May 4th, 2006
State of Sabotage Presents
INFORNATION
Opening 04.05.06, 7pm, Exhibition 05.5.06- 31.05.06
Pi Artworks Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
The State of Sabotage (SoS) makes its first state visit to Turkey and will install a temporary SoS embassy at the exhibition.
The SoS embassy office and Consulate will issue SoS CITIZENSHIPS AND PASSPORTS for a 35 Euro Application Fee, no visas or Green card required.
The SABOTAGE NATIONAL ANTHEM will be performed live by NEOPLAST.
Artworks from the „State of the Art“ Collection will be exhibited. Historical films from the SOS archives will be shown, including highlights from the founding of the state, and other actions.
Artworks from turkish artists curated by Michael Parenti under the theme „INFORNATION“ will be exhibited, and the artists will be inducted into the State of Sabotage Art Foundation.
As a State gift the transnational dish “SOUP OF SABOTAGE” will be served to the guests.
The first one hundred visitors to the exhibition will receive a limited edition catalog of the „STAMPS OF SABOTAGE“ commemorating the establishment of the Turkish embassy.
Announcements will me made regarding the establishment and location of the „SABOTAJ DEVLETI SANAT MERKEZI“ (Sabotage State Art Center) as a permanent embassy in Beyoglu.
Representives at SoS embassy:
ROBERT JELINEK (SoS chancellor)
MICHAEL PARENTI (SoS Ambassador in Turkey)
„INFORNATION“ as STAATSKUNST (THE ART OF THE STATE)
SOS diplomacy is conducted through artistic sovereignty and trans-nationality – art as state as a direct form of independent state art. The “state” is static by definition (both concepts derive from Latin “status”). In our contemporary understanding the state is a kind of steely skeleton or matrix – constructed so that it can provide structure, grounding, and duration to a constantly changing society.
The State of Sabotage feels bound to this understanding of Staatskunst and will, for the first time in Turkey with the INFORNATION event, present its capital by means of artistic positions. INFORNATION visualizes the attributes of trans-nationalities and the new conditions of state and artistic reality through artistic practices, models, visions, and utopias of the participating artists, who will have their work included in the „State of the Art“ Collection.
INCLUDING PIECES FROM THE SOS „STATE OF THE ART“ COLLECTION:
BEATRICE DREUX
H.R. GIGER
FRANZ GRAF
ANABELLE HULAUT
ROBERT JELINEK
JONATHAN MEESE
HEIMO ZOBERNIG
ROBIN MOLENAAR
SABINE FEICHTNER/CHRISTOPH STEINEGGER
GISELA STIEGLER
INCLUDING COMMISSIONED WORKS FROM TURKISH ARTISTS:
ARI ALPERT
DERYA ALTINEL
ESAT BASAK
EXTRAMUCADELE
GAMZE FIDAN / KOP-ART
ARHAN KAYAR
IRFAN ONÜRMEN
GULAY SEMIRGIOUGLU
(more artists to be added)
SABOTAGE NATIONAL ANTHEM
Interpreted by Neoplast
On the opening evening, guests will be honoured with the performance of the Sabotage National Anthem by the turkish neo-industrial pop band, NEOPLAST.
SOUP OF SABOTAGE Interpreted by Dilara Erbay
Links:
Turkish Press about SoS on 13.03.2006:
http://www.milliyet.com/2006/03/13/yasam/yas04.html
Pi Artworks Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
Muallim Naci Cad. No. 25 Ortaköy Istanbul
Tel. 2366853