Ahmet Öğüt to Lead First NSK State Pavilion at 2017 Venice Biennale with Stateless Community Governance

So, there's this Turkish artist named Ahmet Öğüt who’s going to be behind the first NSK State Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. It’s happening from May 13 to November 26 at the Palazzo Ca’ Tron, which is at IUAV University in Santa Croce, number 1957. This pavilion will focus on helping Humanitarian Protection Applicants, Sans Papiers, and stateless people, and it’s part of a project that goes back to the NSK State-in-Time initiative from 1992. Zdenka Badovinac and Charles Esche are curating it, while Mara Ambrožič is directing. Öğüt’s past works include 'An Apology for Modernity' and an NSK Passport Office, and Slavoj Žižek will kick things off with a lecture. He aims to connect with the local community, as he believes traditional nation-state pavilions are outdated.