Michael Jackson Interfaith Sculpture

The statue Revolt, which was built in June 2012 by the Mhallami Intercivilizational Dialogue Association (Mssociation) in the Turkish village of Mercimekli, spontaneously crumbled less than three months later. It had been dedicated to Michael “Mikail” Jackson, who had chosen “the rightful religion,” according to Mssociation’s director. That is why, in the name of “Mikail” Jackson, Mssociation also honors the memory of “painful endings in the lives of all those people who oppose cruelties, insults and tortures” and who, having chosen “the rightful religion,” revolt against these oppressions with the “enthusiasm of their beliefs,” as well as peace and harmony between civilizations, races, religions and galaxies. Spamullah of Nottoman News Agency will be following such events, in which it remains to be seen whether avatar brotherhood will be sustained through “revolt,” what will happen in Mercimekli and the Middle East in terms of the love this statue triggers between “higgsullah” and “faith,” and whether these brotherhoods and love affairs will be disrupted by “boson” hatred.

About Serhat Koksal

2/5BZ, aka Serhat Koksal (Istanbul), works in a range of media, with releases in video, music and literary formats. His work is characterized by a balancing on the verge of trash and by the ongoing production of collages of music, cinema, web caches, speech and field recordings. 2/5BZ has put on live audiovisual performances in 19 countries and 91 cities, at clubs, festivals, squats and exhibitions. He concentrates on concepts such as cultural pipeline, energy dialogue, Turkish pop cinema, deconstruction, exotic tourism, anti-city myths, copy culture and remakes, investigating cultural clichés and their effects on the economic and political situation of individuals. In his audiovisual performances he has focused on new security measures and the indisputable acceptance of volunteering and is currently working on “New Age vampirism,” “avatar liberalism” in “palaverel” and parallel universes as well as “tolerance imperialism” and “cosmic noptimism.”

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