The installation “Setting a Setting / Forecasting a Broken Past” in Künstlerhaus Bethanien is a work in progress. Here, Can Altay presents the second issue of his continuing newspaper project “Ahali: a journal for setting a setting”, a publication that concerns artistic and site-related practices in connection with various aspects of urban society. Visitors are given the opportunity to compile their own reading matter from individual sheets of the newspaper.

Another work in the form of a slide presentation – which continues Can Altay’s series of works “exercises in sharing” – examines the animals and plants with which we cohabit in the city. A further component of the installation is a site-related sound collage. This reinterprets various songs from the 70s and 80s relating to Kreuzberg, its inhabitants and the Bethanien building.