Works in Shifts: Traces

by ANATOLPOLITAN (IREM KURT, NESRIN TANÇ) with LÜTFIYE GÜZEL, EMINE SEVGI ÖZDAMAR
curated by EVA BUSCH, MADHUSREE DUTTA

As part of the exhibition Ghosts, Traces, Echoes: Works in Shifts, three research-based artistic projects will be displayed in the Academyspace, the exhibition space of the Akademie der Künste der Welt, in three parts and over a period of five months. The exhibition will thus become a dynamic collection of different layers and histories, similar to a palimpsest. When the next layer is added, the previous one will not disappear completely – new narratives will be added to it. In this way, different time periods and geographical contexts will overlap.

Shift 2 Traces focuses on Turkish-speaking writers who were active in Cologne and the Ruhr region, and looks at how they are remembered in our post-migrant present. For this project, literary and cultural scholar and author Nesrin Tanç will join forces with illustrator Irem Kurt to map texts and materials she has compiled outside of official archive structures. As a literary scholar, she proposes coining a new term – ‘Anatolpolitan’ – and brings the writers featured in the exhibition together under this umbrella.