ARCHIVING THE CITY

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Art chat: Hakan Topal of xurban_collective

Posted on July 18, 2010

this is a continuation of an earlier interview ArchivingtheCity: I’m talking to people about their practice; people who I think of loosely as having any kind of archival practice, and who are connected to or interested in the experience of living in cities. I want to find out about their “process.” So we can talk about some your projects that I saw on your website— Hakan Topal: Do you want me to talk about the collective first, a little bit? A: Sure! H: We started this collective when I first moved to New York, from Ankara. I had a very close friend and we were doing these projects together, traveling to different sites in Turkey doing photography. And I collaborated with him on multiple…

So what are you doing this for?

Posted on July 8, 2010

On Monday, June 28th I had a great conversation with Hakan Topal, member of xurban_collective and doctoral student in Sociology at the New School for Social Research, here in New York. Hakan is from Ankara, Turkey, and was an engineer in a former life. He is an artist and a researcher. A research artist? This conversation reminded me of how important it is to keep speaking with people we admire, who share our struggles with life and work, and who are dedicated to finding creative ways to move in the world. Here is one part of our conversation, with many more to come. Hakan asks the first question. H: So what are you doing this research for? For your thesis? For the magazine? Or…

  

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