Hafriyat / Excavation
This project was realized in collaboration with Ha Za Vu Zu and Yeni Sinemacılar art collectives.
On Cultural Agencies and Its Possible Effects
Oda Projesi, Erdoğan Yıldız
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Haydar Darıcı
Violence and Freedom: Politics of Kurdish Children – Part I
This article provides an analysis of the experiences of violence and freedom of Kurdish children in Adana's Gündoğan neighborhood populated mostly with victims of forced migration.
Haydar Darıcı
Violence and Freedom: Politics of Kurdish Children – Part II
Evidently the constant rendition of violence stories is linked to experiences in urban life. Victims of forced migration were subject to blatant state violence.
Vladan Jeremić, Rena Rädle
Antiziganism and Class Racism in Europe
The Roma have a long history of migrations that repeatedly brought repression to their people over the centuries. European countries began introducing laws against migrating peoples (i.e. nomads, travelers) in the mid-fifteenth century.
Deniz Yonucu
Capitalism, Desperation and Urgency
At a time when squatter neighborhoods were regarded as the biggest obstacle before urban development by the urban elite in Turkey, and residents of squatter houses and thus the urban working class were regarded as "backward" villagers, workers from both Hasköy and Güzeltepe earned respectability due to their working class identities.
Suzana Millevska
Artistic and Theoretical Strategies Challenging Racism
During the last several years in my academic research projects and in my curatorial practice, I addressed artistic research and production dealing with one extremely urgent issue: the racialised relations in our contemporary society along with their historical and epistemological genealogy.
Eduard Freudmann, Ivana Marjanović
Uglyville: A Contention of Anti-Romaism in Europe
From July 2008 to July 2009, Serbia held the Roma Decade's presidency. During this year, one would expect Serbia to make serious efforts towards improving the discriminated position of Roma and decreasing the effects of a policy of anti-Romaism that has lasted for centuries in the region.
Balca Ergener, Asena Günal, Erden Kosova
An Interview with Pelin Demireli, Neşe Ozan and İlhan Sayın about Their Solidarity Work with Sulukule Residents
Together with Neşe Ozan, Pelin Demireli and İlhan Sayın, who continue to show solidarity with the people of Sulukule after its demolition, we have discussed working with an impoverished community victim of urban transformation, the needs of the community, its relations to the state, the state's view of them, and the shared experiences of production.
Meltem Ahıska, Zafer Yenal
Poverty and Citizenship between “Bare Life” and the “Political”: The Case of Kavakpınar in Istanbul
The political-practical and conceptual aspects of "poverty" and their implications for discussions on "citizenship" in Turkey constitute the subject matter of this study.
Angela Harutyunyan
When Matter Becomes Cultural Politics: Traps of Liberalism in the Tenth Sharjah Art Biennial
In the core of cultural politics is ultimately the act of naming. In fact, cultural politics itself is nothing but a negotiation of language, assignment of concepts, construction of frames as well as demarcation of the boundaries of what is to be included and what is to be left excluded from discourse.
Meltem Ahıska
Monsters That Remember: Tracing the Story of the Workers’ Monument in Tophane, İstanbul – Part III
Drawing on the previous section, I argue that the contemporary discussion about Turkey's monuments that turn into monsters cannot be separated from the field of the state practice of erecting Atatürk monuments all over the country since the late 1920s.
Meltem Ahıska
Monsters That Remember: Tracing the Story of the Workers’ Monument in Tophane, İstanbul – Part II
I would argue that the concept of artificial-natural may be illuminating for understanding how the modern state commands or attempts to command memory.
Meltem Ahıska
Monsters That Remember: Tracing the Story of the Workers’ Monument in Tophane, İstanbul – Part I
Monuments have been erected with a claim to embody the will to remember; yet, paradoxically, they have mostly served to reify the present as a fulfilled moment of arrival, canceling the need to re-find and remember the past in the present. In other words, they contribute to the closure of the past as a dead body.
Jelena Vesić
Look for New Partisans: A Conversation with the Authors of the Video ‘Partisan Songspiel. Belgrade Story’
A conversation with Chto Delat (Dmitry Vilensky) and Biro Belgrade (Vladan Jeremić & Rena Rädle), the authors of the video Partisan Songspiel. Belgrade Story where we discuss contemporary anti-fascist struggles, particularist politics and historical consciousness.
Oda Projesi, Erdoğan Yıldız
On Cultural Agencies and Its Possible Effects
Hereby we present a conversation where Erdoğan Yıldız, who has been a resident of Istanbul's Gülsuyu-Gülensu neighborhood for 28 years and a social and political activist in various dissident urban movements, and members of the artist collective Oda Projesi, who took part in the Cultural Agencies project realized in the same neighborhood from 2009-2010, reflect on their common experiences.
Yaşar Adnan Adanalı
De-spatialized Space as Neoliberal Utopia: Gentrified İstiklal Street and Commercialized Urban Spaces
Today İstanbul ranks seventh among world cities in the number of foreign visitors and international meetings it hosts and fifth in the number of dollar millionaires living within its premises.
Meltem Ahıska, Erden Kosova
An Interview with Erbay Yucak about Bir Umut Association
Before the 1999 Marmara Earthquake we were individual people undertaking this sort of solidarity efforts. We had several though not major attempts of continuing this exercise of solidarity in the form of an association, foundation or a similar initiative.
Banu Karaca
When Duty Calls…: Questions of Sensitivity and Responsibility in Light of the Tophane Events
On the evening of September 21, 2010 the Tophane Art Walk, a coordinated series of exhibition openings centering in large part along Boğazkesen Street in Istanbul, marked the beginning of the art season after the summer break. Shortly after 8pm, a mob of around 20-40 people attacked the galleries and their visitors one by one, undisturbed by the police for the best part of around 30 minutes, if not longer.
Red Thread Editorial Board
Issue 3 – Editor’s Note
The third issue of the Red Thread e-journal comprises of critical case studies, essays, and interviews that come from the region the journal has been focusing on from its inception, and that discuss the different forms of struggle devised by socialities that can be considered "disprivileged" in economic, social and political terms and the intricate and usually complex relationship of artistic and activist practices to these groups.
