Serhat Köksal (aka 2/5BZ) No Cultural Pipeline Dialogue :: until May 24, 2009 :: Online Museum for Soundart

In NO Cultural Pipeline Dialogue, Serhat Koksal investigates the effects on people’s economic or political situations and individual states of mind in a critical and humorous way. His sound and visual works and projects employ collage and cut-up techniques, found film, news material, outdoor shots and processed samples, electronics. 2/5 BZ marks up
gentrification and gentrifisual struggle that is triggered in the course of the globalization by audiovisual input and says NO to a dialogue fetishism.

Serhat Koksal has continued to develop his multimedia project 2/5BZ — initiated in Istanbul in 1986 — expressing himself in a wide range of media forms. Besides audiovisual performances like ‘NO Touristik NO Egzotik ‘ which have been shown internationally on 17 country 82 cities, Serhat Koksal has produced Tapes, CDs, Video-Collages, performances, DVDs, Vinyls, Stickers, Posters and Copy-Zines since 1991.

In his project NO Pipeline NO Exotic, Serhat Koksal (aka 2/5BZ) illuminates the common cultural cliches between Orient and Occident in a critical and humorous way, investigating their effects on people’s economic or political situation and individual states of mind. He employs collage and cut-up techniques, found film material, outdoor shots and samples. The project concentrates on concepts such as ”Culutral Pipeline” and ”Energy Dialogue” since 2007 begin, presenting Sound Performance and Planetcore live visuals in Italy, Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Iran, Poland, Russia, USA, Belgium, Holland,
Belarus, Switzerland, France, Latvia, and Denmark.

Serhat Koksal is co-curator of the International Roaming Biennial of Tehran and have interview with John Peel on 1994 for BBC world Service and have two times ”Peel Session” in BBC Radio 1 and have interview about Turkish Pop Cinema on Channel 4 TV (Mondo Macabro television series 2001) and have selection in first wide-ranging book quide of audiovisual art and VJ culture in 2006. Project presenting on the subject of Turkish Pop Cinema and Deconstruction, Exotic Tourism and Anti-City myths,Copy Culture and Remakes, critical sound art and audiovisual experimentation using found footage, field recordings and samples – in short: a critical and humorous re-use of mass culture.