The city, the life is so BEAUTIFULLY WOUNDED, that the mind cannot digest the knowledge without the madness; and the soul cannot absord the fact how rich in content it is, without crying.
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Şehir öylesine GÜZEL YARALI ki zihin delilik olmadan bu gilgiyi hazmedemez ve ruh; içeriğin bu denli zenginliğini ağlamadan anlayamaz.
Jal el Dib, 23.04.2012
Exercises on Public Behaviour on Possessing:
A short film made by Gumus Ozdes for the project “PUBLIC IDEA - Artistic Approaches to the Urban Sphere of Istanbul” founded by :
The European Cultural Capital Istanbul 2010,
Kadirga Art Production Center, Istanbul
Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel
Ministry of Education and Culture Schleswig-Holstein
Landeskulturverband Schleswig Holstein
The exhibitions took place in iMÇ 5533 in Istanbul, Turkey
and
Brunswiker Pavillon Brunswiker Str. 13, 24103 Kiel, Germany
Log on the process:
Money is in Karl Polanyi’s terms, a fictitious commodity*. It is a symbol in my mind, an acrobat on a thin rope between public and individual. Changing hands everyday , subdividing into changes and coins, spreading fractally in public life but on the other hand, becoming the very possesion of one who has the hold of it. So it becomes a thing that represents everything what can not be public… In the 21st century habitat, we could dare to suggest that “possessing” is man’s new instinct. Therefore a public anything, is a fictitious notion. Just like the money itself. In Rosdolsky’s interpretation on Marx’s view on money , “…money is here seen as the “one” against of “many” commodities.**” he says. Makes it an eyecandy. In my project money is starring as an symbol on a pavement, stripped from it’s function due to the the fact that it is glued to the public sidewalk which humorously means it would loose its function when ripped. Pausing the public machine for a second, causing a glitch and confronting the participants to stop and think there for a second on what’s public and what’s not. Embedding a semi- possessable symbol into the space that is declared as unclaimable, I seek to highlight the uncanny relationship between individual approach to a public commodity suggested, and the alleged Public Idea.
