Art-ist publications initiated the Contemporary Art Series of artist books on promising emerging artists, who don?t have a published book on their practice yet, with Ahmet Ö?üt: Informal Incidents (2008), followed by Bashir Borlakov: Fictional Reality (2009), Can Altay: Pigeons are People (2010) and A ?ener Özmen Book (2011), Asl? Çavu?o?lu: Mercury in Retrograde / Merkür Geriliyor (2012).The series aims at documenting practices as they manifest and creating a space to evaluate each artist?s practice through most of their works.
Burak Delier has been known for his creative experiments built around the concept of economy, in a way and a scale that is not common to the Turkish art scene. Delier is also known for his ongoing interest in the place of 'power' in today's cultural system and socio-political environment. And quite unusually for Turkey, he gives extra attention to process rather than the production of art works. Delier used various mediums, from radio broadcasting to corporate surveys, and worked with papermen, precarious workers, immigrants and the employees of art institutions. He was involved in guerilla-style street performances and contributed deliberately to the critique of art institutions. Obviously, Delier has been one of the major examples of a politically critical contemporary art attitude to art in Turkey after since 2000.
Texts by: P?nar Ö?renci, Özge Ersoy, ?smail Ertürk, Süreyya Evren.
Berlin 2013, 120 pages, ill., 15 x 21cm, plastic cover, English/Turkish, ISBN 978-3-86895-327-5
