"citylove"

selected project is exhibited at wien and istanbul, 2009

for city and art project

"In “Der Konflikt der Kultur” Georg Simmel writes about creative

motion of the life that produces forms like civil laws, artworks,

religion, science, technology etc. - we call all of them “culture”. But

after they are produced these forms start living apart, keeping their

own power and life never stops to produce other forms. Then they

start fighting with the life – this phenomenon creates a paradox between

life and different forms of culture.

In our project we try to use this paradox of city culture by one form

of city life: loving the city and the contradiction of polluting the

city with trash. We all love the city in its clean and neat ways, the

touristic places, and the inner districts but if you take a closer look

to different areas of the city, you will discover the whole dirty truth:

Loving the city produces trash. In our way we collect trash that we

can find in the streets and for the Vienna exhibition we made one

stop motion video by using the letters of the word love. We want to

put this in the gallery as installation."