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URBAN JEALOUSY II | Selected Sounds & Performance Artists from Roaming Biennial of Tehran
Playlist
- Urban Jealousy - Kiskaniyorum
- Karien van Assendelft - Lets Talk
- Negativland - Over The Hiccups
- Tape Beatles - Fabulous Things Good Times and G.N.P
- Gozel Radio - No Cultural Pipeline Dialogue
- Ansgar Tappert - Olkrise
- Belgrade Noise Society - Your Head is Backwards
- Urban Jealousy Radio 95.2 - Guducik
- Vst Spor - Sertkore
- Lobodik - Mieten Stop
- Biennial Tehran Band - BallgradJunktionGudubik2/5bzBijanEva
- The 11 - Much Love from Bandar
- Ohmnoise - Sex With Pee Dot Hauptfleisch
- Ventochild - St Petersburg Ankara
- Sorin Paun - 8 minutes Left
- Erfanabdi - Session with Nicolas
- Emanuele,Matteo,Dario - Belgrade Openning Session
Urban Jealousy Roaming Biennial of Tehran Interview / S Magazine Interview OCTOBER 2008
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On… Copy Art, Shop Window Culture, Hidden Face of the City, Urban Struggle, Dialogue Fetishism
After a call for submissions in April, 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran has opened at Hafriyat Karakoy on May 30. Biennial’s symbolic curators Serhat Koksal and Amirali Ghasemi have put together an exhibition, under the theme “Urban Jealousy”, with works in different categories, such like photography, video, sound, poster, illustration, painting, postcard. The exhibition has more than 500 participants from various regions of the world .
The Biennial’s second stop will be Berlin. Between November 21 - December 7, 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran will give place to various events and performances in Berlin, under the theme “Gentrification/Urban Struggle” along with “Urban Jealousy”.
We are familiar with Serhat Koksal and his 2/5 BZ Project, his sound, video, photocopy works.In 2007, on the aftermath of his sound performance in Tehran and Berlin, entitled “No Hafez No Goethe No Bridge No Biennial”, Koksal has started to work on an activating project with Amirali Ghasemi, to provide a solution to the problems they had encountered. As the 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran was getting ready for its second stop in Berlin after its opening in Istanbul, our questions on the technicalities are answered by Serhat Koksal, and those on the theme “Urban Jealousy” are answered by Amirali Ghasemi.
How do you give a direction to Biennial Tehran during the exhibition?
At the Istanbul exhibition, a number of artists came from various countries, and helped us to set up the exhibition. This participation is likely to intensify in Berlin. As the artists from the exhibition participate to the process, their opinions give a direction to Biennial Tehran.
Did you face any difficulties to maintain the independence, and continuity of the exhibition? In this regard, which issues do you pay special attention to?
We paid special attention to the issue that the exhibition be held in independent venues/spaces. We received various offers from different countries, but we did not accept these offers, for they included positions that could hinder the independence of the exhibition. We are tring to keep away from holding company museums that are way too interested in art, from the rulers suffering from dialogue fetishism that speak on behalf of others, and from the cultural activities that seem to use cultural events as a window dressing for promoting the cities as brands –so common in various parts of the world, and so directly based on economic reasons. I hope we continue to keep up, without being mistaken.
What are in your plans for Berlin? What is the progress of your attempts at finding venues/spaces and organizing activities?
Both for presenting the exhibition and for finding venues, with the help of friends in our circles, we are trying to use various independent formations and channels of the world that we have been in contact with for a long while. In Berlin, there will be five exhibition spaces, and also in some other venues, some side-events will take place. Also, in Berlin, along with the theme “Urban Jealousy”, various performances and panel discussions will be held on the theme “Gentrification /Urban Struggle and Cultural Shop Window Relations”.
On the theme, jealousy, how is Istanbul seen from Tehran? Did this view from Tehran change while you are in Istanbul? If jealousy is our failures defined as a positive act by our desires, what are our failures that reflect our jealousy?
When Istanbul is considered, Iranians may show signs of jealousy. This includes me as well. In my visits, I realized that there are many more opportunities for artists and cultural activists in Istanbul. Now, I think, I am mistaken to a certain degree. As in other cities, independent art spaces and formations, are being invaded more aggressively by the art market, or they are being judged according to commercial standards, by the established galleries, which are not interested in experimental works. Hence, at the face of cultural mega-projects being integrated into the system and the waves of mainstream, independent art spaces and formations are unable to form their critical discourse, and are lost in the crowds. The same thing happens in Tehran, with a lag: not only under the systematic ideological propaganda and state’s elitist cultural monopoly, but also through the effects of new sophisticated art market and huge investments in the small Arabic states in the south of the Persian Gulf.
interview ( english ) 10.06.2008 video
S Magazine Interview OCTOBER 2008 audio