* http://www.frieze.com/feature\_single.asp?f15 Istanbul City Report

Integrier mich am Arch (Integrate My Ass), declares a deliberately misspelt German slogan superimposed over a naked cowgirl shaking her bum, which alternates with a mugshot of Germany’s new Chancellor Angela Merkel (who during her election campaign catered to anti-Turkish resentment). The video Gegen die Bridge (Against the Bridge, 2005), by Serhat Koksal, was the one great chance encounter in what was otherwise a confused and cobbled-together ‘Hospitality Zone’ in a former warehouse that Esche and Kortun had given to a group of local initiatives and art schools - a gesture that felt strategic rather than heartfelt. Koksal’s video - with its anarchic, early 1990s’ cut-up energy
* http://www.frieze.com/feature\_single.asp?f15

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