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Never Again! Apology and Coming to Terms with the Past

Name: Never Again! Apology and Coming to Terms with the Past
Start: 2013-10-25T11:00:00+03:00
End: 2013-12-15T17:00:00+03:00
Location: Depo İstanbul

25/10/2013 @ 11:00 - 15/12/2013 @ 17:00

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25 October – 15 December 2013

Issues around the past have increasingly become a topic of discussion in the political and social spheres both in our geography and at other places in the world in recent years. Confronting the past and the demand for apology is the major point of controversy in this discussion.

Confronting the past is not a predicament that befell Turkey; it is an issue on the world’s agenda, a universal cause. This is why looking at comparative international case studies from around the world will contribute to transforming the culture of forgetting in Turkey and acknowledging that a remembering culture that would restore a sense of justice is a part of the civilization process. In this respect confronting the past and apology is also about what kind of a society we want to live in and the kind of shared future we want to build.

The exhibition “Never Again!: Apology and Coming to Terms with the Past” aims to explore experiences of coming to terms with the past and the act of apologizing in scope of societies’ efforts to constitute a common culture of democracy from a relational perspective. Looking closely at eight cases from around the world, the exhibition contemplates how states have come to terms with past rights violations, massacres, genocide and crimes of humanity, and the meaning of the issued apology.

In addition to the specifically presented case studies, the exhibition also includes a comprehensive map of the official apologies issued up to date. This special project realized in consultancy with Elazar Barkan and Graham G. Dodds and visually designed by designer and artist Mahir M. Yavuz, explores official apologies via the relation of the historical context and given space.

Two books were also published in scope of the project. The catalogue, which is a complementary volume to the exhibition, can be obtained free of charge from Depo throughout the exhibit. The second volume, titled Never Again!: Apology and Coming to Terms with the Past, comprised of texts examining the case studies presented in the exhibition in detail and featuring contributions by authors and academicians working on issues of confronting the past, has been published by İletişim Publishing.

Project coordinators Asena Günal (editor), Önder Özengi (curator), Özlem Yalçınkaya
Case texts Mehmet Sinan Birdal, Derviş Aydın Akkoç, Academic consultant Elazar Barkan, List of official apologies Graham G. Dodds, Exhibition design Sarper Takkeci, Exhibition and catalog graphic design and application Fevkalade, Data mapping Mahir M. Yavuz, Video editing Sevgi Ortaç, Photo edit Derin Korman, Translations Irazca Geray, Liz Amado, Barış Yıldırım, Aslı Çetinkaya, Aylin Ülçer, Çiçek Öztek, Balca Ergener, Exhibition design application Şantiye Destek, Photo prints DAKA A.Ş., Folio prints 3T Reklam, Print Mas Matbaacılık A.Ş.

Special thanks

Photographers and documentary film makers

Fred Hoare, Robert White, Marcelo Montecino, Paulo Slachevsky, Marcela Briones, Patricia Alfaro, Marco Ugarte, Behiç Günalan, Dusan Vranic, Irina Nedeva, Andrey Getov, Leslie Woodhead, Mick Csaky, Jon Jones

for sharing their photographs and documentaries

Institutions

Mémoires d’Humanité (Archives of the newspaper L’Humanité); Ministère de la Défense – ecpad (French Ministry of Defence – ecpad Archive); INA (National Audiovisual Institute, France); Getty Images Turkey; National Archives of Australia; Parliament of Australia; The Library of Congress; Bundesarchiv (The Federal Archives of Germany); Museum of Free Derry, Derry; UK Parliament; UTV Ltd, Belfast; Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago (Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago); Bulgaria State Agency Archives; Bulgarian National Radio, Sofia; The Red House, Sofia; Lost Bulgaria, Sofia; Associated Press; Humanitarian Law Center, Belgrade; Antelope Films; Directors Cut Films

for sharing their archives

People

Murat Çelikkan, Meltem Aslan, Gökçe Tüylüoğlu, Ferhat Boratav, Pelin Bardakçı, Elif Al, Aslı Çetinkaya, Irazca Geray, Urszula Wozniak, Gökhan Gençay, Christian Bergmann, José Manuel Rodríguez Leal, Adrian Kerr, Marijana Toma, Irina Nedeva, Peyo Tzankov Kolev, Tanıl Bora, Zeynep Moralı, Şengül Ertürk, Ahmet İnsel, Mithat Sancar, Ozan Erözden, Necati Sönmez, Burçak Muraben, Nazlı Gürlek, Hilal Ünal, Fahrettin Örenli, Muhsin Akgün, Gülay Sadık, Gamze Hızlı, Cemre Baytok, Çiğdem Öztürk

for all their generous help and support

“Never Again!: Apology and Coming to Terms with the Past”, is a joint project of Open Society Foundation and Anadolu Kültür.

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Catalog

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Press

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t24

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Cumhuriyet

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