Hakan AkcuraPainter, poet, video maker and video performer, photographer and designerhttp://open-flux.blogspot.com/ "I am an open flux artist. The following attributes that are the target of my creations are the things, I believe, all the contemporary artists who can't refrain from creating with concern and responsibility should have: To witness “the essence of time” (zeitgeist) once again, that is to be more adverse and radical on this earth that is going down the drains; to heed the sharing and wide circulation of their creations instead of their ownership problems. To be independent. Along with being an artist who shows the way, opens the minds and redefines new problems, being an artist who also can be open to all kinds of interaction and communication, and being a playmaker when necessary. To try to create and furthermore try to protect the existence of courage, originality and composition without falling into the swamp of elitism and populism."Selected exhibitions, activities:2010: Ankara International Film Festival, "Video:Spaces of Memory", Ankara / Direct Channell, Çanakkale / !F Istanbul Film Festival 2010 online program: See it yourself (This village) / HEP Screening, AFA Beijing, China / Tornavideo, Tamirhane, Ankara2009: Meeting Europe - Istanbul, Wacken Exhibition Centre, Strasbourg, France / HEP Screening, AFA @ Portuguese Bookshop Gallery, Macau, China / "Dirty Story", group exhb., BM Suma, Istanbul / HEP Screening, Caldas-da-Rainha / HEP Screening, Berlin / "Thistler of Sazak", art performance, Karaburun, Turkey / "Istanbul-Off-Spaces" co-exhb., Kunstraum Kreuzberg - Bethanien, Berlin / "Interzone:Nation", Gallery Galzenica, Zagreb / HEP Screening, Spain / HEP screening, Australia / "Warning for risk for jamming", solo exhb., Tegen 2, Stockholm / Ankara Int. Film Festival2008: Attending the 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Istanbul /Attending the !F Poster Exhibition Istanbul / Attending the Supermarket 2008 Art Fair, Stockholm / Attending the International Mail Art Project 2008 - Conceptual Continuity2007: Attending the "Fear of god" co-exhibition at Hafriyat Karakoy, Istanbul / Attending the "Jag, min husses hund" group exhibition at Tegen 2, Stockholm / Attending the "Nightcomers" project in the 10th Biennial of Istanbul. / "Love in tunnel of hate" has been started / Video co-installation at Scope NYC [PAM], New York2006: Attending the co-exhibition "Labyrint" in Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm / "Sann dialog" has been started. Stockholm /Artist sent "Öppet brev till Migrationsverket", Stockholm2004: Attending the co-exhibition "Bridge from east to west", BBK Karlsruhe, Germany2002: Attending the co-exhibition "Arts Plastiques" in METU, Ankara19912001: "Sometimes when I'm high, I watch TV". Dulcinea, İstanbul / A contemporary art exhibition with 210 participants: I want my mirrors, Dulcinea,Istanbul1998: "...self", solo exhibition. Dulcinea, Istanbul1996: "Citypaintings", solo exhibition, Habitat II/NGO Forum '96, Istanbul / Publication of book of poems: "Limpin Bird" (Aksak Kus), Istanbul1995: Attending the 4th Biennial of İstanbul