City Sense: Surveillance, Secrecy, Security, Control
curated by Nat Muller in collaboration with NOMAD
A playful evening pondering media, control, surveillance, secrecy and art in urban environments.
Date evening event: 20 September 2008, 8 pm
Place: GarajIstanbul, Tomtom Mah. Yeni Çarşı Cad. Kaymakam Reşat Bey Sk. No:11a 34433 Galatasaray-Beyoğlu / İstanbul
It is no big secret that urban centers have become sites of surveillance and control. Gone are the days that the urban city dweller could carelessly drift – as the 19th century flaneur, strolling from one area to the other, and then disappear anonymously into the crowds. As our urban experience might have become more anonymous in regard to social interaction, our behavior – how we move, what we see, hear, taste and smell - is becoming more regulated, watched and controlled. Anonymity, it seems, is no longer an option. Our urban sensibilities are often directed, mediated and pre-programmed, either by security measures or by other overt or hidden codes of conduct. It is no coincidence then that how we consciously sense our cities – our “City Sense” – ultimately defines how we position ourselves as citizens.
CitySense offers a playful interpretation on how to actively engage your urban senses and reveals the hidden, and questions the exposed in an evening choc-a-bloc with video screenings, live food and smell installations, live audio-visual performances, and a party to close off the night.
Performance Installations by: Maki Ueda, Wietske Maas. Live Performances: Sasker Scheerder & Radboud Mens, Edwin van der Heide, Koray Tahiroğlu, Not at Home. Video Screenings and installations: MediaShed, Nicolas Provost, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay & Pascal Lievre, Daniël Melse, Matteo Venet, Mattias Geurts, Dimitri van Loenen, Başak Kaptan, Efe Hızır, Dilara Kurtoğlu, Denizcan Yüzgül, and Burak Arıkan.
More info:
http://www.garajistanbul.org/
http://www.kosmopolis.nl/
