Intersecting Quadrants: Vivienne Jabri Meets Banu Cennetoğlu
H O W B E I T : WAR, THE AESTHETIC, AND THE POLITICAL
<< How, then, do we begin to make sense of the political when the artwork refuses the aestheticization of violence, or when the aesthetic response to war is productive of the political within the aesthetic? >> (Jabri 64).
<< Core to Fanon’s analytics is the permeation of colonial violence into the lived experience of the colonized, so that war is not an extraordinary event, its violence being constitutive of the colonial condition and hence of the colonial subject>> (Jabri 66).
Founded by artist Banu Cennetoğlu in 2006 and currently run by Aslı Özdoyuran and Marina Papazyan, BAS is a non profit space dedicated to the collection, exhibition, production, and distribution of artists’ publications and printed matter. Today, its collection stands at over 1,500 artists’ books, periodicals, and other printed publications by artists and artist collectives.
Insun Woo, “Creating an Artist Books Library in Istanbul,” Global Art Daily, July 9, 2022, https://e-issues.globalartdaily.com/Creating-an-Artist-Books-Library-in-Istanbul-Asli-Ozdoyuran-on-BAS
