xurban_collective

//subjectile.journal

xurban.net/subjectile is a journal for daily xurban activities

/scope.projects

The Sea-Image: Visual Manifestations of Port Cities and Global Waters
Book_2011, Edited by Pope & Imam

Botany Carcinoma
Project _2010

Sea of Marble / Mermer Denizi
Project _2010

Evacuation #1: The Sacred Evacuation / Tahliye No:1 Kutsal Tahliye
Project _2010

La Ville Blanc / Die Weisser Stadt
Project _2010

Proposed but not Engaged
Proposal _2009

The Cracked Sea of Marble
Project _2009

(Non).Monumental: T.C.Anit.Yarik
Project _2006-2007

Void: A View from Acropolis /
Mahrum ve Bos: Akropolden Manzara
Project_05_2006

Refused / Reddedildi
Proposal_05-08_2005

S.i.e.g.e.c.r.a.f.t
Exhibition_04-06_2004

The Containment Contained / Zoraki Ihtiva
Project _09_2003

Knit++
Project_12_2002

Central Intelligence
Exhibition_12_2001

Confessions: Strong from East_EastWest
Exhibition_06_2001

Catastrophe :On the Outside Same As Inside/Içi Disi Bir: Felaket
Exhibition_09_2000

/notion.texts

Domestic Labor, Knitting and alternative networks: Knit++
Text_12_2009
by imam@xurban_collective

We Are Not Professionals
Text_12_2009
by imam@xurban_collective

On Collectivty
Text_07_2009
by imam & pope

Trademarks and the Clash of Civilizations:
Authentic versus Counterfeit
Text_09_2006
by imam & pope

An Interim Report: Istanbul Exclusive
Text_01_2006
by imam & pope

Nullify the Void
A manifestation_05_2005
by imam & pope

Shock & Awe
Text_03_2003
by imam & pope

Art.Politics
A manifestation_2000
by pope@xurban_collective

/.scape.archived

Diagolues Accross Borders
[pope &pagan]
A xurban workshop in Yerevan_07_2007
Coming soon!

The City of Ruins
[pope & imam]
A xurban installation project_03_2004

In Memoriam Derelicti...
[pope@xurban]
The poetics of the derelict as opposed to the military, the technocratic, the financial and the cultural management of the metropolis: fuck the new order, let the old one rot in peace_2001

Bes Sehir / Five Cities
[pope@xurban]
A photographic survey of the city, from East to West, just when the metropolis turns itself into a spectacle, when the 'Flâneur' is the tourist, and the ruins pile up as we are carried away towards the future_2001

Kursun Asker / Lead Soldier
[albay@xurban]
Bir bacagi eksik bolunmez butunluk / Inseperable unity without one leg

b a c k t o l i f e
[albay@xurban]
an experiment on animal behaviour.social isolation issue in a special type aquarium.

Un-for-tu-na-te Com-po-si-tion
[imam@xurban]
A backward, self-ironic, exploration of fragmented psyche, part of the anuscope project_2000

Paranomic-Distributions I . II
[imam@xurban]
A proposal :The possibility of suspension image. An image, does not evolve, does not stand, does not succeed. Just exhausts itself. An idea : The smell of the death bodies carried away with the dust. The rain could not clean. The society, the hygienic one, has already rotten, decayed, mortified. The endless trauma is the mediatic one_05_2000

Under Construction
[imam@xurban]
For the construction of new buildings the workmen are waiting, the architects are waiting, the engineers are waiting. All of us, with our institutions and organizations are at the service of The Turkish Construction Sector_1998

Off The Book / Kayitdisi Mekanlar
[pope@xurban]
Surveying Istanbul's 'Historical Peninsula' as the markets and the Bazaar defy the logic of late capitalism and the multi-national corporation, in a tradition going back to Byzantium_2000

Kabil Körfezi / Gulf of Kabul: Bir Koy, Bes Al
[pope@xurban]

A 7 holes trip in the cave
[shaman@xurban

/.stream.archived

Tears of the Prime Minister
[imam@xurban]
A speculative study on corporeal clichés.

Project g+y-1
[imam@xurban]
A work about bodies, home-design and the capital city of the nation-state.

