Alternative Vocabularies

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Starting with a focus on memory shifts, New York-based Turkish curator Ceren Erdem introduced her recent projects, which were based on the intersection of the near-past and the present; how changes in political and economic systems shaped the global and local, and how self, memory, history, and resistance exists within this. With curatorial projects spanning from Seoul, Istanbul, Oslo, and New York, Ceren reflected on her engagement with memory shifts in different projects, striving to reveal alternative vocabularies on the streets, in nature, in technology, and elsewhere—as opposed to hegemonic structures.