'This book which comprises the adventure of contemporary art in Turkey in the last 20 years is divided into two sections. The first section includes texts where various aspects of the period are scrutinized, followed by the second section allocated to 78 artists from four generations.
Instead of trying to capture the short history of contemporary art in Turkey in a single analytical text, the book desires to present a work with many voices. The work, User's Manual: Contemporary Art in Turkey 1986-2006, focuses both on the differences and similarities in the production practices of the artists included in the project and on their individual adventures which was created by these differences and intersections and which we think has a continuity. The book also brings together a series of artists and works which stood out at certain exhibitions where significant breakthroughs and ruptures took place and thus created a collective presentation.' - excerpt from Preface: Who Reads a User's Manual Anyway? by Halil Altindere and Sureyyya Evren
Includes a list of important exhibitions in Turkish contemporary art during this period, and links of websites and blogs of artists, initiatives and artist run spaces.
Onsite
English,
Turkish
2007
459
9783865884237
1
anthology
Introduction: Contemporary Art in Turkey 1986-2006 - Halil ALTINDERE
Object Art/Conceptual Art/Post-Conceptual Art Trends in Turkey - Nilgun OZAYTEN
Visual Art as a Field of Complication - Beral MADRA
Weak Fictions Accelerated Destinies - Vasif KORTUN
Contemporary Art in Turkey - Erden KOSOVA
The Art Community in the 1990's - Ali AKAY
The International Istanbul Biennial 1987-2007 - Marcus GRAF
Thinking 'Otherwise' - Fulya ERDEMCI
Media and Its Messages: Notes on Contemporary Art Criticism in Turkey - Evrim ALTUG
Nationally Framed Exhibitions and Representation - Mahmut KOYUNCU
Against All Odds - Ferhat OZGUR
The Tormented East or 'Welcome to Diyarbakir' - Sener OZMEN
K2 Reporting from Izmir! - Elmas DENIZ
Digital-Minded Attempt: Detecting Digital Culture in Turkey - Basak SENOVA
Self Initiated Collectivity, Artist Run Spaces and Artists' Collectives in Istanbul - Pelin TAN
Current Art in Turkey 2000-2007 Determinations and Incidents... - Aysegul SONMEZ
User's Manual: Contemporary Art in Turkey 1986-2006
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