhibition/animalisk/35302 Filipa is also the curator of Art Basel's film sector. https://www.artbasel.com/stories/online-viewing-rooms-filipa-ramos V-drome is a perennial online program that presents films by visual artists and filmmakers. http://www.vdrome.org Lucia Pietrouisti is the head of the general ecology department of the Serpentine Galleries where she also curated the interdisciplinary festival titled "The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish" along with Filipa. https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/general-ecology/ The 13th Shanghai Biennale aims to advocate for processes of planetary re-alliance relying on transspecies collectivity. https://www.powerstationofart.com/whats-on/programs/shanghai-bienniale/home Beatriz Colomina is an architecture historian, theorist, and curator. Her text titled “Diary of a Disease” is published online as part of the "Sick Architecture", https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/sick-architecture/364166/diary-of-a-disease/ Inspired by ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ by Donna Haraway, Milanese Fashion House Gucci’s AW 2018 collection titled "Paradoxical Creatures" was designed by Alessandro Michele. https://www.gucci.com/uk/en_gb/st/stories/runway/article/fall-winter-2018-details Hannah Marriott’s detailed account of the story features how other houses such as Prada and D&G were embracing similar concepts for the 2018 fashion week. https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2018/feb/27/miquela-cyborg-handbag-drones-milan-fashion-week-weird-vision-future Director Gus Van Sant and Gucci's creative director Alessandro Michele's film "At Home" features a television lecture performed by writer and philosopher Paul B Preciado. https://www.gucci.com/tr/en_gb/st/stories/article/guccifest-episode-1 Published in 1998, “The Power of Display: a history of exhibition installations at the Museum of Modern Art" is a seminal study of installation design as an aesthetic medium and cultural practice by Mary Anne Staniszewski. "Plant Sex" is a mind-boggling public program that took place at the Serpentine galleries. Co-curated as a prelude to "The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish with Plants" by Filipa, it sought to reflect on the long and deep relationship between botany and eroticism. https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/plantsex/ Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician who formalized binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus Acclaimed curator Chus Martinez was our guest at the previous episode. Make sure to dive into her ocean-like mind to make discoveries about nature, the ocean, and the sciences' potential relations with art through her dazzling array of thoughts.https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-10-chusmartinez Octavia Butler was a groundbreaking afro-futurist science-fiction writer. Her short essay, “The Lost Races of Science Fiction" tackled the issue of racial presentation within the field of science fiction was first published in Transmission Magazine's summer issue in 1980. https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/d3ekbm/octavia-butler "Sex, Botany, and Empire" explores the entwined destinies of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks’ influence served both science and imperialism by Patricia Fara. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/sex-botany-and-empire/9780231134262 “The Company One Keeps: Laptops, Lap Dances, Lapdogs” was published at e-flux journal #93 in 2018 https://www.e-flux.com/journal/93/215746/the-company-one-keeps-laptops-lap-dances-lapdogs/ Episode recorded on Zoom on December 7th 2020. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1608308369285-X8ITLHTLGVBU0YGBBIRD/gram12-flippa-11.jpg Episodes - Episode 12: Filipa Ramos https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-13-kathrinbohm monthly 0.5 2021-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1627053334447-FF8E82GMLDFOLA05FMIS/BOTTLE-kathrin-20.jpg Episodes - Episode 13: Kathrin Böhm - Episode Notes & Links Kathrin’s recent exhibition is titled “Compost” to refer to the way in which she composts existing works. The exhibition features architectural structures, tape towers, haystacks, a drinks company, posters, books, a pantry, trade shows, pots with noses alongside a live program of talks, workshops, and 1:1 drop-ins will be held at The Showroom and online. https://www.theshowroom.org/exhibitions/kathrin-bohm-compost Company Drinks is a community space and social enterprise based in Barking and Dagenham. Their high-quality, artisanal juices and beverages are produced from the crops they collect, glean, forage, or simply go picking in surrounding parks, fields, and farms. https://companydrinks.info/drink/ The Center for Plausible Economies was initiated by Kathrin Böhm and Kuba Szreder to bring together artistic action and critical thinking to reclaim the economy. J.K Gibson-Graham is the pen-name of Katherine Gibson and the late Julie Graham. As feminist political economists and economic geographers, they have extensively written about diverse economies, urbanism, alternative communities and regional economic development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Gibson-Graham Founded on the groundbreaking work of J.K. Gibson-Graham in publications such as The End of Capitalism (as we knew it): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy, A Postcapitalist Politics, and Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming our Communities, the Community Economies Institute (CEI) fosters thought and practice to help communities survive well together. http://www.communityeconomies.org/about/community-economies-institute Learn to Act is a user-friendly manual explaining and demonstrating international communal and intergenerational learning and socio-economic capacity-building programs with the aim to stimulate and facilitate their replication by others. https://halfletterpress.com/learn-to-act-introducing-the-eco-nomadic-school/ Stephen Wright is a writer and gardener based in France. He was the first guest of the previous season of Ahali. Listen at https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-1-stephen-wright “Towards a lexicon of usership" focuses on the politics of usership, as well as other modes of cultural production that do not necessitate artworks, authorship, or spectatorship. You can download a free copy of the lexicon from Arte Utils’ website. An alternative to more familiar identifiers (such as .ltd or Inc.), the Interdependence (idt.) stands for a multi-local alliance between community economies initiatives. https://www.communityeconomies.org/news/launch-interdependence-and-idt Founded by Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou, atelier d’architecture autogérée / studio for self-managed architecture (aaa) is a collective platform that conducts explorations, actions, and research concerning urban mutations and cultural, social, and political emerging practices in the contemporary city. Myvillages was founded by artists Kathrin Böhm, Wapke Feenstra and Antje Schiffers to advocate for a new understanding of the rural as a place of and for cultural production. They initiate and organise projects which range from work in private spaces to museum exhibitions, from personal questions to multidisciplinary research and publications, from foraging to building permanent infrastructures. The Rural is part of the Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art series, It was edited by Myvillages in 2019. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/rural Bringing issues about agricultural land use, local traditions, and collective efforts into discussion, Haystacks is a series of talks and meetings about rural links, places, and practices initiated by Katrin Höhm/Myvillages. https://www.andmillionsandmillions.net/haystacks/ Episode recorded on Zoom on February 16th 2021. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1627051785686-Q6YY3OP47CUCX6ENTASM/titile_kathrin-11.jpg Episodes - Episode 13: Kathrin Böhm https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-14-jerszyseymour monthly 0.5 2021-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1628568793060-OZJA6WK9ILM1QXHP6GLM/jerszy-title-06.jpg Episodes - Episode 14: Jerszy Seymour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1628570394616-C44OQF4EN4ODKHO78W5P/livingsys_jerszy-21-21.jpg Episodes - Episode 14: Jerszy Seymour - Episode Notes & Links Magis is an Italian furniture and design company. They collaborated with Jerszy on several products such as the Flux chair and Bureaurama office furniture series: https://www.magisdesign.com/designer/jerszy-seymour/ The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. Their ideas were influential in instigating the protests that occurred in the summer of 1968 in France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International Macao is a new self-organized center for arts in Milan that was founded during a national uprising that has led to the occupation of many public spaces for a more accessible culture through a radical process of reclaiming centers for the township in 2012. https://www.macaomilano.org/spip.php?article166 In 2004 Jerszy embarked upon a series of experimental projects seeking to revitalize the position of design within society. One notable ongoing exploration centers on an imagined society of amateurs and has been realized in evolving iterations beginning in 2008 with the exhibition “The First Supper” at the MAK, Vienna. https://www.viennadesignweek.at/en/archive/2008/mak-design-nite-first-supper/ The "Living Systems" installation was the outcome of a series of experiments with organic plastics developed by Jerszy which was displayed at the Vitra Design Museum. http://collectiononline.design-museum.de/#/en/object/44305?_k=yef2ui Walden first published in 1854 is a book by Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is a part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, a voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden The Amateur Workshop is an exhibition that facilitates the experimental play associated with the dirtying, hands-on experience of the playground. https://jerszyseymourdesignworkshop.com/project/amateur-diagram/https:// https://criticalissuesintheculturalindustries2.wordpress.com/studio-2/ode-to-the-amateur/ The German word Gesamtkunstwerk literally means "total artwork", which refers to a work of art that makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesamtkunstwerk Part of the Sandberg Institute, Dirty Art Department is an alternative pedagogical modem that sources from design and applied art. Founded by Jerszy, it is described as an open space for all possible thought, creation, and action. http://dirtyartdepartment.com/about/ The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture is a collection of essays and lectures by Georges Bataille on anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9781890951566/the-cradle-of-humanity Martin Kippenberger was a German artist and sculptor known for his extremely prolific output in a wide range of styles and media, as well as his provocative public persona. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Kippenberger Enzo Mari was an Italian modernist artist and furniture designer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzo_Mari Erik Olin Wright’s How to BE an Anti-capitalist in the 21st Century is a concise and tightly argued manifesto analyzing the varieties of anti-capitalism, assessing different strategic approaches, and laying the foundations for a society dedicated to human flourishing. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3763-how-to-be-an-anticapitalist-in-the-twenty-first-century Formed in 2014 as a reaction to the increasing financialization of Higher Education in the UK, School of the Damned (SotD) is an arts and educational platform. Re-forming on an annual basis, each cohort has the opportunity to define the agenda and produce work and events individually and collectively. https://schoolofthedamned.wixsite.com/sotd2019/about Coined by Thomas More, utopia is an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia Powered by Macao Milano, Common Coin is a social local currency integrated with a basic income based on social cooperation. https://www.macaomilano.org/IMG/pdf/3_-_commoncoin_basic_income.pdf?1498/0c7e90052d75f199cb712e014f1f8100f3113c3e The Wandering School is a project by the Dirty Art Department in collaboration with Macao which occurred as a series of events, interacting with the community of Macao and the local and international public for the Design Week and MiArt http://wanderingschool.com Lucky Larry’s Cosmic Commune proposed a place for people to stay during the Saint Etienne Design Biennale in 2017. Described as a utopian non utopia by Seymour, the experiment aimed to create a space for the public to nap comfortably or take part in the cooking, cleaning, gardening, and distributing propaganda material for the concept. https://www.biennale-design.com/saint-etienne/2017/en/programme/?ev=lucky-larry-s-cosmic-commune-30 https://jerszyseymourdesignworkshop.com/project/lucky-larrys-cosmic-commune-2017/#0 Life on Planet Orsimanirana is a futuristic, immersive DIY radio “pumping funk of molecular consciousness” https://www.radio-orsimanirana.com RiMaflow is a recovered factory that is run by its workers. Located in Milan, it aims to match the solidarity economy with productive activities and social fabric https://commonfare.net/nl/stories/ri-maflow-recovered-factory?story_locale=en The Mondragon Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain. https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/about-us/ The Mietshäuser Syndikat provides advice and support to self-organized house projects so that they can be taken off the real estate market. https://www.syndikat.org/en/ Written by Guy Debord in 1967, Society of the Spectacle is a critique of capital, cultural imperialism, and the role of mediation in social relationships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle Xenofeminism is a call to action written by Laboria Cuboniks in the form of a manifesto that aims to situate feminism within the purview of techno-politics and deploy it as an emancipatory affordance towards building a new world in the 21st century. www.laboriacuboniks.net Mary Maggic is an artist whose work spans amateur science, public workshopology, performance, installation, documentary film, and speculative fiction. https://maggic.ooo/About-Maggic Inventing the Future is a book by Nick Srncek and Alex Williams in which a post-capitalist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work, and developing technologies that expand our freedoms is expounded. In Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Aaron Bastani conjures a vision of extraordinary hope, showing how we move to energy abundance, feed a world of 9 billion, overcome work, transcend the limits of biology, and establish meaningful freedom for everyone.https://www.versobooks.com/books/3156-fully-automated-luxury-communism Emma Goldman was an anarchist political activist and writer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman Written in 1890, News from Nowhere is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer, and socialist pioneer William Morris. