Z domu na Marsa: Wokół projektów "Space Refugee" i "Homeland" Halila Altındere

Justyna

doi:10.36744/k.2521

From Home to Mars

On Halil Altındere’s Space Refugee and Homeland Projects

Justyna

justyna.chmielewska@ispan.pl
Instytut Sztuki PAN (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-3114

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36744/k.2521

Abstract

The author examines two projects by Halil Altındere – one of leading Turkish visual artists. Both ventures originated in 2016, when Turkey severely experienced the effects of the “migration crisis” caused by, i.a. the escalation of war in neighbouring Syria. At the time, an unpreceded number of people sought refuge in Anatolia – some treated Turkey as a transit country, while others settled down on a permanent basis. At the time Halil Altındere embarked upon co-operation with two prominent members of the Syrian diaspora: Muhammad Ahmad Faris – the first Syrian cosmonaut, today a resident of Istanbul, whose story became the core of the Space Refugee project, and Mohammad Abu Hajar – an “angry young rapper” living in Berlin, with whom Halil Altındere recorded the Homeland video.

Both projects pertain in different ways to the question of the complexity of being a refugee – the author of the presented reflections relates to the book Migawki z tradycji uciśnionych, in which Paweł Mościcki examined the dialectic character of the experience of exile.

Keywords:

Halil Altındere, migration, refugees, art

References

Mościcki Paweł. Migawki z tradycji uciśnionych. Warszawa-Bydgoszcz: Instytut Wydawniczy Książka i Prasa – Teatr Polski, 2017.
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Published

2024-02-28

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Justyna (2024) “From Home to Mars: On Halil Altındere’s Space Refugee and Homeland Projects”, Konteksty, 343(4), pp. 225–233. doi: 10.36744/k.2521.

Authors

Justyna
justyna.chmielewska@ispan.pl
Instytut Sztuki PAN Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-3114

Justyna Chmielewska – antropolożka, turkolożka, redaktorka, rowerzystka, od 2007 roku związana z redakcją „Kontekstów”. Autorka artykułów, recenzji i fotoesejów publikowanych między innymi w „Kontekstach”, „Nowych Książkach”, „Notesie na 6 tygodni”, „Widoku”, „Dzienniku Opinii”, „(op.cit.,)” i „Kulturze Liberalnej”.