Commission with Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson
Art International Istanbul, 2014
Protected: Statelessness as Practice
Ülken Zaten Yok Ki
Reconstitution
Performance commissions with Slavs and Tatars, Joana Hajithomas and Khalil Joreige, Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson, Karen Mirza and Brad Butler
Soho House, 2013
Curated with Jaime Davis
The event brings together artists whose practices involve reordering established or accepted truths. Through multiple artistic devices – music scores, performances and theatrical presentations – new cultural self-projections are actively reflected through the poetic and the political in a public sphere.
Long ago, and not true anyway
Group exhibition with Slavs and Tatars, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson, Rabih Mroué, Mekhitar Garabedian
waterside contemporary, 2013
Curated with Jaime Davis
National mythologies meet personal anecdotes, official fact mixes with subjective creation, and an opportunity arises to consider the role of fiction in the constitution of prevailing world order. Migration and exchange go hand in hand with globalisation; in parallel, conflict has led to movement of millions across borders. with surprising speed, communities emerge whose individual heritage has no intrinsic affinity to that of their neighbours’.
If ‘multiculturalism has failed’, such blending of identities, as participated in by the mixed-heritage native, refugee or economic migrant, cannot be thought of as only a matter of individual experience. instead, the sum total of the unlikely stories is the very foundation of any society’s mythology, and we are today participating in the creation of memory for future generations.