Sweet Confusion
conference / sweet sixties / Istanbul /
Sweet Confusion is a conference project that comparatively explores Armenian and Turkish cinematography of the 60s. The conference attempts to reread the socio-political and cultural paradigms of two geopolitically estranged situations, which throughout the 1960s were in the process of self-defining and self-positioning themselves by determining and shaping the “other” through the complex correlation of cultural and political systems.
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Aspirations, Tensions and Failures of 1960s' State Cultural Policies
Sweet 60s / seminar /
The seminar deals with the issues of cultural policies and state representation as viewed through the phenomenon of large-scale exhibitions, biennials and film production from the 1960s and 1970s.
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meeting Sweet 60s
panel discussion /
May 13th, at 1pm
Room M20, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna
The participants will give an insight in their practice in regard to the project „Sweet 60s“ as well as a contextualisation within contemporary practices which will open up into a general discussion.
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THE CITY DEVELOPMENT, CONTEMPORARY ART AND
Sweet 60s / A Note of Residency in (DEPO), Istanbul /
In December 2010 Yoshi Fajar Kresno Murti from Indonesia spent two weeks in residence at Depo in Istanbul in the frame of Sweet 60s.
The residence was made possible through the cooperation with the IVAA - Indonesian Visual Art Archive.
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RED THREAD
presentation /
RED THREAD has dedicated it's second issue to "Sweet 60s". The presentation takes place on October 13th 2010 at 6.30 pm in Istanbul.
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RED THREAD editorial meeting
WHW, Zagreb /
Accompanying the SWEET 60s project is the publication of an issue of the online magazine RED THREAD in June 2010.
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Introduction
SWEET 60s
is a long term experimental curatorial, scientific and educational research project that investigates hidden territories of the revolutionary period of the 1960s regarded from contemporary artistic and theoretical perspectives
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