Subjectile | A Blog on Art, Politics, and Beyond + Updates

I am not a writer—maybe more of a non-writer, just as being a non-artist, non-engineer, or non-sociologist. The word subjectile comes from J. Derrida’s The Truth in Painting (1978), where he expands on Antonin Artaud’s idea of the canvas as something more than a passive surface. It represents a space of tension, a meeting point between the physical and the intangible, where creation and meaning take shape. To me, subjectile suggests a layered way of thinking and writing—one that probes what lies beneath, between what is seen and what is concealed. It is always an experiment.

Utopias and Realities

Monday, September 29, 2014 6:30-8:30pmAnthology Film Archives32 Second Ave, New York, NY 10003CATALOGAdmission Free http://transborderart.com/index.html Curated by Graciela Cassel, TransBorder presents an international panel of artists to discuss current positions relating to reality and utopias as well as individual and…

September 25, 2014
THE ULTIMATE CAPITAL IS THE SUN

20 September – 16 November 2014Opening: 19 September 2014, 19hr nGbK / neue Gesellschaft für bildende KunstOranienstrasse 25, 10999 Berlin http://www.ngbk.dehttp://theultimatecapital.orgFacebook event page Artists: Pedro Barateiro, Ricardo Basbaum, Paolo Bottarelli, Anne Dukhee Jordan, Wietske Maas, Amina Menia, Yves Mettler, Pratchaya Phinthong,…

September 19, 2014
CONVERSATION: Starting from Zero: Art, Harmony, and Innovation

Thursday, September 18, 4:30 pm at the Neuberger Museum Join a fascinating conversation among scholars, conservator and curator about the technological and conceptual innovations of Group Zero, an international movement of artists. Participants: Elizabeth Berkowitz, adjunct professor of Art History, Purchase College;…

September 17, 2014
I participated to “Whose Terms?” with the topic of “Research”

newmuseum: “Whose Terms?” was conceived as a dual-form project the Department of Education and Public Engagement started in late Spring to look at some of the conditions, agendas, and priorities that operate in social practice art. Part 1 of the…

September 8, 2014
Turkey and Syria: On the Bankruptcy of Neo-Ottomanist Foreign Policy (June 4, 2013)

I wrote this piece just before the Gezi protests and repression in Turkey. It provides a perspective for understanding those events, as it highlights the tragedy of Syria and how Turkish policy is implicated. At the end of May, the…

June 5, 2014
Michael Hardt is the new resident of Boğaziçi University’s Boğaziçi Chronicles! Here is an interview that I did with him in Turkish. For more information: http://www.bogazicichronicles.boun.edu.tr/ Original video interview can be seen at: WHAT NOW? Michael Hardt on Continuity and Leadership http://blog.hakantopal.info/post/63942942881/what-now-michael-hardt-on-continuity-and

May 9, 2014
Aerial Photograph of Mount Ararat, Turkey, 06/17/1949

May 8, 2014
Interview with Art Vidrine & Hakan Topal

mfaseminars: Interview with Art Vidrine & Hakan Topal as final project.MFA Graduate Seminars IV, Spring 2014 Art: How do you balance the different expectations of academia and the art world in your artistic work? Research, knowledge production, and dissemination in…

May 8, 2014
Purchase Collage New Media students’ senior show ‘About: Blank 2014’ opening at the @passagegallery purchasecollege

April 26, 2014
United Nations from FDR.

April 22, 2014

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