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27. Günümüz Sanatçıları Sergisi RHD+AKBANK SANAT 19 Haziran-31 Temmuz 2008 işçisin sen, işçi ol! Sanatçılar: Seçil Alkış, Turan Büyükkahraman, Mehmet Dere, Selin Kocagöncü, Yener Pınarbaş, Esra Sağlık, Nejat Satı, Viron Vert, Halil Vurucuoğlu Küratörler: Irina Batkova, Bart van der Heide, Adnan Yıldız

The Language Habitat: an Ecopoetry Manifesto By James Engelhardt Ecopoetry is connection. It’s a way to engage the world by and through language. This poetry might be wary of language, but at its core believes that language is an evolved ability that comes from our bodies, that is close to the core of who we are in the world. Ecopoetry might borrow strategies and approaches from postmodernism and its off-shoots, depending on the poet and their interests, but the ecopoetic space is not a postmodern space. An ecopoem might play with slippages, but the play will lead to further connections. Ecopoetry does share a space with science. One of the concerns of ecopoetry is non-human nature (it shares this concern with the critical apparatus it borrows from, ecocriticism). It certainly shares that concern with most of the world’s history of poetry: How can we connect with non-human nature that seems so much more, so much larger than ourselves? How can we understand it? One way ...

when you walk, i feel like dancin` all i want, is making love to you when you move, the world gets groovy all i do, is dream of you you are great, you`re the top you are grand, youre my star...

Bırakın insanlar istediği gibi yasasınlar.Herkesin buna hakkı var,yoksa sevgiye nasıl ayrıcalıklı bir etik alan açabiliriz? Beden,dil ve çevre üç halka değilmi?Her yerde o aynı pragmatik paradoks,Ne yazık ki insanlar şartları degiştirmek için eylemi kullamaya inanmak yerine eylemlerini şartlara uydurmayı seçiyorlar.Ötekiyi sil,anlama, onlar bilmem ne! etiketle yapıştır Hepimiz birbirimizin komşu atomu olduğumuza göre karşılaşmalara inanmıyorsan sana bakan yüze nasıl cevap verebilirsin?

Exhibition in Pecs, Hungary - 100 Reflections of Iszlam May 28th, 2008 In 2010,Europe will have three cultural capitals: Essen in Germany, the Turkish Istanbul and the Hungarian Pecs. Between East (Istanbul) and West (Essen) Pecs is in half-way, so the call reflects also on unifying Europe and on the diversity of cultures acknowledging the power of imaginative geographies. As today the role of religion is strengthening again both in the search for identity and the political, public discourses, we would like to present these three cities by their common religious heritage. Islam is the most dynamic world religion today. After Christianity, it is the second largest religion with 1 billion 322 million followers. Islam is so diverse that some even speak today about “Islams”, in the plural. The Muslim mode of life, system of belief and world-views are manifested in the cities: through clothing, architecture, behaviour, commerce and application of law. We would like to offer this diversity –...