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»Good Evening«, 1996 by Apsolutno and Aleksandar Davic. Video excerpt.

»Goldman Sachs annual letter to shareholders typeset with the font Oh Marys«, 2010 (PDF) by Paul Chan.

»A Logo For America«, 1987 by Alfredo Jaar.

»Nothing at the end«, 2007 by Sathit Sattarasart.

“Actus Fidei (détail)”, 2009 Fayçal Baghriche .

»Potato Perspective« by Åsa Sonjasdotter.

“Independence Day 1936-1967″, 2009 by Maryam Jafri features archival photos mainly from the first Independence Day ceremonies of various nations including Indonesia, India, Ghana, Senegal, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, Malaysia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Vietnam (South), and Algeria.

»Forget the Heroes«, 2008 by Paolo Chiasera.

Just a Christian girl living in Istanbul,
Leaving behind her entire life.
In the real time world no one sees her at all,
They all think she’s fakin’.

Takin’ the silver and leavin’ the rest,
Set to flee into the night.
She has danced into the danger zone,
Where minority’s never right.

She can picture the future,
When Armenians take the stage,
Like Agassi, Aznavour, and Cher.

She’s Armenian, Armenian on the run,
And she’s fleeing but the flight has just begun.
She’s Armenian, Armenian on the run,
And she’ll fight ‘til the Hayastantsi are one…

»She’s Armenian« adapted from »She’s a maniac« by Michael Sembello from the »Hymns of No Resistance (Part II)«, 2009 performance by Slavs and Tatars.

»Plan B: Arab nationalism is no good for Plan A«, 2006 by Nemanja Cvijanović.

»Exodus 2048«, 2008-2009 by Michael Blum.

»Ashugh«, 2008 by R.E.P.group. For the performance on 6 Gyumri biennale in Armenia R.E.P. artists invited Ashugh, an Armenian folk singer and storyteller. He appeared in various public places in the city, singing about well-known performances and actions of contemporary artists.

Statues of Kwame Nkrumah, reinstated at the National Museum in Accra, Ghana, after having being torn down during a military coup in 1977. From the series »Avenue Patrice Lumumba«, 2007 by Guy Tillim.

The double video installation »Guysgocrazy«, 2007 was produced in collaboration with the Prague-based pornographic company under the same name which organizes large-scale orgies. The empty studios were filmed before and after one of their events.

»Arkadashlar«, 2006. The video made at the British Military Base in Cyprus and initially presented as part of the video Installation »Truly«, documents the commission of British army Jet Fighter airplanes to draw a heart on the Cypriot Sky. It was screened for three days on top of The Marmara Hotel, one of the most prominent buildings in Istanbul, during the time of the formal visit of the Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Dora Bakoyianni for the talks she had with her counterpart Abdullah Gul, in their attempt to ease the tension between the two countries, following the mid-air collision between jousting Greek and Turkish fighters over the Aegean. By Christodoulos Panayiotou.

»Rwanda Rwanda«, 1994 by Alfredo Jaar.

»Statue of Glory and Generosity«, 2009 by Laith al-Amiri.

»Nogales« pairs a single 35mm slide-image of the walled town of Nogales, divided along the US/Mexican border, with an audio recording of Ronald Reagan’s famous speech at the Berlin Wall, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”, 2008 by Maryam Jafri.

From the series “Security Barriers A-L“, 2008 by Bani Abidi.

Video “Dance of the Rebels”, 2002 by Fikret Atay.

»Surviving Paradise«, 2006 by Gregory Sholette.