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CAIET DE GEOGRAFIE
Aslı ÇAVUŞOĞLU
Nascuta la Istanbul în 1982, Asli ÇAVUSOGLU a studiat la Istanbul Platform Centre for Contemporary Arts
ca participant în cadrul programului Visitors of Istanbul. Încercând sa investigheze efectele textului
asupra memoriei, Asli ÇAVUSOGLU a publicat o carte editata de BAS, o institutie non-profit din Istanbul,
intitulata „Takip/Poursuivre”.
Proiectul realizat în cadrul Programului Backyard Residencies la Asociatia Vector din Iasi transmite cele
doua luni petrecute ca simplu turist în România în forma unei carti „Caiet de Geografie” o explorare socio-
politica a modalitatilor private de a resimti si oferi un raspuns diferentelor culturale, ce seamana cu un
jurnal. Cartea continând textele si desenele sale a fost expusa la Galeria Vector pentru doar doua ore.
Born in Istanbul in 1982, Asli ÇAVUSOGLU has been carrying out her studies in Istanbul Platform Centre
for Contemporary Arts as a participant in Visitors of Istanbul Program. Trying to investigate the effects of
text upon memory, Asli ÇAVUSOGLU has a book printed by BAS, a non-profit institution in Istanbul, under
the title of “Takip / Poursuirve.”
The project realized in the frame of Backyard Residencies Program at Vector Association, Iasi, is conveying
the 2-month period she has had in Romania as a modest tourist in the form of a book, “Caiet de Geografie”
a socio-political exploration of the private ways of resenting and responding to cultural differences which
resembles a diary. The book that consists of her texts and drawings was exhibited in Gallery Vector only for
two hours.
ISTORISIRI MODESTE
Fictiuni politice
Political Fictions
Fantasme nationalitare
Nationalitarian phantasms
Cristian NAE
In this context, the breviary of politics offered by Asli
Cavusoglu to the global citizen in the guise of
elementary lessons of geography for the use of tourists
is truly useful. When the “grand narratives” cease to
write history on the political and economic maps
studied in school, the topology of everyday life, written
at a slow pace through a fragmentary and subjective
selection, remains the only choice for exercising the
crossing of urban frontiers. In this image-game
constantly producing the authoritarian force of the
real, the border and the territory themselves become
again what they actually are: purely conceptual
spaces, uncertain focal points for the perceptual
differences between the media and the private mental
frames. In their oscillation when facing the immediate
experience, the global citizen builds by reduction
his/her convenient certitudes about the present.
Cristian NAE