Welcome to the Party
[imam@xurban]

//manifesto

1. Globalisation was a lie…

2. Global is the free floating capital, defying national borders, penetrating…

3. Commodity/spectacle is in worldwide circulation, unlike peoples of the world...

4. The 'liberal' aims at the liberation of capital, not the freedom.Money liberates, and for the rest it is the military-police state as usual...

5. To Tolstoy, "Government is Violence." But to think that the salvation lies in the initiative of the multi-national corporation appears as a grave mistake...

6. The civil society should be constructed outside the state and the capitalist sponsor networks. "Non-profit organizations are traps...

7. The autonomy of culture and identity can exist as being autonomous only from commerce…

8. The apparent diffusion of ownership and the swift moves of the capital aim at manipulation. No market index is justified by the actual production, just as no value for labor is just...

9. The global culture of capitalism breeds nationalism and fanaticism. The thugs kill for recognition...

10. The only transnational territory is still the world wide web, as long as it is not sold out in a merger with English as the transnational language...

11. Power corrupts, be it official or unofficial. The xurbanite aims at stripping the self off any power moves...

xurban_collective, 2000 - ny-ist

//brief

xurban.net, art and politics since 2000

xurban_collective is an international art collective founded in 2000 by Guven Incirlioglu (Izmir) and Hakan Topal (New York) as a transatlantic collaboration.

Over the last 12 years, some of the collaborators include Mahir Yavuz, Atif Akin, Mehmet Ali Uzelgun, Ali Demirel, Elif Aksit, Akin Gulseven, Jillian McDonald and Bulet Ozturk.

xurban_collective's mission is to instigate the questioning, examination, and discussion of contemporary politics, theory, and ideology, utilizing documentary research and take the form of media projects, installations and texts. The collective focuses specifically on areas of regional conflicts, military spatial confinement, urban segregation, nationalist and neo-liberal exclusion strategies.

locations:
new york, izmir, istanbul, amsterdam, ankara, berlin

core clerics:
pope(Guven Incirlioglu - Izmir/Istanbul)
imam (Hakan Topal - New York)

