Video platform Artıkişler Kolektifi redefines waste
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“What has been marketed as the ‘underbellies of Beyoğlu’ is much like what you see in this video. The subconscious and the waste of İstiklal Street,” says one of the videos at istanbulunartigi.tumblr.com, the Tumblr page of the video and photography ( ▻http://istanbulunartigi.tumblr.com) installation project, “surplus of istanbul.” The page is updated regularly with videos on the waste pickers in Istanbul, redefining waste and what it connotes.
Having started in one of the centers of the city, Beyoğlu, the series of videos will lead the visitors to the periphery, Ümraniye, to the home of one of the city’s largest garbage dumps, which killed many two decades ago after a landfill gas explosion. The project is the latest from Artıkişler Kolektifi, a video platform founded in 2007 by individuals and collectives who have been working on video and other visual arts to collect, exhibit, screen and redistribute their works on a common platform