{"id":1148,"date":"2023-10-06T12:16:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T09:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2023-12-01T12:30:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T09:30:50","slug":"istanbul-biennial-controversy-continues-open-letter-to-iksv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/istanbul-biennial-controversy-continues-open-letter-to-iksv\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0130stanbul Biennial controversy continues: Open letter to \u0130KSV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the advisory board\u2019s unanimous choice of Defne Ayas as the curator for the\u00a0 18th Istanbul Biennial, the Foundation’s choice of Iwona Blazwick led to a crisis in the art field starting in August, and then to discussions about transparency, accountability and censorship in the community. According to the news<\/a> in Bianet, past biennial participants and members of the art community published an open letter to the Foundation “Open Letter to \u0130KSV: Towards a Better Istanbul Biennial”. The letter included the following:<\/p>\n

\u201cOpen Letter to \u0130KSV: Time to Have Better Istanbul Biennials<\/b><\/p>\n

The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (\u0130KSV) is experiencing a crisis. <\/b>The recent events surrounding the selection of the curator of the 18th Istanbul Biennial (see The Art Newspaper<\/i><\/a>, ArtReview<\/i><\/a>, Monopol<\/i><\/a>, and Argonotlar<\/i><\/a>, among others) have shown that \u0130KSV has failed to maintain a transparent, accountable, ethical, and inclusive practice. This impacts Turkey\u2019s field of culture as \u0130KSV remains one of the country\u2019s oldest and most influential cultural institutions.<\/p>\n

We call on \u0130KSV to adopt legitimate and transparent practices. <\/b>The Biennial has yet to address the following topics and criticism: Who is the decision-maker at the Istanbul Biennial? What are the criteria and ethical guidelines for the selection process of curators? If the Istanbul Biennial Advisory Board does not have de facto authority as declared by the institution, why have some of the members of the Advisory Board resigned after the selection process that resulted in the appointment of one of the serving Advisory Board members? Why has the public not been informed of how the curator selection took place?<\/p>\n

We urge \u0130KSV to implement practices of accountability regarding its organization of the Istanbul Biennial and other cultural events.<\/b> As a private foundation in public service, \u0130KSV has a public mandate and responsibility. We believe that the fulfillment of a cultural organization\u2019s public mandate comes from its dialogue with its artists, audiences, and constituents. We invite \u0130KSV to fulfill its obligations by adopting better accountability and responsiveness based on merit, fairness, and honesty.<\/p>\n

We, the undersigned participants of the previous Istanbul Biennials and members of the arts community, call on \u0130KSV to respond to the recent criticisms and take the necessary steps in light of its public mandate.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

The current list of signatures and the letter can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Participants of past \u0130stanbul Biennials and members of the art community urged \u0130KSV to respond to criticism; and published an open letter calling for \u201caccountability and consistency\u201d on transparency, ethics and inclusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2753],"tags":[43,2985,2984],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cases","tag-iksv","tag-istanbul-biennial","tag-istanbul-foundation-for-culture-and-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}