can altay
Istanbul Bilgi University, Architecture, Faculty Member
- Contemporary Art, Architectural Theory, Urban Geography, Urban Anthropology, Installation (Art), Public Space, and 28 moreUrban Zoology, Urban Botany, Product Design, Material Culture, Spatial Politics, Transgression, Critical Spatial Practice, Setting a Setting, Architecture, Design, Art History, Urban Studies, Modern Turkey, Urban Ecology, Interior and Spatial Design, Interior Architecture, Exhibition Making, Critical Theory, Exhibitions, Art and Architecture, Theory of Art, Theatre and the everyday, performance politics and civic intervention, urban architecture and sites of spectacle, Spatial Practices, Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, Urban Interiors, Şehir, Spatial Justice, and Assimilationedit
- Can Altay is an artist and Professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Istanbul Bilgi University. Working across pu... moreCan Altay is an artist and Professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Istanbul Bilgi University.
Working across public spaces and art institutions, his ‘settings’ provide critical reflection on urban phenomena and artistic activity. Through ‘narrative devices’ and ‘spatial instruments’ the work brings together sculpture, photography, display, design products and people. Altay’s work is often staged and manifested through the spaces, exhibitions and publications he co-produces.
His public projects include: MÇPS (Istanbul, 2017); “Loughborough Records Present Presence” (Loughborough, 2016); "Inner Space Station" (New York, 2013); "Distributed" (London, 2012); “The Church Street Partners’ Gazette” (London, 2010-13) and "PARK: bir ihtimal" (Istanbul, 2010).
As an artist, his work has been included in Biennials of Istanbul, Havana, Busan, Gwangju, Marrakech, Thessaloniki, Taipei. Exhibitions in museums and galleries include Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Artists Space (New York), and SALT (Istanbul). Altay’s works are included in public collections such as VanAbbe Museum (Eindhoven), ARTER-VKV (Istanbul).
Between 2012-2019 Altay was the Head of Department of Industrial Design at Istanbul Bilgi University, where he established a critical curriculum based on his experiences in contemporary art, architecture and the urban context. Resulting in a body of student work that challenges the norm especially with regards to contingencies of locatedness and production methods in design education. Together with students and graduates he co-authored publications on topics such as anonymous design, queering objects, and hybrid technologies.
He was a co-curator of the “Refuge” exhibition at the 4th Rotterdam Architectural Biennale with Philipp Misselwitz. He has been involved in exhibition making practices in both curatorial and design aspects. Together with Future Anecdotes Istanbul, they designed the permanent collection display for Van Abbemuseum and the user-spaces and workshops that accompany the exhibition. Future Anecdotes’ design collaborations on exhibition-making and display include SALT, Istanbul; CCSP Sao Paolo; The New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; and the upcoming Istanbul Design Biennial.
Twice a Keynote Speaker at Architectural Humanities Research Association's International Conferences, Altay gave lectures and led workshops at Princeton University, Bard College, AA School of Architecture, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, Konstfack, Glasgow School of Art, NABA Milano, Dutch Art Institute, ETH Zurich, among other international institutions and schools.
Altay is the editor of Ahali: a journal for setting a setting, since 2007. An anthology has been published by Bedford Press in 2013. Occasionally interviewing thinkers and doers of common interest including Dan Graham, David Harvey, Jan Boelen, Justin McGuirk for various publications; his own work and writing has been published in periodicals such as Frieze, AD (Architectural Design), Design and Culture, domus, Digital Creativity and Journal of Architectural Education.
He runs and hosts the podcast “Ahali Conversations with Can Altay” reflecting on the future of cultural production. The podcast was awarded a Graham Foundation grant, bringing together voices of artists, designers, curators, architects and authors from around the world.
Altay holds a PhD in Art, Design and Architecture from Bilkent University, Ankara. He studied Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at Bilkent University; and Critical Studies at the Malmo Art Academy and Lund University.edit
Almost all collaborations start with an invitation and an instigation. It was after agreeing to work together on an exhibition that would rework, reconfigure and reflect on two previous exhibitions at the Centro Pecci around Soviet and... more
Almost all collaborations start with an invitation and an instigation. It
was after agreeing to work together on an exhibition that would rework,
reconfigure and reflect on two previous exhibitions at the Centro Pecci
around Soviet and Post-Soviet realities, with the addition of a third
chapter (or rather a first chapter) stitching today’s artistic positions
towards the imagined futures from the past that I got a text message from
Marco Scotini. He had sent me this film still from Tarkovksy’s Solaris
(1972), a scene from the space station, the empty, white, and round space
with circular windows.
was after agreeing to work together on an exhibition that would rework,
reconfigure and reflect on two previous exhibitions at the Centro Pecci
around Soviet and Post-Soviet realities, with the addition of a third
chapter (or rather a first chapter) stitching today’s artistic positions
towards the imagined futures from the past that I got a text message from
Marco Scotini. He had sent me this film still from Tarkovksy’s Solaris
(1972), a scene from the space station, the empty, white, and round space
with circular windows.
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COVID-19 sürecinde beklenmedik biçimde evde geçirilen süreyle, evlerimize yüklediğimiz anlam ve işlevler çoğaldı ve katlandı. İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi İç Mimarlık Bölüm Başkanı olmanın yanı sıra “mekân”ı fiziksel çevrenin yanında... more
COVID-19 sürecinde beklenmedik biçimde evde geçirilen süreyle, evlerimize yüklediğimiz anlam ve işlevler çoğaldı ve katlandı. İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi İç Mimarlık Bölüm Başkanı olmanın yanı sıra “mekân”ı fiziksel çevrenin yanında sosyal, politik ve ekonomik etkenlerle üretilen karmaşık bir sistem olarak görüp bu meseleyle ilgili çalışmalar yürüten bir sanatçı olan Can Altay’a sorduk: Evi ve içindeki çözümleri yeniden düşünmenin yolları ne olabilir?
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For Turkish artist and educator Can Altay ‘today's cities are full of limits’. This unevenness can be regarded as the manifestation of current investment patterns and political and cultural conflicts. Does, however, transgression offer... more
For Turkish artist and educator Can Altay ‘today's cities are full of limits’. This unevenness can be regarded as the manifestation of current investment patterns and political and cultural conflicts. Does, however, transgression offer opportunities to subvert this? Is it possible for a city's inhabitants, artists and architects to open up boundaries and through the power of presence to intervene in the status quo?
Research Interests: Architecture, Contemporary Art, Urban Studies, Architectural Theory, Urban interventions (Architecture), and 6 morePublic Space, Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, Critical Spatial Practice, Transgression, Art in public space, and Urban Interiors
Rogue Game (2007-ongoing), a project by Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley in collaboration with Can Altay, springs from the given spatial regulations and parameters of a sports field. The typical sports field presents spatial efficiency... more
Rogue Game (2007-ongoing), a project by Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley in collaboration with Can Altay, springs from the given spatial regulations and parameters of a sports field. The typical sports field presents spatial efficiency by providing different colored lines for various sports. The project exhausts this gamespace through performing its potentials for hosting multiple sports matches simultaneously. The resulting social choreography of colliding collectivities not only reveal the limits of coherent play, and the architecture that hosts the games; but allows a new rhythm, a new landscape and a new game to emerge. Rogue Game thus proposes an architecture of transgression through cohabitation, movement, and activating the spatial excess inherent in any given context.
