Oscar William Sam, 2012

Installation

Filmed on 12th of November 2011 at the tent camp in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, the epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street movement, The title of this video references how acronyms are used by law enforcement services and military forces to refer to special units or situations. In the video, a hand points out across the Occupy Wall Street camp, identifying and singling out individuals one by one, calling out the most popular first names in the US for each person. This gesture touches on anonymity, a major aspect of the movement that differentiated it from many historical protest movements, and shifts the terrain of power.

Ahmet Öğüt, Oscar William Sam, 2012, HD-Video, 16:9, color, sound, video still

Single channel HD video in architectural environment 16:9, color, sound, 4 min

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Protest

Capitalism

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Ahmet Öğüt

**Information Power to the People, 2017**

**Pleasure Places of All Kind, 2014/2017**

Biography

Ahmet Öğüt, born in 1981 in Diyarbakır, works across a variety of different media often picking up on an urban environment. With an eye for daily encounters and moments of improvisation his works address topics such as structural inequality, state suppression, censorship and forms of resistance. Singular acts of non alignment or collective struggles against militarized powers equally tend to inspire the aesthetic and thematic reflections that occur in Ahmet Öğüt's work just as the way he operates in the institutional ecology surrounding his practice. He had solo shows among others at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2015), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2015), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2012), Kunsthalle Lissabon (2011) and SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul (2011). He has participated in group shows such as the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), Manifesta 11 (2016), “Museum On/OFF” at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016), the 13th Biennale de Lyon (2015), “Political Populism” at Kunsthalle Wien, the Kyiv Biennial (2015) and many more.

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