Karamustafa Import - Export
300 years of cultural, ideological, political mutual influences and commercial exchange (since the siege of Vienna by the Turks, under the command of Karamustafa), are the historical and social background of this art exchange projects by Turkish and austrian artists, It formal setting consists of two diplomatic briefcasesm bought in Istanbul and Vienna, filled with various items (objects, texts, samples…), refferig in all cultural-historical respect to the mutual influence till today. The briefcases were transported by the diplomatic courier from city to city at the same time, and were permanently exhibited at the CAFÉ VIENNA in Istanbul and the CAFE DOAN and CAFÉ NIL in Vienna.
Exhibitions:
echoraum Vienna, 21.11. – 30.11.1997
Kabatş Kültür Merkezi, 5.12.1997 – 20.12.1997
Museum for Ethnology Vienna, 14.5.1998 – 8.6.1998
Wien Museum, in the frame of: "Wiener Linien", 29.4.-20.6.2004
Concept, Organisation and Realisation:
Der Blaue Kompressor – Floating & Stomping Company / Gustav Deutsch, Hanna Schimek
Gülsün Karamustafa
Participating artists:
Ipek Aksügür Duben, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Selda Asal, Ahmet Cemal, Sadic Karamustafa, Dagmar Frühwald, Wolfgang Herburger, gerda Lampalzer, Manfred Oppermann, Nevzat Sayin, Institut für Evidenzwissenschaften / Caroline Weihs, Michael Domes und Eva Wohlgemuth
Internet contrubutions by:
Franz Berzl, Die Fabrikanten, Jak Kamhi, Andreas Leikauf und Robert Zahornicky
A documentation of the project is available on the Karamustafa Import-Export CD ROM
Support:
Bundeskanzleramt Sektion Kultur, Bundeministerium für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten, Austrian Cultural Institute/Istanbul, Stadt Wien MA7
