PoMi CATALOGUE: 'TOWARDS A GENTRIFIED ARCHITECTURE' |
Eskisehir
Genteel Architects in Absolutely Gentrified Countries of the Next Century according to the Pomi Catalogue
...The legitimisation of speed of production as a company policy for confirmation of absence of memory. The installation in cities of physical vigour as a giant ready package. The recycling of Jurassic Park to sell off a portion of the existing wild life at a high price. The change of hands at an exorbitant price and the destruction of national parks obtained at knock down prices. The renewed sale of scenes of wild animal hunts at the poles. The realisation of man hunts. The sale of human or animal hunting in the same package as a sports programme. Marketing strategies tailored to situations where monumentalism has been made into an urgent and rough formal requirement. The resale of familiar images in the public arena under the heading of ‘sculpture’. The operational administration of the national intelligence agency bazaar with military transfer technology. The marketing of computer memories as a nostalgic object and a commemorative subject. The creation of a game from the transfer of ownership of bodies in the public arena. Making kitsch a branch of production. The presentation of traditional urban objects as a part of genetic conditioning. Renewed production of the supervision of controlled child play as one of the basic problems. The rationalisation of the architectural style language of structure embarrassment in the free production of military structures. The extremely cheap production of monuments to enable all kinds of public green areas to be endowed with monuments. The marketing of silhouettes of ready works in the form of massive installations for metropolis-like colony settlements. The invasion of public places with skyscraper architecture of the previous century in the form of phallic objects as urban monuments. Conventional terrorism of the previous century in the style of 9/11 as a subject for tourism. The thorough inspection of mass entertainment events. The invention of new festival forms that have eliminated poverty. Turning shopping inside out and making expenditure into a part of genetic conditioning. The opening of new potential places for the violence of winter and summer tourism. New kinds of hybrid installations for assembling historical cities in the form of new cities. Finding the technological means of rebuilding ancient cities as military bases. New versions of Orientalist fantasies. The rebuilding of local modernism on the point of demolition. The remittance of conservation as a totally fantastic place to super heroes. And of course, the brand creation of kitsch urbanism ‘in the style of Yilmaz Buyukersen’* .
* Mayor of Eskişehir since 1999