Depo istanbul
Tütün Deposu Lüleci Hendek Cad. No.12, Tophane 34425, İstanbul
January 31 - March 5 2009
How to put the "public" back into the space of the city?
Exhibition featuring the artists: Fia Backstrom [Sweeden/U.S.], Johanna Billing [Sweden], Susanne Burner [Germany], Chto Delat [Russia], Marcelo Exposito [Spain], Claire Fontaine [France], Igor Grubic [Croatia], Sharon Hayes [U.S.], Inventory[UK], Olga Kisseleva [France/Russia], Ligna [Germany], Ciprian Muresan [Romania], Marta Popivoda/Illegal Cinema [Serbia], Radek Community [Russia], R.E.P group [Ukraine], Revolution Will Not Be Televised [Brazil].
Lecture by Brian Holmes: Ecstasy, Fear & Number: From the "Man in the Crowd" to the Self-Organizing Multitude. 3 February / 18.00
Curators: Claire Staebler and Jelena Vesić
Emerging out of AlmostReal as part of the No More Reality project, Crowd and Performance: demonstration, public space, use of body, examines the new possibilities of collective thinking and collective acting in the public space. It is a theoretical-practical platform, which gathers a group of artists, activists, theorists, curators, magazines and radio broadcasters, investigating performative aspects of the crowd in the streets and the political implications of body practices in the public space. Since 2005, No More Reality has unfolded in several stages: exhibitions, publications and discussions accompanying this process are conceptualized as fragmentary situations and steps in the research, rather than the final projects with the fixed and definite conclusions.