Research Interests: Architecture, Art Theory, Performance Studies, Contemporary Art, Choreography, and 14 moreUrban Studies, Architectural Theory, Urban interventions (Architecture), Body in Performance, Public Space, Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, Sports, Body and Architecture, Transgression, Theory of Art, Social Space, Urban Interiors, Social Choreography, and Setting a Setting
Ahali is the Turkish word for a community based on being at a particular location at a particular moment in time. It is a community defined through contingency, as opposed to cemaat, which translates as 'community' in the traditional... more
Ahali is the Turkish word for a community based on being at a particular location at a particular moment in time. It is a community defined through contingency, as opposed to cemaat, which translates as 'community' in the traditional sense – bound by a commonality of belief, kinship, origin or a more durational locality. In contrast, Ahali stands for the 'community' that exists without a defined or expressed commonality other than being together. This anthology brings together a selection of contributions to the publication Ahali: a journal for setting a setting, which was first launched in 2007. The journal has been and still is a sporadic art publication and provides a growing collection of works, statements and voices from artistic and spatial practices. Artists, architects, writers and others involved through praxis reflect on a number of issues such as notions of community, the global condition or ideas on the history of the 'now'. Here, the word 'issue' does not assume a periodical nature, but instead offers frames of concern from which certain calls can be made and pieces may be read. After having been previously released as independent pamphlets, the works included in this anthology appear together, in book form, for the first time. The issues of Ahali: a journal for setting a setting have been treated as hovering frame structures, offering a number of entry points to each contribution. From the first invitation, the journal has always been open to a diverse set of works including project descriptions, existing texts (published or unpublished), outlines of sketches and ideas, proposals, theme-specific writing or interviews. The works, however, were never tied together by a theme; contributions could easily fall under one or many more 'issues'. A similar spirit applies to the contributions in this anthology, but for the sake of a more structured reading, I have tried to anchor some of those hovering frame structures to set a position and vantage point for individual contributions.
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Research Interests: Theatre Studies, Art, Architecture, Art Theory, Contemporary Art, and 18 morePublic Art, Liverpool and Merseyside, Urban Studies, Urbanism, Architectural Theory, Visual Arts, Public Space, City Branding, Scaffolding, Liverpool, Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, Shopping, Performance Art and Public Spaces, Art in public space, European Capital of Culture, Liverpool History, Architecture and Public Spaces, and European Capitals of Culture
Özet: Yapıya ait hurdanın yeniden kullanıma sunulduğu alanlar olarak tanımlayabileceğimiz çıkmacılar, İstanbul'da 20. yüzyılın özellikle ikinci yarısındaki enformel kentleşme ile 2000 sonrasında ivme kazanan neoliberal kentleşme... more
Özet: Yapıya ait hurdanın yeniden kullanıma sunulduğu alanlar olarak tanımlayabileceğimiz çıkmacılar, İstanbul'da 20. yüzyılın özellikle ikinci yarısındaki enformel kentleşme ile 2000 sonrasında ivme kazanan neoliberal kentleşme süreçlerinin arakesitinde yer alır. Çıkmacılar, gecekondu yapılaşmasının kendi imkansızlıklarından türemiş bir aktör olarak enkazdan kurtarılan pencere, kapı ve vitrifiye gibi yapı elemanlarının biriktiği ve yeniden dolaşıma sokulduğu kişi ya da yerler olarak tariflenebilir. Gece-kondu, kentsel dönüşüm ve mahalle yıkımları ile ilişkilenen bu hurdalıklar, kentin çeperlerinde yer alan semtlerde karşımıza çıkıyor. İstanbul'un kentsel dönüşüm coğrafyasından hareketle küresel ile yerel ekonominin kesişiminde varlıklarını sürdürmeye çalışan çıkmacı hurdalıklarını, gecekondu yapı kültürü ile 'yıkıp yeniden yapma ve yerinden etme' mekanizmaları üzerinden işleyen totaliter kentleşmenin getirdiği yapı kültürü kapsamında inceliyoruz. Amacımız, çıkmacıların bugün kent coğrafyası ve çeperlerinde nasıl etkileri olduğunu inceleyerek kent ekolojisine ve kentsel müşterekle-rin inşasına yönelik çıkarımlara varılabilir mi sorgulamak. Bunu yaparken, çıkmacıları bir " ilişkisel altyapı " (Simone, 2015) yani fiziksel veya kamusal altyapıların yokluğun-da kent sakinlerinin hayatta kalmak ya da kente ayak uydurmak için geliştirdiği ilişki temelli çözümlere bir örnek olarak konumlandırıyoruz. Anahtar sözcükler: İstanbul ve çevresi, enkaz, ilişkisel altyapı, gayriresmî ekonomi, kentsel dönüşüm, kent ekolojisi.
Research Interests: Architecture, Commons, Political Ecology, Urban Planning, Sustainable Building Design, and 15 moreWaste recycling, Urban Studies, Urban Ecology, Salvaged and Replicated building materials, Urban Informality, Kentsel Dönüşüm, Urban theory, theories of urban informality, urban studies, Urban Political Ecology, Istanbul, Building components, Urban Commons, Urban Solid Waste Management, Gecekondu, Katı Atık, and Enformel Sektor
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Istanbul and many cities across Turkey have witnessed a widespread insurgency starting on the 27th of May 2013. The initial struggle which took place in and around Gezi Park, lasted several weeks, with ripple effects leading to the... more
Istanbul and many cities across Turkey have witnessed a widespread insurgency starting on the 27th of May 2013. The initial struggle which took place in and around Gezi Park, lasted several weeks, with ripple effects leading to the formation of neighborhood forums throughout the city, and ultimately resulting in a state of discontent that arises regularly. Gezi Park, which has been the site and springboard of this resistance is a green area next to the central Taksim Square. The park has become simultaneously a symbol for the resistance and for a limited time an utopian public space, revealing an explicitly urban politics that does not register with existing political factions or discourses. The spatial politics of Gezi and its aftermath, includes to great extent the use of internet and mobile media, not only in terms of communication and forming a community, but also in the way it fueled the resistance with humor.
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Mesele " Kullandığımız şeyler bütünü " ile ilgili. Böyle baktığımızda ürün tasarımı kadar gündelik hayatın siyasetine dair bir alan düşünmekte zorlanıyoruz. Kullandığımız şeyler bütünü, gerçekten bizi biz yapacak güce kadir. Öte yandan... more
Mesele " Kullandığımız şeyler bütünü " ile ilgili. Böyle baktığımızda ürün tasarımı kadar gündelik hayatın siyasetine dair bir alan düşünmekte zorlanıyoruz. Kullandığımız şeyler bütünü, gerçekten bizi biz yapacak güce kadir. Öte yandan kullanım nesnelerini sadece biçim ve işe yararlık üzerinden tartmak artık imkansız; nerede, nasıl, kim tarafından üretildiği, nasıl pazarlandığı ve tabii bize (yani kullanıcılara) nasıl yeni alışkanlıklar kazandırdığı, hayatımızı nasıl dönüştürdüğü en az form ve fonksiyon kadar, belki daha da önemli. Benim üzerinde durmak istediğim meseleler, tasarımcıların (ve bazı kullanıcıların) değişen konjonktürde kendilerine yaratmakta oldukları alternatiflerle, yani beklenmedik gelişmelerle ilgili. Bilişim teknolojilerindeki sıçrama, küresel adaletsizlik, tükenen kaynaklar, kaygan yerellikler, kitlesel hareketlilik gibi koşulların tasarımdaki yansımalarını arıyorum.
