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(M)ASK YOURSELF
(M)ask Yourself workshop aimed at questioning the contexts that construct the
notion of identity as well as analysing the reflections of these contexts on the
European identity. The workshop wanted to create a visual and integral diary
created out of recordings shot by workshop participants in the framework of
the above-mentioned analyses.
The first day of the workshop was reserved for colorful discussions. The
participants realised that even the words and expressions that they use when
they introduce themselves are integral parts of their identity. The second day
participants focused on the concepts such as orientalism, nation, nationalism
and the connection of those concepts with Europe and the European identity.
Each participant presented their own movie shot prior to the conference.
All the discussions took place in the first two days were summarised to be part
of a visual presentation. The participants and the workshop leader worked
together on the editing of the movies. The final version of the edited movie
was much more different than the originally planned collage and sociological
content of the movies shot by the participants. Nevertheless, the main outcome
of the workshop was to clearly portray that the identity and its context is
deeply rooted in our everyday life.
The workshop which is led by Aysim Türkmen was most probably the most
creative workshop of the final conference.
(M)ASK YOURSELF
IDENTITY
THE FORMATION OF THE IDENTITY IS RELATED WITH
THE EXISTING IMAGES.
THE EXISTING IMAGES ARE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
ORIENTALIST WAY OF SEEING THE WORLD.
ORIENTALISM
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IMAGE OF “THE EAST”
AS A DIFFERENCE FROM THE IMAGE OF “THE WEST”
The Other (the East, the Native)
is constructed as if it is outside of
contemporary dynamics
THE INTRICATE RELATION BETWEEN REALITY AND REPRESENTATION
SELF-ORIENTALISM: SEEING ONESELF (“NON-WESTERN”) WITHIN
THE FRAMEWORK OF THE “WEST”
STEREOTYPES
EUROPEAN IDENTITY?
“OUR GENERATION IS A NEW POWER”
Final Conference Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’Europe