Maquis Projects is a cultural space in Izmir. It offers cover and opportunities for creative individuals and collectives to create meaningful actions and objects.
Description
Maquis primarily refers to the type of scrubland found in ‘Mediterranean’ climates. While primarily and originally associated with the Mediterranean region it can also be found in much of California, parts of South Africa, central coastal Chile and parts of South Asia. It prevails in the Izmir area of Turkey. During the Second World War it also became a metonym for a group of politically diverse resistant fighters in rural France. Maquis Projects offers cover and opportunities for individuals and collectives to create meaningful cultural and social material and activities. It looks to the original definition of Maquis as a sub-climate where particular climatic and topographic conditions produce
specific fauna and flora. Of interest is how six different disconnected locations have independently created experiences of scale and texture that are similar yet strange to each other.
The basic taxonomy of these experiences can be expanded to raise questions in relation to how the human being, within
separated experiential and political conditions, can respond through their actions to relationships of order and power.
MAQUIS PROJECTS is based in the area of Kemeralti in Izmir. This is an urban area that shares many of the characteristics of the uninhabited natural maquis.
Description
Maquis primarily refers to the type of scrubland found in ‘Mediterranean’ climates. While primarily and originally associated with the Mediterranean region it can also be found in much of California, parts of South Africa, central coastal Chile and parts of South Asia. It prevails in the Izmir area of Turkey. During the Second World War it also became a metonym for a group of politically diverse resistant fighters in rural France. Maquis Projects offers cover and opportunities for individuals and collectives to create meaningful cultural and social material and activities. It looks to the original definition of Maquis as a sub-climate where particular climatic and topographic conditions produce
specific fauna and flora. Of interest is how six different disconnected locations have independently created experiences of scale and texture that are similar yet strange to each other.
The basic taxonomy of these experiences can be expanded to raise questions in relation to how the human being, within
separated experiential and political conditions, can respond through their actions to relationships of order and power.
MAQUIS PROJECTS is based in the area of Kemeralti in Izmir. This is an urban area that shares many of the characteristics of the uninhabited natural maquis.