Research Interests: Industrial Design, Product Design, Critical design practice, Craft Knowledge, Arduino, and 8 moreHumanitarian Design (Product/Service), Anthropocene, Relationship between craft, design and society, Design Fiction, Endüstri ürünleri Tasarımı, Socially Responsible Design, Socially Engaged Craft, Tasarım Eğitimi, and Endüstriyel Tasarım Eğitiminin Geleceği
Bu bildiri kapsamında, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Mimarlık Fakültesi Endüstri Ürünleri Tasarımı Bölümü 2. Sınıf ID 202 Tasarım Stüdyosu dersi kapsamında 2013 yılından beri devam etmekte olan bir eğitim yaklaşımı ve bu model üzerinden... more
Bu bildiri kapsamında, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Mimarlık Fakültesi Endüstri Ürünleri Tasarımı Bölümü 2. Sınıf ID 202 Tasarım Stüdyosu dersi kapsamında 2013 yılından beri devam etmekte olan bir eğitim yaklaşımı ve bu model üzerinden tasarım eğitiminin dönüşümü ve yeni
yöntemlerin olasılıkları tartışılmaktadır. İstanbul kent içi küçük üretim bölgeleri, malzeme ve üretim tekniklerinin anlaşılması ve pratik edilmesi için önemli fırsatlar sunmaktadır. Bugüne kadar tasarım lisans eğitiminde sanayi ile olan ortak çalışmalar öncelikli olmuş ve bu tür kent
içi küçük üretim bölgelerinin, zanaat atölyelerinin eğitime katkısı yeterince ve etkin bir şekilde değerlendirilmemiştir. Bu model ile kentteki zanaat atölyelerinin ve sahip oldukları yerel malzeme, üretim tekniklerinin daha aktif bir şekilde tasarım eğitimine eklemlenmesine çalışılarak stüdyo dersi kampüsten kente, zanaat atölyelerine taşınmıştır. Böylece ikinci sınıf tasarım öğrencileri hem çırak olarak zanaat atölyelerinde aktif üretime katılmakta, yaparken öğrenmekte hem de süreçleri içeriden deneyimleme şansı elde ederek geniş bir zaman diliminde gözlem yapabilmektedirler.
Bu modelde ardışık tasarım ve üretim süreçleri yerine ikisinin birlikte olduğu, etkileşimli bir tasarım, üretim ve eğitim süreci gerçekleştirilmekte; malzeme, üretim teknikleri, zanaatkarın bilgisi ve atölye ortamı tasarıma doğrudan girdi oluşturmakta; yaparken düşünme ve tasarlama devreye sokulmaktadır. Stüdyo süresince öğrenciler Şişhane ve Galata bölgesindeki zanaat ağında yer alan metal, ahşap, abajur, avize, tel, pantograf, akrilik, saz atölyeleri
gibi farklı malzeme ve üretim tekniklerinde uzmanlaşmış atölyelerle eşleştirildi. Öğrenciler ikili gruplar halinde seçtikleri atölyelerde ustaların yanında çırak olarak çalıştı ve üretim sürecinin bir parçası oldular. Böylelikle malzeme ve üretim tekniklerini sürecin içerisinden anlama, araştırma ve deneme şansına sahip oldular; bir yandan da işbirliği yaptıkları aktörleri tanırken toplumsal ve kentsel kesitte yeni deneyimler ve farkındalık kazandılar. İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, Endüstri Ürünleri Tasarımı Bölümü’nün tasarım eğitiminde izlediği çoğulcu bakış açısıyla uygulamaya giren ve sahada çalışmalar yapmakta olan Made in Şişhane projesi ile işbirliğinde önerilen bu model, alandaki deneyimler, öğretim kadrosunun katkısı, öğrenciler ve atölyelerden gelen geri bildirimlerle geliştirilmeye, yapılandırılmaya devam etmektedir.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Tasarım Eğitimi, zanaat, atölye, ustalık, çıraklık, malzeme, kentiçi üretim, okuldışı eğitim, İstanbul, Şişhane, Galata
yöntemlerin olasılıkları tartışılmaktadır. İstanbul kent içi küçük üretim bölgeleri, malzeme ve üretim tekniklerinin anlaşılması ve pratik edilmesi için önemli fırsatlar sunmaktadır. Bugüne kadar tasarım lisans eğitiminde sanayi ile olan ortak çalışmalar öncelikli olmuş ve bu tür kent
içi küçük üretim bölgelerinin, zanaat atölyelerinin eğitime katkısı yeterince ve etkin bir şekilde değerlendirilmemiştir. Bu model ile kentteki zanaat atölyelerinin ve sahip oldukları yerel malzeme, üretim tekniklerinin daha aktif bir şekilde tasarım eğitimine eklemlenmesine çalışılarak stüdyo dersi kampüsten kente, zanaat atölyelerine taşınmıştır. Böylece ikinci sınıf tasarım öğrencileri hem çırak olarak zanaat atölyelerinde aktif üretime katılmakta, yaparken öğrenmekte hem de süreçleri içeriden deneyimleme şansı elde ederek geniş bir zaman diliminde gözlem yapabilmektedirler.
Bu modelde ardışık tasarım ve üretim süreçleri yerine ikisinin birlikte olduğu, etkileşimli bir tasarım, üretim ve eğitim süreci gerçekleştirilmekte; malzeme, üretim teknikleri, zanaatkarın bilgisi ve atölye ortamı tasarıma doğrudan girdi oluşturmakta; yaparken düşünme ve tasarlama devreye sokulmaktadır. Stüdyo süresince öğrenciler Şişhane ve Galata bölgesindeki zanaat ağında yer alan metal, ahşap, abajur, avize, tel, pantograf, akrilik, saz atölyeleri
gibi farklı malzeme ve üretim tekniklerinde uzmanlaşmış atölyelerle eşleştirildi. Öğrenciler ikili gruplar halinde seçtikleri atölyelerde ustaların yanında çırak olarak çalıştı ve üretim sürecinin bir parçası oldular. Böylelikle malzeme ve üretim tekniklerini sürecin içerisinden anlama, araştırma ve deneme şansına sahip oldular; bir yandan da işbirliği yaptıkları aktörleri tanırken toplumsal ve kentsel kesitte yeni deneyimler ve farkındalık kazandılar. İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, Endüstri Ürünleri Tasarımı Bölümü’nün tasarım eğitiminde izlediği çoğulcu bakış açısıyla uygulamaya giren ve sahada çalışmalar yapmakta olan Made in Şişhane projesi ile işbirliğinde önerilen bu model, alandaki deneyimler, öğretim kadrosunun katkısı, öğrenciler ve atölyelerden gelen geri bildirimlerle geliştirilmeye, yapılandırılmaya devam etmektedir.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Tasarım Eğitimi, zanaat, atölye, ustalık, çıraklık, malzeme, kentiçi üretim, okuldışı eğitim, İstanbul, Şişhane, Galata
Research Interests: Design education, Material Culture Studies, Industrial Design, Design Research, Urban Regeneration, and 19 moreProduct Design, Design Culture, Design pedagogy, Craft Knowledge, Industrial design education, Material Culture, Design and Craft Studies, Critical Design, Kentsel Dönüşüm, Design Criticism, Master Apprentice Model, Istanbul, Relationship between craft, design and society, Design Studio Teaching, Galata, Zanaat, Endüstriyel Tasarım, Socially Responsible Design, Socially Engaged Craft, and Tasarım Eğitimi
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Selim Birsel’in 90’lı yıllarda yaptığı iki enstalasyon üzerine bu yazıyı bir diğer sanatçı Can Altay kaleme aldı. Her iki sanatçı da görünmeyeni görünür kılmaya, saklı, gizli ya da gözden ırak kalmışların izlerini sürerek mekânlarda... more
Selim Birsel’in 90’lı yıllarda yaptığı iki enstalasyon üzerine bu yazıyı bir diğer sanatçı Can Altay kaleme aldı. Her iki sanatçı da görünmeyeni görünür kılmaya, saklı, gizli ya da gözden ırak kalmışların izlerini sürerek mekânlarda yaşanan duyguları, düşüncelere yansıyanları çözmeye yönelik işler üretiyorlar. Evin içinden savaş sahalarina uzanan alanlarda işaretler oluşturuyor, göstergeleri okuyorlar.
