As part of the Home Works 6 Platform, Ashkal Alwan is hosting a lecture by Johann Pillai called “The Lost Mosaic Wall”. <\/p>\n
This presentation traces to the present, through historical mishaps and the political mayhem of wars, military coups and chance discoveries, the trials and tribulations of the 227 square-meter mosaic wall by Bedri Rahmi Ey\u00fcbo\u011flu for the Turkish Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Fair. This was Turkey\u2019s first modern prefabricated building, which brought together most of the living major figures in the country\u2019s history of art, architecture, classical music and opera, and politics. <\/p>\n
As world\u2019s fairs are essentially curations of narratives of official national identity, how does one represent \u201cnation\u201d or \u201ccountry\u201d or \u201cregion\u201d outside of its geographical location? To what extent can a wall or border represent (rather than inside\/ outside inclusion or exclusion) linkage and unification? Does the historiographical \u201cwriting of the disaster\u201d (Blanchot) participate in the transference of its trials and trauma (LaCapra, Ranci\u00e8re) and preclude the renewal of tradition, ownership or reconstruction (Toufic)? <\/p>\n
Can archives, exhibitions, artworks and monuments resist absorption into memorial narratives, and instead express fragmentation and forgetting? The Lost Mosaic Wall follows a tale of discovery and detection spanning fifty years of the social and cultural histories of Turkey and Cyprus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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