The Istanbul Symposium
September 5th 2007 19 – 21 pm
Big Family Business
Istanbul Manifatura Carsisi, Block 5, No. 5533, Unkapani, Istanbul
bigfamilybusiness.net/family-program.php
Symposium:
symposium | sim’põze%-®lig;m noun {pl. -sia | ze%-®lig; | or -siums}
*a drinking party with music and convivial intellectual discussion, esp. as held in ancient Greece after a banquet {and notable as the title of a work by Plato}
ORIGIN: Late 16th cent. {denoting a drinking party}: via Latin from Greek sumposion, from sumpot%-®lig;s ‘fellow drinker,’ from sum -together and pot%-®lig;s-drinker
Using the ghost of a tequila bar as a starting point, Julieta Aranda and Eduardo Sarabia will host a domino tournament as the center point for a discussion about the natural handicaps of traditional discussions. Later on there will be a screening of Liam Gilick’s informal bar talks after his seminar Five Short Texts on the Possibility of Creating an Economy of Equivalence, which was held at unitednationsplaza in Berlin earlier this year. The screening will be introduced by Anton Vidokle.
Music drinking to follow!
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unitednationsplaza is exhibition as school. Structured as a seminar/residency program in the city of Berlin, it will involve collaboration with approximately 60 artists, writers, theorists and a wide range of audiences for a period of one year. In the tradition of Free Universities, most of its events will be open to all those interested to take part.
unitednationsplaza is organized by Anton Vidokle in collaboration with Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Martha Rosler, Walid Raad, Jalal Toufic, Nikolaus Hirsch, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Tirdad Zolghadr.
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Big Family Busines is an open office for everybody, a spacetime of autonomous program, as well as a connecting node for art and knowledge exchange and production.
In the context of the 10th Istanbul Biennial, Big Family Business proposes an organic working model through processing the dynamics of transnational art traffic to initiate one month’s discussion-wise events and happenings on a non-hierarchical communication platform, where offers free internet, free speech, free coffee/tea and free activities. Our deal is to run with fun, club local and be family–on the account of the mobile network of our art community.
bigfamilybusiness.net/family-program.php
Office Hour:
Mon-Fri 10-19, Sat 12-17,
3 September-5 October 2007
Address: Istanbul Manifatura Carsisi, Block 5, No. 5533, Unkapani, Istanbul
Contact Us: goodgangsters@gmail.com
