Uprisings

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  Video

  Double Take: Istanbul’s Streets Then and Now

  July 15, 2013 - 

  Surveillance cameras capture a bustling avenue, a crowded bazaar, a quiet park; and, in the same spots, streams of tear gas, ghostly arcades, eerie calm. In Santiago Mostyn’s film pairing footage of Istanbul in May 2012 and May 2013, the same city is seen as if in two parallel universes.  More

  By Santiago Mostyn

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  Interview

  Turkey: Art and Upheaval

  July 1, 2013 - 

  Creative Time chief curator Nato Thompson interviews Turkish curator Defne Ayas, now director of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, about the protests in Turkey—and international art-world solidarity.  More

  By Defne Ayas and Nato Thompson

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  Uprisings

  Here We Are: The Imagination of Public Space in Gezi Park

  June 14, 2013 - 

  Protests have gripped Turkey for the past two weeks, transforming public space in the minds of the country’s inhabitants. Istanbul-based artist Can Altay explores the role of art and humor in the uprising, writing, “Imagination expands slowly and strikes suddenly.”  More

  By Can Altay

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  Election Report

  Fitna and the Iranian Elections

  June 12, 2013 - 

  On Friday, Iran is set to elect a new president to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, four years after the country’s last elections triggered widespread protests and a brutal crackdown. An anonymous artist pays tribute to the Green Movement, its creative forms of subversion and its imprisoned protesters.  More

  By L'Anonyme

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  Uprisings

  Speak Mouthless

  June 3, 2013 - 

  In a video channeling the revolutionary struggle in the rebel-held town of Kafranbel, Syria, Lebanese architect Tony Chakar challenges the Western tendency to categorize the Arab Spring as fundamentally separate from social movements in Europe and the United States.  More

  By Tony Chakar