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Research Interests: Social Movements, Urban Politics, Humor, Contemporary Art, Public Art, and 21 moreComics Studies, Social Movement, Urban Regeneration, Resistance (Social), Urban Culture, Public Space, Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, Spatial Justice, Humour Studies, Critical Spatial Practice, Urban Social Design, Social Theory, Urban and Cultural Studies, and the Interactions Between Urban Space, Politics, Memory, and Subjectivity, Istanbul, Art in public space, Social and spatial justice, Critical Urbanism, Gezi Park, Gezi Protests, Gezi Parkı Eylemleri, Critical Urban and Cultural Theory, and Urban Resistance
Research Interests: Social Movements, Spatial Practices, Urban Politics, Humor, Contemporary Art, and 20 morePublic Art, Comics Studies, Urban Studies, Resistance (Social), Urban Culture, Architectural Theory, Spatial Politics, Humor Studies, Public Space, Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, Humour Studies, Critical Spatial Practice, Istanbul, Art in public space, Critical Urbanism, Architecture and Public Spaces, Gezi Park, Gezi Protests, Critical Urban and Cultural Theory, and Urban Resistance
Research Interests: Installation Art, Contemporary Art, Installation (Art), Urban Studies, Urban Ecology, and 19 moreArchitectural Theory, Public Space, Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, Urban Public Open Space, Urban Informality, Informal Sector, Informal Urbanism, Inhabitation, Local newspapers, Istanbul, Informality, Art in public space, Bosphorus, Şehir, The informal sector and Street vendors, Urban Interiors, Urban Gardening, Architecture and Public Spaces, and Stuffed Mussels
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This article explores the social construction of the architectural profession in the Turkish context from a historical perspective. It investigates architects' views regarding their roles in society and their positions vis-à-vis their... more
This article explores the social construction of the architectural profession in the Turkish context from a historical perspective. It investigates architects' views regarding their roles in society and their positions vis-à-vis their clients and users. The data from in-depth interviews conducted with twentyfour practicing architects demonstrate that both traces of elitism and the tendency to define their professional roles to affect people's lives through their designs have prevailed in architects' beliefs and actions to varying degrees.
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As cities lose the capacity to transform conflict into civility, a new civic space needs to be carved out above and below the state apparatuses and authoritarian political structures.
Research Interests: Architecture, Urban Politics, Conflict, Urban Studies, Social Activism, and 10 moreUrbanism, Architectural Theory, Urban interventions (Architecture), Public Space, Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, Spatial Justice, Social and spatial justice, Refuge, Architecture and Public Spaces, and The Cultural Politics of Architecture and Urban Design
... Creators: Mosley, J., Warren, S. and Altay, C. Abstract: 'Rogue Game Replay' was commissioned as a solo show by Casco, Utrecht as an appendix to Can Altay's exhibition 'C0HAB: an assembly of spare... more
... Creators: Mosley, J., Warren, S. and Altay, C. Abstract: 'Rogue Game Replay' was commissioned as a solo show by Casco, Utrecht as an appendix to Can Altay's exhibition 'C0HAB: an assembly of spare parts'. The show within ...
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Ahali: An Anthology for Setting a Setting is a collection of selected articles from current and previous contributions to Ahali, a journal by artist Can Altay. ‘Ahali’ in Turkish refers to a community defined through contingency without a... more
Ahali: An Anthology for Setting a Setting is a collection of selected articles from current and previous contributions to Ahali, a journal by artist Can Altay. ‘Ahali’ in Turkish refers to a community defined through contingency without a defined or expressed commonality other than being together.
The book is composed of three chapters: C-Fact: community, collectivity, contingency, constituency; Modelmaking: On Propositions and Implementation; and Forecasting Broken Pasts.
With contributions by Agency, Bik Van der Pol, Celine Condorelli, Chris Evans, Luca Frei, Mike Nelson, Nils Norman, Paul O’Neill and others.
The book is composed of three chapters: C-Fact: community, collectivity, contingency, constituency; Modelmaking: On Propositions and Implementation; and Forecasting Broken Pasts.
With contributions by Agency, Bik Van der Pol, Celine Condorelli, Chris Evans, Luca Frei, Mike Nelson, Nils Norman, Paul O’Neill and others.
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SALT, Mayıs 2010 – Ocak 2011 tarihleri arasında Nişantaşı Cumhuriyet Parkı‘nda Can Altay’ın küratörlüğünde, Future Anecdotes’un tasarımı ve Nils Norman, Ceren Oykut ve Sinek Sekiz’in katılımıyla düzenlenen PARK: bir ihtimal sergisinin... more
SALT, Mayıs 2010 – Ocak 2011 tarihleri arasında Nişantaşı Cumhuriyet Parkı‘nda Can Altay’ın küratörlüğünde, Future Anecdotes’un tasarımı ve Nils Norman, Ceren Oykut ve Sinek Sekiz’in katılımıyla düzenlenen PARK: bir ihtimal sergisinin hazırlık sürecinden yazılı ve görsel belgeler ile sergi kataloğunu ve SALT Araştırma ve Programlar Direktörü Vasıf Kortun ile küratör Can Altay’ın proje bağlamında kent mekânı ve katılım üzerine Aralık 2016’da yaptığı iki yeni söyleşiyi içeren yeni bir e-yayın hazırladı.
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Türkiye’de 1990’ların sonundan itibaren “kamusal mekânda sanat” üzerine katmanlanan tartışma ve deneyimler dış mekânda sanat pratiklerini yaygınlaştırdı. Avrupa Birliği müzakerelerinin getirdiği destek yapıları, iş birlikleri ve paralelinde oluşan sosyal, politik ve ekonomik ortamla İstanbul, 2000’lerin ikinci yarısında dünyanın gözde kentlerinden birine dönüştü. 2009 ile 2011 yılları arasında, British Council’ın yerel partnerlerle yürüttüğü My City [Benim Kentim] ile Kültürel Aracılar gibi fon destekli kapsamlı projeler yapıldı. SALT’ın yayıma hazırladığı PARK: bir ihtimal [Hatırlama] e-yayını, yine bu dönemde gerçekleştirilen aynı adlı dış mekân sergisini yeniden yorumlamaya açıyor.
“Parkların ne olduğu ve ne olabileceği üzerine farklı sanatçıların yapıtlarını bir araya getiren bu sergi, gündelik hayatımızda içinden geçip gittiğimiz mekânların barındırdıkları öyküler ve potansiyellerle ilgileniyor. Parktan şehre, oradan da içindeyken kanıksadığımız düzenlere başka açılardan bakmaya davet ediyor. Bu mekânları kullanış biçimlerimizi, bu düzenlerde barınma biçimlerimizi değiştirirsek neler olabilir sorusunu soruyor. Bu soruyla kenti ve ‘kamusal’ alanı ve tabii kendimizi tekrar tekrar yeniden şekillendirebilmek mümkün. PARK: bir ihtimal bir yandan da sınırlı kaynaklarla, kendine yetecek düzeneklerin nasıl çalışabileceklerine dair tezler üretiyor.”
Yayıma hazırlayan: Can Altay ile Vasıf Kortun ve Merve Elveren (SALT Araştırma ve Programlar)
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Türkiye’de 1990’ların sonundan itibaren “kamusal mekânda sanat” üzerine katmanlanan tartışma ve deneyimler dış mekânda sanat pratiklerini yaygınlaştırdı. Avrupa Birliği müzakerelerinin getirdiği destek yapıları, iş birlikleri ve paralelinde oluşan sosyal, politik ve ekonomik ortamla İstanbul, 2000’lerin ikinci yarısında dünyanın gözde kentlerinden birine dönüştü. 2009 ile 2011 yılları arasında, British Council’ın yerel partnerlerle yürüttüğü My City [Benim Kentim] ile Kültürel Aracılar gibi fon destekli kapsamlı projeler yapıldı. SALT’ın yayıma hazırladığı PARK: bir ihtimal [Hatırlama] e-yayını, yine bu dönemde gerçekleştirilen aynı adlı dış mekân sergisini yeniden yorumlamaya açıyor.