felt (at) xurban (dot) net
us tel: + 1.646.283.5252
tr tel: + 90.536.703.5739

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	//subjectile.journal xurban.net/subjectile is a journal for daily xurban activities
	/scope.projects The Sea-Image: Visual Manifestations of Port Cities and Global Waters Book_2011, Edited by Pope & Imam Botany Carcinoma Project _2010 Sea of Marble / Mermer Denizi Project _2010 Evacuation #1: The Sacred Evacuation / Tahliye No:1 Kutsal Tahliye Project _2010 La Ville Blanc / Die Weisser Stadt Project _2010 Proposed but not Engaged Proposal _2009 The Cracked Sea of Marble Project _2009 (Non).Monumental: T.C.Anit.Yarik Project _2006-2007 Void: A View from Acropolis / Mahrum ve Bos: Akropolden Manzara Project_05_2006 Refused / Reddedildi Proposal_05-08_2005 S.i.e.g.e.c.r.a.f.t Exhibition_04-06_2004 The Containment Contained / Zoraki Ihtiva Project _09_2003 Knit++ Project_12_2002 Central Intelligence Exhibition_12_2001 Confessions: Strong from East_EastWest Exhibition_06_2001 Catastrophe :On the Outside Same As Inside/Içi Disi Bir: Felaket Exhibition_09_2000
	/notion.texts Domestic Labor, Knitting and alternative networks: Knit++ Text_12_2009 by imam@xurban_collective We Are Not Professionals Text_12_2009 by imam@xurban_collective On Collectivty Text_07_2009 by imam & pope Trademarks and the Clash of Civilizations: Authentic versus Counterfeit Text_09_2006 by imam & pope An Interim Report: Istanbul Exclusive Text_01_2006 by imam & pope Nullify the Void A manifestation_05_2005 by imam & pope Shock & Awe Text_03_2003 by imam & pope Art.Politics A manifestation_2000 by pope@xurban_collective
	/.scape.archived Diagolues Accross Borders [pope &pagan] A xurban workshop in Yerevan_07_2007 Coming soon! The City of Ruins [pope & imam] A xurban installation project_03_2004 In Memoriam Derelicti... [pope@xurban] The poetics of the derelict as opposed to the military, the technocratic, the financial and the cultural management of the metropolis: fuck the new order, let the old one rot in peace_2001 Bes Sehir / Five Cities [pope@xurban] A photographic survey of the city, from East to West, just when the metropolis turns itself into a spectacle, when the 'Flâneur' is the tourist, and the ruins pile up as we are carried away towards the future_2001 Kursun Asker / Lead Soldier [albay@xurban] Bir bacagi eksik bolunmez butunluk / Inseperable unity without one leg b a c k t o l i f e [albay@xurban] an experiment on animal behaviour.social isolation issue in a special type aquarium. Un-for-tu-na-te Com-po-si-tion [imam@xurban] A backward, self-ironic, exploration of fragmented psyche, part of the anuscope project_2000 Paranomic-Distributions I . II [imam@xurban] A proposal :The possibility of suspension image. An image, does not evolve, does not stand, does not succeed. Just exhausts itself. An idea : The smell of the death bodies carried away with the dust. The rain could not clean. The society, the hygienic one, has already rotten, decayed, mortified. The endless trauma is the mediatic one_05_2000 Under Construction [imam@xurban] For the construction of new buildings the workmen are waiting, the architects are waiting, the engineers are waiting. All of us, with our institutions and organizations are at the service of The Turkish Construction Sector_1998 Off The Book / Kayitdisi Mekanlar [pope@xurban] Surveying Istanbul's 'Historical Peninsula' as the markets and the Bazaar defy the logic of late capitalism and the multi-national corporation, in a tradition going back to Byzantium_2000 Kabil Körfezi / Gulf of Kabul: Bir Koy, Bes Al [pope@xurban] A 7 holes trip in the cave [shaman@xurban
	/.stream.archived Tears of the Prime Minister [imam@xurban] A speculative study on corporeal clichés. Project g+y-1 [imam@xurban] A work about bodies, home-design and the capital city of the nation-state. Welcome to the Party [imam@xurban]
	//manifesto 1. Globalisation was a lie… 2. Global is the free floating capital, defying national borders, penetrating… 3. Commodity/spectacle is in worldwide circulation, unlike peoples of the world... 4. The 'liberal' aims at the liberation of capital, not the freedom.Money liberates, and for the rest it is the military-police state as usual... 5. To Tolstoy, "Government is Violence." But to think that the salvation lies in the initiative of the multi-national corporation appears as a grave mistake... 6. The civil society should be constructed outside the state and the capitalist sponsor networks. "Non-profit organizations are traps... 7. The autonomy of culture and identity can exist as being autonomous only from commerce… 8. The apparent diffusion of ownership and the swift moves of the capital aim at manipulation. No market index is justified by the actual production, just as no value for labor is just... 9. The global culture of capitalism breeds nationalism and fanaticism. The thugs kill for recognition... 10. The only transnational territory is still the world wide web, as long as it is not sold out in a merger with English as the transnational language... 11. Power corrupts, be it official or unofficial. The xurbanite aims at stripping the self off any power moves... xurban_collective, 2000 - ny-ist
	//brief xurban.net, art and politics since 2000 xurban_collective is an international art collective founded in 2000 by Guven Incirlioglu (Izmir) and Hakan Topal (New York) as a transatlantic collaboration. Over the last 12 years, some of the collaborators include Mahir Yavuz, Atif Akin, Mehmet Ali Uzelgun, Ali Demirel, Elif Aksit, Akin Gulseven, Jillian McDonald and Bulet Ozturk. xurban_collective's mission is to instigate the questioning, examination, and discussion of contemporary politics, theory, and ideology, utilizing documentary research and take the form of media projects, installations and texts. The collective focuses specifically on areas of regional conflicts, military spatial confinement, urban segregation, nationalist and neo-liberal exclusion strategies. locations: new york, izmir, istanbul, amsterdam, ankara, berlin core clerics: pope(Guven Incirlioglu - Izmir/Istanbul) imam (Hakan Topal - New York) felt (at) xurban (dot) net us tel: + 1.646.283.5252 tr tel: + 90.536.703.5739 Twitter \| Facebook \| Flickr "/" means 'active projects' "/." means 'passive/archived projects' "//" means 'informational' bolder means 'updated more frequently'