PLATEAU OF HUMANKIND La Biennale di Venezia 49a Esposizione
                  Internazionale d'Arte, diretta da Harald Szeemann, è programmata
                  per il 2001 nel tradizionale periodo giugno-novembre. 
                  L’esposizione avrà luogo negli spazi dei Giardini di Castello e
                  dell’Arsenale di Venezia e comprenderà la Mostra internazionale e
                  la partecipazione ufficiale dei paesi stranieri.
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                  www.theperfumedgarden.net is the website of the turkish pavilion at the
                  49.biennale di venezia 2001 and what follows are some ideas and key
                  sentences carefully extracted as hypertexts of what has been written in
                  the biennale publication of the turkish pavilion, dated 05.06.2001  
                    
                    

                  WEST EATS EAST - EAST BEATS WEST 

                  theperfumedgarden: An In(de)terminable Oscillation Between Orient&Occident
                  / NUOVAICONA IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION founded in Venice since 1993 / In
                  a Turkish Pavilion ties between Venice and the Turks are too many to be
                  mentioned here and it is culturally natural and historically consequential
                  that Turkish artists should have their permanent place in the Venice
                  Biennale 2001 just in a <KIOSK> 

                  / ORIENTALISM means to learn about the EAST - orientalism is the
                  belittlement of the east by the west - outside of europe the rest of the
                  world is stagnant -the european learns and the eastern man is IDLE -GOTTES
                  IS ORIENT, GOTTES IST OKZIDENT- the concept of "orientalism" today... yet
                  nadir shah translated the history into voltaire's language ; west started
                  to know east better after the excavations of mesopotamia - today's
                  orientalists have a different personality / 

                  EAST will become the specimen that represents montesqieux's despotism...
                  the history of the east however, will be necessarily one of lack and
                  deprivation, THE east is a self enclosed mass far removed from progress
                  -when two opposing forces are brought to face one another , it is not
                  peaceful coexistence but violent hierarchy --- the aim therefore in
                  freezing the east within this type of binarism , is the demonstration of
                  the dynamism and superiority of the west in opposition to the static
                  nature of the eest- in 1848 , Renan wrote that philology was the positive
                  science of spritual objects. There remains a problem: the objectified east
                  and the subjectified west / 

                  Orient: Site of Sexuality, Dream&Phantasy -unconscious fantasies,desires,
                  fears and dreams- veil is a multilayered signifier that which hides and
                  conceals the orient from apprehension... like a privileged concept
                  metaphoring the construction of the reality of the orient and its very
                  ontology... THE MTENOMIC association of the figure of the veil and the
                  orient constitute an over determined totality whose residue persists in
                  the unconscious of the subject / 
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    

                  JAPAN is a fully westernised fully eastern culture... Today, with
                  Globalisation, the whole world is on its way to becoming one big west...
                  West will also disappear for without an east to orient itself, the West is
                  no longer an Occident - the Botanical metaphor is, how to cultivate a
                  viable plant with different opposite? roots and trunk and branches and
                  leaves and what sort of fruit it will bear? Gandhi being an oxford trained
                  lawyer returned back to his civilisation, and revolutionised and
                  modernised one of the more eastern civilisations. /  

                  BE IT WEST or BE IT EAST, both are the same -in the west are golden wheat
                  fields and in the east are floods... the east is blind and deaf is the
                  west, said my father the great king COMMAGENE/ 

                  EVERY PLACE HAS A SOUTH referring to another, the notion of idendity
                  becomes meaningful when it is contrasted with the notion of others...
                  powerless and powerful finds expression in different types of
                  nationalisms... - we are better than them is almost like an inevitable
                  need picturing us and it keeps moderm men and women fully happy... with
                  the south we almost always refer to the less capable, powerless other...
                  the westernisation projects involved change of costumes...west is the
                  best...to love the best and hate the rest...it was jalal al-e ahmad who
                  delienated 'gharbzadegi' the weststruckness and westoxifideness, than
                  native orientalism / 

                  a la recherche de l'autre perdu - the other is always far enough and never
                  to merge...beyond the border... in huntington's phrasing, "the velvet
                  curtain" -of culture- , has replaced the iron curtain -of ideology-. if
                  tastiness increases in direct proportion of differences, what can be
                  tastier than the opposition of irreducibles and the clash of the eternal
                  opposites...the west was curious about the east, it discovered it and
                  exploited it. Finally, it stomached it. Now, in order to locate the other,
                  it must look inside. The border has been crossed, masticated, dismantled.
                  Now each country, each individual is searching for his (own) other. Every
                  time it is found it will be devoured with irresistible appetite, its
                  hunger unstilled until all differences are erased. The other continues its
                  resistance in fiction and through language. For now. / 
                    
                    
                    
                    

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