The Art of Slogans
First broadcast: Mon 02.12.2013, 11.00 Uhr MEZ
Rerun: Fri 20.12.2013, 21.00 Uhr MEZ
A Broadcast in collaboration with: Sezgin Boynik
The BÜCHS’N’RADIO-broadcast in December is dedicated to the sociologist and writer Sezgin Boynik, who is currently in Büchsenhausen working on his project The Art of Slogans, where he will investigate the relation between art and slogans. This is a continuation of his recent work that deals with the use of slogans in contemporary art, especially in conceptual art.
The starting point is the assumption that ‘lingustic postulates’ are constitutive elements for most of the conceptual art theory and practice. In order to penetrate to these postulates in a more practical way Boynik has proposed a thesis that may enable us to deal with language pragmatically; i.e. to deal with the ‘performative’ aspects of language in order to arrive at ‘constative’ aspects of conceptual art. For this purpose the most adequate way to realize this was to look at the relation between art and slogans: both the slogans of art discourse, and political slogans that art is dealing with.
Sezgin Boynik is a sociologist and writer currently based in Helsinki. He completed his sociology studies at the Mimar Sinan University of Istanbul with a thesis on Situationist International in 2003, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Jyväskylä, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Helsinki. As an author for and editor of journals for art and cultural studies he has written on such topics as the subversive resistance movements in Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s, radical political ideas, and Neue Slowenische Kunst. He co-authored Counter-Constructivist Model (La Fontaine Stories for Immigrants) paper-film in nine acts (2012, together with Minna L. Henriksson), and co-edited the critical reader Contemporary Art and Nationalism with Minna Henriksson and History of Punk and Underground Resources in Turkey 1978-1999 with Tolga Güldalli (both in 2007).
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Sezgin Boynik is a sociologist and writer currently based in Helsinki. He studied sociology at the Mimar Sinan University of Istanbul (degree in 2003 with a thesis on Situationist International) and at the University of Jyväskylä, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Helsinki (PhD degree in 2014). As an author and editor of journals for art and cultural studies, he has written on such topics as the subversive resistance movements in Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s, radical political ideas, and the political art collective “Neue Slowenische Kunst.” He co-authored Counter-constructivist Model (La Fontaine Stories for Immigrants) paper-film in nine acts (2012, together with Minna Henriksson), and co-edited the critical reader Contemporary Art and Nationalism with Minna Henriksson (2007), and History of Punk and Underground Resources in Turkey 1978–1999 with Tolga Güldalli (both in 2007).