Friday 5th October 11am - 1pm
'This photo you found reminds me of the French Revolution?'
During this presentation I will examine the image of protest that is presented here in regards to its aesthetic model – Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People (1830). Our view of a demonstration, like any other event' is coloured by the images of it that are distributed; when and in what context they are consumed, and how they relate to other previous distributions of images. As such the control of images becomes of paramount importance to the ideological war that takes place between the various factions in a conflict: For example the recent protests that took place in Turkey that produced this image.
Alongside this I will examine the disruption, by the group Public/Common Resistance Platform, to a pre-cursor event to the Istanbul Biennial entitled Public Capital on the 10th May 2013. I will do this through two publicly available available documents Call to Rethink the 13th Istanbul Biennial and Response of the Biennale Curators (www.artleaks.org 09/06/13) and Artleaks: Another World Is Possible – What about an Anonymous Istanbul Biennial? –Ahmet Ögüt (www.everywheretaksim.net 13/09/13).
