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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 19 country 94 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 NOrient and NOccident 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 Norientrash live visuals in Italy, Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Iran, Poland, Russia, USA, Belgium, Holland,
Belarus, Switzerland, France, Latvia ,Denmark and Serbia. 2/5BZ has performed at well-known festivals such as Club Transmediale in Berlin ,Sonic Acts in Amsterdam , collaborated with numerous musicians such as Tim Hodgkinson .
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 ( D-Fuse ) 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, news material,
outdoor shots , field recordingsand processed samples, electronics - in short: a critical and humorous re-use of mass culture.
http://2-5bz.tumblr.com
http://www.gozel.tv
http://2-5bz.com
http://gozel.tumblr.com
http://www.clubtransmediale.de/index.php?id=2275 Remake Exotic
http://norient.com/stories/25bz/ interview
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/tracklistings/peel_archive_shtml.shtml?20030506 Peel Session
http://www.sonicacts.com/06/item_detail.php?id=54 Remake Turkish Pop & Touristik World
http://archive.transmediale.de/page/detail/detail.0.projects.492.3.html
http://hardwax.com/label/gozel-records/ vinyl , cd , dvd
http://wfmu.org/Playlists/Wfmu/top30.080416.html
http://independent.pl/25_bz_aka_serhat_koksal
http://www.amazon.com/2-5bz/dp/B003Y3VK8Q
http://nurjuvampirism.tumblr.com/
http://kozmikopua.tumblr.com/ ( english )
http://norient.com/stories/25bz/
http://etilen.net/berbat-zoksal/
http://archive.transmediale.de/page/detail/detail.0.persons.703.3.html
http://www.bwanaclub.org/2-5-bz,429.html
http://www.timeout.ru/text/display/19771/?city=3 ;
http://plagij.at/article/2656
http://www.radio1.cz/www/rozhovor.php?id=4093 ;
http://wiadomosci.polska.pl/kultura/article,Artysta_dekonstruuje_turystyczny_raj,id,294281.htm
http://vimeo.com/16289114 - battal ebru 1991 - 2000
http://vimeo.com/11860953 - live 2007