Artists fighting for peace

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Comment by Melek Baydar on September 12, 2011 at 9:48am

Art for Freedom

"The Revoulutin"; 2011, ol on canvas, 150x150 cm,

http://www.melek-baydar.com

 

 

Comment by Neil Howe on August 19, 2010 at 10:04am

Hello everyone
I have posted low res preview versions of my art videos at http://vimeo.com/14257134
best regards
Neil
www.neilhowe.com

Comment by contemporary-art on May 22, 2010 at 5:25pm

Hi, we are looking for Lightartists.
http://www.artreview.com/group/lightart
www.artpark.at/lightart

http://lightart-biennale.com

Comment by Hakan Akcura on April 1, 2010 at 10:27am

"Thistles of Sazak" is online...


Link:
http://open-flux.blogspot.com/2010/03/sazakin-dikenleri-yaynda-thistles-of.html


Sazak is a mountain village located in Karaburun, Izmir on the Aegean coast of Turkey and is just one of many Greek villages forcibly evacuated in 1922.

The Greek residents of this and surrounding villages, who once grew rosica grapes in their vineyards and produced delicious wines and molasses, were considered together with the Greek army that invaded Izmir. The Greek residents were driven to the sea at the coves around Karaburun, killed and deported and the villages they left behind were plundered, although they actually had the same rights in these lands as those who remained.

Since those times, for 87 years, Sazak remained desolate, solitary and unprotected on the steep slop facing toward the islands of Lesvos and Chios, where there are still stone houses and unique silhouettes.
In August 2008, about 50 citizens from Patras, Greece, came to Karaburun, Izmir in Turkey. They were the grandchildren of those who were forced to leave the lands which they would visit after 87 years as part of the 2nd Karaburun Peninsula Greek-Turkish Friendship Days.

As they were going to the Kucukbahce village for the first dinner to meet with the local people on the evening of August 6, their bus stopped and they got out. They looked at the village of Sazak, or Sazaki as they call it, lying far away in the falling darkness of the evening.

The second dinner would be at the village of Sarpincik on the next day. I wanted to salute them by making an art performance at the village of Sazak on August 7, i.e. on the same day as that last dinner. I posted the performance announcement on walls in the town and the surrounding villages days before:

"Thistles of Sazak

I will try to clear the village of Sazak from thistles, which covers its heavy emptiness like a heartrending veil, from dawn to dusk on the Seventh of August, 2009.

Your participation is welcome at my performance.

Hakan Akçura"

For me, trying to clear the covering of thistles at Sazak is a symbolic cleansing meant to open the way for rescuing the village from the lonely, derelict, unprotected state in which it has been left together with its painful past for 87 years. Also to transform it to one of the symbols of Greek-Turkish friendship, which I believe will develop ever more with each passing day.

I asked for permission, in a way, from the earlier owners of each house, who are no longer there, before clearing the thistles.

This video is documentary of this art performance.


Hakan Akcura
http://open-flux.blogspot.com/

Comment by Ramin Tork on December 19, 2009 at 4:42pm

I have a new facebook group called "Flashmob for freedom of Iran".
We mix Human rights with fun. The first event will be in London, but with the right numbers we will go global.
Please join us.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=207038596501

Comment by Ramin Tork on December 14, 2009 at 12:38pm

Please support my petition:

"No sale of technology used for oppression of Iran".

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/noeviltechnology/

also join thr group. Thanks.

http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=229986451112

Comment by Ramin Tork on November 26, 2009 at 1:17pm

have great news, the EU Lisbon treaty allows for Citizens' initiative i.e. legistlation by Citizens if they collect one million signatures. I have setup a petition to make it illegal for an EU country to buy fuel from a country with poor human rights record.
Please join this group. Thanks.
There is a facebook group as well as a petition page:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=name&id=655467244#/group.php?gid=229986451112

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ethicalfuel/

Comment by Ramin Tork on November 21, 2009 at 8:03pm

Turquoise Letters, an exhibition of paintings and films by Kourosh Salehi
There will be an exhibition of paintings and films by the British-Iranian Artist Koroush Salehi. His new painting and films shot in Iran (that led to his arrest) will be published in an interview.
The details are on Facebook.

Comment by S Piparo on November 20, 2009 at 9:00am

New Exhibit....COMPASSION
In today's shifting political, economic, and ecological landscape, the need for compassion has never been greater—compassion understood as mutual interdependence, knowledge of self and others, and concern for human flourishing. http://art-agenda.com/shows/view/808

Comment by S Piparo on November 19, 2009 at 8:45am

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) presents Contemporary Art for Refugees
http://art-agenda.com/shows/view/809

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