hole punch: a register of interesting stuff from louisemakesstuff
This projection by Paul Chan is in Antrepo 3 at the Istanbul Biennial. It is part of Dream House - it is a really fabulous piece, I could have watched it for hours. I have posted loads of pictures on my flickr site.
Paul Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1973 and lives and works in New York. He received an MFA from Bard College in 2002, a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996, and is represented by Greene Naftali, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Serpentine Museum (London), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, 2007), The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, 2006-07), Portikus (2006), Galleria Massimo De Carlo (Milan, 2006), Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, 2005), UCLA Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, 2005).
Beşiktaş and Fenerbahçe have both won a place in this years UEFA Champions League.
On Thursday the military announced new “interim security zones" in the regions of Şırnak, Hakkari and Siirt in the face of cross-border raids by the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) that have claimed at least 10 lives this week alone. But the area also includes constituencies that will produce nine members of the next Parliament. Some locals say the security crackdown will hamper campaigning and robust political competition but elections officials at the Supreme Election Board (YSK) yesterday quickly dismissed the claim.Iraq minister offers Turkey talks
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has told the BBC his government is ready to discuss with Turkey how to deal with the PKK Kurdish separatists.BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Istanbul said on Friday 8 June that Turkey has sent thousands of its troops to the border...
This week I have heard much talk of Turkeys role in The Greater Middle East Project I found this recent article in Turkish Daily News. And here is the mapan that although many Turks would argue such a move would be fully justified politically, most fear the military would be dragged into a quagmire. Whilst a unilateral intervention might well win votes at the general election next month, our correspondent adds, analysts warn it would spell disaster for Turkey's relations with the US and EU in particular.
- Authorisation of use of all types of human and technical resources and intelligence activities, including the use of cameras, voice recording facilities and the internet, to survey possible criminals. It was explained that this could also mean the ability to listen to telephone conversations without obtaining any prior permission.- The police will be able to obtain fingerprints from anybody applying for a gun license, driving license or passport.
- The police will be able to carry out body searches and searches of cars, personal documents and personal effects after obtaining authority from the civil authorities.
Then from the UK...
The home secretary, John Reid, made clear yesterday he is prepared to declare a "state of emergency" to suspend key parts of the human rights convention if the law lords do not overturn a series of judgments that have weakened the anti-terrorist control order regime...... MPs fear the control order regime is in danger of becoming a public laughing stock since six of the current 17 terror suspects subject to orders have managed to disappear.In the Guardian this week Press Repression in Russia and Turkey Growing
Yavuz Baydar, the ombudsman for the Sabah newspaper, spoke of a similar pattern of fear and self-censorship in Turkey following the murder of Hrant Dink in January this year.
Investigative reporting was disappearing. There was a sense of fatigue among editors. As many as 15 of Baydar's colleagues now had round-the-clock bodyguards: some had armoured cars and feared for their relatives.
Journalists, intellectuals and writers had become used to being jailed in Turkey, said Baydar. However, the murder of a leading commentator such as Dink was different: it was intended to unleash instability, polarise society and legitimise hatred.
Baydar said he could not pretend that the murder of Dink had resulted in solidarity among journalists. There had been a march of 100,000 mourners protesting at Dink's murder - but he had seen only one rival editor at the funeral, and no rival publishers or proprietors.
Tens of thousands of Turks have massed in the city of Samsun in the latest demonstration in support of secularism. The crowds waved national flags and chanted slogans opposing any change to Turkey's secular political model. The protest in Samsun, a port on the Black Sea, followed huge rallies in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.Samsun was the place where Ataturk launched the country's war of independence against ruling powers after the end of World War I. Police estimated that about 50,000 people attended the rally, Reuters news agency reported.
