East and West: Visualising the Ottoman City through Photographic Practice
- Submitting institution
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University of Portsmouth
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 7149531
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
- Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck College, University of London
- Brief description of type
- A multi-component output in the form of a curated exhibition, photographic works, catalogue essay, co-authored/edited exhibition catalogue, a journal special edition and photo-poem
- Open access status
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- Month
- June
- Year
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is submitted as a MULTI-COMPONENT output in the form of a curated exhibition, photographic works, catalogue essay, co-authored/edited exhibition catalogue, a journal special
edition and photo-poem.
East and West: Visualising the Ottoman City was an exhibition at the Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck College, University of London 6th-30th of June 2014, curated by Leslie Hakim-Dowek, and which also included her own photographic works. The exhibition, gallery events and conference were the principal outputs of an AHRC-funded international network research project, under the
‘Translating Cultures’ strand on Ottoman Cosmopolitanism. By bringing together academics, artists, photographers, musicians, curators, chefs and journalists, the overall project sought to
rekindle transcultural memories of the former Ottoman Empire and to correct the relative historiographical neglect of this extensive 600-year polity, whose eventual demise in 1922 sowed many of the seeds of the recent and ongoing conflicts in the Balkans and Middle East.
Through visual arts approaches, including documentary photography and archival exposition, the East and West exhibition in particular aimed to challenge prevailing orientalist stereotypes of the former Ottoman Empire, which often portray the Middle East as having an exclusively Islamic identity. It did so by reclaiming neglected representations of the ethnic minorities that made up these vibrant and complex entrepots, recovering visual evidence of peaceful cohabitation and cultural and commercial exchange between, for example, Armenians and Anatolians, and Muslims and Jews, and by exposing some of the many tragedies of tangible
heritage erasure and population displacements since then.
Hakim-Dowek drew upon her personal experience and knowledge of the region to bring together key organizations, community representatives and researchers involved in reclaiming this obscured cultural heritage. She was also editor of the creative section of the journal Memory Studies, of which a special edition presented the research for the project.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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