themselves. So, they are becoming victims.
Which kind of society is being produced by these kinds of exhibitions and what are
their impact on the society? Is it an immoral society, a society that only consumes
war and only enjoys a conflict situation and feels safe in Venice? Or are they
producing at the same time a deeper emotional trauma for the public and art crowd?
Or are they using the definition of art as awareness intensifying to actually make
scandals and spectacles, not different from CNN spectacles to earn what they want?
I hope that I’m going to have some opportunity to compare it to Istanbul Biennial, in
regard to these topics that I have elaborated.
P. S.: During the editing of the transcript of the speech I decided to put some notes
on Istanbul Biennale.
The political context of it was mildly saying the “hashing politics,” in some cases
quite afraid of dealing with critical peaks of works. It has reminded me of a gesture
when all unpleasant is said and someone wants to survive over the silence. Plastic
gesture of pure fear of silence and of facing the problem, someone who tries to get
out of the unpleasant situation, and shows him/herself notoriously stupid.
But what is the consequence? Some radical art works were put down in to the
context of the more direct concept of “little optimism in the times of global war,”
and leveled with all the others.
It is a little joke on the world that has lost the capacity to treat seriously the ban of
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hakk›nda video ve filmler seyreden çocuklar, travma sonras› gerginlik hastal›currency1›n›n
belirtilerini gösteriyorlar. Yani kurban haline geliyorlar.
Bu tür sergiler, ne tür bir toplum üretebilir ve bunlar›n toplum üzerindeki etkileri
nedir? Ahlaks›z bir toplum mu, sadece savafl tüketen ve çat›flma durumundan keyif
alan, ama asl›nda kendini Venedik’te güvende hisseden bir toplum mu? Yoksa hem
halk, hem de sanat toplulucurrency1u için, ayn› zamanda daha derin duygusal travmalar m›
yarat›yor? Ya da, asl›nda elde etmek istediklerini elde edebilmek için, skandallar
koparmak ve CNN tarz›ndan pek de farkl› olmayan gösteriler gerçeklefltirmek için,
sanat›n bilinç uyand›r›c› tan›m›n› m› kullan›yorlar?
Umar›m ayr›nt›land›r›lan bu konularla ‹stanbul Bienali’ni karfl›laflt›rma f›rsat›n›
bulurum.
D‹PNOT: Konuflmam›n çözümlemesinin düzenlemesi esnas›nda, ‹stanbul Bienali’ne
iliflkin baz› notlar eklemeye karar verdim.
Bienalin siyasal ortam›, baz› durumlarda iflleri, onlar›n kritik sivri uçlar›n› ele
almaktan oldukça ürken bir tav›rla, kibarca “susturan politikalar” diye
isimlendiriliyordu. Bu, bana tüm nahofl fleylerin söylendikten sonra birisinin oluflan
sessizlicurrency1i iyi niyetle bölmeye çal›flmas›n› an›msatt›. Salt sessizlik korkusuna ve
sorunla yüzleflme çekincesine dayanan yapay bir davran›fl, nahofl durumun içinden
kurtulmaya çal›flan ve kendini ad› ç›kacak flekilde sersem hale düflüren birisi.
Peki ama sonuç ne? Köktenci baz› sanat yap›tlar›, daha docurrency1rudan olan “küresel
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