For his latest multimedia installation, developed over the past two years, 2004 Turner Prize nominee Kutlug Ataman returned to his native Istanbul to work in one of the city's hidden ghettos, known only as Kuba.

The district came into being in the late 1960s and quickly became a shantytown where leftwing militants concealed themselves and their weapons from the police. Since then it has developed into a cohesive society, presenting an impenetratable solidarity to the outside world.

Kutlug Ataman's Kuba uses 40 television sets featuring video of 40 inhabitants of Kuba telling their personal tales of tragedy.

Commissioned by the British arts organization Artangel and co-produced with Carnegie International 2004/2005, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21), Vienna, Theater der Welt, Stuttgart and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Kuba was produced by Yalan Dunya in Isanbul.

Kuba opens in Pittsburgh for the Carnegie International, October 9, 2004 - March 20, 2005 at the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, and arrives in London in the spring 2005. It will also be available as a 176-page full-color publication.

# posted by Steve Gallagher @ 10/08/2004 11:50:00 AM

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