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Conscious in Coma is an art project initiated by NOMAD in collaboration with Goethe
Institut, Istanbul and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center. The project is designed
to be a long-term networking and archiving project. The name of the project indicates a
simple and direct reference to the current unbalanced and devastated state of the globe
accompanied by the collective silence and blindness. The project intends to collect,
disseminate, and discuss the perspectives and realities of diverse positions in multiple
formats. In this respect, the primary focus of the project is to trace, detect and
comprehend art and cultural productions which render different cases, approaches and
realities with multifaceted cultural, political and social situations.

Conscious in Coma is designed to be a collaborative process of nine curators: Elena
Veljanovska (Macedonia), Stefan Rusu (Moldavia), Nat Muller (The Netherlands), Vera-Maria
Glahn (Germany), Basak Senova (Turkey), Jack Persekian (Palestine), Clare Davies (Egypt),
Christine Tohme (Lebanon), and Amirali Ghassemi (Iran).

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Chapter 1
23-25 November 2006.
Screening programme at Goethe Institut, Istanbul
Yeni Carsi Cad. 52, Beyoglu, Istanbul

23. November. 2006, 19:30
DO I NEED TO CHANGE TO CARRY ON?
curated by Vera-Maria Glahn (Germany)
Aleesa Cohene, Yvonne Brandl, Markus Bertuch, and Curtis Burz.

MOLDGOLIA - project in progress
curated by Stefan Rusu (Moldova)
Pavel Braila, Lilia Dragneva, Veaceslav Druta, Stefan Rusu, Igor Scerbina, and Serghei Turcan.

MISREADING
curated by Clare Davies (Egypt)
Iman Issa and Nadine Khan.

24. November. 2006, 19:30
100 YEARS OF CELEBRATING PARANOID READING
curated by Christine Tohme (Lebanon)
Roy Samaha, Rabih Mroué, Ali Kays, and Lina Saneh.

REALITY-CHECK
curated by Basak Senova (Turkey)
Bengisu Bayrak, Carlo Crovato, Yane Calovski & FOS, Erhan Muratoglu, Basak Kaptan & Erik
Stein, and Bengu Karaduman.

SOFT INCISIONS
curated by Nat Muller (The Netherlands)
Jan de Bruin, Jordan Crandall, Iratxe Jaio, Raed Yassin, and Andrijana Stojkovic.

A MOMENT OF CLARITY
curated by Elena Veljanovska (Makedonya)
Bogeska Sladzana-Giuseppe Pradella, Zaneta Vangeli, Hristina Ivanoska, Borjan Zafirovski,
and Nikola Uzunovski.

25. November. 2006, 15:00
I CAN SEE
curated by Jack Persekian (Palestine)
Avi Mograbi.

LOST IN NO SPACE
curated by Amirali Ghassemi (Iran)
Behrang Samadzadegan, Behnam Kamrani, Amirali Mohebbinejad, Negar Tahsili, Raha Faridi,
Mohammad Reza Heydari, Ehsan Behmanesh, and Azin Feizabadi.

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Chapter 2
Meetings and Panels, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul.
May, 2007
As an extension of the screening programme, some of the curators and participating artists
will be invited to Istanbul for a series of meetings and panels. These meetings and panels
will culminate in a series of publications. Discussions on the strategies for future
collaborations and the archiving process will end this chapter.

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