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kao građani koji “poštuju red”, obilježeni<br />

odjećom koja otkriva njihovo donekle<br />

povlašteno klasno podrijetlo. Nedostaje<br />

im angažman koji posjeduju prosvjednici<br />

i stoga ih je lako poistovjetiti s neprogresivnom,<br />

srednjom osnovom društva; ali<br />

ono na što Murtezaoğluova želi ukazati jest<br />

činjenica da uspjeh svakog političkog aktivizma<br />

u potpunosti ovisi o svjedočanstvu<br />

tih prolaznika i svjedoka. U ranijim<br />

radovima umjetnica je nastojala problematizirati<br />

olako odbaci<strong>van</strong>je masa od strane<br />

inteligencije, kao i praksu samočestitanja,<br />

demonizacije i polarizacije koja je iz toga<br />

proizašla.<br />

Hip Activities predstavlja trenutak u kojemu<br />

napetost između tih dvaju društvenih segmenata<br />

ustupa mjesto njihovu prolaznom,<br />

ali suosjećajnom približa<strong>van</strong>ju, iako su<br />

njihove razlike i dalje prisutne te se čak<br />

naglašavaju kroz očiti anakronizam. Slike<br />

“pratnje” koja se infiltrira u ulične mase<br />

i “svjedoka” koji radoznalo promatraju<br />

događaje sa svojih balkona ne pripadaju<br />

sadašnjosti poput prosvjeda, nego nekom<br />

drugom vremenu, naime kraju šezdesetih<br />

godina prošlog stoljeća, povijesnom razdoblju<br />

obilježenom društvenim nemirima<br />

koji su na mahove osiguravali političkom<br />

aktivizmu potporu javnosti.<br />

Optimistički ton u ciklusu fotografija Hip<br />

Activities paradoksalno je naštetio načinu<br />

na koji je djelo izlagano. Murtezaoğluova<br />

je osjetila potrebu da ga povuče s velike<br />

izložbe u Beirutu 2005. jer je šokantno<br />

ubojstvo Rafika Haririja nekoliko tjedana<br />

prije otvaranja izložbe potpuno dislociralo<br />

eu<strong>for</strong>iju kojom je ciklus bio prožet. Isto se<br />

dogodilo 2007. godine, kada je umjetnica<br />

otkazala prezentaciju fotografskog ciklusa<br />

u Turskom paviljonu na Bijenalu u Veneciji<br />

nakon traumatičnog ubojstva Hranta Dinka<br />

u Istambulu: čak je i indirektno predstavljanje<br />

zemlje nakon tog ubojstva za nju<br />

belong to the sociology of the demonstrators,<br />

but rather appear as “orderly”<br />

citizens marked by the dress-code disclosing<br />

their slightly more privileged class<br />

<strong>for</strong>mation. They lack the engagement the<br />

demonstrators possess, there<strong>for</strong>e they can<br />

be easily associated with the non-progressive<br />

middle ground of the society; but what<br />

Murtezaoğlu tries to hint at is the fact<br />

that the success of any political activism is<br />

fully dependent on the testimony of these<br />

passers-by <strong>and</strong> witnesses. In her previous<br />

works, the artist tried to problematise<br />

the hasty dismissal of the masses by the<br />

intelligentsia <strong>and</strong> the consequent practices<br />

of self-congratulation, demonisation <strong>and</strong><br />

polarisation.<br />

Hip Activities presents the moment in<br />

which the tension between these two social<br />

segments gives way to a transient but<br />

sympathetic approximation, while their<br />

differences are maintained, or even accentuated<br />

by an obvious anachronism. The<br />

images of the “escorts” that fuse into the<br />

crowd on the street <strong>and</strong> the “witnesses”<br />

that watch the events curiously from their<br />

balcony belong not to the present as the<br />

demonstrations do, but rather to another<br />

date, namely the end of sixties, a historical<br />

period which was marked by social upheavals<br />

that momentarily granted political<br />

activism public support.<br />

The optimistic tone in the Hip Activities<br />

paradoxically harmed the way the work<br />

has been exhibited. Murtezaoğlu felt the<br />

urge to withdraw the piece from a major<br />

show in Beirut in 2005 since the shocking<br />

assassination of Rafik Hariri a couple of<br />

weeks be<strong>for</strong>e the exhibition opening completely<br />

displaced the euphoria invested in<br />

it. The same happened in 2007; the artist<br />

cancelled the presentation of the photographic<br />

series from the Turkish pavilion<br />

in Venice Biennial after the traumatic as-

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