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_from_Nowhe Episode recorded on Zoom on April 20th, 2021. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-15-bonaventure monthly 0.5 2021-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1631196582311-7MU256VSNHMG77FGN3N2/bona1-02-02.jpg Episodes - Episode 15: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - Episode Notes & Links This episode was recorded during the Mediterranean wildfires that have taken place in Greece, Turkey, Italy, Algeria and Tunisia. SAVVY, the laboratory of form and ideas is a public cultural institution located in Berlin. https://savvy-contemporary.com To go further deep into Bonaventure’s thinking, check out this talk organized by the After the Archive? Initiative. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6SbXJlNDSJjYQPN5tWjM93?si=F0kjcbEERPOIJTQdSmVPqQ&dl_branch=1 To get a better sense of his story of becoming, check out this conversation for the NKATA podcast. He also touches on the impact of the life, work and untimely deaths of two giants of contemporary art: Bisi Silva and Okwui Enwezor. https://nkatapodcast.com/2019/04/05/nkata-with-bonaventure-soh-bejeng-ndikung/ At documenta 14 in Athens and in Kassel, the slogan “Wir (alle) sind das Volk” [We (all) are the people] was displayed on banners and posters in German and Greek and the languages understood by most foreign Documenta visitors, as well as the languages of the migrants and refugees who are exposed to xenophobic aggression in Europe. Among the languages are Arabic, Kurdish, Turkish, Farsi (as spoken in Afghanistan), and the language of refugees from Eritrea. https://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13591/hans-haacke Curated by Bonaventure, the 13th edition of the Bamako Encounters - African Biennale of Photography will be on view in Bamako, Mali from November 20, 2021–January 20, 2022. In his essay titled “The Globalized Museum? Decanonization as Method: A Reflection in Three Acts”, Bonaventure proposes to utilize decanonization as method for “what might be a global museum of self-reflexivity, whereby the idea will not be to create new or parallel canons, or place them side by side, or universalize the Western canon, but to decanonize the entire notion of the canon.” https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/the-globalized-museum-bonaventure-soh-bejeng-ndikung-documenta-14-2017/ Thomas Mann was a writer known for his highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas which are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann Henry Louis Gates is a literary critic, teacher, historian and filmmaker that conceptualized Signifyin', a critical approach to context-bound significance of words, which is accessible only to those who share the cultural values of a given speech community. The expression comes from stories about the Signifying Monkey, a trickster figure said to have originated during slavery in the United. States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_Jr. Theaster Gates is a Chicago based artist whose work sources from social practice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theaster_Gates The Nettelbeckplatz is a square in the Berlin district of Wedding. https://second.wiki/wiki/nettelbeckplatz An originally well known Armenian/Greek Christian neighborhood called Tatavla, Kurtuluş is a district of Istanbul. Meaning "liberation", "salvation", "independence" or "deliverance" in Turkish, Kurtuluş’s non muslim population of the neighborhood is greatly diminished. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtuluş Sonsbeek is an international exhibition in Arnhem, Netherlands which largely focuses on public works of contemporary art. https://www.sonsbeek20-24.org “Chercher midi à quatorze heures" is a quirky way of telling someone that it is making an issue more difficult than it needs to be—turning something simple into something complicated in French. Director Jef Cornelis made an in-situ documentary about the Sonsbeek that had taken place in 1971 titled “Sonsbeek: buiten de perken” for the Belgian TV Channel VRT. His body of work is influential to imagine what television can be and how it can be used to document and represent art. https://vimeo.com/433640306 Known as the founder of the art movement fluxus, Joseph Beuys was an influential teacher and artist who was influential in the latter half of the 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beuys A champion of Africa's oral tradition and traditional knowledge, Amadou Hampâté Bâ was a writer, historian and ethnologist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadou_Hampâté_Bâ Curatorial Statement of Bamako Biennial quotes Amadou Hampâté Bâ’s statement (Aspects de la civilisation africaine, Éditions Présence Africaine, 1972) presiding over the manifestation, Maa ka Maaya ka ca a yere kono, translates to, “the persons of the person are multiple in the person.” https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/361013/rencontres-de-bamako-african-biennale-of-photographymaa-ka-maaya-ka-ca-a-yere-kono/ Sun Ra, was a jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances. For much of his career, Ra led "The Arkestra," an ensemble with an ever-changing name and flexible line-up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra Thelonious Monk was a seminal jazz pianist and composer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk Stephen Wright is a writer and gardener based in France. He was the first guest of the previous season of Ahali. Listen at https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-1-stephen-wright Assembled by the king of 6/8, the living legend Brice Wassy Kelin-Kelin Orchestra is a big band that consists of twelve musicians. Called the "queen of Taarab and Unyago music, Fatima binti Baraka also known as Bi Kidude, was a Zanzibari-born Tanzanian Taarab singer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi_Kidude Influenced by the musical traditions of the African Great Lakes, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent. Taarab is a music genre popular in Tanzania and Kenya. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taarab Natasha Ginwala is a curator working in the field of contemporary art. Ayesha Hameed is a lecturer, writer and practitioner who produces videos, audio essays and performance lectures. Matana Roberts is a sound experimentalist, visual artist, jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matana_Roberts Formed in 1979 by Pierre-Edouard Décimus and Jacob Desvarieux, Kassav’ is a Zouk band that makes Guadeloupean carnival music recording it in a more fully orchestrated yet modern and polished style. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassav%27 Jacob Desvarieux was a singer, arranger, and music producer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Desvarieux Jocelyne Béroard is a singer and songwriter. She is one of the lead singers of the Kassav'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyne_Béroard Zouk is a musical movement pioneered by the French Antillean band Kassav' in the early 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zouk Négritude (from French "Nègre" and "-itude" to denote a condition that can be translated as "Blackness") is a framework of critique and literary theory, developed mainly by francophone intellectuals, writers, and politicians of the African diaspora during the 1930s, aimed at raising and cultivating "Black consciousness" across Africa and its diaspora. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Négritude One of the founders of the Négritude movement, Aimé Césaire was a Martinican poet, author, and politician. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimé_Césaire Served as the first president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980, Léopold Sédar Senghor was a poet, politician and cultural theorist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léopold_Sédar_Senghor Episode recorded on Zoom on August 4th, 2021. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1631194971296-7E34V7VO2QEVEIVJA81M/title_bona-06.jpg Episodes - Episode 15: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-16-lucia-pietroiusti monthly 0.5 2021-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1634057927019-UBQZO2QNT5OPYIXSEBKU/gram16-lucia-06.jpg Episodes - Episode 16: Lucia Pietrousti https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1634058064153-4IKC28021GI2RXCI6WPW/gram16-lucia-18.jpg Episodes - Episode 16: Lucia Pietrousti - Episode Notes & Links Lucia Pietrouisti often devises ways to intersect her research field with art and systems. https://luciapietroiusti.earth/about-me Curated by Lucia, “Sun and Sea (Marina)” is an opera-performance by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė. Commissioned by the Lithuanian Pavilion, it was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation during the 58th Venice Biennale. https://www.sunandsea.lt/en/Venice-Biennale General Ecology Program is the Serpentine’s long-term and ongoing project researching complexity, more-than-humanism, climate justice, and environmental balance. https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/general-ecology Curated by Lucia alongside Filipa Ramos, “The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish” is a series of gatherings to bring together a wide range of thinkers and practitioners from various disciplinary ambits across art, literature, environment, science, and technology. https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/shape-circle-mind-fish/ Filipa Ramos is a curator, writer, and teacher. She is also an intrepid explorer that considers diving as a cinematic experiment and moving-image-based technologies as gateways to oceans. Make sure to listen to the Ahali Episode featuring Filipa: https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-12-filiparamos Fire management is the process of planning, preventing, and fighting fires to protect people, property, and forest resources. It also involves fire to attain forestry, wildlife, and land-use objectives. https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/fire-management The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. They provide scientific assessments on climate change, its implications, and potential future risks, as well as put forward adaptation and mitigation options. https://www.ipcc.ch Lina Lapelytė is is an artist, composer, musician, and performer currently exploring the phenomena of song to examines the issues of displacement, otherness, and beauty. http://www.linalapelyte.com The Venetian Arsenal is a complex of former shipyards and armories clustered together in the city of Venice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Arsenal “Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe” are two short films written by Charles and Ray Eames. It depicts the relative scale of the Universe according to an order of magnitude based on a factor of ten, first expanding out from the Earth until the entire universe is surveyed, then reducing inward until a single atom and its quarks are observed.https://www.eamesoffice.com/the-work/powers-of-ten/ Ecocide is mass damage and destruction of ecosystems – severe harm to nature that is widespread or long-term. https://www.stopecocide.earth/what-is-ecocide The Dakota Access Pipeline or Bakken pipeline is a 1,172-mile-long underground oil pipeline in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Access_Pipeline “Sensing the Planet” is the launch event of Black Atlantic. It will highlight issues of race and environmental harm while enforcing the role of interdisciplinary artists in imagining new futures built on principles of sustainability and justice. https://www.dartington.org/event/sensing-the-planet/ Black Atlantic is a new decolonial arts partnership, co-established by UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre, Serpentine Galleries, Royal Court Theatre, and Dartington Trust, that aims to strengthen the role of arts and culture in advancing social and climate justice. https://www.dartington.org/whats-on/info/black-atlantic/ Ben Vickers is a curator, writer, explorer, publisher, technologist, and luddite. He is CTO at the Serpentine Galleries in London, co-founder of Ignota Books, and an initiator of the open-source monastic order unMonastery. https://benvickers.net The Delphic Oracle known as the Pythia was the high priestess of the temple of Apollo and she was the most authoritative oracle among male-dominated Ancient Greece and the most powerful woman of the classical world. https://podcasts.apple.com/tr/podcast/pythian-school-of-futures/id1541454333?i=1000503897028 Judith Butler’s “Excitable Speech” provides an intelligent analysis of hate speech to propose a speech act theory of verbal injury that is not dependent on the grammar of accountability. https://books.google.com.tr/books/about/Excitable_Speech.html?id=I7D_AC_aKEMC&redir_esc=y Realized in 2016, “Devaluing Property Real Estate Agency” is an Installation-Performance by Cooking Sections that scrutinizes the peculiar history of Japanese Knotweed (Fallopia japonica) in Britain. http://www.cooking-sections.com/Devaluing-Property-Real-Estate-Agency Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology.http://www.richardpowers.net Episode recorded on Zoom on August 11th, 2021. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-17-meric-oner monthly 0.5 2021-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/a274a4fe-28f7-4b74-b36c-ee916ebeab8c/gram17-meric-06.jpg Episodes - Episode 17: Meriç Öner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/6bc08ca1-07c9-4a2c-9a76-09d88d840c91/gram17-meric-18.jpg Episodes - Episode 17: Meriç Öner - Episode Notes & Links Meriç Öner is a trained architect and the Director of Research and Programs at SALT since 2017. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/meric-oner-announced-director-turkey-salt-802586 SALT is Turkey’s spearheading cultural institution. With a special focus on art, architecture, and social life, It holds a vast archive of the material and visual culture of Turkey. The institution is active with a variety of cultural programs that include exhibitions. www.saltonline.org İstanbul Technical University is the world's third-oldest technical university dedicated to engineering sciences. https://www.itu.edu.tr/en Established in 1996, Bilgi Üniversitesi is a private university located in Istanbul. https://www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/university/about/ Pelin Derviş is an architect, researcher, writer, and editor. Her work focuses mainly on 20th-century architecture and design in Turkey. https://www.pelindervis.com/en/about The United Nations Development Programme is a United Nations organization tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Development_Programme The International Union of Architects (UIA) was founded in 1948 to unite the architects of the world through a federation of their national organizations. They hold an international congress once every three years. https://www.uia-architectes.org/webApi/en/about Hans Hollein (30 March 1934 – 24 April 2014) was an Austrian architect and designer and key figure of postmodern architecture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Hollein Sibel Bozdoǧan is an architect and academic whose research/teaching covers trans-national histories of modern architecture and urbanism across the globe, with a specialization on Turkey, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. https://www.bu.edu/haa/profile/sibel-bozdogan/ Murat Güvenç is a scholar specializing in urban studies and regional planning. İhsan Bilgin is an architect and academic. https://readingoffice.com/ihsan-bilgin/ The contemporary art institution Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center opened in 2001 and was located on the pedestrian Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul, Turkey. It ended its activities under this name in 2010 upon the foundation of SALT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_Garanti_Contemporary_Art_Center Garanti Gallery (GG) was a cultural institution based in Istanbul, Turkey, specializing in design, architecture, and urbanism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garanti_Gallery Founded in March 1997 by the Ottoman Bank in collaboration with the History Foundation (Turkish: Tarih Vakfi), the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre (OBARC) operated in the former Head Office of the Ottoman Bank in Istanbul, Turkey from 1999 to 2010 till SALT’s foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Bank_Archives_and_Research_Centre Vasıf Kortun is a curator, teacher, and writer. He was the guest of Ahali’s sixth episode: https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-6-vasif-kortun Arte Útil seeks to collect case studies to show how initiatives focusing on social practice are not isolated incidents, but part of a larger historical trajectory. https://www.arte-util.org/about/colophon/ Alastair Hudson is the co-director of the Asociación de Arte Útil with Tania Bruguera. https://www.internationaleonline.org/people/alistair_hudson/ Aslıhan Demirtaş is an architect. https://aslihan-demirtas.com/about Han Tümertekin is an architect http://www.mimarlar.com/en-US/Architect/han-tumertekin/1 Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980 is an exhibition that has taken place at MoMa in 2018. https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3931?locale=en Thomas Krens is the former director and Senior Advisor for International Affairs of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Krens Episode recorded on Zoom in April, 2021. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-18-nato-thompson monthly 0.5 2021-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/16da2292-286b-4c89-8176-2af609163e48/gram18-nato-23.jpg Episodes - Episode 18: Nato Thompson - Episode Notes & Links Nato Thompson is an author, curator, and self-proclaimed “cultural infrastructure builder”. www.natothompson.com/about The Alternative Art School (TAAS) is an affordable learning program run by a stellar faculty offering intimate class sizes. TAAS emphasizes group work, community building, and dynamic modes of socializing and art-making. www.thealternativeartschool.net/how-it-works-1 Philadelphia Contemporary is an independent and free-standing venue that celebrates the abundance of genre-bending, multidisciplinary practices that make up the field of contemporary art. www.philadelphiacontemporary.org Operating since 1974, Creative Time is an influential public arts organization in New York. creativetime.org/about/ Growing out of a major exhibition that had occurred in Creative Time, Living as Form contains commissioned essays from noted critics and theorists who look at Socially Engaged Art practiced between the years of 1991-2011. mitpress.mit.edu/books/living-form MASS MoCA is a contemporary art museum located in North Adams, Massachusetts. massmoca.org/about/ Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the 21st Century (2015) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/214258/seeing-power-by-nato-thompson/9781612190440/ Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545444/culture-as-weapon-by-nato-thompson/ Part of the TAAS faculty, Paul Chan is an artist, writer, and publisher. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Chan_(artist) Trevor Paglen is an artist, geographer, and author whose work critically deals with mass surveillance and data collection. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Paglen A fierce political figure of our time that operates within (but not limited to) the field of contemporary art, Tania Bruguera's work pivots around issues of power and control, and several of her works interrogate and re-present events in Cuban history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tania_Bruguera Simone Leigh is an artist who reflects on the black female subjectivity through her practice. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Leigh Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralized political and social movement protesting against incidents of police brutality and all racially motivated violence against black people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter Star Trek is a science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek Janine Antoni is an artist who focuses on process and the transitions between the making and finished product, often portraying feminist ideals. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janine_Antoni Miguel López is an artist, researcher, and writer. www.bakonline.org/person/miguel-a-lopez/ Yael Bartana is an artist whose work focuses on political or feminist themes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yael_Bartana Motivated largely by political, cultural, and social circumstances, Mel Chin is an artist. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Chin Hito Steyerl is an artist, theoretician, and educator. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hito_Steyerl Marinella Senatore is an artist. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinella_Senatore Mia Yu is an independent researcher, curator, and educator. portal.cca.edu/events-calendar/curatorial-practice-lecture-mia-yu/ Mario Ybarra Jr. employs his multi-layered artistic practice to e various components of Mexican-American identity. www.otis.edu/faculty/mario-ybarra-jr Kathrin Böhm is an artist whose practice focuses on the collective re-production of public space; on the economy as a public realm; and every day as a starting point for culture. Check out Ahali Conversations Episode 13 to get inspired by Kathrin's way to build diverse economies within, out of, and around the field of culture. www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-13-kathrinbohm J.K Gibson-Graham is the pen-name of Katherine Gibson and the late Julie Graham. As feminist political economists and economic geographers, they have extensively written about diverse economies, urbanism, alternative communities, and regional economic development. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Gibson-Graham Smashcut is an online learning platform built for real-time, media-based education. www.smashcut.com/about Pedagogy of the Oppressed is considered one of the foundational texts of critical pedagogy and proposes a pedagogy with a new relationship between teacher, student, and society by Paolo Freire. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed Black Mountain College was an experimental college founded in 1933. John Cage (1912 – 1992) was a composer, music theorist, artist, and philosopher who was a teacher at BMC. "Merce" Cunningham (1919 – 2009) was a dancer and choreographer who was a teacher at BMC. Gezi Park Protests occurred in Turkey in 2013 to contest the urban development plan for Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gezi_Park_protests The Arab Spring was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a protest movement against economic inequality and the influence of money in politics that began in New York City's Wall Street financial district, in 2011. It gave rise to the wider Occupy movement in the United States and other countries. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street Sotheby's is a multinational corporation headquartered in New York City. It is one of the world's largest brokers of fine and decorative art, jewelry, and collectibles. www.sothebys.com/en/ Christie's is an auction house like Sotheby's known for its involvement in high-profile private transactions. www.christies.com/en SAHA is an association that seeks to support contemporary art from Turkey. www.saha.org.tr Protocinema is a cross-cultural art organization that commissions and presents works and exhibitions of contemporary art. www.protocinema.org/about Fırat Engin is an artist based in İstanbul and Ankara. firatengin.com/cv Vahap Avşar is an artist based in New York and İstanbul. vahapavsar.com/bio/ DC hardcore, sometimes referred to in writing as harDCore, is the hardcore punk scene of Washington, D.C. Emerging in late 1979, it is considered one of the first and most influential punk scenes in the United States. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C._hardcore Bad Brains are a rock band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1977. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Brains Minor Threat was a hardcore punk band, formed in 1980 in Washington, D.C. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Threat Fugazi is a post-hardcore band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1986. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugazi The Nation of Ulysses was a punk rock band from Washington, D.C., formed in spring 1988. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nation_of_Ulysses Minecraft is an influential sandbox video game with a major impact on popular internet culture. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft Red Dead Redemption is a Western-themed action-adventure game. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dead_Redemption Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is a series of action-adventure games. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto The Sandinista National Liberation Front is a socialist political party in Nicaragua. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandinista_National_Liberation_Front Just google Google. g.co/kgs/2CdUk Episode recorded on Zoom in June 2021. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/d9d4098c-e789-48ce-822a-4dbbc8752ea8/gram18-nato-06.jpg Episodes - Episode 18: Nato Thompson https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-19-metahaven monthly 0.5 2022-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/9171cb5f-36bc-4c6b-934d-82c368eb5584/metahaven_-06.jpg Episodes - Episode 19: Metahaven https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/dc771896-af5b-45c8-9bc0-2fc284848fe4/metahaven15.jpg Episodes - Episode 19: Metahaven - Episode Notes & Links Metahaven http://metahaven.net https://mthvn.tumblr.com Centering on children, adults, and parental relationships, the absence of linguistic reference to reality, and the ineffability of the metaphysical, Metahaven’s latest work is titled Chaos Theory (2021). Excerpt: https://vimeo.com/494444068 https://mthvn.tumblr.com/post/663742206080909312/valentinadimondotalkstometahaven Assembling genres (anime, sci-fi, fantasy role-playing games) and moving beyond the representation of linear time, Metahaven’s Information Skies offers a dream-like speculation that questions the boundaries between sound and images, reality and fiction, factuality and technology, reflection and embodiment. by Lesia Prokopenko for Vdrome. https://www.vdrome.org/metahaven/ Filmed in Beirut and Kyiv, Hometown depicts a fictional city through the perspective of protagonists Lera and Ghina that reveal their attachment to the Hometown which is so familiar yet not what it was once in the past. https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/192165/metahavenhometown/ Released in segments on YouTube, Sprawl is Metahaven’s first feature film delving into various geopolitical disturbances that occurred in the last decade. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/152877677 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5432984/ sprawl.space is the online interface for The Sprawl, where the viewer can see the “shards” that make up the full version of the film. The website has been shaped by the interface design of Metahaven and the viewing algorithms of YouTube. https://sprawl.space/about-the-sprawl/ Assembling cinematic sequences shot in the Southeastern Urals and Macedonia, archival footage, and animation, Eurasia (Questions on Happiness) sets forth on a journey towards the Eurasian steppe where it meets the New Silk Road. https://vimeo.com/296095100 From Metahaven’s exhibition at ICA titled Version History in 2018: https://www.ica.art/exhibitions/metahaven-version-history?fbclid=IwAR3tAJ5TQ2xxzVhItTYW7bx6uJcKBYjgdwBnGkXBgI75nmczpt6yDzcbXCw Expounding the genealogy of viral internet memes and their potential uses within politics as agitprops 2.0 to engineer public opinion, ‘Can Jokes Bring Down Governments’ is a visionary essay on social media warfare by Metahaven. https://strelkamag.com/en/article/memes-design-and-politics Published by Sternberg Press in 2015, ‘Black Transparency’ reflected on the changes that are introduced to our life with the fast-paced development of communication technologies and their impact on information democracy by tackling matters such as the conscience of the whistleblower, whose personal politics are now instantly geopolitical. https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/black-transparency-the-right-to-know-in-the-age-of-mass-surveillance/ Borrowing its title from the findings of a survey, which indicates that an average person in the U.S. spends eight more minutes than the total duration of Stalker (161 minutes) daily on social platforms, Digital Tarkovsky is an essay investigating the effect of social media on our perception of time. Published by Strelka in 2018. https://strelkamag.com/en/article/digital-tarkovsky-metahaven-excerpt Filmed in 1979, Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky is a loose adaptation of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s science fiction novel Roadside Picnic (1972). Netflix is a subscription-based streaming service that offers different catalogs of movies, documentaries, and series internationally. Mubi is a subscription-based streaming service that offers a curated catalog covering a wide range of moving image genres. Short for Internet Movie Database, IMDB is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb 4:3 by Boiler Room is a multifaceted genre-spanning platform for curated and commissioned underground films exploring themes of performance, identity, youth culture, and anti-establishment. https://boilerroom.tv State of Concept Athens is a non-profit contemporary art institution founded by curator iLiana Fokianaki. https://stateofconcept.org/general/ Conflict is an anarcho-punk band originally based in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_(band) Mike Kelley (1954 – 2012) is an influential artist who merged childhood objects with youth culture; personal stories with political histories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Kelley_(artist Episode recorded on Zoom in June 2021. