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'The Market': Hybrid spatial practices in contemporary art, exhibitions, artists talk, conference presentation

This body of research focuses on the investigation of hybrid spatial practices in politically engaged art, through combining multiple exhibition locations (physical and online) with a range of communication strategies. In its main stage (January–March 2013) the research materialized as a series of international events that saw my artworks and interventions develop between London and Istanbul: London, the traditional and historical site of financial markets, and Istanbul, the financial centre of an emerging market, which is rising rapidly in the global economic landscape. Those events included my intervention on the façade of the Royal College of Art in London, which was covered by a 23-metre-high banner featuring the phrase ‘The market will save us’; my solo site-specific exhibition The Market Will Save the World in Kasa Gallery in Istanbul, situated in the former vault of an old bank; and my online exhibition The Vision of the Market on the Museum of Contemporary Cuts (MoCC) online platform, which featured images, videos and texts drawn from both cities. This material was also disseminated on the Internet through social media (the Facebook and Twitter pages/accounts of MoCC). The Vision of the Market inaugurated the online exhibitions programme of the Museum of Contemporary Cuts, which is an interdisciplinary curatorial initiative that aims to highlight the impact of the global economic crisis on the arts and education. The theoretical work supporting this body of research has been presented at the March Meeting (2013) of the 11th Sharjah Biennial (United Arab Emirates) and at the conference Radical Gestures: designing protest, resistance and refusal, which was hosted by Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.