Join me in Istanbul for a weekend under the banner of “CitySense: Surveillance, Secrecy, Security, Control”, a project commissioned by Kosmopolis, in collaboration with http://www.nomad-tv.net/”" target="_self">NOMAD, and hosted by http://www.garajistanbul.org/”" target="_self">garajistanbul. It proposes a playful – but therefore not less critical take on media, control, surveillance, secrecy and art in urban environments.
It is no big secret that urban centers have become sites of surveillance and control. Gone are the days that the urban city dweller could carelessly drift – as the 19th century flaneur, strolling from one area to the other, and then disappear anonymously into the crowds. As our urban experience might have become more anonymous in regard to social interaction, our behavior – how we move, what we see, hear, taste and smell - is becoming more regulated, watched and controlled. Anonymity, it seems, is no longer an option. Our urban sensibilities are often directed, mediated and pre-programmed, either by security measures or by other overt or hidden codes of conduct. It is no coincidence then that how we consciously sense our cities – our “City Sense” – ultimately defines how we position ourselves as citizens.
CitySense offers a playful interpretation on how to actively engage your urban senses and reveals the hidden, and questions the exposed in an evening choc-a-bloc with video screenings, live food and smell installations, live audio-visual performances, and a party to close off the night.
Saturday night, 20th of September, doors open at 20.00h at garajistanbul and on the menu are:
Performance Installations by: http://www.ueda.nl/“" target="_self">Maki Ueda, Wietske Maas. Live Performances: Sasker Scheerder & Radboud Mens, http://www.evdh.net”" target="_self">Edwin van der Heide, http://mlab.uiah.fi/~korayt/”" target="_self">Koray Tahiroglu, Not at Home. Video Screenings and installations: http://mediashed.org/”" target="_self">MediaShed, http://www.nicolasprovost.tk/”" target="_self">Nicolas Provost, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay & Pascal Lievre, Daniël Melse, Matteo Venet, Mattias Geurts, Dimitri van Loenen, Basak Kaptan, Efe Hızır, Dilara Kurtoglu, Denizcan Yüzgül, and http://burak-arikan.com/”" target="_self">Burak Arıkan.
Sunday 21st of September afternoon we’ve organized a series of presentations under the topic of “Security’s Spectacle: The Seen and The Unseen”:
In cities in The Netherlands, as well as in Istanbul, we see an increase in the “spectacle of security”: more police, more metal detectors, more bag&body searches, more surveillance cameras, etc. This visual performance of surveillance and security significantly changes the outlook of our cities, but also how we experience them, conduct ourselves in and through these controlled zones, as well as how our conceptions of private and public are affected. Within the current obsession of assessing and visualizing that which cannot be seen, i.e. the threat, how do the senses fare which are invisible, such as sound, smell and taste? Are they part and parcel of the system of control, and is what we hear, smell and taste pre-configured. Or can we, as is the case with counter-images, always find a system hack?
Presentations by: http://www.lemibaruh.xm.com/”" target="_self">Lemi Baruh (TR), Maki Ueda (NL/J), Wietske Maas (NL/AU), Sasker Scheerder (NL)
Moderated and introduced by: Nat Muller (independent curator) and Basak Senova (curator and director, NOMAD
Tagged as:
art, control, garaj, kosmopolis, nomad, security, surveillance, urbanism
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