Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Art Challenge

















I’ve been invited to participate in an art exhibition that will take place in the old neighborhood of My Anatolian City. In this area the houses are Ottoman style, and the people are mostly working class and traditional (as opposed to conservative). Their understanding about Art is most likely limited to craft, and the idea of this exhibition is to involve the locals.
I can’t travel to Turkey now, so I’m doing a conceptual project I will email to assistants who will install it. The idea is to post “missing” flyers, the kind you make if your cat has disappeared, or more poignantly, if a loved one is lost after planes fly into a building. I’ll write more as I develop the themes, and the text will be in Turkish and English.
Are you missing anything that might be found in Central Anatolia? I'm taking suggestions!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

"... if a loved one is lost after planes fly into a building" still resonated deeply and brought sorrow after all these years and thousands of miles away...

If that's the theme you are planning, you may perhaps like to consider 1997 earthquake in Izmit area.

Let me know if you need help in translating from English to Turkish for your fliers (in Turkish).

Expat^Square

kloeamongtheturks said...

Yes, the theme of loss at all levels is on my mind. Loss we can live with, and loss that is harder.
Thanks for your offer, I think I have translation covered. Will let you know.
Kloe

Anonymous said...

sorry.. typo.. not 1997, but 1999.

Expat^Square

Anonymous said...

A sense of good, wholesome food that nourishes...but without the White pretentious, yuppie, upper-class associations of today's American society.

Good luck translating that into Turkce though.

kloeamongtheturks said...

Got the Whole Foods' Blues, do you?

Just put in my first tomato plants of the season...