George Orwell’s Birthday Party
Dutch artist duo Front404 decorated security cameras with party hats in one of the Netherland’s largest cities to celebrate George Orwell’s 110th birthday.
Source: front404.com
Source: front404.com
Songs of Freedom and Exile
Fatimata Oumarr is the lead singer of the internationally-acclaimed Tuareg band Tartit.
Lost History through the Lens of the Dildilian Brothers
- Tsolag and Aram Dildilian are posing for an advertisement of their studio, 1890
- The Portraits, the young photographers shot, are arranged like portrait paintings
- The reopening of the Ottoman Parliament in Istanbul 1908 cause demonstrations of joy also in Merzifon. The Youngturks movement was embracing nationalism. Wars on the Balkans and in the Caucasus caused an unfair collective blame on the Armenians to collaborate with the enemy
- Massgrave in Hekimhan
- German Soldiers posing, they gave the glassplates for development to the Dildilians studio in November 1918, where they remained in the archive
- Last Christmas in Merzifon 1920
- When the family leaves the country in 1922 lots of relatives, like this cousin with his whole family, have been killed.
The Dildilians were a Family of Photographers. They were working in Merzifon, Samsun and Sivas between 1872 and 1923.
Another Reality
‘Another Reality’ presents images of a changing world. In ‘The Crowning’ (2011) we see how a young woman puts on a safety helmet. It is a powerful metaphor for the contemporary fragility of life. With a remarkable impact, it accentuates the continuous presence of the past, contained within all of us.
Art D-O Ark Underground, Bosnia Herzegovina
The Project Biennial of Contemporary Art D-O Ark Underground is a unique location and event. Hidden behind the facade of a village house you enter a 6500 square meter Bunker, that was made for President Tito and his Generals in case of a nuclear attack.
ARK/Istanbul – Biennial Sarajevo
- Remind Us of Our Futuristic Past
- D-0 Ark Underground
- Miroslaw Balka - Carrying the Rainbow
- Communication Center in the Bunker
- Corridor
- Villu Jaanisoo - Fog is a Cloud that is Related to the Land, 2011
- Wolfgang Thaler 2011
- Exit
- Renata Poljak - Staging Actors / Staging Beliefs 2011/2012
- Power Engine
- Karsten Konrad 2011
The Project Biennial of Contemporary Art, D-0 ARK Underground takes place for the second time in Konjic, a small Bosnian town not far from Sarajevo, in a Atomic shelter named ARK, codename Istanbul, which Yugoslav army built between 1953 and 1979.