EKATERINA DEGOT: I was also thinking about the question of addressing, is it
at all possible not just to address general public but to receive something in return?
The building of IMC made a big impression on me, that’s where I was looking for art
as if for mushrooms, it was not that easy. And looking for art, I saw quite a world,
which was put in this great modernist building, such a big contrast between
everything you see there. Art which was somehow blocked in these small rooms and
nobody around was at all interested. I just thought about Soviet artists of the late
20’s. They were involving all the local people, and workers did actually react in a
very positive way. It is not true that they only liked naturalistic painting. They liked
Pavel Filonov for example with his strange surrealistic paintings. Workers were very
much involved in his work and defended him against authorities. So it used to be
possible, but not anymore. Something changed. Either artists or the society, the
time, atmosphere...
BERAL MADRA: I’m a little bit disturbed about your question Ekaterina. You
asked “Is modernity our antiquity?” In Turkey we still didn’t ask this question at all;
because we didn’t have the infrastructure of modern art. It was never considered a
commodity in the sense you described it. Maybe later, in the 80’s or 90’s, only
modern painting was a commodity. So, there are black holes in our modernist
history concerning art, as there are in other fields like politics, economy, etc. These
black holes are not clarified yet. There is an epistemological problem in this sense
that the large public is not accepting modern art as a kind of critical thinking or as a
kind of material for democratic process; this is a very fragile infrastructure. The
Biennial is built on this fragile infrastructure. Marcus has described the whole
situation in a very precise way, which was not done by the seven international
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ötürü suçlayamazs›n›z. Belli bir yafltan sonra kiflinin ilgisini sanata yöneltmek
neredeyse olanaks›zd›r.
EKATERINA DEGOT: Ben de hitap sorununu düflünüyordum, genel halka hitap
etmemek ve karfl›l›currency1›nda bir fley almak acaba herhangi bir flekilde olas› m›d›r? ‹MÇ
binas›, bende büyük etki b›rakt›, oras› mantar arar gibi sanat› arad›currency1›m bir yerdi, pek
kolay olmad›. Sanat› ararken de, bu harikulade modernist binan›n içine yerlefltirilmifl
bir dünyaya tan›k oldum, orada gördücurrency1ünüz her fley aras›nda öyle bir karfl›tl›k vard›
ki. Sanat, o küçük odalar›n içinde bir bak›ma t›k›lm›flt› ve etraftaki hiç kimse zerre
kadar ilgilenmiyordu. 20’lerin sonlar›ndaki Sovyet sanatç›lar› düflündürdü bu bana.
Tüm yerel halk›, çal›flmalar›n›n içine ald›lar ve iflçiler gerçekten de buna çok olumlu
tepki verdi. Onlar›n yaln›z docurrency1aya ait resimlerden hoflland›currency1› docurrency1ru decurrency1ildi. Örnecurrency1in
tuhaf sürrealist tablolar› olan Pavel Filonov’u seviyorlard›. ‹flçiler onun yap›tlar›yla
çok ilgiliydi ve onu yetkililere karfl› savundular. Yani demek ki eskiden olas›yd›, ama
art›k decurrency1il. Bir fleyler decurrency1iflti. Ya sanatç›lar ya da toplum, belki zamanlar, belki
atmosfer...
BERAL MADRA: Sorun beni biraz rahats›z etti Ekaterina. “Modernite bizim
ilkçacurrency1›m›z m›?” diye sordun. Biz Türkiye’de bu soruyu hala sormufl decurrency1iliz, çünkü
modern sanat›n altyap›s›na sahip decurrency1ildik. Hiçbir zaman senin tan›mlad›currency1›n
bacurrency1lamda, bir meta olarak görülmedi sanat. Belki sonralar› 80’lerde veya 90’larda,
sadece modern resim bir metayd›. Dolay›s›yla sanata iliflkin modernist tarihimizde
de, t›pk› siyaset, ekonomi, vb. baflka alanlarda olducurrency1u gibi, kara delikler var. Bu kara
delikler, henüz aç›kl›currency1a kavuflturulmad›. Bu bak›mdan bilgi kuramsal (epistemolojik)
bir sorun var; büyük halk kesimi, modern sanat› bir tür elefltirel düflünme biçimi
veya demokratik süreç için bir tür araç olarak kabul etmiyor; bu çok k›r›lgan bir
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