“Parkların ne olduğu ve ne olabileceği üzerine farklı sanatçıların yapıtlarını bir araya getiren bu sergi, gündelik hayatımızda içinden geçip gittiğimiz mekânların barındırdıkları öyküler ve potansiyellerle ilgileniyor. Parktan şehre, oradan da içindeyken kanıksadığımız düzenlere başka açılardan bakmaya davet ediyor. Bu mekânları kullanış biçimlerimizi, bu düzenlerde barınma biçimlerimizi değiştirirsek neler olabilir sorusunu soruyor. Bu soruyla kenti ve ‘kamusal’ alanı ve tabii kendimizi tekrar tekrar yeniden şekillendirebilmek mümkün. PARK: bir ihtimal bir yandan da sınırlı kaynaklarla, kendine yetecek düzeneklerin nasıl çalışabileceklerine dair tezler üretiyor.”
Yayıma hazırlayan: Can Altay ile Vasıf Kortun ve Merve Elveren (SALT Araştırma ve Programlar)
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In his works, Can Altay points to the ways in which legal and conventional borders are transgressed. Hence, through politics of space, he elaborates on the conflict between the traditional and the subjective. By discussing western notions... more
In his works, Can Altay points to the ways in which legal and conventional borders are transgressed. Hence, through politics of space, he elaborates on the conflict between the traditional and the subjective. By discussing western notions and values with a focus on the novelties peculiar to the geography he comes from; Altay develops a critical language that reaches out to life-forms that manage to breathe in-between traditions and (post)modernist and globalist domination, with affection, bewilderment and admiration. "How do we inhabit the system or spaces that we are born into? To what extent are these tactics of inhabitation coded? How far can they be pushed? What are the limits that we take for granted and try to push from there on?" These are the types of questions that form his true focus.
Altay’s one-person exhibition 'Split Horizon (Domestic Disobedience) that took place from September 1st until October 17th, 2015 involves works that bring together some of the main subjects discussed in his earlier works, carrying them a step further with new experiments. The main threads and visual vocabulary of his work culminate in this exhibition. However, the sense of optimism and celebration inherent to his earlier works are replaced by a solemn attitude through domestic objects, urban spaces and other means of observation. Although he continues to embrace local peculiarities as objects of knowledge connected with people, the city and modernism, he adapts a more anxious, more provocative and direct tone. And, the audience is welcome to follow.
Altay’s one-person exhibition 'Split Horizon (Domestic Disobedience) that took place from September 1st until October 17th, 2015 involves works that bring together some of the main subjects discussed in his earlier works, carrying them a step further with new experiments. The main threads and visual vocabulary of his work culminate in this exhibition. However, the sense of optimism and celebration inherent to his earlier works are replaced by a solemn attitude through domestic objects, urban spaces and other means of observation. Although he continues to embrace local peculiarities as objects of knowledge connected with people, the city and modernism, he adapts a more anxious, more provocative and direct tone. And, the audience is welcome to follow.
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Can Altay is known for his creative experiments that are built around the concept of space and scale in ways that are not commonly explored in the Turkish art scene. Along with his internationally acknowledged works on the “minibar”... more
Can Altay is known for his creative experiments that are built around the concept of space and scale in ways that are not commonly explored in the Turkish art scene. Along with his internationally acknowledged works on the “minibar” phenomena and Turkey's urban paper gatherers, this publication includes works that question the nature of art galleries and the place of art in city life. Altay explores our relationships with places and changing locations, mobile elements of a city that were never predicted by planning, and alternative experiences that can be manifested within the urban sphere. Just as he pays attention to alternative, collective social productions that reshape our cities, Altay also looks for art in the public environment. In many cases, he gives back to us that which is already there, but attempts to expand the limits of our understanding by introducing additional research on society's perception of what at first glance may appear to be mundane or simple improvisational activities. Maintaining a firm grip on irony, his art and this book develop spaces for us to debate how we look, comprehend and explore our environment, and more often than not he also shows us how quickly we chose to ignore some of the most intriguing happenings that occur every day on our own doorsteps. (Sureyyya Evren)
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Published as part of the DIWAN publications on the occasion of International Architecture Biennial of Rotterdam 2009.
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For his first solo show in London, Can Altay has transformed The Showroom into the production site of a single edition newspaper: The Church Street Partners’ Gazette. The project draws on research and dialogues with a wide range of people... more
For his first solo show in London, Can Altay has transformed The Showroom into the production site of a single edition newspaper: The Church Street Partners’ Gazette. The project draws on research and dialogues with a wide range of people connected to the local area, who Altay terms ‘partners’, and tries to expand the notion of partnership beyond its economic and juridical use.
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Can Altay has transformed The Showroom into the production site of a single edition newspaper: The Church Street Partners’ Gazette. The second issue continues tracking the redevelopment processes through the inhabitants' voices, while... more
Can Altay has transformed The Showroom into the production site of a single edition newspaper: The Church Street Partners’ Gazette. The second issue continues tracking the redevelopment processes through the inhabitants' voices, while touching upon issues of domestic labor and homelessness.
Research Interests: Contemporary Art, Homelessness, Urban Regeneration, Urban Studies, Domestic workers, and 10 moreHomelessness And Housing Exclusion, Social Practice, Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, Art and Politics, Urban Theory History, Urban Design, Urban Ecology, Urbanization in Developing Countries, Housing Issues, Local newspapers, Domestic Labour, Art in public space, Urban Design Theory, and Small Press Publishing
Introductory document for the 'Object and Space in Contemporary Art' course at Istanbul Bilgi University
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Introductory document to the 'ARCH353 / HTC 532 Urban Interiors: Problematizing Public Space' course at the Faculty of Architecture Istanbul Bilgi University.
Research Interests: Architecture, Spatial Practices, Contemporary Art, Urban Studies, Architectural Theory, and 11 moreUrban interventions (Architecture), Public Space, Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, Spatial Justice, Critical Spatial Practice, Public spaces, Art in public space, Urban Commons, Terrain Vague, Urban Interiors, and Architecture and Public Spaces
VA321 Fine Art Practice (2009-2010 FALL Sabancı University) This course deals with the questions of “Artistic Position”, and making art in and for the “open”, namely the public sphere and urban spaces. These notions will be discussed and... more
VA321 Fine Art Practice (2009-2010 FALL Sabancı University)
This course deals with the questions of “Artistic Position”, and making art in and for the “open”, namely the public sphere and urban spaces. These notions will be discussed and elaborated with focus on their impact on Fine Art Practice, and as direct input to the individual practices of students.
The course is structured in three clusters, each ending with submissions which form a sequence that lead to the final individual projects. These clusters are: (a) Defining and Contextualizing Practice in relation to artists’ positions; (b) Understanding the public realm as a participatory field and artists’ ways of contributing to it; and a close look into (c)Urbanity, as the site of contemporary life and art, leading to the development of a project for Urban Public Space.
This course deals with the questions of “Artistic Position”, and making art in and for the “open”, namely the public sphere and urban spaces. These notions will be discussed and elaborated with focus on their impact on Fine Art Practice, and as direct input to the individual practices of students.
The course is structured in three clusters, each ending with submissions which form a sequence that lead to the final individual projects. These clusters are: (a) Defining and Contextualizing Practice in relation to artists’ positions; (b) Understanding the public realm as a participatory field and artists’ ways of contributing to it; and a close look into (c)Urbanity, as the site of contemporary life and art, leading to the development of a project for Urban Public Space.
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THE WAY BEYOND ART 01/07/2017 - 03/01/2021 collection Van Abbemuseum Curators: Christiane Berndes, Charles Esche, Steven ten Thije Between 2017 and 2021 the Van Abbemuseum organises a series of exhibitions and projects using its own... more
THE WAY BEYOND ART
01/07/2017 - 03/01/2021
collection Van Abbemuseum
Curators: Christiane Berndes, Charles Esche, Steven ten Thije
Between 2017 and 2021 the Van Abbemuseum organises a series of exhibitions and projects using its own collection. In this context the exhibition The Way Beyond Art can be seen in the large hall circuit of the Collection Building from 1 July 2017. It includes post World War II works by, amongst others, Chto Delat, Corneille, Dan Flavin, Nilbar Güres, Iris Kensmil, Anselm Kiefer, John Körmeling, Taus Makhacheva, Füsun Onur, Dan Peterman, Thomas Schütte and Franz Erhard Walther.
