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Objekt des Widerstands I Object of Resistance 500 Internal Server Error
genutzt von | used by riddle.doodle (image by Eralp Kortaç)
genutzt | used ABANDONDED BUILDINGS IN NICOSIA (ZYPERN), 2021 | ongoing project
Abandoned and inactive spaces in Divided Nicosia | Unconscious Aesthetics
My artistic debut at Faculty of Arts was through expeditions in Nicosia,
trespassing the border or breaking into abandoned houses, shops and streets.
Broken tiles, peeled off wall paint, absent or firmly shut doors.
I realized those areas have a resonance with the political situation in Cyprus.
Uncertain and ambiguous impressions of the abandoned buildings mimic the political climate,
spreading from Green Line northwards resulting in derelict buildings,
abandoned construction sites, and messy public spaces.
It is an unstable state, a country desolate from 1983 to 2003,
where a lot of political errors are made.
Administrative instability is exposed in the working order in the government agencies and offices,
where things seem to be in untamed chaos.
These become situations we overlook, that make up our unconscious aesthetics.
A forgotten and distant promise of a discourse is in the atmosphere of the surrounding scenery of a Northern Cypriot.
I encounter a lot of architectural decay on my way home in Nicosia.
I contextualize them as bulks of bad sectors on a hard drive,
and that is where the idea of putting 500 Internal Server Errors on abandoned buildings around Nicosia arose.
It is an error message when the server cannot display web pages because of a misconfiguration or an error in the server processing the request.
I saw some similarities between East Germany and North Cyprus.
Population exchange happened for different reasons and in different fashions,
yet it happened nonetheless around a divide,
and resulted in an inertia in several cities of both countries.
My artistic debut at Faculty of Arts was through expeditions in Nicosia,
trespassing the border or breaking into abandoned houses, shops and streets.
Broken tiles, peeled off wall paint, absent or firmly shut doors.
I realized those areas have a resonance with the political situation in Cyprus.
Uncertain and ambiguous impressions of the abandoned buildings mimic the political climate,
spreading from Green Line northwards resulting in derelict buildings,
abandoned construction sites, and messy public spaces.
It is an unstable state, a country desolate from 1983 to 2003,
where a lot of political errors are made.
Administrative instability is exposed in the working order in the government agencies and offices,
where things seem to be in untamed chaos.
These become situations we overlook, that make up our unconscious aesthetics.
A forgotten and distant promise of a discourse is in the atmosphere of the surrounding scenery of a Northern Cypriot.
I encounter a lot of architectural decay on my way home in Nicosia.
I contextualize them as bulks of bad sectors on a hard drive,
and that is where the idea of putting 500 Internal Server Errors on abandoned buildings around Nicosia arose.
It is an error message when the server cannot display web pages because of a misconfiguration or an error in the server processing the request.
I saw some similarities between East Germany and North Cyprus.
Population exchange happened for different reasons and in different fashions,
yet it happened nonetheless around a divide,
and resulted in an inertia in several cities of both countries.