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	LAUNCH with Richard Appignanesi, Gülsen Bal, Peter Mörtenböck, Helge Mooshammer Monday, 17 March 2008, 6 - 8:30 pm Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Front Gallery, G2 Southampton Row London, WC1B 4AP LAUNCH with Gülsen Bal, Hedwig Saxenhuber, Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer Tuesday, 1 April 2008, 7 pm Salon Für Kunstbuch 1070 Wien, Mondscheingasse 11

THIRD TEXT
TURKEY: The Space Of The Min(d)Field
Special Issue, Volume 22, Issue 1, 2008

Guest Editor: Gülsen Bal

Without doubt the internal political situation in Turkey today can be said to be sensitive. This special issue is a key to unpicking an intricate fabric of discourse affirmed within what I might call a min(d)field-space of questions which concern 'globally' emergent situations and which also linger over traces of the 'localisable' that make and reflect complex relational powers. This special issue on Turkey aims to provide a dynamic ground for the world to meet, learn, listen and debate in many ways, tracing affinities and differences in a condensed, eventful journey towards the sphere of creative practice within its geopolitical discourse.

Gülsen Bal
The Disputed Urge to Surge…

Mahmut Mutman
The Nation-Form

Hasan Bülent Kahraman
Post-1990 and the ‘New’ Beginnings in Turkish Culture

Süreyyya Evren
Parrhesiatic Games in Turkish Contemporary Art Scene

Kevin Robins
Dear Europe, Dear Turkey, Why Are You Making Us So Depressed?

Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer
Plan and Conflict: Networked Istanbul

Asu Aksoy
Istanbul’s Choice

Nermin Saybaşılı
Bordering the Island

Ali Akay
Threads of Progress Adhering to Modern Art in Turkey

Beral Madra
Istanbul’s Contemporary Art Scene and its Sociopolitical and Cultural Conditions and Practices

Şener Özmen
Art on the Line

For further details about this issue please visit the Online Content

also published in Turkish:
‘Plan ve Çatışkı: Ağ Örgüsüne Dahil Olan Istanbul’, in Gulsen Bal (ed.): Türkiye'de Dün-Bugün Dönüşümleri, Istanbul: Kitap Yayinevi, 2008

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