On the basis of three fundamental topics – Land, Home and Work – works are grouped and activated in a new sequence of ‘atmosphere rooms’ for the present. The traditional model of the white cube is rejected in this special setting by Can and Asli Altay, where extended possibilities for experiencing art in space and in relation to body and mind are tested.
ART AS AN ENGINE FOR CHANGE
The works of art in the exhibition raise questions which are recognisable and important for everyone. What sort of country or society do we want to live in? What role do freedom, identity and sustainability play in our ideas about the future? In the exhibition we examine how we can use the museum and the artworks to discuss these questions with each other. The experimental design of the exhibition breaks through the traditional model of the white cube and opens up new possibilities for experiencing art in a playful way.
The title The Way Beyond Art is taken from a book published in 1947 by Alexander Dorner, the director of the museum in Hannover in the 1930s. In that book he describes how the overwhelming changes in the world are not only expressed in art and science, but actually form the basis for them. For Dorner, art is not a mirror that reflects, but an engine that encourages change.
By extension, this collection exhibition is a way of understanding and changing the world. We chose the themes Land, Home and Work because they are at the heart of our everyday lives and are important for all of us, all over the world.
DYNAMICS OF THE EXHIBITION
We will regularly introduce changes in the exhibition, together with visitors and groups who add an edge to the theme that is exhibited from their own perspective.
DESIGN OF THE EXHIBITION
Can & Asli Altay (Future Anecdotes Istanbul).
01/07/2017 - 03/01/2021
collection Van Abbemuseum
Curators: Christiane Berndes, Charles Esche, Steven ten Thije
Between 2017 and 2021 the Van Abbemuseum organises a series of exhibitions and projects using its own collection. In this context the exhibition The Way Beyond Art can be seen in the large hall circuit of the Collection Building from 1 July 2017. It includes post World War II works by, amongst others, Chto Delat, Corneille, Dan Flavin, Nilbar Güres, Iris Kensmil, Anselm Kiefer, John Körmeling, Taus Makhacheva, Füsun Onur, Dan Peterman, Thomas Schütte and Franz Erhard Walther.
On the basis of three fundamental topics – Land, Home and Work – works are grouped and activated in a new sequence of ‘atmosphere rooms’ for the present. The traditional model of the white cube is rejected in this special setting by Can and Asli Altay, where extended possibilities for experiencing art in space and in relation to body and mind are tested.
ART AS AN ENGINE FOR CHANGE
The works of art in the exhibition raise questions which are recognisable and important for everyone. What sort of country or society do we want to live in? What role do freedom, identity and sustainability play in our ideas about the future? In the exhibition we examine how we can use the museum and the artworks to discuss these questions with each other. The experimental design of the exhibition breaks through the traditional model of the white cube and opens up new possibilities for experiencing art in a playful way.
The title The Way Beyond Art is taken from a book published in 1947 by Alexander Dorner, the director of the museum in Hannover in the 1930s. In that book he describes how the overwhelming changes in the world are not only expressed in art and science, but actually form the basis for them. For Dorner, art is not a mirror that reflects, but an engine that encourages change.
By extension, this collection exhibition is a way of understanding and changing the world. We chose the themes Land, Home and Work because they are at the heart of our everyday lives and are important for all of us, all over the world.
DYNAMICS OF THE EXHIBITION
We will regularly introduce changes in the exhibition, together with visitors and groups who add an edge to the theme that is exhibited from their own perspective.
DESIGN OF THE EXHIBITION
Can & Asli Altay (Future Anecdotes Istanbul).
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Bülent Erkmen'in Akbank Sanat'ta düzenlenen "Yineleyerek Yenilemek: Remix" sergisi kapsamında düzenlenen konferans dizisinde 8 Mayıs 2018'de Can Altay "Ürün Tasarımı: Üretim ve Kullanımda Yeniden Anlamlandırmalar" başlıklı bir konuşma... more
Bülent Erkmen'in Akbank Sanat'ta düzenlenen "Yineleyerek Yenilemek: Remix" sergisi kapsamında düzenlenen konferans dizisinde 8 Mayıs 2018'de Can Altay "Ürün Tasarımı: Üretim ve Kullanımda Yeniden Anlamlandırmalar" başlıklı bir konuşma yaptı.
Altı yıldır İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Endüstri Ürünleri Tasarımı Bölüm Başkanlığını üstlenen Can Altay, ürün tasarımında düşünce ve icraata yönelik açılımlara ve sınır-aşımlarına odaklandığı konuşmasında, Üretici-Tasarımcı-Kullanıcı-Nesne arasındaki ilişkilerin yeniden yorumlandığı örnek işler ve projeler üzerinden tasarımda ve kullanımda nesnelerinin ‘remix’lenmesini inceliyor.
Altı yıldır İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Endüstri Ürünleri Tasarımı Bölüm Başkanlığını üstlenen Can Altay, ürün tasarımında düşünce ve icraata yönelik açılımlara ve sınır-aşımlarına odaklandığı konuşmasında, Üretici-Tasarımcı-Kullanıcı-Nesne arasındaki ilişkilerin yeniden yorumlandığı örnek işler ve projeler üzerinden tasarımda ve kullanımda nesnelerinin ‘remix’lenmesini inceliyor.
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Can Altay, artist and educator from Istanbul, delivers the final keynote address of the conference. Altay presents examples of his own work and works by others, considering how transgression can be applied to design in terms of matters... more
Can Altay, artist and educator from Istanbul, delivers the final keynote address of the conference. Altay presents examples of his own work and works by others, considering how transgression can be applied to design in terms of matters such as scale, duration and context.
Transgression formed the theme of the 10th international conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) 21-23 November 2013.
Transgression formed the theme of the 10th international conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) 21-23 November 2013.
Research Interests: Architecture, Contemporary Art, Installation (Art), Urban Studies, Urbanism, and 11 moreArchitectural Theory, Material Culture, Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, Thomas Hirschhorn, Transgression, Architecture and Culture, Michael Rakowitz, Theory of Art, Architecture and Public Spaces, Setting a Setting, and The Cultural Politics of Architecture and Urban Design
How Do You Filter Istanbul? A Non-Expert Essay on Stuffed Mussels
Research Interests: Contemporary Art, Anthropology of Food, Urban Regeneration, Urban Studies, Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, and 9 moreHistory of Istanbul, Marine Mussels, Kentsel Dönüşüm, Food Culture, Istanbul, Food History, Food Culture, Urban Zoology, Stuffed Mussels, and Midye Dolma
Research Interests: Contemporary Art, Public Art, Architectural Theory, Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, Art in public space, and 3 moreTheory of Art, Theatre and the everyday, performance politics and civic intervention, urban architecture and sites of spectacle, and Setting a Setting
Sites such as the Virgolo, a mountain in direct proximity to the city of Bolzano in the South-Tyrol, bring with them a set of questions in relation to envisioning the future of our cities. The challenge in imagining the future of such... more
Sites such as the Virgolo, a mountain in direct proximity to the city of Bolzano in the South-Tyrol, bring with them a set of questions in relation to envisioning the future of our cities. The challenge in imagining the future of such places lies in the ways in which (or whether) we can overcome attitudes of conservation as much as neo-liberal commodification of such urban and semi-urban landscapes. These are the two fronts that the battlefield seems to be divided into currently.
This panel seeks to address the spatial imagination over the Virgolo, by scrutinizing the current models and proposals (both the neo-liberal policies and imaginaries over such pieces of land as 'to be developed'; and its counter-hegemony of a more preservative tone). While choosing to avoid these two positions, the panel will search for possibilites that do not by-pass this conflict over spatial imagination and foresight, but rather look for ways in which the city can allow its inhabitation otherwise, in face of the current constipation over urban future.
