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Atif Akin, 2015, Haukijärvi, Finland Mutant Space Onkalo, Atif Akin, Haukijarvi, Finland 2015 Mutant Space Onkalo, Atif Akin, Haukijarvi, Finland 2015 Mutant Space Onkalo, Atif Akin, Haukijarvi, Finland 2015 Onkalo, Finland is another site in the project Mutant Space. The Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository is a deep geological repository for the final disposal of […]

The wealthiest nations of the world with the highest standard of living tend to be those at the northern extreme of areas open to human habitation – Canada, and the Nordic Countries. Southern Europe has long been poorer than its northern counterpart, as has the Southern United States in comparison to the northeast. Spain and

Atif Akin, 2015, Haukijärvi, Finland This almost an hour long, three channel video is shot at The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant on Olkiluoto Island, which is on the shore of the western coast of Finland. This nuclear power complex also accommodates the Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository is a deep geological repository for the final

Mutant Space, Spokane, Installation View, Atif Akin, 2015 In the memory of James Leroy Acord (1944-2011) An artist who worked directly with radioactive materials dedicated to the idea of transmutation and demystifying technology. Mutant Space, Spokane, Installation View, Atif Akin, 2015 The Hanford Site is a mostly decommissioned nuclear production complex operated by the United

Atif Akin, 2014, NY, US. Mutant Space: Horizontal Section is a series of speculative drawings juxtaposed with the large format photographs of some nuclear sites in the US, NY/NJ area. As part of emergency preparedness planning for nuclear energy facilities, state and local agencies and contractors of the power plants develop detailed evacuation plans. These

Atif Akin, New York, 2013 online at: http://typinglot.com Atif Akin, New York, 2013 Atif Akin, New York, 2013 Atif Akin, New York, 2013 Atif Akin, New York, 2013 Atif Akin, New York, 2013 Atif Akin, New York, 2013 Typologic and photographic survey in typography. TypingLot is an ongoing project about urban typography. The project consists of

This 2-channel, generative HD video is a visualisation of more than 600 words as subjects coupled with the verb occupy juxtaposed onto the video footage taken at Zucotti Park in New York at the heated days of the physical occupation. The words are fetched from twitter feed with a script running online and scanning #OWS

Atif Akin, New York, 2011 The Seventh-Kilometer Market, informally known as Tolchok (Russian for shove, shoving), is an outdoor market outside of Odessa, Ukraine. It is referred to as a case of post-Soviet heterotopia as it is located in a grey zone just outside the city boundary and yet it has exerted a huge in

The eight issue of Kayısı Kent A4, edited and designed by Atıf Akın, Bora Başkan and Can Pekdemir deals with subjects such as gentrification, environment and modern architecture in a satirical and sarcastic way. Mocking up stories about urban transformation and nuclear catastrophe, this issue mimes the tone in conventional media sources. Some of the

Atif Akin, 2010, NY, US online at: http://zone.mutantspace.net Catastrophe in 1986, turned into spectacle as a monument of the cold war, mythically and epidemiologically spread to Europe, Asia and Anatolia. Today Chernobyl is the temple of ostalgie. Project aims at presenting the Zone as a reconstructed mythologic space as it could free itself in an art