Margaret Tilly for the Columbia Daily Spectator reported on the Sakıp Sabancı Center event "The Artist’s Eye, The Historian’s Gaze: Ottoman Pavilions at World’s Fairs", held at Columbia University on October 23, 2019.
Excerpt below:
Last Wednesday, Butler Library’s “Performing the Library” project hosted a panel discussing “The Pavilion,” which was recently installed in Butler 211 and 602. The panel, aptly titled “The Artist’s Eye, the Historian’s Gaze,” was organized by Librarian for Butler Media, Film Studies, and Performing Arts Nancy Friedland, with support from Columbia University Libraries and the Sakip Sabanci Center for Turkish Studies.
It featured Gokturk, Çelik, and professor Matthew Buckingham, who discussed the complications that arise with the intersection of art and history. The panel was also introduced by Holger Alexander Klein, director of the Sakip Sabanci Center, and was moderated by history professor Tunç Şen.
Friedland introduced the panel, explaining in her opening remarks how Gokturk’s work fit in with the project’s mission.
“I started with the Performing the Library project about three years ago, and the intention was to have students think about how they relate to our collections and information, and it's sort of taken on its own life,” she said.
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