Particularities of the Virgolo, its relationship to infrastructural development (tunnels) and the range of spaces and activities that surround it will be given special notice in the search for further possibilities. The speakers Stefano Novello (Architect, Bolzano), Michael Obrist/Feld72 (Architect, Vienna) und Huib Haye van der Werf (Head of Artistic Program Multiform Institute for Fine Art, Design and Reflection, Maastricht) will shortly present different viewpoints and imaginaries over the Virgolo before the panel will be opened to the audience in a discussion moderated by Can Altay and the curatorial-team.
This panel seeks to address the spatial imagination over the Virgolo, by scrutinizing the current models and proposals (both the neo-liberal policies and imaginaries over such pieces of land as 'to be developed'; and its counter-hegemony of a more preservative tone). While choosing to avoid these two positions, the panel will search for possibilites that do not by-pass this conflict over spatial imagination and foresight, but rather look for ways in which the city can allow its inhabitation otherwise, in face of the current constipation over urban future.
Particularities of the Virgolo, its relationship to infrastructural development (tunnels) and the range of spaces and activities that surround it will be given special notice in the search for further possibilities. The speakers Stefano Novello (Architect, Bolzano), Michael Obrist/Feld72 (Architect, Vienna) und Huib Haye van der Werf (Head of Artistic Program Multiform Institute for Fine Art, Design and Reflection, Maastricht) will shortly present different viewpoints and imaginaries over the Virgolo before the panel will be opened to the audience in a discussion moderated by Can Altay and the curatorial-team.
Research Interests: Architecture, Contemporary Art, Public Art, Urban Regeneration, Urban Studies, and 8 moreArchitectural Theory, Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, South Tyrolean question, Built Heritage, Cultural Heritage, Urban Art, Urban Design, Urban Regeneration Through Art, Urban Light, Urban Development, Rehabilitation, Reuse of Industrial Buildings., Art in public space, Bolzano, Urban Interiors, and Architecture and Public Spaces
The second 2015 Organising Discourse Open Lecture looks at developing space and situations. Based on the idea of “Setting a setting” the Istanbul based artist Can Altay will present and discuss around different examples developed in... more
The second 2015 Organising Discourse Open Lecture looks at
developing space and situations. Based on the idea of “Setting
a setting” the Istanbul based artist Can Altay will present
and discuss around different examples developed in various
contexts, from the art space exhibitions and projects to
social and urban interventions.
developing space and situations. Based on the idea of “Setting
a setting” the Istanbul based artist Can Altay will present
and discuss around different examples developed in various
contexts, from the art space exhibitions and projects to
social and urban interventions.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago hosts a symposium exploring the relationship between contemporary practice, civic engagement, art, and the work of museums. This daylong discussion brings together artists, activists, curators, and... more
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago hosts a symposium exploring the relationship between contemporary practice, civic engagement, art, and the work of museums. This daylong discussion brings together artists, activists, curators, and historians to examine contemporary issues relating to collaboration, social practice, community outreach, and civic engagement.
What are appropriate modes of behavior for both artists and museums? What are the ethical, critical, and practical questions practitioners are asking today? What methodologies, sensibilities, and artistic practices are changing the work of museums? This symposium considers these questions in the context of artistic innovation and critical inquiry, encouraging artists to discuss their work as it relates to museums as well as the world beyond gallery walls.
Share your ideas, thoughts, and photos before, during, and after the conference on Twitter and Instagram using: #OutThere2014.
Participants include: Tom Finkelpearl, director of the Queens Art Museum and author of What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation; Ernesto Pujol, performance artist, social choreographer, and educator; Vasif Kortun, curator, writer, teacher, and director of research and programs at SALT Istanbul; Design 99 founders Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope, who investigate new models of contemporary art and architectural practice in Detroit; Wael Shawky, artist and founder of MASS Alexandria, the first independent studio study program for young artists in Egypt; Sally Tallant, executive director of the Liverpool Biennial, the UK Biennial of International Contemporary Art, and former head of programs at the Serpentine Gallery, London; Ivy Wilson, associate professor of english and director of American studies at Northwestern University; Rick Lowe, artist and founder of Project Row Houses (PRH), a nonprofit arts organization; Emmanuel Pratt, photographer, urban designer, and farmer, as well as director of Sweet Water Foundation in Chicago and professor of urban development; Can Altay, architect, artist, designer, and scholar living in Istanbul; and Lisa Yun Lee, director of the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Convened by Heidi Reitmaier, Beatrice C. Mayer Director of Education, MCA Chicago, Out There is one of a series of ongoing public discussions hosted by the MCA each year to explore the role and identity of museums in the twenty-first century.
What are appropriate modes of behavior for both artists and museums? What are the ethical, critical, and practical questions practitioners are asking today? What methodologies, sensibilities, and artistic practices are changing the work of museums? This symposium considers these questions in the context of artistic innovation and critical inquiry, encouraging artists to discuss their work as it relates to museums as well as the world beyond gallery walls.
Share your ideas, thoughts, and photos before, during, and after the conference on Twitter and Instagram using: #OutThere2014.
Participants include: Tom Finkelpearl, director of the Queens Art Museum and author of What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation; Ernesto Pujol, performance artist, social choreographer, and educator; Vasif Kortun, curator, writer, teacher, and director of research and programs at SALT Istanbul; Design 99 founders Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope, who investigate new models of contemporary art and architectural practice in Detroit; Wael Shawky, artist and founder of MASS Alexandria, the first independent studio study program for young artists in Egypt; Sally Tallant, executive director of the Liverpool Biennial, the UK Biennial of International Contemporary Art, and former head of programs at the Serpentine Gallery, London; Ivy Wilson, associate professor of english and director of American studies at Northwestern University; Rick Lowe, artist and founder of Project Row Houses (PRH), a nonprofit arts organization; Emmanuel Pratt, photographer, urban designer, and farmer, as well as director of Sweet Water Foundation in Chicago and professor of urban development; Can Altay, architect, artist, designer, and scholar living in Istanbul; and Lisa Yun Lee, director of the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Convened by Heidi Reitmaier, Beatrice C. Mayer Director of Education, MCA Chicago, Out There is one of a series of ongoing public discussions hosted by the MCA each year to explore the role and identity of museums in the twenty-first century.
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In recent years, the so-called genre of “public art” has undergone a dematerialisation process. As the public sphere has been understood increasingly in terms of a heterogeneous and agonistic discursive state, the emphasis has shifted to... more
In recent years, the so-called genre of “public art” has undergone a dematerialisation process. As the public sphere has been understood increasingly in terms of a heterogeneous and agonistic discursive state, the emphasis has shifted to public art’s communicative and relational functions. However, we have neglected the agency of those art objects that persist in our urban environment and, in turn, the ways we live with such objects. In this light, ‘COHAB: an assembly of spare parts’, investigates the objecthood of public art through the specificities of the city of Utrecht’s urban strata.
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İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi İç Mimarlık Bölümü, Londra Royal College of Art İç Mimarlık Bölüm Başkanı Prof. Graeme Brooker’u atölye yürütmesi ve de bir konuşma yapması için İstanbul’a davet etti. Radikal Miraslar temasıyla... more
İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi İç Mimarlık Bölümü, Londra Royal College of Art İç Mimarlık Bölüm Başkanı Prof. Graeme Brooker’u atölye yürütmesi ve de bir konuşma yapması için İstanbul’a davet etti. Radikal Miraslar temasıyla gerçekleştirilen atölye Eminönü’ndeki hanlardan birine odaklanırken Salt Galata’daki konuşma, iç mimarlığın geleceğine dair daha geniş bir perspektif sundu. Bilgi Üniversitesi İç Mimarlık Bölüm Başkanı Can Altay, Brooker ile iç mimarlığın bir mekansal disiplin olarak mekanla nasıl ilişkilendiğine ve yapılı çevrenin geleceğine dair bir söyleşi gerçekleştirdi.
