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Ebru Yetişkin
Nettachmental Art from Turkey
Restoring the lost meaning of a common world by renovating the fractures
in the social bond, Commons Tense is weaving an innovative fabric
for the modest connections of a micropolitics of intersubjectivity. For the
re-invention of everyday life (a theme ‘bricolaged’ by Michel de Certeau
in his The Practice of Everyday Life), [1] Commons Tense may first be
considered as one of the contemporary forms of “Dolce Utopia” as Maurizio
Cattelane would call it. Nevertheless, Commons Tense should be
considered as an interactive space and time in which one is actualized
with others among many possibilities.
Turkey is also experiencing the dilemmas
of modern politics in its contemporary
capitalist transformation.
Sociologically speaking, as we are
now in the period of megalopolis, we
are also creating differences while
repeating, appropriating and differentiating
the existing spaces, meanings,
functions and institutions.
New media works in the exhibition
create singular perspectives while
dealing with the existing features.
By emphasizing the exclusive tools,
methods and ways of doing things
offered and only experienced by new
media technologies, the artists of
the exhibition create a nettachmental
space and time.
[1]
Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, translated by Steven Rendall, Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1984. The French title was L’Invention du quotidien, Vol. 1, Arts de faire (1974).
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