xurban
(Turkey)
xurban
members are stalkers of the urban landscape, looking for what is desolate,
neglected, ruined and derelict in the metropolis as the sign of the
times.They live in Ankara/Istanbul/New York, and their work incorporates
photography, video, computer graphics, installation and interactive
digital media. They sign their collaborative projects as a collective
and claim that collective work overcomes and excludes the problem of
the artists identity from the practice of art. In past years,
their work has been exhibited in Istanbul , the US and Germany, and
at the Venice Biennial and the Istanbul Biennial. For the 8th Istanbul
Biennial they set up a mission to acquire a defunct fuel tank from Southeastern
Anatolia and transport it from Istanbul to the region and back, documenting
the phases of the transnational transport of oil using photography,
video, and sound recordings. |
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Contact:
pope (at) xurban.net
URLs:
www.xurban.net