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode20-futurefarmers monthly 0.5 2022-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/c37bcf28-775d-472d-9ec1-c9b87fb56b64/futurefarmers_web.jpg Episodes - Episode 20: Futurefarmers - Episode Notes & Links Amy is an artist and designer whose work with Futurefarmers facilitates encounter, exchange, and tactile forms of inquiry by calling into question the "certainties" of a given time or place where a work is situated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Franceschini Lode Vranken is an artist, architect and philosopher. For more on Futurefarmers visit https://www.futurefarmers.com/ Antoine Boute is an experimental writer and poet. Futurefarmers work on a public art program for Bjørvika, Oslo (Norway) named Flatbread Society which examines the interrelationship of food production to realms of knowledge sharing, cultural production, socio-political formations, and everyday life since 2012. http://www.flatbreadsociety.net/ Built at Pollinaria in Abruzzo, Italy, "This is not a Trojan horse" is a large, human-powered, wooden horse designed by Futurefarmers with architect Lode Vranken. http://www.futurefarmers.com/thisisnotatrojanhorse/about.html The Canoe Project by Flatbread Society is powered by four human legs and it includes a mobile baking oven within the canoe. Stephen Wright's description of the double ontology is perfectly exemplified in this case as flatbread is a conversation topic that is widely accessible while baking, unlike contemporary art is relatable to anybody regardless of profession or background. http://www.flatbreadsociety.net/actions/39/a-boat-walking-on-land Flatbread Society Bakehouse was built with local boat builders in the form of a vessel. The "ship" hosts three bread ovens for making a variety of bread types. It seeks to point to the past and to the future, extending metaphors of cultivation and sailing to larger ideas of self-reliance and the foregrounding of organic processes in the development of land use, social relations, and cultural forms. https://www.futurefarmers.com/projects/bakehouse Stanford University is a private research university located in California which was a key factor in the development of the technology enterprise now known as Silicon Valley. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK158815/ Industrial agriculture is the large-scale, intensive production of crops and animals, often involving chemical fertilizers on crops or the routine, harmful use of antibiotics in animals. https://www.nrdc.org/stories/industrial-agriculture-101 Rudolph Steiner (1861 - 1925) was a philosopher, social reformer, architect, esotericist. Apart from the scholarly work and metaphysical practice, he was interested in biodynamic agriculture, a practice similar to organic farming. Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that arranges a mutually beneficial relationship for land, resources, people, and the environment and employs multidisciplinary methods that source from the knowhow of agriculture, water harvesting and hydrology, energy, natural building, forestry, waste management, animal systems, aquaculture, appropriate technology, economics, and community development. https://www.permaculturenews.org/what-is-permaculture/ Best known as the frontman of the multinational technology corporation Microsoft, Bill Gates is a business magnate and arguably one of the most influential individuals of the 20th century. Donna Haraway is a writer, educator, and academic within the field of science and technology studies. She authored countless seminal texts among these, Cyborg Manifesto, as well as the Companion Species Manifesto are must-reads for any and all of us. Founded by Joan Baez, Struggle Mountain is an international community located in California that evolved out of the sixties' counterculture and, most particularly, nonviolence and the draft resistance movement. Joan Baez is a singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Amy teaches at the EcoSocial Design master program at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Can was there for a lecture. https://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/design-art/master-eco-social-design/ Co-designed by architects Doğan Tekeli, Sami Sisa ve Metin Hepgüler, İMÇ is an exemplary case within the canon of 20th-century architecture in Turkey as an open-air commercial complex located in the historical center of İstanbul. It was occupied by the record companies, especially during the 1980s upon their booming popularity. Founded by artists Nancy Atakan and Volkan Aslan, 5533 is a contemporary art space located in İMÇ.http://imc5533.blogspot.com/ Ahali Conversations is the love child of the Ahali Journal and MÇPS, the recording studio Amy mentions. Realized in 2017, MÇPS was an artwork in which Can turned 5533 into a walk-in record studio where local musicians were able to jump in jams and hang around the İMÇ complex once again long after its prime days passed. http://www.local-legends.org/people/2017/11/18/artist-can-altay-on-music-memory-and-imagined-futures-at-istanbuls-mythical-m-building Radio Ramona is an internet radio station that deals with strange affairs between bread, astronomy, migration, and gossip about old and forgotten communication gadgets by Future Farmers. Seed Journey is a seafaring voyage connected to a public art project. It occurred in three legs. Set off at Oslo and concluded in İstanbul a rotating crew of artists, anthropologists, biologists, bakers, activists, sailors, and farmers joined the journey and shared their findings at host institutions along the route from small harbors to large ports from barns to museums (contemporary art, natural history and maritime) to social centers. http://futurefarmers.com/seedjourney/ Twitter is a social media platform that serves for microblogging where users express opinions within 280 characters. Noah Glass is a technology entrepreneur who launched Twitter in 2006. Episode recorded on Zoom in July 2021. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/54ed70b8-8a3e-493e-89d1-20c251f1d03c/FUTUREFARMERS-30.jpg Episodes - Episode 20: Futurefarmers https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode21-ana-devic monthly 0.5 2022-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/0927a9a4-c1e1-405b-89ee-6fc28224ee04/anadevic-30.jpg Episodes - Episode 21: Ana Devic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/b08dd72d-3419-4c6e-b367-7fbac895e52a/gram18-nato-20.jpg Episodes - Episode 21: Ana Devic - Episode Notes & Links This episode’s conversation is part of the collaborative project ‘Communities of Learning, Bridging the Gap of Isolation’, initiated by WHW and supported by the Culture of Solidarity Fund of the European Cultural Foundation. Ana Devic is a curator, writer, and teacher Ana Dević and a member of the curatorial collective What, How and from Whom (WHW). https://www.whw.hr/novosti/index.html# Formed in 1999, the curatorial collective What, How and for Whom (WHW) is an exemplary case in the history of curatorial studies. They were one of the pioneer groups who were influential in saving curatorial practice from going obsolete in a moment in which author curators (often white and male) reluctant to operate in plural forms were dominating the field of contemporary art. It’s members are Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović and designer and publicist Dejan Kršić. Based in Zagreb, WHW Academija is an international study program for young artists. The tuition-free academy takes up to 12 fellows per year intending to work on new forms of self-determination based on modes of critical reflection, curiosity, and encounters among artists, artworks, arts professionals, scholars, and practitioners. This program consists of a series of intensives, experimental exercises, workshops, and seminars, as well as a range of exhibitions, performances, and other forms of discursive programs. http://whw-akademija.whw.hr/about-whw/ IRWIN is a highly influential artist collective, whose paintings, actions and installations played a crucial role in Balkan and Eastern European conceptual art, especially in the definitive era of 90’s and the Post-Yugoslavian context. They were a part of NSK, along with the legendary band Laibach. https://www.irwin-nsk.org/about/ Gezi Park Protests occurred in Turkey in 2013 to contest the urban development plan for Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park. https://creativetimereports.org/2013/06/14/here-we-are-the-imagination-of-public-space-in-gezi-park/ Christine Tohme is a curator and the founding director of Ashkal Alwan. The Home Workspace Program is a tuition-free annual arts study program targeting emerging artists and cultural practitioners wishing to develop their critical skills and practice in a supportive environment in Beirut. https://ashkalalwan.org/about.php# Mladen Stilinović (1947-2016) was a conceptual artist and one of the leading figures of the so-called "New Art Practice" in Croatia. Sanja Iveković is a photographer, performer, sculptor and installation artist. Tomislav Gotovac (1937-2010) was a film director, actor, performer, multimedia and conceptual artist. Goran Trbuljak is a cinematographer, photographer and conceptual artist. Decolonizing Architecture Art Research (DAAR) is an artistic practice situated between architecture, art, pedagogy and politics in the struggle for justice and equality http://www.decolonizing.ps/site/about/ Alessandro Petti is an architect and researcher. He is one of the cofounders of DAAR. Sandi Hilal is an architect and researcher. She is one of the cofounders of DAAR. Conducted by Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, The Tree School is a place where people can gather for communal learning and the production of knowledge grounded in lived experience and connected to communities. http://www.decolonizing.ps/site/the-tree-school/ The artist group Etcetera Collective, was founded by Loreto Garín Guzmán and Federico Zukerfeld in 1997. In 2005 they founded Fundación del Movimiento Internacional Errorista (International Errorist Movement Foundation) with other artists and activists which seeks to consolidate error as a life philosophy. Known for his seminal pedagogical work Deschooling Society, Ivan Dominic Illich (1926 - 2002) was a priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic. The Alternative Art School (TAAS) is an affordable learning program run by a stellar faculty offering intimate class sizes. TAAS emphasizes group work, community building, and dynamic modes of socializing and art-making. www.thealternativeartschool.net/how-it-works-1 RAW Académie is an experimental residential programme for the research and study of artistic and curatorial practice and thought in Dakar. http://www.rawmaterialcompany.org/_RAW_Academy?lang=en DAI ROAMING ACADEMY, is an itinerant program that fosters a variety of praxes at the intersections of art and theory (both seen as un-disciplines), and invigorates (collective) thinking, researching, performing, curating, writing, voicing, making and publishing. https://dutchartinstitute.eu/program/about The Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, "New Academy of Fine Arts", also known as NABA, is a privately run university in Milan. Marco Scotini is a curator, researcher, teacher and writer. Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) is a type of organization represented by rules encoded as a computer program that is transparent, controlled by the organization members and not influenced by a central government. Pirate Care is a transnational research project and a network of activists, scholars and practitioners who stand against the criminalization of solidarity & for a common care infrastructure. https://pirate.care/pages/concept/ Memory of the World/Public Library is a case for the institution of public library and its principle of universal access to knowledge. https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2015/05/27/repertorium_public_library/ Curated by WHW in 2014, “Really Useful Knowledge” was an exhibition that had taken place at Reina Sofia, Madrid which sought to highlight the collective utilization of public resources, action and experiments, either forgotten or under threat of eradication, taking the museum as a pedagogical site devoted to the analysis of artistic forms interconnected with actual or desired social relations. https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/really-useful-knowledge Nato Thompson is an author, curator, and self-proclaimed “cultural infrastructure builder”. Nato was also the guest of Ahali Conversations Episode 18: https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-18-nato-thompson Sound.xyz is a startup aiming to support recording artists to monetize their projects through NFTs. https://www.sound.xyz/ PleasrDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization that purchases and collects work that is relevant to digital and crypto culture. https://pleasr.org/ terra0 is an evolving prototype built on the Ethereum network that aims to provide automated ecosystem resilience frameworks. https://terra0.org/ Black Swan is an experimental digital initiative designed to eat the art world by channeling resources from established institutions to cultural practitioners. https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/kul/zut/dao/dab.html Tor, short for The Onion Router, is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication. https://www.torproject.org Peter Lamborn Wilson aka Hakim Bey is an anarchist author and poet, primarily known for his concept of Temporary Autonomous Zones, short-lived spaces which elude formal structures of control. https://www.amazon.com/TAZ-Temporary-Autonomous-Ontological-Autonomedia/dp/1570271518 https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-t-a-z-the-temporary-autonomous-zone-ontological-anarchy-poetic-terrorism Episode recorded on Zoom in December 2021. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode22-mikenelson monthly 0.5 2022-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/32f6229e-9d9a-472e-95dd-0c6f4bac2840/mikeNelson42.jpg Episodes - Episode 22: Mike Nelson - Episode Notes & Links Acclaimed artist Mike Nelson's work stems from a period of living and working in a particular location in the form of large-scale, site-specific sculptural environments. http://mikenelson.org.uk/ Protocinema is a cross-cultural art organization that commissions and presents site-aware art around the world. https://www.protocinema.org/about PROJEKTÖR was an exhibition organized by Protocinema in 2019. Nelson combined architectural intervention, sculpture, and video across sixteen rooms of the seventh floor of a historic commercial building (Gürün Han) to reflect on the changing landscape of the city, both intimate and global. https://www.protocinema.org/exhibitions/mike-nelson Rip Van Winkle is a short story about nostalgia by Washington Irving, published in 1819. The protagonist of the story falls into a deep slumber for two decades and wakes up to a completely different world. Crystal Palace is a neighborhood in London that takes its name from the exhibition space designed by Joseph Paxton in 1851 to display examples of technology developed in the Industrial Revolution. The United States Capitol attack took place in 2021 by the supporters of Donald Trump to disrupt the joint session of Congress assembled to count electoral votes that would formalize President-elect Joe Biden's victory. Formed in 1968, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) was a folk-rock supergroup. They were not only known for their tumultuous relationship but also for political activism. Charles Manson is a criminal who led the infamous Manson Family in California, in the late 1960s. Minicab was a precarious taxi service that could be booked in advance but not licensed to pick up passengers who hail it in the street. It predates and was replaced by ride-share apps. Han is the urban version of Caravanserai, a roadside inn where travelers could rest and recover from the day's journey. They could be considered commercial settlements or artisanal facilities. Founded in 1651 by Kösem Valide Sultan, the mother of the Ottoman sultans Murat IV and Ibrahim, Büyük Valide Han is the largest historic han in Istanbul. A darkroom is a completely dark working environment that serves to carry out tasks like processing photographic film or making prints. Duveen (1869-1939), was a British art dealer who was highly active and influential in the 1920’s and 1930’s. His success is famously attributed to his observation that "Europe has a great deal of art, and America has a great deal of money."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Duveen,_1st_Baron_Duveen Henry Moore (1898-1986) was one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century and arguably the most internationally celebrated sculptor of the period. https://www.henry-moore.org/ Asset Stripper is a slang term used in a pejorative sense in the field of finances which refers to the practice of selling off a company's assets to improve returns for equity investors. “Asset Strippers” was the title of the annual Tate Britain commission in 2019 where Mike has transformed the grand spaces of the Duveen Galleries into something between a sculpture court and a salvage yard. https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/mike-nelson Founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. V&A Museum is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts, and design in terms of inventory. https://www.vam.ac.uk/ Nelson also has a longstanding interest and knowledge on Middle Eastern art and architecture, a topic we didn’t go much into during this conversation. Assyrian Bowl https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_N-94 An equalizing deck is a circuit or equipment used to adjust the volume of different frequency bands within an audio signal during the processes of sound recording or reproduction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equalization_(audio) The Arab Spring was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. Edward Kienholz (1927-1994) and Nancy Kienholz (1943-2019) were artists whose work heavily criticized the modern way of living and in particular Americana mostly through installation and sculptural works. Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are artists whose ground (or ceiling) breaking installations were highly influential in defining the Post-Soviet cultural production with their subtle humor and captivating visual language. Paul Thek (1933–1988) is the quintessential “artists’ artist” with his unique materiality and fragile life and oeuvre that ended up being posthumously celebrated by the following generation of artists who emerged in the 90’s. Dieter Roth (1930–1998) was an artist best known for works made of found materials, including rotting food. In the present day, his work is carried out by his son Björn Roth. William Franklin Culbert (1935 – 2019) was an artist who worked with and through painting, photography, sculpture, and installation as well as found and recycled materials. Ron Haselden is an artist who works with light, sound, film, and video, often as part of architectural projects. Richard Wilson is an artist known for his architectural sculptures and large-scale installations. Marc Camille Chaimowicz is an artist whose cross-disciplinary work in painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, and wallpaper challenges the categorical divisions between art and design. Robin Klassnik is the founder and director of Matt's Gallery. Founded in 1979, Matt’s Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in London. https://www.mattsgallery.org/ Robert Smithson (1938 - 1973) is another legendary artist who is best known for his artwork Spiral Jetty (1970). Due credit should also be given to Nancy Holt (1938-2014), in creating what is known as Land Art. https://holtsmithsonfoundation.org/ is the custodian of their legacy, until 2038 when the foundation will terminate at the 100th birthday of the couple. Hélio Oiticica (1937 - 1980) is an influential artist from Brazil known for his environments and iconic artworks: such as parangolés, wearable, experiential garments, and penetrables a series of structural works that he considers as “movable frescos on a human scale except that (most importantly) they are penetrable.” Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006) was a Soviet writer and thinker whose work on futurology historically stands out because of his influential work titled Solaris (1961) thanks to director Andrei Tarkovsky's movie adaptation of the novel in 1971. A Perfect Vacuum (1971) comprises Stanislav Lem's fictitious criticism of nonexisting books. The texts included reads as drafts of his science fiction novels, philosophical pieces across scientific topics, from cosmology to the pervasiveness of computers while others satirize and parody everything from the nouveau roman to pornography, Ulysses, authorless writing, and Dostoevsky. First published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe is a highly influential and seminal work of literature by William Defoe It tells the story of a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued Episode recorded on Zoom in April 2021. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/4dd4acd4-2950-49f7-a46d-a5ebc414f7da/nelson_title-06.jpg Episodes - Episode 22: Mike Nelson https://www.ahali.space/episodes/23marinaoteroverzier monthly 0.5 2022-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/06c9a36e-73d7-4785-abd4-548879d800ad/gram18-nato-06.jpg Episodes - Episode 23: Marina Otero Verzier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/69f86792-734d-4369-af38-0f07e9ed3948/MarinaOteroVerzier3.jpg Episodes - Episode 23: Marina Otero Verzier - Episode Notes & Links Marina Otero Verzier is an architect. She was formerly Director of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI), the Dutch Institute for Architecture, Design, and Digital Culture. She is the Department Head of the MA in Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven. https://www.designacademy.nl/p/about-dae/community/marina-otero-verzier Design Academy Eindhoven is an interdisciplinary educational institute for art, architecture, and design in Eindhoven, Netherlands. https://www.designacademy.nl/ Het Nieuwe Instituut is a cultural centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It focuses on architecture, design, and digital culture.https://hetnieuweinstituut.nl/home The term “canon” pops up quite often, it refers to cultural works (books, buildings, etc) that come to be accepted as exceptional and setting the criteria for good work. Canon, has the same root with Kanun, or Qanun, which means the rule, or the law. So in a way these works become unquestionable. Cartesian Grid refers to grids often used in architecture as the basis for organizing spatial form, as composed of squares (or cubes) aligned with the Cartesian coordinate axes. Cartesian coordinate axes exist in a coordinate system that specifies each point uniquely by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances to the point from two fixed perpendicular oriented lines, measured in the same unit of length. Conceived as a spa resort, the exhibition Lithium took place in 2020 at Het Nieuwe. It delved into the beneficial and destructive aspects of the eternal human search for energy and reflected on the role of the chemical element lithium in powering today’s economy. https://lithium.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en More-than-human is an edited volume by Andres Jacque, Marina and our previous guest Lucia Pietroiusti. https://research-development.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/morethanhuman Coauthored by Marina, Drone: Unmanned. Architecture and Security Series investigates the relationship between drone technology, cultural production, and forms of surveillance and violence. “Architecture of Appropriation” was an exhibition developed by Het Nieuwe in 2017 that asked questions about squatting from various perspectives including squatters, artists, and architects. https://hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/press-releases/architecture-appropriation#:~:text=Architecture%20of%20Appropriation%20is%20designed,Architecture%2C%20Design%20and%20Digital%20Culture. The Dutch Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2018 was titled “Work, Body, Leisure”. The exhibition was about the spatial configurations, living conditions, and notions of the human body engendered by disruptive changes in labor, its ethos, and its conditions. https://work-body-leisure.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/ Studio-X is a Columbia University project that appeared in various cities as laboratories for exploring the future of cities—producing events, research projects, pop-up exhibitions, and publications. Marina previously worked as Director of Programming. https://www.arch.columbia.edu/studio-x The Master Program in Social Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven focuses on new social roles for designers attuned to contemporary ecological and social challenges. https://www.designacademy.nl/p/study-at-dae/masters/social-design Can Altay was the Head of the Industrial Design Department at Istanbul Bilgi University between 2012 -2019. Kombucha is a fermented, lightly effervescent, sweetened black or green tea drink. A biomaterial is a substance that has been engineered to interact with biological systems for a medical purpose, either a therapeutic or a diagnostic one. Stephen Wright is a writer and gardener. His works and thought on artistic activity redefining cultural practices in response to permaculture and ecological thinking are influential for the Ahali Community. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-1-stephen-wright Ana Devic is a curator, writer, and teacher Ana Dević and a member of the curatorial collective What, How and from Whom (WHW). Find more about Ana in Episode 21. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode21-ana-devic Nato Thompson is a curator and the founder of the Alternative Art School. Head over to Episode 18 to discover more. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-18-nato-thompson Jerszy Seymour conceives of design as the creation of situations, such as the relationship we have with the constructed and the natural world, with other people, and with ourselves. Amal Alhaag is a curator and researcher. Vasıf Kortun is a curator, educator and writer. He was the guest of Ahali Conversations Episode 6. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-6-vasif-kortun Heman Chong is an artist, curator, and writer who creates texts, objects, installations, and situations in order to investigate the manner through which individuals form associations between objects in their environments. https://www.hemanchong.com/ Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene is a 2016 book by Donna Haraway, published by Duke University Press. Lucia Pietroiusti is a curator whose work intersects art, ecology, and systems in her work. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-16-lucia-pietroiusti Kathrin Böhm is an artist whose practice focuses on the collective re-production of public space; on economy as a public realm; and the everyday as a starting point for culture. Episode 13 to get to know her better. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-13-kathrinbohm Doughnut Economics explores the mindset and ways of thinking needed by humanity to thrive in the 21st century. https://doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughnut-economics ACCESS SERVER is a digital tool developed by MELT that addresses the unequal inclusion of disabled people in art institutions. It will be a website that provides email templates and a modest fee per email to support disabled people’s access requests. https://research-development.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/het-nieuwe-instituuts-call-fellows-2021-jury-report Ahali Conversations’ Episode 10 featured Chus Martinez. She is a curator and teacher. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-10-chusmartinez Evanescent Institutions is the title of Marina’s PhD. Thesis. This work would be helpful to think about how public cultural institutions should resituate themselves in the 21st century. Misiones Pedagógicas (The Pedagogical Missions) was a socio-pedagogical project committed to social justice. It fostered educational renewal and was active between 1931 - 1936. The Franco dictatorship (dictadura franquista) took place between 1939 and 1975 when Francisco Franco ruled Spain with the title Caudillo. After his death in 1975, Spain transitioned into a democracy. Cátedra Ambulante Francisco Franco was a mobile propaganda project which appropriated Misiones Pedagógicas’ ideas about reaching small towns and villages through on-site activities. This season of Ahali Conversations is supported by the “Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts”. The Graham provides project-based grants to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. This episode was also supported by a Moon & Stars Project Grant from the American Turkish Society. This episode was recorded on Zoom on March 10th, 2022. