Fundraiser: Turkey–Syria earthquakes
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Aim
Journal of Visual Culture editorial collective & friends join forces to fundraise for the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes relief effort.
The Journal of Visual Culture (JVC) editorial collective stands with the people of Turkey and Syria in the aftermath of last months's devastating earthquakes in the region. We mourn the victims and wish their loved ones strength during this difficult time. Together with our friends, we also put our solidarity into practice by launching this fundraiser whose proceeds will go to the disproportionately affected.
The official response in Turkey has abandoned parts of the affected region, coming on the back of decades of racialization (some of the worst-hit areas are predominantly inhabited by Kurds and Alevis). In Syria, the earthquake has exacerbated already difficult conditions of war, displacement and struggle under a brutal regime. Hence the urgency of a fundraiser like ours, which aims to donate via nongovernmental organisations representing marginalised communities rather than using governmental channels or NGOs with no social/political basis.
WHERE YOUR CASH IS GOING:
We invite you to contribute to our fundraiser by purchasing an artwork or publication. Proceeds will be divided equally between two organisations: the Diyarbakır Bar Association (based in Turkey’s largest predominantly Kurdish inhabited city) and The White Helmets (also known as the Syria Civil Defense). The Diyarbakır Bar Association have made significant progress in their hometown and are now aiding the relief effort across the entire Kurdish region. We have identified this particular organisation on the basis of a member of our editorial collective having long known and worked with the individuals and communities involved in their work. The White Helmets is a reliable organisation formed of a team of local volunteers that have been providing emergency response in communities across Syria since 2013. They are now responding to the earthquake and receiving donations thanks to the Syria Campaign (registered as a non-profit in the UK as The Voices Project, a non-profit in Germany as Voices Project Germany and a 501(c)3 non-profit in the US as Voices Project USA).
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS/SCHOLARS:
We would like to thank you in advance for your support and a special thank you to all the artists and members of the JVC Editorial Board who have donated their work and offered support: Jill Casid, Ali Cherri, Jasmina Cibic, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Eray Çaylı, Ariane Fourquier, Jošt Franko, Aikaterini Gegisian, Johnny Golding, Martin E. Jay, Helene Kazan, Margareta Kern, Thandi Loewenson, Manu Luksch, Gosia Machon, Laura Marks, Alban Muja, İz Öztat, Peggy Phelan, Dragan Prgomelja, Raqs Media Collective, Serkan Taycan, Merve Ünsal, Shira Wachsmann, and MaryLynne Wrye.
ITEMS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE:
Signed hardback and paperback copies of Eray Çaylı's book Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey (2022).
Signed paperback copy of Laura Marks' books Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art (2010) and Hanan Al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image (2015).
Signed paperback copies of Martin E Jay's books The Weimar Republic Sourcebook (1995), Vision in Context: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Sight (1996), Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme (2005; Spanish translation available), Adorno (1984; French and Japanese translations available), The Dialectical Imagination A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950 (1996; the first edition hardback, and German and Spanish translations available), and Downcast Eyes The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought (1993; Spanish translation available).
All available works are displayed below. You can click on the artwork/book you would like to buy in the in the REWARDS SECTION.
All buyers will be responsible for covering the costs of shipment.
7.0 x 8.5" perfect-bound softcover
48 pages, 20 plates
limited edition of 250
5 signed copies
untitled, from Keine Chance project
pigment print
40 x 60 cm
HOTel
2021
edition 4+1, size 30 x 42 cm
ANNEX (Sweatshirt)
Size: S
Vayla
Acrylic paint on hand woven canvas with Japanese paper yarn
30 x 40 cm
TEMPLET
2019
silkscreen print, Edition of 50
30 x 42 cm
TEMPLET
2017
silkscreen print, Edition of 50
30 x 42 cm
T.O.T.E.M.
2018
silkscreen print, Edition of 50
30 x 42 cm
MIKRO
2021
silkscreen print, Edition of 50
30 x 42 cm
OSTEN
2021
Silkscreen in 4 colors / 29 x 21 cm / edition of 50
NORDEN
2021
Silkscreen in 4 colors / 29 x 21 cm / edition of 50
THREE MOONS
2021
Silkscreen in 4 colors / 50 x 65 cm / edition of 80
MIMIKRI
2021
Silkscreen in 4 colors/ 50 x 65 cm / edition of 80
SIESTA
2021
Silkscreen in 4 colors / 50 x 65 cm / edition of 80
Wood Diamond
2016
Wood, 11 x 12 cm
Drawn Study: No.6 Hammiyda (حمّيضة)
2023
12x16, medium: Limited Edition Print: Issue of 10
Mourning
2016
Pigment print on photography paper, 15 x 15 cm, Edition of 10
One hardback and one paperback copy of Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey.
signed publication
German translation of The Dialectical imagination
signed publication
Trois Essais sur Adorno
signed publication
The Weimar Republic Sourcebook
signed publication
Spanish translation of Songs of Experience
signed publication
Japanese translation of Adorno
signed publication
Spanish translation of The Dialectical Imagination
signed publication
Vision in Context
signed publication
Spanish translation of Downcast Eyes
signed publication
The Dialectical imagination (first edition hardback)
signed publication
From the series “ The Crow, the Owl and Other, Birds”
2018 (Hors Série)
Etching, 30 x 23 cm (framed)
Scenes of Projection. Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (signed copy)
Escenas de proyección. Reenvíos del sujeto iluminista (signed copy)
Sowing Empire. Landscape and Colonization (signed copy)
Habitat #27, Urfa-Adıyaman
2010
digital print, 30x 30 cm
Ornamental Rashes
2022
edition of 40, silkscreen print 34 cm x 42 cm
This is all for now...
2013/2023
Giclee Print on Baryta paper
20 x 16 inch / 508 x 407 mm
Edition: 10, signed by the artist
Goddesses 1
2022
Glossy inject Print
30 cm h x 24 cm w, Edition 2/50
Selamet (Çat!)
2021
Digital print, Edition of 10 + 2 AP. A4 (21 x 29.7cm)
Ambient Information Systems
Signed monograph
Dangote Cement, Lusaka
2017
digital print cartridge paper, 300 x 420 mm
Corrections
2015
Edition of 5, + 2AP
things that remained
2023
A4 b&w matte print
Contact Warhol: Photography Without End, 2021
Signed copy
Resilient Weeds
2016
pen on paper, 21cm x 29,7cm
This project successfully funded on 12th May 2023