Cultural Venues in the Age of Compost: Karşı Sanat and Kültürhane

Abstract

This article focuses on the role of communities that promise diversity, entanglement and circularity in what we describe as the age of compost. It tries to diagnose the role of cultural spaces that create their own rituals by taking the power of art with them in the emergence of such communities by discussing two organizations from Istanbul and Mersin, Karşı Sanat and Kültürhane. The main argument of the article is that spaces that can ritualize their continuous practices by putting culture at the center for the repair of the compost age can create communities centered on shared value that contain differences, entangle these differences and establish a circularity.