From the JFK exhibition Bedri Baykam

AN ORDINARY CRIME COMMITTED IN THE NAME OF THE TRIBES, AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY TOLD IN MODERN TIMES OF A MOST OBSCENE GESTURE CALLE ‘VIOLENCE’...

EMİN ÇETİN GİRGİN




An ordinary crime committed in the name of the tribes, an extraordinary story told in modern times of a most obscene gesture called ‘violence’. An existing dystopia of an inevitable hegemonic system that rapes, if per chance, finds the suitable minds. History moves forward on constantly disintegrating floors, broken cracks not dialectically way but per chance. It does not fabricate a dream of development that offers imaginary consolations. He, manifests his usual attitude here again; the symbolic subject, the skills of which are obscured by adjectives, in the state of being trapped in the society, explores in all details of a pornographic event suppressed into the subconscious. Bedri, does not merely retrieve from dusty archives the Kennedy assassination; he puts into action the political side of art refraining from penetrating; as it should be, questioning, skeptical.

Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Jack Ruby, Abraham Zapruder, Ms. Roberts, Marion Baker, Jim Hick, Merriman Smith, Teresa Norton, Antonio Veciana, Clay Laverna Shaw and others... In Bedri Baykam’s JFK exhibition we encounter the names of the pictures of dozens of characters. We know that they have all been, in one form or another, either a party or a witness to this event. While the official investigation opened by Earl Warren is in progress, 57 of those who are subject to the interrogation, die of unnatural causes. The assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, shows many similarities with the plot against Abraham Lincoln who abolished slavery. The murder for which Lee Oswald is announced a ‘patsy’, still retains its ambiguity despite all the investigation and inquiries. Bedri Baykam who has followed-up closely the whole process goes beyond from here; starting with How, he questions Why the President was killed. On the 50th anniversary of the case, he asks us a very crucial question: do presidents have personal wills? Or what about individuals! Can the US civilization survive in a world without wars? The issue dwelled upon goes back and forth and arrives at the point of contention which is that sentence uttered in 1846 in Brussels for some reason.

On the 22nd of November 1963, the world had no idea it would encounter a massive move that would completely change its future. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was commencing the third morning of his critical 5-city Texas tour. So far, things going well in San Antonio and Fort Worth was a great relief for the President’s team. Kennedy’s wife, Jackie, did not accompany John Kennedy much on his travels. This time she did not turn him down and they came to Texas together. At the breakfast table, while Kennedy was eating his eggs, he could not believe his eyes! The Dallas Morning News was the most noteworthy journal of the spoilt oil barons in Texas. Bernard Weissman had placed a full-page advert in the newspaper on behalf of the ‘American Fact-Finding Committee’, addressing 12 tough questions!

“Why have you approved of the sale of wheat and corn to our enemies… when you know… Communist soldiers are daily wounding and/or killing American soldiers in South Vietnam?”

“Why have you ordered or permitted your brother Bobby, the Attorney General, go soft on Communists, fellow travelers, and ultra-leftists in America, while permitting him to persecute loyal Americans…”

“Why have you scrapped the Monroe Doctrine in favor of the ‘Spirit of Moscow’?”

“Why has Gus Hall, head of U.S. Communist Party praised almost all your policies and announced that the party will endorse and support your re-election in 1964?”

These accusatory and aggressive questions went on and on. Kennedy pouring himself a little more coffee “Oh, you know, we’re heading into a nut country today,” he said to Mrs. Kennedy and then added, “What can you do, this is the country we live in.” 




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If you assume a given state of development of man’s productive faculties, you will have a corresponding form of commerce and consumption… That civil society, will create its corresponding political system. Letter from Marx to Pavel Vasilyevich Annenkov in Paris; December 28, 1846/Brussels

“No society can survive and build history without making production!…”


Its difficult to distinguish their followers from clerics recognized at first sight. After accepting the postulate selected as the baseline, the rest has nothing to do with dialectics. There is a strange prediction: ‘Allowing the elimination of slavery, will wipe out North America’ it says. Right to a certain extent; slavery in industrial capitalism continues through migration of the soul. Marx in Brussels writes the following in 1845: “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships…” (Karl Marx, Works, The German Ideology, Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas, 1845.)

The ruling ideas are … the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas; hence of the relationships which make the one class the ruling one, therefore, the ideas of its dominance.

