{"id":4638,"date":"2008-09-25T01:05:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T22:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/25\/istanbul-berkeley\/"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:28:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:28:51","slug":"istanbul-berkeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/25\/istanbul-berkeley\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul-Berkeley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>REVIEW When veteran Istanbulite Orhan Pamuk received the Nobel Prize in literature two years ago, the committee complimented his &#8220;quest for the melancholic soul of his native city.&#8221; Melancholic? The world&#8217;s third largest city has one big, melancholic soul? I think Pamuk, of all people, would disagree. The 10th International Istanbul Biennial, which was curated by \u00fcber-busy San Francisco Art Institute faculty member Hou Hanru in 2007, took a more caustic if not realistic theme: &#8220;Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War.&#8221; The organizers of the &#8220;Orienting Istanbul&#8221; conference at Berkeley this week have produced a truly interdisciplinary (and free to the public) conference that cuts through the jargon and confronts big ideas head-on. Nonetheless, I&#8217;m glad they snuck in some actual art, including &#8220;Istanbul-Berkeley,&#8221; Hanru&#8217;s selection of video works from the biennial.<\/p>\n<p>Much of Hanru&#8217;s curatorial work has focused on urbanization and living, breathing cities. The chosen videos do not disappoint. They address spatiality in radically different ways.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.sfbg.com\/entry.php?entry_id=7141&amp;catid=85&amp;volume_id=317&amp;issue_id=397&amp;volume_num=42&amp;issue_num=52\">San Francisco Bay Guardian : Article : Smuin Ballet<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REVIEW When veteran Istanbulite Orhan Pamuk received the Nobel Prize in literature two years ago, the committee complimented his &#8220;quest for the melancholic soul of his native city.&#8221; Melancholic? The world&#8217;s third largest city has one big, melancholic soul? I think Pamuk, of all people, would disagree. The 10th International Istanbul Biennial, which was curated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":60022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}