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/24ds4si monthly 0.5 2022-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/50834707-0afe-43c2-9e2c-aa7e4f64da96/DS4SI4.jpg Episodes - Episode 24: Design Studio for Social Intervention - Episode Notes & Links https://www.ds4si.org/#test-section Written by DS4SI, IDEAS ARRANGEMENTS EFFECTS could be considered a roadmap for using social interventions to invite the larger public into imagining and creating a more just and vibrant world. The book unpacks how ideas like racism and sexism remain sturdy by embedding themselves in everything from physical and social infrastructure to everyday speech and thought habits and provides tools to sense, intervene in and imagine new arrangements. https://www.ds4si.org/bookshop/ideas-arrangements-effects-systems-design-and-social-justice-paperback-book SUMMITT undertakes the role of executive dog within the team of DS4SI. She brings a deep passion for wide-open public spaces to all of her work. Her leadership positions at DS4SI include Public Relations Lead for the Upham’s Corner Street Buffet (and street buffets everywhere), Co-Captain of the Snoozing Team, and Chief Lunch Procurer. https://www.ds4si.org/people/2021/3/1/summitt-executive-dog Inspired by the family kitchen as a gathering place, the Public Kitchen invited Upham's Corner and Dudley Street residents to feast, learn, share, imagine, unite and claim public space. Over 500 community members joined DS4SI as the Public Kitchen launched a week of fresh food, cooking classes & competitions, a mobile kitchen and Hub, food-inspired art, and other events. https://www.ds4si.org/creativity-labs//public-kitchen Alongside various other academic positions, Ceasar McDowell is a Professor of Civic Design at MIT. He teaches civic and community engagement and the use of social technology to enhance both. The Community Innovators Lab (CoLab) at MIT supports the Department of Urban Studies Program by bringing together the best thinking in planning and information technology with the learned experience of community practitioners. https://dusp.mit.edu/programs/overview Trickster Makes This World is a book by Lewis Hyde. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56450.Trickster_Makes_This_World Razorfish is one of the world’s largest interactive agencies. Created by David Walsh, MONA is a museum in Hobart, Tasmania. https://mona.net.au/museum/about Initiated by DS4SI, Black Citizenship Project engaged artists from the Boston area and beyond to provide a public, artistic response to police-sanctioned violence against Black bodies and Black communities. https://www.ds4si.org/interventions/2016/7/25/black-citizenship-project#:~:text=Black%20Citizenship%20Project%20engaged%20artists,Black%20bodies%20and%20Black%20communities. Dating back to 2010, The Church Street Partners’ Gazette by Can Altay was an exhibition that took place in Showroom, London. https://www.theshowroom.org/projects/can-altay-the-church-street-partners-gazette MÇPS was a work by Can Altay realized in 2017. It was a walk-in jamming/recording studio that popped up in the artist-run space İMÇ 5533, İstanbul. Lagoon is a novel by Nnedi Okorafor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagoon_(novel) Sun Ra is a god who walked on earth and made music. https://splice.com/blog/who-is-sun-ra/ Ezra Collective is a band of extremely skilled, visionary jazz musicians. http://ezracollective.com/ Bringing together residents, artists, activists, and passers-by, inPUBLIC highlights the importance of “public-making”—the collective creation of opportunities for interaction, laughter, dialogue, learning, and surprise. https://www.ds4si.org/interventions/inpublic Social Emergency Response Centers are temporary, emergent, and creative spaces co-led by activists and artists. They pop up in response to a new attack on a population or to a long-standing injustice. Check DS4SI’s detailed manual to learn more or start one in your city! https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53c7166ee4b0e7db2be69480/t/5914a3dd579fb3c20cf4ab9a/1494524919092/DS4SI-SERC-Manual.pdf Ferguson riots in Ferguson, Missouri, involved protests and riots which began on August 10, 2014, the day after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson. This season of Ahali Conversations is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. The Graham provides project-based grants to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. This episode was also supported by a Moon & Stars Project Grant from the American Turkish Society. This episode was recorded on Zoom on March 15th, 2022. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/e7b760a1-73be-4e41-b29a-38712bce854e/gram18-nato-27.jpg Episodes - Episode 24: Design Studio for Social Intervention https://www.ahali.space/episodes/25kellereasterling monthly 0.5 2022-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/0e5f5ae3-79d0-402f-8831-4be808eb6f5e/gram18-nato-27.jpg Episodes - Episode 25: Keller Easterling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/2c3a41cc-51ab-4f9d-ae5f-22db4e4f46d5/keller_quote.jpg Episodes - Episode 25: Keller Easterling - Episode Notes & Links http://kellereasterling.com/ In Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space, Keller Easterling reveals the nexus of emerging governmental and corporate forces buried within the concrete and fiber-optics of our modern habitat. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/enduring-innocence http://kellereasterling.com/books/extrastatecraft-the-power-of-infrastructure-space In Enduring Innocence, Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw "spatial products"—resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other hybrid spaces that exist outside normal constituencies and jurisdictions—in difficult political situations around the world. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/enduring-innocence Medium Design by Keller Easterling looks not to new technologies for innovation but rather to sophisticated relationships between emergent and incumbent technologies. It does not try to eliminate problems but rather put them together in productive combinations. And it offers forms of activism for modulating power and temperament in organisations of all kinds. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3245-medium-design http://kellereasterling.com/books/medium-design-knowing-how-to-work-on-the-world Elements of Architecture was the title of the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Rem Koolhaas. https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2014/elements-architecture Beatriz Colomina is an architecture historian, theorist, and curator. Mark Wigley is an architect and author. Colomina and Wigley co-curated the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial with the same title in 2016. https://tasarimbienali.iksv.org/en/biennial-archive/3rd-istanbul-design-biennial James Jerome Gibson (1904-1979) was an American psychologist known as a seminal figure in the field of visual perception. He coined the phrase “affordance” which later became a key concept in the field of design. John Durham Peters is a professor of English and film and media studies. His book The Marvelous Clouds reveals the long prehistory of so-called new media and shows how media lie at the very heart of our interactions with the world around us. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo20069392.html Tim Ingold is an antropologist. This is the text Can is referring to: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203807002127 Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) was a polymath of the 20th century. He was engaged in many knowledge fields including physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. Check his thoughts on positivism to provoke your mind. Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976) was a philosopher, principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "ghost in the machine." which of course influenced the legendary Ghost in the Shell manga series by Masamune Shirow. Bruno Latour is a philosopher, anthropologist, and sociologist. He is especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies. http://www.bruno-latour.fr/ Richard III by William Shakespeare is the last in a sequence of four history plays known collectively as the “first tetralogy,” treating major events of English history during the late 14th and early 15th centuries. Lady Anne is a fictional character from Richard III https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lady-Anne Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an author, poet, and mathematician. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. Jorge Luis Borges (1889-1986) was an essayist, poet, and translator of Carroll’s work to Spanish. Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer. MarshallAI detects objects and incidents in real-time from any video feed through consistent monitorization and employment of precise artificial intelligence and machine vision. They provide sharp and automatic situational awareness and intelligent automation by gathering relevant data for smart cities, security, and authorities. https://marshallai.com/ J.K Gibson-Graham is the pen-name of Katherine Gibson and the late Julie Graham. As feminist political economists and economic geographers, they have extensively written about diverse economies, urbanism, alternative communities, and regional economic development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Gibson-Graham Arturo Escobar is an anthropologist whose research interests include political ecology, anthropology of development, social movements, anti-globalization movements, and post-development theory. We suggest Territories of Difference published by Duke University press in 2008 to learn more about his thought. https://www.dukeupress.edu/territories-of-difference Zenzile Miriam Makeba (1932-2008) nicknamed Mama Africa was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights, activist. https://www.miriammakeba.co.za/ Silvia Federici is an academic and activist particularly influential for radical Marxist feminist theory. McKinsey & Company is a management consulting firm that advises on strategic management to corporations, governments, and other organizations. Deloitte is one of the Big Four accounting organizations and the largest professional services network in the world by revenue and number of professionals, with headquarters in London, England. Vilém Flusser (1920-1991) was a philosopher, writer, and journalist. You can meet fellow flusserians or learn more about his works through https://www.flusserstudies.net/flusser Kathrin Böhm is an artist. Listen to Episode 13 to get to know her better. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-13-kathrinbohm This season of Ahali Conversations is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. The Graham provides project-based grants to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. This episode was also supported by a Moon & Stars Project Grant from the American Turkish Society. This episode was recorded on Zoom on March 29th, 2022. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/26raqsmediacollective monthly 0.5 2022-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/250915d3-e6df-49ca-834a-42e64c1db29f/raqs-06.png Episodes - Episode 26: Raqs Media Collective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/e0f63d63-bc93-4a5d-a7f5-915faa72f527/raqs.jpg Episodes - Episode 26: Raqs Media Collective - Episode Notes & Links Based in New Delhi, Raqs Media Collective comprises three practitioners: Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. For the past three decades, the Collective has been concerned with urbanism, epistemology, technology, globalization, and the experience of time. Drawing upon critical theory and political philosophy, their work is marked by active inquiry, double-meanings, pluralism, and entanglement. https://www.raqsmediacollective.net/ Sarai is among South Asia’s most prominent and productive platforms for research and reflection on the transformation of urban space and contemporary realities, especially with regard to cities, data and information, law, and media infrastructures. https://sarai.net/about/ Initiated by Ankur: Society for Alternatives in Education, Delhi, and Sarai-CSDS, Delhi in the year 2001 Cybermohalla is a network of dispersed labs for experimentation and exploration among young working-class individuals https://sarai.net/projects/cybermohalla/. The first Cybermohalla took place in LNJP (Lok Nayak Jarai Prakash), an informal settlement in Central Delhi. Parda-darii is a noun in Hindu meaning play of the veil, removing the veil, revealing the truth, and revealment of secrets. Can has written on the design of Cybermohalla Hub, in relation to his ‘Setting a Setting’ idea. https://www.academia.edu/5980837/_Setting_and_Remaking_in_Cybermohalla_Hub_eds_Hirsch_N_and_S_Sarda_Berlin_Sternberg_Press_2012 Curated by Raqs Media Collective “In the Open or In Stealth” was a group exhibition that has taken place at MACBA in 2018-2019 about the concept of a future in which multiple histories and geographies were placed in dialogue. https://www.macba.cat/en/exhibitions-activities/exhibitions/open-or-stealth The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. https://walkerart.org/visit Established by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima in Tokyo, Atelier Bow-Wow is an architecture firm. http://www.bow-wow.jp/ Taken place in Walker Art center in 2003, How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age was an exhibition about ways that globalization, or the “new internationalism in art” is affecting visual culture. https://walkerart.org/calendar/2003/how-latitudes-become-forms-art-in-a-global-ag How Latitudes Become Forms has a vintage website that constitutes substantial archival material about the project. http://latitudes.walkerart.org/overview/index.html Fatwa is a ruling on a point of Islamic law given by a recognized authority. Abhinavagupta (c. 950 – 1016 CE) was a philosopher, mystic, and aesthetician from Kashmir. He was also considered an influential musician, poet, dramatist, exegete, theologian, and logician – a polymathic personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture. William Shakespeare used more than 20,000 words in his plays and poems, and his works provide the first recorded use of over 1,700 words in the English language. https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia/shakespeares-words/ Submitted by Rohana Khattak, a sixteen-year-old reader of the New York Times from, Islamabad, Pakistan to the