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A recording studio. A stage. A newspaper. A mini-bar. Can Altay is an artist and designer blurring the edges of everyday and artistry to create platforms that fathom the fantastic among the familiar. His interest lies in how we inhabit... more
A recording studio. A stage. A newspaper. A mini-bar. Can Altay is an artist and designer blurring the edges of everyday and artistry to create platforms that fathom the fantastic among the familiar. His interest lies in how we inhabit urban spaces and systems, creating not just social interventions, but community contributions that reconfigure a place’s meaning and its use. This focus on collective identities has moved his practice towards spaces that make music and sound: a mode of expression ‘that has to be shared and to be experienced together with people.’ He explores how these sonic platforms give rise to unforeseen forms of community, and can shift the narrative of a place, drawing him to artist residencies in Bristol's Spike Island, in Loughborough, and now an open recording studio at the famed İMÇ buildings in Istanbul. Can transports us to this modernist musical mecca at İMÇ, ‘a place engraved in our collective consciousness in Turkey,' to talk about how sound influences his work.
Research Interests: Architecture, Popular Music, Contemporary Art, Podcasting, Modernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), and 15 moreUrban interventions (Architecture), Social Practice, Community Art, Social Theory, Urban and Cultural Studies, and the Interactions Between Urban Space, Politics, Memory, and Subjectivity, Recording Studio, Istanbul, Space, place and culture; geography of lifeworlds; Soundscape Studies, Place Making, Art in Public Spaces, Urban Interiors, Architecture and Public Spaces, Setting a Setting, Public Art; Politics and Art, Music and Urbanization, and Arte Util
Research Interests: Contemporary Art, Installation (Art), Urban Studies, Architectural Theory, Urban interventions (Architecture), and 7 moreConceptual Art, Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, Dan Graham, Critical Spatial Practice, Art in public space, Urban Interiors, and Architecture and Public Spaces
İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Endüstri Ürünleri Tasarımı Bölüm Başkanı Can Altay, Unkapanı İMÇ binasında kurdukları “Manifaturacılar Çarşısı Plakçılık Sunar” projesi kayıt stüdyolarında Küratör Jan Boelen ile buluştu. Altay ve Boelen,... more
İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Endüstri Ürünleri Tasarımı Bölüm Başkanı Can Altay, Unkapanı İMÇ binasında kurdukları “Manifaturacılar Çarşısı Plakçılık Sunar” projesi kayıt stüdyolarında Küratör Jan Boelen ile buluştu. Altay ve Boelen, “Okullar Okulu” olarak tanımlanan tema üzerine konuştular.
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Tasarım eğitimcisi ve sanatçı Can Altay, Kasım 2016’da yeni binasına taşınan Londra Tasarım Müzesi’nin Şef Küratörü Justin McGuirk ile müzenin açılışını yapan “Fear and Love” sergisini tartışıyor. Altay ve McGuirk tasarım... more
Tasarım eğitimcisi ve sanatçı Can Altay, Kasım 2016’da yeni binasına taşınan Londra Tasarım Müzesi’nin Şef Küratörü Justin McGuirk ile müzenin açılışını yapan “Fear and Love” sergisini tartışıyor. Altay ve McGuirk tasarım söyleminin günümüz koşullarına cevaben alabileceği tepkisel ve eleştirel konum, değişimin aktörleri olarak tasarımcılar, tasarım sergileri ve sergi tasarımı gibi konulara değinirken tasarımın bugünü ve geleceğine dair önerilerde bulunuyorlar.
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Bilgi Üniversitesi Mimarlık Fakültesi öğretim üyelerinden Can Altay, konferans vermek için Türkiye'ye gelen ünlü İngiliz coğrafyacı, siyasal iktisatçı, sosyal kuramcı ve aktivist David Harvey ile Arkitera için bir söyleşi yaptı.
Research Interests: Urban Geography, Spatial Practices, Urban Politics, Contemporary Art, Urban Regeneration, and 17 moreUrban Studies, Resistance (Social), Architectural Theory, Urban Sociology, David Harvey, Spatial Politics, Cultural power and resistance, Urban Social Movements, Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, Spatial Justice, Critical Spatial Practice, Kentsel Dönüşüm, Informal Urbanism, Right to the city, Gecekondu, Kent Hakkı, and Utopia & Modern Urbanism
Research Interests: Performance Studies, Contemporary Art, Architectural Theory, Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, Art in public space, and 2 moreTheatre and the everyday, performance politics and civic intervention, urban architecture and sites of spectacle and Setting a Setting
Longer version of Frieze interview in Turkish and English, published in the monthly magazine Sanat Dünyamız. DAN GRAHAM WAS IN ISTANBUL FOR HIS FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION AT PROTOCINEMA. THEY MET WITH CAN ALTAY IN A CROWDED BACKYARD CAFE IN... more
Longer version of Frieze interview in Turkish and English, published in the monthly magazine Sanat Dünyamız.
DAN GRAHAM WAS IN ISTANBUL FOR HIS FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION AT PROTOCINEMA. THEY MET WITH CAN ALTAY IN A CROWDED BACKYARD CAFE IN CIHANGIR, TO TALK ABOUT CORPORATE URBANISM, VOYEURISM, LANDSCAPE TRADITIONS, THE “JUST-PAST” AS A HISTORICAL CATEGORY, QUESTIONS OF HUMAN SCALE, THE DUAL-FACETED ACT OF MODELMAKING, THE OVERLAYING OF FUNCTION AND MEANING, AND HOW NECESSARY IT IS TO BE INSIDE GRAHAM’S WORK, RATHER THAN BEING FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN. ISTANBUL WAS NOT ONLY THE BACKDROP FOR THIS ENCOUNTER; IT WAS MORE OF A FRAME-SPACE –NOT UNLIKE GRAHAM’S PAVILLIONS– THAT SHAPED THE DISCUSSION.
DAN GRAHAM WAS IN ISTANBUL FOR HIS FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION AT PROTOCINEMA. THEY MET WITH CAN ALTAY IN A CROWDED BACKYARD CAFE IN CIHANGIR, TO TALK ABOUT CORPORATE URBANISM, VOYEURISM, LANDSCAPE TRADITIONS, THE “JUST-PAST” AS A HISTORICAL CATEGORY, QUESTIONS OF HUMAN SCALE, THE DUAL-FACETED ACT OF MODELMAKING, THE OVERLAYING OF FUNCTION AND MEANING, AND HOW NECESSARY IT IS TO BE INSIDE GRAHAM’S WORK, RATHER THAN BEING FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN. ISTANBUL WAS NOT ONLY THE BACKDROP FOR THIS ENCOUNTER; IT WAS MORE OF A FRAME-SPACE –NOT UNLIKE GRAHAM’S PAVILLIONS– THAT SHAPED THE DISCUSSION.
Research Interests: Architecture, Contemporary Art, Installation (Art), Architectural Theory, Conceptual Art, and 9 moreUrban Design (Urban Studies), Debates on public space and public life, urban design theory, urban culture and history, Dan Graham, Critical Spatial Practice, Art in public space, Sociology of the architecture profession, modern history of the architecture profession and architectural design practice in Turkey, corporate modernism in architecture., Urban Interiors, Architecture and Public Spaces, and Art minimal et post-minimalisme
This conversation between Emanuele Guidi and Can Altay touches upon issues of power and inhabitation within the realms of art and urbanism. Everyday life collides with monuments, fountains and other fixtures revealing social and political... more
This conversation between Emanuele Guidi and Can Altay touches upon issues of power and inhabitation within the realms of art and urbanism. Everyday life collides with monuments, fountains and other fixtures revealing social and political aspects of practice. Also includes reflections on artworks and projects by Can Altay such as "Distributed"; "Deposit: Spring Deficit (After Dubai, After Hammons, and after the politics of white noise)"; and "COHAB: an assembly of spare parts"