homepage / oguz tatari / ozz / 15 poets: hair-designer, museum guard, truck driver, sociologist, cook, singer.../ 15 stanzas/ 15 languages/ a local jazz improvisationist/ singing + reading in 15 urban locations of eindhoven/ stories, desires, beliefs, fears/ feelings of alienation, exploitation, affirmation and denial/ issues of morality, nation, background, religion, income, power/ recent and former political and social conditions of the city, the country/ the critical relationship between the citizens and foreign policies in the netherlands / 'tuma maora ha' /// a huge studio = a residence/ a nationalistic group show/ exchange of roles/ a critical approach against the power relations of the art market/ subverting the core idea of the exhibition/ inviting locals of the city/ playing the role of a quasi gallerist, a curator, an art educator/ exposing the results of participants’ creativity during the exhibition/ recreating a representative model / bring your ideas!!! /// die schützen weimar, germany // guns / possibilities of possession as foreigners / offering a service of assasination through various marketing techniques / asking for personal targets under a pseudonym / enforced german laws / inability to take care of the business but to raise public awareness and provoke thoughts of insecurity / people's own feelings about weapons / drawing attention to current social and political conditions / nationality and security policies, the legal status / position of violence in our societies /// collaboration / challenging // insecure ///// cartman / a showcase / an addition / playing with the datum of the exposed objects, with the expectations of the museum visitors / questioning the criteria of representational strategies, the iconography / linking today’s popular culture and a disaster in the history of human race / realizing dreams of a spoiled, insensitive, bigoted, manipulative, racist character / anachronistic / 'respect my authority!' ///// september 12th activists ankara, turkey // 1980, a military coup led by the turkish armed forces / limited rights and depoliticized youth; tortures and executions / readjusting and refreshing collective memory / a street fest / presence of different police forces / surveillance, observation and classification / designing t-shirts with stencils and spray paints / slogans / creating my activists / engendering doubts in the heads of the civil police officers // critical / political // public ///// mooe münster, germany // unpaid employers / sheep, goats, cows, ponies, geese and a mule / straw all over / a sign indicating prohibition / communication through transcendental thoughts / touch, smell, look, lick, kiss / solidarity / sharing complaints, pains and sorrows; love and passion / freeing from sins, evil, burden and stress / performing with real performers / sarcastic / discussing image politics; symbols of economics and public transformation // libera-, purifica-, sanctifica-tion ///// dort jena, germany // the most architectonic feature of the city = the fallic jentower / a window for workers / bringing private into public / projecting one man's private life onto his working garage / opening the locked doors of a strict german house for the sake of art / sharing common social practices, distinct moments of intimate domains, banality / engendering moments of emphaty // 'dort' is out on sale in book form.!!! order now!!! ///// sidewalk istanbul, turkey // rackets / street invasion / incapability of passing through, seeing beyond / a permanent pen as a subversive tool / an action of graffiting / drawing the outer forms of the cobblestones / passer-bys, board cleaners, shop owners / raising questions on the ideological working operations of the public realm and the global power of marketing // streets belong to public!! reclaim!! /// fuse cabinet istanbul, turkey // politics of exposition and acquisition / art objects / an identity label / self-placement / donating a fuse cabinet to the museum = to the family collection / post-modernicizing the so-called 'modern' museum / critiquing the making of art in the frame of art (re)presentation and conception // official artist of a family museum ///// cleaning istanbul, turkey // a main street = an open-air trade center / fallic poles / confronting municipality workers, the public, dogs and vehicles / a nonsense, half-done installation / restoring left-over nylon bags / feeling the dirt, the rain, snow, loogies, dog piss and shit / bringing those into a gallery space // collecting / remapping /// home page / oguz tatari / ozz