“The most perfect example of the modern State is North America. The modern French, English and American writers all express the opinion that the State exists only for the sake of private property, so that this fact has penetrated into the consciousness of the normal man. Since the State (here should be read as the arms industry and the United States.) is the form in which the individuals of a ruling class assert their common interests, and in which the whole civil society of an epoch is epitomized, it follows that the State mediates in the formation of all common institutions and that the institutions receive a political form. Hence the illusion that law is based on the will, and indeed on the will divorced from its real basis — on free will. Similarly, justice is in its turn reduced to the actual laws.” (Karl Marx, The German Ideology, pg 75/115, 1845.)

Society is a laboratory; a test and combat area.. Advertising agencies, nurses, musicians, journalists, sociologists, biologists, entrepreneurs, schools, artists, workers and other professions.. Prisoners, patients, students.. Institutions and organizations.. Classes that execute the operational mechanism of a society; service receivers and providers.. Rank and file, rulers… Representatives, nobles.. The division of labor and the State exist ad hoc. At the basis of this there lies a father figure, delivers a statement of confidence to the administrative authority, a setting that we cannot in our wildest imagination even dream of another way of arranging. Like the essentiality of all the devices used in life, people’s need to live in an organized system is too nothing but a supposition. Even though the phrase ‘Open’ is used in the previews, ‘Closed Society’ behind closed doors is the inevitable location of the production process that creates law, borders and history. At the center of the phenomenal dialectic, there exists nothing but the will of the class at the navigating bridge, and the oppression of institutions organized in line with their purpose. Ideologies aspire to seize control of the rulership and not eliminate this nightmare. Where there is no outside, freedom is just a metaphor; we discern that this too is part of the discipline. We are trained in a betweenness/coalescence culture. According to the declaration of impossibility ethics, each activity is a task customized in plurality by responsibility, a value that operates the monetary mechanism. Every action, absolutely triggering economic data, the nature of capitalism, the means of production, and the opportunities of social titles is a service we are obliged to use. In every action, image, sound and work of art we are discharged with, and in every message given, what we have to ask initially is this: what is the purpose of this move? Without asking this, where we stand and who we are is uncertain. Our answers may vary but the question we ask enhances our identity; adds a value of consciousness and exchange to what we undertake. The missing piece is completed with criticism. Balancing this is a civic duty. The trainer of the negative dialectic is responsible of the society from which he’s discarded, to which he is bound to give an answer instead of being deprived of. -On another occasion we encounter another name, this time it is Bedri at the JFK exhibition- Intellectual is the one who knows he should think beyond mottos of thought presented by those in authority.


Today, is the stop we make on the journey of remembering every moment of the past. History is the space beyond the time the activity is realized and is translated into the language of the experience in relation to the action made happen. The concept that we call “today” is the remainder of the past. While opening space for the new ones, we have an account settling with those displaced. “History is the object of a construction whose place is formed not in homogenous and empty time, but in that which is fulfilled by the here-and-now [Jetztzeit]” says W. Benjamin and adds, “Thinking involves not only the free-flow of thoughts passing by but also their zero-hour [Stillstellung] where thinking suddenly comes to a stop and seizes thoughts.”

Despite the corporate conspiracy that prevents the figures to be duly seen, in our relationship with the other, our belief that ideas and objects are exchanged freely becomes an obstruction. The rule is vague, the assuring stable threshold is inconstant. If government’s style in hiding the truth has altered, we must conclude that they have deserted the old position, and not given up their position of defense. The identity of the state originated as a result of continuous violations is compatible. Rationality is a side. Even when modern social restructuring project is tamed, all acuity is convicted, a deconstruction does not occur; there we will encounter friendly postmodern customer service that has revised its workbench. The modernist jargon covering the stabilized truth to which we have fallen prey, is a tool of domination. We know that the last remaining Kennedy assassination related documents are scheduled to be released to the public by 2017. 

Weapons technology’s industry being the basic dynamics of the U.S. economy still resumes. The expectation that light will fall upon darkness is premature. In a decency of hoping that the shape of violence has changed, we can say that at the historical stopover where not domination but the practice of using social device that has become both legitimate and transparent, art at the core of the mysterious structure may one day be able to cause enough abrasion. Production is in progress, capital single-handedly represents the absolute. Increasingly unaccountable, arrogant ‘Law’ prevailing at the levels of society as an entity of a source of omnifarious program, self-made commandments are at the actual moment in process of manifestation.

Although every society rejects outright violence in general, the whole organization of the state is aware of the need to retain violence as opposed to destroy it as a product of consciousness. Democracy can only exist in a shell where basic needs are addressed, where pleasure is let loose by extravagance. The U.S. arms industry, beyond creating employment in the country, is a major power in supplying the shell with premium that sets the economy going..

