Serra Özhan Yüksel

SATIYORUM, SATIYORUM, SATTIM!

PAYING HEED TO THE CITY AND REPRESENTING IT THE CASE OF ISTANBUL

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With its short chapters entitled Everything starts with the fiction of geographies; What is particular about the city?; Cities and the Sense of Belonging - Whose child is Istanbul?; The inauguration behind paying heed to the city; 9th International Istanbul Biennial entitled "Istanbul"; Representation as misrepresentation and misinterpretation; Tour/art-Ist(anbul); Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul; Art events as the promoters of gentrification; An exhibition at Tate Modern asks: Can Istanbul be improved by design?; "Whether you are an Istanbul virgin or a Constantinople pro"; Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture; Pre-conclusion or it is just the introduction; Walter Benjamin, inspired with hope; Conclusion - Ha-buah, this book offers an analysis of a particular city, the city of Istanbul, which faces different aspects of sense of representativeness under events of arts and culture. It provides a good source for people who are interested in visual arts, sociology and cultural studies. It is written between the years 2006 and 2007 as a MA Thesis (MA Contemporary Art Theory, Department of Visual Cultures, The Goldsmiths College, University of London).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 52
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 96g
• ISBN-13: 9783843388108
• ISBN-10: 3843388105
• Artikelnr.: 32742805

Autorenporträt

Serra Ozhan Yuksel is an independent curator, culturalcoordinator and writer in the field of contemporary art andvisual culture. She did her degree in Sociology at Koc Universityand MA in Contemporary Art Theory at GoldsmithsCollege.¿Reciprocal Visit¿ in Depo Istanbul and ¿Divercity¿ atCCA in Warsaw are her most prominent curatorial projects.