Uncovered, A Talk By Basak Senova

UNCOVERED is a three-year research-based art and media project under the curatorship of Basak Senova and Pavlina Paraskevaidou. Three terms – “memory construction,” “commons,” and “control mechanisms” – form the conceptual springboard for the project UNCOVERED. Nicosia International Airport. Book 1 documents the first phase of the project that culminated with an exhibition in September 2011, in NicosiaThe publication also introduces the archive that has been initiated as part of the research and includes texts by many international artists and the Lebanese Jalal Toufic and Lamia Joreigevlina Paraskevaidou. Three terms – “memory construction,” “commons,” and “control mechanisms” – form the conceptual springboard for the project UNCOVERED. Nicosia International Airport. Book 1 documents the first phase of the project that culminated with an exhibition in September 2011, in NicosiaThe publication also introduces the archive that has been initiated as part of the research and includes texts by many international artists and the Lebanese Jalal Toufic and Lamia Joreige.
Lying abandoned inside the buffer zone since July 1974, off limits for the local population, the Nicosia Airport represents a spatial order generated by 36 years of UN control.The airport is a riddle nested within paradoxical questions of protection – Protected. Unprotected. Covered. Uncovered.Protected for whom? Protected from whom? – It is a spatial lapse, an episode of total invisibility. The Nicosia airport once served as the central port of entry and departure from the country. Now empty and protected from view, its former importance exists only in the islanders’ childhood memories.The novelty of its architecture, with its much-hailed new terminal, has acquired a rich patina of forgetting. A monument to a failed modernism, the airport embodies a history that is written only to be erased and re-written all over again.Due to the historical significance of the airport – along with its role in personal histories of division and survival in a state of suspended animation – there is no doubt that the airport – the building, the site, the land it occupies – plays a critical role in the construction of the island’s collective memory.
http://www.uncovered-cyprus.com/
Basak Senova is a curator and designer based in Istanbul. She studied Literature and Graphic Design (MFA in Graphic Design and Ph.D. in Art, Design and Architecture at Bilkent University) and attended the 7th Curatorial Training Programme of Stichting De Appel, AmsterdamShe has been writing on art, technology and media, initiating and developing projects and curating exhibitions since 1995. She was the curator of the Pavilion of Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009

Add to my Calendar Uncovered, A Talk By Basak Senova UNCOVERED is a three-year research-based art and media project under the curatorship of Basak Senova and Pavlina Paraskevaidou. Three terms – “memory construction,” “commons,” and “control mechanisms” – form the conceptual springboard for the project UNCOVERED. Nicosia International Airport. Book 1 documents the first phase of the project that culminated with an exhibition in September 2011, in NicosiaThe publication also introduces the archive that has been initiated as part of the research and includes texts by many international artists and the Lebanese Jalal Toufic and Lamia Joreigevlina Paraskevaidou. Three terms – “memory construction,” “commons,” and “control mechanisms” – form the conceptual springboard for the project UNCOVERED. Nicosia International Airport. Book 1 documents the first phase of the project that culminated with an exhibition in September 2011, in NicosiaThe publication also introduces the archive that has been initiated as part of the research and includes texts by many international artists and the Lebanese Jalal Toufic and Lamia Joreige. Lying abandoned inside the buffer zone since July 1974, off limits for the local population, the Nicosia Airport represents a spatial order generated by 36 years of UN control.The airport is a riddle nested within paradoxical questions of protection – Protected. Unprotected. Covered. Uncovered.Protected for whom? Protected from whom? – It is a spatial lapse, an episode of total invisibility. The Nicosia airport once served as the central port of entry and departure from the country. Now empty and protected from view, its former importance exists only in the islanders’ childhood memories.The novelty of its architecture, with its much-hailed new terminal, has acquired a rich patina of forgetting. A monument to a failed modernism, the airport embodies a history that is written only to be erased and re-written all over again.Due to the historical significance of the airport – along with its role in personal histories of division and survival in a state of suspended animation – there is no doubt that the airport – the building, the site, the land it occupies – plays a critical role in the construction of the island’s collective memory. http://www.uncovered-cyprus.com/ Basak Senova is a curator and designer based in Istanbul. She studied Literature and Graphic Design (MFA in Graphic Design and Ph.D. in Art, Design and Architecture at Bilkent University) and attended the 7th Curatorial Training Programme of Stichting De Appel, AmsterdamShe has been writing on art, technology and media, initiating and developing projects and curating exhibitions since 1995. She was the curator of the Pavilion of Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009 Organizer 2012-03-22 02:00:00 2012-03-22 02:00:00 [email protected] Asia/Beirut public
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Start/End Date and Time
خميس, 22/03/2012 - 2:00am
Countries:
Lebanon
Event Location:
The HANGAR UMAM/D&R , Haret Hreik, next to Al-Mahdy Mosque, Beirut
Lebanon
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Event Type:
نشاط ثقافي