[Kayıtsız/Unrecorded] :: March 5 - April 16, 2008 :: Akbank Art Center, Istiklal Cad. Zambak Sok. No:1, Beyoglu,Istanbul.

Unrecorded Conference: You Are Not Here - Laila El-Haddad (Palestine), Dan Phiffer (US), and Mushon Zer-Aviv (Israel) :: March 6, 2008, 6:30 pm :: Akbank Art Center, Istanbul.

Unrecorded exhibition looks at the notion of space as a decisive factor in our perception of the realities that surround us. They are temporary, augmented, designed, and loaded. Yet, the works, which the exhibition inhabits, unfold and restructure all possible perceptual codes through their own inspections, observations, and approaches. They ask questions about the physicality of the space; content of mediatised spaces; clashes between realities and perception of spaces; spaces and situations, discharging information; and narrative spaces. Inevitably, the exhibition takes the phases of informational capitalism, global scenarios for socio-political, cultural and economic gaps into consideration.

Artists: Kate Armstrong, Banu Cennetoğlu, Thomas Duc, Laila El-Haddad, Zhou Hongxiang, Kati London, Dan Phiffer, Negar Tahsili, Ali Taptık, Technologies To The People (Daniel G. Andujar), Mushon Zer-Aviv.

March 6: El Haddad, Phiffer and Zer - Aviv will be presenting the project You Are Not Here while discussing the military occupancy and the mediator commentary of the space over the resistance of this situation. You Are Not Here project tries to expose the contrasts and the similarities between two cities. Both in the case of Baghdad / New York and that of Gaza City / Tel Aviv while the cities realities are politically involved both the emotional and cognitive perception of these corresponding spaces are completely detached from one another. You Are Not Here attempts to challenge this detachment by providing a mediated experience that still maintains a human scale.

March 8: Soft Reality meets Soft Space: An Attempt towards an incomplete Glossary - A talk by Nat Muller (The Netherlands) - A proposal for interpreting the soft collisions between messy systems of representation and spatial conceptions.

March 13-15: DIT “Do It Together” Workshop Series - The Apprehension of reality from the Postcapital Archive - A 3 days practical and theoretical workshop/meeting by Technologies To The People. Directed by Daniel G. Andújar (Spain): This interdisciplinary workshop is open to cultural & media producers, artists, scientists, theorists, activists, and anyone interested in design, visual communication, art, media, and cultural sciences. The objective of the workshop is to facilitate reflection upon the structures of the “public” process, communication methods, and the possibilities these present. It also aims to intervene artistically using modern communication technology methods, and to test new “public” participation models.

31 March – 1 April 2008: You Said “Stay,” So I Stayed - A 2 days lecture by Jalal Toufic (Lebanon): Attending to the film Groundhog Day, Jalal Toufic will lecture on the will and its relation to eternal recurrence. The ordeal of the will is not only that one has to go through countless recurrence and, in the guise of one’s computer emulations or of some of one’s versions in other branches of a bifurcating universe, in desperation commit suicide myriad times; but also that once the will is accomplished, one thenceforth is going to have not only to accept everything that happens, even vast catastrophes, but also, since a genuine will is an ontological selector that automatically renders anything that cannot be willed in the mode of eternal recurrence impossible, to affirm its eternal recurrence: amor fati.

Admission is free. Registration in advance is needed for the workshops.