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The exhibited work was complemented by a publication of three interviews, which situated the work and built a discourse around it. | The exhibited work was complemented by a publication of three interviews, which situated the work and built a discourse around it. | ||
|description_of_incident=The Turkish Embassy situated in Matadero Madrid, Spain chose to censor the exhibit by removing the words "Armenian genocide" and "1915". | |description_of_incident=The Turkish Embassy situated in Matadero Madrid, Spain chose to censor the exhibit by removing the words "Armenian genocide" and "1915". | ||
|description_of_result=The exhibit was censored, although no officials from the Turkish embassy appeared to enforce the censorship on the opening day. | |description_of_result=The exhibit was censored, although no officials from the Turkish embassy appeared to enforce the censorship on the opening day. | ||
|source=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/25/103825/Arts--Culture/Visual-Art/Arts-Censorship-by-Turkish-Embassy-The-Case-of-Her.aspx | |source=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/25/103825/Arts--Culture/Visual-Art/Arts-Censorship-by-Turkish-Embassy-The-Case-of-Her.aspx | ||
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Revision as of 18:43, 18 June 2014
Artist: İz Öztat
Year: 2013
Date of Action: March 2013
Location: Madrid, Spain
Subject: Government Secrecy, Political/Economic/Social Opinion
Medium: Installation
Confronting Bodies: Turkish Embassy
Description of Artwork: The work shown in the "Here Together Now" exhibition was part of an ongoing process, in which the artist "imagined ways to conjure up a suppressed past." Öztat invented an anarchic lineage including a marginalized Ottoman woman, detailing and recognizing her haunted past.
The exhibited work was complemented by a publication of three interviews, which situated the work and built a discourse around it.
The Incident: The Turkish Embassy situated in Matadero Madrid, Spain chose to censor the exhibit by removing the words "Armenian genocide" and "1915".
Results of Incident: The exhibit was censored, although no officials from the Turkish embassy appeared to enforce the censorship on the opening day.
