Censor Lyrique :  “E-Mail Performance” @ Kolaj Istanbul / Gaîté Lyrique / Paris

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Dj Total Turbogaz Vj Frozen Eurottoman
Dj Total Turbogaz Vj Frozen Eurottoman was born in Istanbul, one of the post-WW II capitals of mounting industry. Since early childhood, he has been reflecting upon multi-fragmented mounting, collage, and forced-bonding that has come upon him through economic or other means. For some time, he has been elaborating on issues such like layered uniformization, chip brotherhood in a palaverel public space and its friction, false positive points of view and consent, fashions of identity collage and multicultural bridges that run parallel to petrol and gas pipe-lines. Resisting the environment he has been brought up in with defective production, Dj Total Turbogaz Vj Frozen Eurottoman is following the footsteps of his predecessors, producing performances with dj sets tapping  pipe-lines and blowing up renewable multicultural bridges, and vj sets mounting images on these issues.

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Censor Lyrique :  “E-Mail Performance” @ Kolaj Istanbul / Gaîté Lyrique / Paris
This e-mail performance is about what is included into the “experimental” and “critical” collage of Istanbul and how, and how indeed a genteel censorship works in this collage. The story is usual: that of an intellectual selling, this time, the event-organization version, upgraded with a “stakeholder” jargon. It is made as if this is not a “dialogue” a-là-classical commercial market-a-city festival, and this event is not a zoo where the artists are not put in display, but as if it all takes place in a “critical” and “experimental” palaverel universe. To this effect, at first, information is withheld, as much as possible, about the cliché contents of the event. Instead, the invited artists are persistently asked about the technical requirements, as though everything else is already agreed upon. To those who inquire the perspective of the event, rather than the technical requirements, a couple of “critical,” “experimental,” “oppositional” words are put down in the e-mails, and in English. Those very couple of words, somehow, are not the ones that are in the belated event text published at the web site. You may buy that, if you want to… What is sought for are the “stakeholders” who would buy all this without asking any questions. In the meantime, if the invited “stakeholder” candidate is to make a performance (Dj Total Turbogaz Vj Frozen Eurottoman) other than the one stigmatized to be the “usual” project (2/5 BZ), his questions regarding the perspective of the event are waved off until he coughs up what his performance would be all about. If he still insists to ask such like questions, he is taken to be a mental case. In the end, if the invited artist’s words and work is not “critical” and “experimental” in an “adaptable” dose, collage-wise, his project is censored –put more gently, “the line-up is taken to another direction”. As if the event can truly depart from the “stakeholder” mentality, and as if any claimed-to-be-critical direction is possible for such like an event


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