newspaper’s Invent a Word Challenge, “Oblivionnaire” refers to a billionaire who chooses to be blind to the disparity and inequality that his or her wealth is creating. “Khullja Sim Sim” translates as “Open Sesame” in English, and “Açıl Susam Açıl” in Turkish. It is a magical phrase in the story of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and in Antoine Galland's version of One Thousand and One Nights. It opens the mouth of a cave in which forty thieves have hidden a treasure. Nishastagah is a Hindu word referring to a place not (yet, ever) inhabited by memory. In response to the passage of the Citizenship Act on 11 December 2019 and the ensuing police intervention against students at Jamia Millia Islamia who were opposing the Amendment, the Shaheen Bagh protest was a peaceful sit-in protest in Delhi, India, that began on 15 December 2019 and lasted until 24 March 2020. The permanently lost 16mm film, “Half the Night left, and the Universe to Comprehend” is Raqs Media Collective’s first work. In the Hindu epic the Mahabharata, Ashwatthama was a Maharathi warrior who became a Chiranjivi (immortal) due to a curse given to him by the god of protection, compassion, tenderness, and love, Krishna. In the essay titled dictionary of war by Raqs Media Collective Ashwatthama is described both as an omnipresent immaterial entity that acts as a propagator of war while tracing his essence within the essence of human subjectivity. http://dictionaryofwar.org/node/894 Mahendra Raj (1924 - 2022) was a structural engineer and designer who contributed to the structural design of many buildings in India including the Hall of Nations at the Pragati Maidan in Delhi. Opened in 1972, the Hall of Nations was a building designed by architect Raj Rewal, and structurally engineered by Mahendra Raj. The structure was demolished in April 2017 to make way for a new complex. The essay that Jabeesh mentions while referring to Mahendra Raj is titled Living with the Future in South Asia by Chris Moffat. https://www.publicbooks.org/modernist-architecture-heritage-south-asia-pragati-maidan/ This season of Ahali Conversations is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. The Graham provides project-based grants to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. This episode was also supported by a Moon & Stars Project Grant from the American Turkish Society. This episode was recorded on Zoom on May 17th, 2022. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/27pauloneillpart1 monthly 0.5 2022-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/6a522024-9fdd-40cb-ad6c-1d2864d099f0/paul-footer.jpg Episodes - Episode 27: Paul O’Neill (Part 1) - Episode Notes & Links Paul O’Neill is a curator, artist, writer, and educator. He is the artistic director of Publics. O’Neill has held numerous curatorial and research positions over the years and he has taught in many curatorial and visual arts programs in Europe, the UK, and the USA. He was the Director of the Curatorial Studies program and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Hessel Museum at the Bard College, NY. He has co-curated more than sixty projects across the world including We are the (Epi)center, P! Gallery, New York (2016), and the multi-faceted We are the Center for Curatorial Studies for the Hessel Museum, Bard College (2016-17). He has co-edited the books Kathrin Böhm; Art on the Scale of Life, MIT Press (forthcoming), Curating After the Global; Roadmaps to the Present, MIT Press, CCS Bard and LUMA Foundation, Arles 2019, How Institutions Think; Between Contemporary Art and Curatorial Discourse, MIT Press, 2017, and many more.http://www.pauloneill.org.uk PUBLICS is a curatorial agency with a dedicated library, event space, and reading room in Helsinki. PUBLICS follows and expands on O’Neill’s critical social thinking, contemporary art, and publicness, with a much more open and participatory stance. https://www.publics.fi Center for Curatorial Studies is an experimentation base at Bard College dedicated to curatorial studies and exhibition making. The Hessel Museum of Art in Bard College is an extension of Center for Curatorial Studies. https://ccs.bard.edu/ Checkpoint Helsinki, was a contemporary art organization that operates as a critical platform to support local cultural activities and public engagement while contributing to the international visibility of artistic production in the city of Helsinki. https://www.checkpointhelsinki.org Julia Studio is a design practice that brings together graphic and spatial design runs between London, Paris and Rome. https://julia.studio Liam Gillick is an artist based in New York. https://liamgillick.info/ Kathrin Böhm is an artist. Listen to Episode 13 to get to know her better. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-13-kathrinbohm Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons is a non-profit public art institution based in Utrecht. https://casco.art Bétonsalon is a centre for contemporary art and research based in Paris. https://www.betonsalon.net SAVVY, the laboratory of form and ideas is a public cultural institution based in Berlin. Find more about SAVVY in Episode 15, featuring Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung:https://savvy-contemporary.com/ https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-15-bonaventure Walter Benjamin criticizes the monistic approach of historical materialism and considers history as a concept made out of self-standing memory layers and relations. Chris Kraus is an American writer and filmmaker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kraus Cynthia Cruz is a contemporary American poet. http://cynthiacruzblog.blogspot.com/ Eliisa Suvanto is the Program Manager at PUBLICS. Shimmer is a curatorial studio based in Rotterdam. https://shimmershimmer.org/ Latitudes is a curatorial office based in Barcelona that works internationally across contemporary art practices. https://www.lttds.org/ Laia Estruch is an artist based in Barcelona. https://laiaestruch.com/ Black Lives Matter is a decentralized political and social movement and a growing quest for racial justice, began in 2013, as a reaction to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter MeToo is a phrase coined by sexual assault survivor and activist Tarana Burke. Following its initial use in 2006, to establish an empowering ground among survivors, it became a social movement against sexual abuse, sexual harassment and rape culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeToo_movement Mary Douglas (1921 – 2007) was a British anthropologist. In her book “How Institutions Think”, Douglas discusses the recurring effects of individuals and institutions on each other, regarding the processes of thinking. https://www.routledge.com/How-Institutions-Think-Routledge-Revivals/Douglas/p/book/9780415684781 SHAPE map is a website resource for Helsinki’s contemporary art landscape, a mapping of art spaces and public events across the city. https://www.shape-helsinki.fi/ Multiples X was an organization that commissioned and supported curated exhibitions of artist's editions. Keller Easterling is an architect, writer and professor of architecture.Listen to Episode 25 to get to know her better. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/25kellereasterling This season of Ahali Conversations is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. The Graham provides project-based grants to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. This episode was also supported by a Moon & Stars Project Grant from the American Turkish Society. This episode was recorded on Zoom on May 17th, 2022. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/a2d43932-9d00-4448-813e-1e4209c18aa8/paul-header-01.jpg Episodes - Episode 27: Paul O’Neill (Part 1) https://www.ahali.space/episodes/28pauloneillpart2 monthly 0.5 2022-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/b3f10380-0c41-49ce-9f90-cc545b5c4124/paul-footer-02.jpg Episodes - Episode 28: Paul O’Neill (Part 2) - Episode Notes & Links This episode includes questions by Alessandra Saviotti, Ula Soley, Enrico Arduini, and Furkan İnan. Paul O’Neill is a curator, artist, writer, and educator. He is currently the artistic director of Publics, in Helsinki, Finland. Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural center based in London. https://www.ica.art/ Mick Wilson is an artist, educator and researcher based in Gothenburg and Dublin. Adrian Rifkin is a professor of art writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. http://gai-savoir.net/ Dr. Andrea Phillips is BALTIC Professor and Director of BxNU Research Institute, Northumbria University & BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Richard Birkett was a curator at the ICA, London; and at the Artists Space in New York. He is currently a curator at the Yale Union art center in Portland, Oregon. Dave Beech is an artist and writer. https://www.davebeech.co.uk/ Sarah Pierce is an artist based in Dublin. Nought to Sixty was a program of exhibitions and events, curated by Richard Birkett at the ICA, in 2008. Over the course of six months, the program was presenting solo projects by sixty emerging British- and Irish-based artists. https://archive.ica.art/nought-sixty-artists-index/ The Copenhagen Free University is an artist-run institution, dedicated to the production of critical consciousness and poetic language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Free_University unitednationsplaza is a project by Anton Vidokle in collaboration with Boris Groys, Jalal Toufic, Liam Gillick, Martha Rosler, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Nikolaus Hirsch, Tirdad Zolghadr, and Walid Raad It operated as a temporary, experimental school in Berlin, following the cancellation of Manifesta 6 on Cyprus, in 2006. The project traveled to Mexico City (2008) and to New York City under the name Night School (2008-2009) at the New Museum. Its program was organized around a number of public seminars, most of which are available in the online archive. https://www.unitednationsplaza.org/ The text Paul was referring to –Introduction to The Paraeducation Department– written by Annie Fletcher and Sarah Pierce is in the anthology Curating and the Educational Turn edited by Paul O’Neill and Mick Wilson: https://betonsalon.net/PDF/essai.pdf Kate Zambreno is an American novelist, essayist, critic, and professor. Roland Barthes (1915 – 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Barthes Octavia Butler (1947 – 2006) was an American science fiction author. Her writings have finally attracted well-deserved attention in the past years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler Maryam Jafri is a Copenhagen-based American artist. The artist’s book Independence Days presents an expanded version of her photo installation and includes texts by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Paul O’Neill, Nina Tabassomi. https://www.maryamjafri.net/ Lygia Pimentel Lins (1920 – 1988), better known as Lygia Clark, was a Brazilian artist and co-founder of Neo-Concrete movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lygia_Clark P! is a multidisciplinary gallery and project space formerly in New York, currently based in Berlin. http://p-exclamation.com/ Taken place in P!, in 2016, We are the (Epi)center was a group exhibition organized with the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, featuring: Can Altay, David Blamey, Katarina Burin, Jasmina Cibic, Céline Condorelli, Marjolijn Dijkman, Chris Kraus, Gareth Long, Ronan McCrea, Harold Offeh, William McKeown, Eduardo Padilha, Sarah Pierce, Richard Venlet, Grace Weir, and many others. PARSE is an international artistic research publishing and biennial conference platform based in the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at University of Gothenburg. This is the visual essay Paul was referring to: https://parsejournal.com/article/before-and-after/ Autotheory refers to a critical approach in which the author uses personal experiences as the major creative force and the body as the source of knowledge. Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) is an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (1901-1981) is a French psychoanalyst and interpreter of Sigmund Freud’s studies. Their contributions to the psychoanalytic theory have been influential on the literary theory in terms of deciphering a work based on the psychological condition its author is in, or conversely, portraying such condition through unconscious revelations of the author within the work. Maggie Nelson is an American writer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Nelson Semiotext(e) is an independent press, publishing works of theory, fiction, madness, economics, satire, sexuality, science fiction, activism, and confession. http://www.semiotextes.com/ McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born writer and professor of Media and Culture at Hudson University. Raymond Williams (1921 – 1988) was a Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist, and critic. In his essay Dominant, Residual, and Emergent, he characterizes the grounded parts of cultural groups and their operating methods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Williams Stephen Wright is a writer and gardener. Listen to Episode 1 to get to know him better. https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-1-stephen-wright Tania Bruguera is an artist and activist. https://www.taniabruguera.com/ Dr. Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, teacher, and activist. NTS is a global radio station and media platform founded in 2011 by Femi Adeyemi. https://www.nts.live/ Bjork is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress. https://bjork.com/ Annie Fletcher is the Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Leninism is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of communism through dictatorship of the proletariat. Stalinism is a totalitarian extension of Leninism and a period of governing by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1953. COALESCE is an ongoing exhibition project by Paul O’Neill which takes place at different locations with different artists and shapes around the idea of cohabitation. This season of Ahali Conversations is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. The Graham provides project-based grants to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. This episode was also supported by a Moon & Stars Project Grant from the American Turkish Society. This episode was recorded on Zoom on May 10th, 2022. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/8ec2e540-ae0e-4336-bbde-1a3c6594a695/paul-header-02.jpg Episodes - Episode 28: Paul O’Neill (Part 2) https://www.ahali.space/episodes/29cookingsections monthly 0.5 2023-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/af8a0ccc-55a9-4643-8483-e015587aedba/cooking+posts4.jpg Episodes - Episode 29: Cooking Sections - Episode Notes & Links This episode includes additional questions by Sarp Renk Özer & Jing Yi. Find more about Cooking Sections from https://www.cooking-sections.com/ CLIMAVORE is a long-term project that sets out to envision seasons of food production and consumption that react to man-induced climatic events and landscape alterations. For hundreds of years, the wetlands north of Istanbul have been home to water Buffalo. Wallowland (Çamuralem) presents the outcomes of a series of metabolic surveys conducted at different times of the year. Buffalo kaymak, yoghurt, and sütlaç made from local producers are offered as tastings accompanied by field recordings and Buffalo songs aiming to enhance a cultural landscape on the verge of extinction. https://bienal.iksv.org/en/17b-artists/cooking-sections https://saltonline.org/en/2317/climavore-seasons-made-to-drift?q=cooking+sect%C4%B1ons The First Geography Congress (Turkish: Birinci Türk Coğrafya Kongresi), which was held in Ankara in 1941, separated Turkey into seven geographical regions, which are still used today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Geography_Congress,_Turkey Salmon: A Red Herring was first exhibited at Art Now, Tate Britain. As part of the project, Tate removed farmed salmon from its menus across all four Tate sites and introduced CLIMAVORE dishes instead. Set on the intertidal zone/seal-mara at Bayfield, CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones explores the environmental impact of intensive salmon aquaculture and reacts to the changing shores of Portree, Isle of Skye. Eyal Weizman is the director of the research agency Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, the University of London where he is a Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and a founding director there of the Centre for Research Architecture at the department of Visual Cultures. https://forensic-architecture.org/ Tim Ingold is an anthropologist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Ingold Lüfer Koruma Timi was a campaign to protect the bluefish of the Bosphorus, urging fisherpeople, restaurants, and consumers to not fish, sell, or buy younger fish until the fish reaches its proper growth to reproduce. https://www.yesilist.com/tag/lufer-koruma-timi/ The Lionfish is an invasive marine species. This season of Ahali Conversations is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. The Graham provides project-based grants to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. This episode was also supported by a Moon & Stars Project Grant from the American Turkish Society. This episode was recorded on Zoom on August 25th, 2021. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/96a90877-7ce6-4bf7-a0f8-4626ee0d70ce/gram29_cooking.jpg Episodes - Episode 29: Cooking Sections https://www.ahali.space/episodes/30urbonas monthly 0.5 2023-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/171c0f5b-31cb-48a8-9bc5-21c3b3a800e9/urbonasweb.jpg Episodes - Episode 30: Urbonas Studio - Episode Notes & Links This Episode includes sound samples that act as interludes from the work: The Swamp Observatory. Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas Sound mixing by Mouse on Mars based on sampling by pupils at the Innovitaskolan Visby, Sweden. 2022 Ecotones are transitional spaces between two biological communities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotone Riparian Territories are zones that tie and lie in-between land and rivers or streams. “Drain the swamp” refers to the removal of water from marsh areas which causes the removal of creatures dependent on the water. The phrase is adopted by politicians from Mussolini to Donald Trump who used it as a metaphor for ‘cleansing’ of various sorts. Bruno Latour is a philosopher, anthropologist, and sociologist. http://www.bruno-latour.fr/ Established in 1895, La Biennale di Venezia is a cultural institution that organizes events and exhibitions in Art (1895), Architecture (1980), Cinema (1932), Dance (1999), Music (1930), and Theatre (1934) departments. https://www.labiennale.org/en Swamp School took place in Swamp Pavillion curated by Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, the first individual pavilion Lithuania presents as a part of the 16th Venice International Architecture Biennale, Freespace, in 2018. Throughout the biennale, Swamp School functioned as a changing, flexible, open-ended infrastructure that supports experiments in design, pedagogy and artistic intelligence. https://www.swamp.lt/ George Washington was one of the investors of the Dismal Swamp Company, a land speculation venture founded in 1763 to drain, tame and make profit from the Great Dismal Swamp, a wetland that stretches between Norfolk, Virginia, and Edeltan, North Carolina. The Baltic Pavillion was the joint contribution of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia to the 15th Venice International Architecture Biennale in 2016. https://balticpavilion.eu/ Located in the Church of San Lorenzo in Venice, Ocean Space is a global center for exhibitions, research, and public programs harboring contributions to ocean literacy and advocacy through the arts. https://www.ocean-space.org/ Barrenas refers to emerged lands and sandbanks of Venetian geography. Giardini della Biennale is the traditional site of La Biennale Art Exhibitions since the first edition in 1895. Swamp Radio is the independent chapter of Swamp School, featuring a number of contributors to explore spatial qualities of sonic experiments. Jana Winderen is a sound artist based in Norway. https://www.janawinderen.com/ Sam Auinger is a sound artist based in Austria. http://www.samauinger.de/ Petteri Nisunen is a sound artist based in Finland. https://g-n.fi/ Tommi Gronlund is a sound artist based in Finland. https://g-n.fi/ Nicole L’Huillier is an architect based in Chile and USA. https://nicolelhuillier.com/ The Marsh Labrador Tea (Rhododendron tomentosum) is an evergreen shrub that preferably grows in moors and peat soils. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhododendron_tomentosum Pirate radio refers to a radio station that broadcasts without a valid license. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_radio Sant'Erasmo is an island in the Venetian Lagoon lying north-east of the Lido island and east of Venice, famous for its blue artichokes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%27Erasmo Sundews are one of the largest groups of carnivorous plants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosera Maroons were people who inhabited in the Great Dismal Swamp after escaping enslavement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dismal_Swamp_maroons Swamp Thing is a fictional humanoid/plant elemental character, created by writer Len Wein and artist Bernie Wrightson. In the mid-1980s a storyline by Alan Moore elevated this character and comics series by reworking the whole origin story building a new world around it. This new Swamp Thing was timely, philosophical and ahead of its time in many ways. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_Thing Alan Moore (b. 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comic books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene is a 2016 book by Donna Haraway, published by Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble Walden is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. Swamp Observatory (2020) is an installation by Urbonas Studio, commissioned for the exhibition, Critical Zones – Observatories for Earthly Politics, curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel at ZKM Center for Arts and Media. The installation proposes to approach to the swamp as an interface to Gaia and continues to regenerate itself at different locations and through different mediums. Swamp Game is the extension of Swamp Observatory installation and stands as an invitation to experience the relations between organisms and their environments. Jutempus is a non-profit, artist-run initiative that was founded in 1993 and re-organized in 1997 on the initiative of Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas in collaboration with other artists and creative people at the former Cultural Palace of the Railway Workers in Vilnius, the capital and largest city of Lithuania. http://www.vilma.cc/jutempus/ Simone de Beauvoir (1908 – 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir Ground Control: Technology and Utopia is a collection of essays that expand upon an exhibition programme of the same name. The contributors of the collection reflect on the broad divisions and links in culture and history between Eastern and Western Europe. Baltic Art Center is a residency for contemporary art on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. https://www.balticartcenter.com/home/ Curated by Marco Scotini, Disobedience Archive, is an ongoing, multi-phase video archive and platform of discussion that deals with the relationship between artistic practices and political actions. The latest edition of the archive was presented as a part of the 17th İstanbul Biennial through a display setting designed by Can Altay. http://www.disobediencearchive.othe rg/ Mel King (b. 1928) is an American politician, community organizer, and educator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_King The Tent City Protests in Boston was a public revolt demanding the right to affordable housing, led by Mel King in 1968. Naomi A. Klein (b. 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein The Occupy movement is an internationally localized socio-political movement in search of “real democracy”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party Sylvère Lotringer (1938 – 2021) was a French-born literary critic and cultural theorist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylv%C3%A8re_Lotringers. This season of Ahali Conversations is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. The Graham provides project-based grants to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. This episode was also supported by a Moon & Stars Project Grant from the American Turkish Society. This episode was recorded on Zoom on November 23rd, 2022. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/1b0435fa-d004-40ae-8bc0-c257480bc650/gram29_cooking.jpg Episodes - Episode 30: Urbonas Studio https://www.ahali.space/episodes/31alistair monthly 0.5 2023-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/3187ae91-a691-4a1f-ba41-55659e4219e0/alistair.jpg Episodes - Episode 31: Alistair Hudson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec696137f84944d58784dce/bc75e79f-7ae8-493a-8b04-8c5c51d1a83e/alistairpost0.jpg Episodes - Episode 31: Alistair Hudson - Episode Notes & Links This Episode includes additional questions by Betül Aksu, Ceminay Kara, Sarp Özer, and Alessandra Saviotti. Over the last two decades, Grizedale Arts has become an acclaimed and influential model for a new kind of art institution, one that works beyond the established structures of the contemporary art world. Liam Gillick works across diverse forms, whose wider body of work includes published essays and collaborative projects, all of which inform (and are informed by) his art practice. The British Home Office (the UK ministry responsible for immigration, security, and law and order) building was designed by Terry Farrell and has multiple integrated artworks by Gillick. Terminal Convention was a contemporary exhibition and symposium housed in the decommissioned terminal building of Cork International Airport in the Republic of Ireland. https://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/apr/07/terminal-convention/ Arte Útil roughly translates into English as 'useful art' but it goes further suggesting art as a tool or device.https://www.arte-util.org Tania Bruguera is a politically motivated performance artist, who explores the relationship between art, activism, and social change in works that examine the social effects of political and economic power. https://art21.org/artist/tania-bruguera/ The Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven is one of the leading museums for contemporary art in Europe. https://vanabbemuseum.nl/en Charles Esche is a museum director, who has been directing the Van Abbemuseum since 2004. John Ruskin was an English writer, philosopher, art critic, and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany, and political economy. Wikipedia The ZKM (Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe “is a house of all media and genres, a house of both spatial arts such as painting, photography and sculpture and time-based arts such as film, video, media art, music, dance, theater, and performance. ZKM was founded in 1989 with the mission of continuing the classical arts into the digital age. This is why it is sometimes called the digital Bauhaus”. https://zkm.de/en Peter Weibel was a post-conceptual artist, curator, and new media theoretician. He was at the helm of ZKM since 1999. Weibel passed away in March 2023, shortly after the recording of this episode. Arts Council is UK’s national development agency for creativity and culture. They invest public money from Government and The National Lottery into cultural institutions and projects. https://artscouncil.org.uk Rainer Rochlitz (1946-2022) was a philospher, art historian focusing on aesthetics theory, and a translator who played a key role in publicizing the writings of German authors such as Benjamin and Habermas. Jürgen Habermas is one of the key theorists of the 20th century, with his widely read and influential works on communicative action, discourse, and perhaps most importantly on the “public sphere”. Erwin Panofsky was an influential art historian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Panofsky Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) probably needs no introduction, he was a filmmaker who pushed the medium to its limits while remaining relevant and influential, throughout his whole time on this earth. Onur Yıldız is a political theorist who also was the Senior Public Programmer at SALT, Istanbul. For more on Meriç Öner, head over to our conversation with her: https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-17-meric-oner Stephen Wright defines “usology” as “a sweeping field of extradisciplinary enquiry, spanning everything from the history of the ways and means of using to usership’s conditions of possibility as put forward in various theories of practice”.https://museumarteutil.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Toward-a-lexicon-of-usership.pdf Alessandra Saviotti, a frequent contributor in our Ahali Live Sessions, co-authored this article on the usological turn: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/11/1/22 This season of Ahali Conversations is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. The Graham provides project-based grants to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. This episode was also supported by a Moon & Stars Project Grant from the American Turkish Society. 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