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Can Altay
TURKISH ARTIST CAN ALTAY has been carrying out sociological exploration and documentation of Ankara\'s social spaces from the perspective of urban planning, urban design, and architecture. Using videos, slides, texts, and sound recordings he has been focusing on how public space in the great of the city is privatized. For example in Minibar, his most recent work before the Busan Biennale, he shows an example of how young men appropriate a particular architectural space in Ankara and use it for their nightly gathering. Such appropriation of urban architectural spaces re-discovers the social relations and use values inherent in all architectural spaces. For his work in the Biennale, Protection (Neighborhood Nightclub), Altay has collected twenty-seven used TV sets from homes in Busan, and he shows the blinking of security lights that one can easily encounter in residential neighborhoods of Ankara. His motive here is to break down the boundary between the public and private spheres.
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