Istanbul
The Love & Dreams Reader
ed. by Dieter Roelstraete ; text Eyal Weizman, Dieter Lesage, Hans Ulrich Obrist

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Author(s)

Eyal Weizman, Dieter Lesage, Hans Ulrich Obrist

Editor(s)

Dieter Roelstraete

Publication, year

Antwerp : MuHKA, 2005

Scope

128 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.

Carrier

magazine

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The strategic decision made by co-curators Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun, to withdraw the trajectory of the 9th Istanbul Biennial from the city's historical peninsula and instead focus on Istanbul's most 'western' modernized quarters, saved the biennial from the tedium of folklore, exoticization and orientalist kitsch that has crippled some of the biennial's previous editions. This desire to address the city as a global city and post modern metropolis provided the critical impetus for this issue of AS, a visual culture/theory journal published by MuHKA in Antwerp.

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Geographical location

Istanbul

Location

Cabinet 28 - 5: Culturele benadering van de (stedelijke) ruimte