Martin Luther King’s speech that starts with “I have a dream” evokes not a date overpassed but a page that should not be forgotten. It articulates not a peaceful pose but discomfort. Date: August 28, 1963. Under the leadership of the civil disobedience movement, a demonstration was organized with the participation of nearly a quarter million people. Immediately after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom for the legalization of the Civil Rights Act, Kennedy submitted the civil rights bill to the congress that eliminated racial discrimination at schools, hotels and restaurants. However, slavery was not yet abolished in the minds. The congress did not endorse the law protecting civil rights of the black Americans on that day. Khrushchev, at the 21st Congress of the Communist Party proposed to be in a Peaceful Coexistence with the capitalist countries. After his visit to the US, in May 1960 Khrushchev attended with Kennedy the Paris Summit peace conference. Following this, the meetings continued in Vienna in 1961. Soviet’s proposal of confederation of two German states and West Berlin with a status of a “free city”, was rejected. Khrushchev, later, related the details with a smile. The conflict was not resolved. Shortly after this meeting the Berlin Wall was build. In 1962, the Russians set out to install medium-range ballistic missiles in Cuba… We read all this in Khrushchev’s memoirs written in exile at his dacha after being deposed of his post by the Politburo. The two leaders were overthrown with a fait accompli; one alive, the other dead! When we look at Khrushchev figures appearing in Baykam’s works, they are either armed with a sword and executing a gentlemanly duel, sometimes standing in the center of the scene like Hitchcock, or else watching secretly from some spot on the canvas, thus we remember a period suffering from the inflicted castration.

What all periods in Bedri’s art have in common is his reckless questioning of disparate truths. Provocation of subdued political motives, -as in the case of Kennedy- confronting his subject with its only effectiveness and defects, act as a complementary remedy for the social set up. Recreation focused on the exigency of people, though covering the skin like an ointment will not be able to heal the scar left by the scab. The balance due for the therapeutic examination arises from the tension of horror, being left out and covering up the past. At the lining of the images transferred to the surface, we encounter the artist’s employable philosophy of life, the face that affirms modern life. There are no supporters for those taking a troubled and lonely ride as a producer in the forced and compulsory layers of existence. He waits in a void surrounding area that he has cleared up digging. The rationality that regulates life emerges through things. There exists only one reason; the key that will unlock, is in the hands of the owner of the seal that locked it. At the end of the 50th year, he asks a question with the tools and archived records he has been using all along and composes a reality. Setting is the same setting; but the time is too early to come to an agreement.

Today all concepts we advocate as an ideal in everyday life, have definitely been brought to discussion by artists before. Or the social systems we still live in, may have been completely designed literarily. Kant’s “Dare to think!” command in the patriarchal order contains a little bit the call of ‘don’t talk nonsense’ freely. Campanella’s “City of the Sun”, Thomas More’s “Utopia” produced from ‘ou-topos’ meaning ‘no place’ and Thomas Hobbes’ “Leviathan” published in 1651, are all eccentric dreams of society regarding the period they lived in. First artists envision the future of man; politicians believe in this, pursue a dream. Innocent forces of dirty wars, realize this envisagement in the world of fairy tales as a social order in the future. Democracy is governance where no one is responsible for the whole. Separation of powers, prevents the concentration of the power of sanctions over the society. In a completely liberated democracy, the order of humanity that we may at any time change by clicking the ‘like’ button on the social media, and a social formation that inevitably goes hand-in-hand with technology, are possibilities in the future.

“The thing that declares the moment of conservation of the past, exactly is the movement’s crystallization into a monad and becoming frozen” says Zizek. He is consistent with his opinions in “Sublime Object of Ideology”. His expressing the general truths to be agreed upon with a redundant skill does not lessen the effect of his statement. Counter to his often asked question ‘Where to begin?’, if he has shaken off his impressed judgement on despotism trailing from his past and in earnest understood Bakunin’s reaction to Marx, then his discourse is clear and lucid enough for us to defend as well. The thing that is required to be abandoned is experience engendered by life. ‘Where to begin?’ psychosis articulated in and out of season by the offsprings, sucks the individual taken ‘hostage’ by economic disposition into ‘tesettur’ (getting covered for religious reasons). From Andy Warhol onwards, the practice of art has become a rule notified after being eviscerated. The purpose of presenting the spurious as a genuine reality is the declaration of the possibility of becoming by resembling. Consumption born out of necessity, cannot tolerate delays in production; its similarity to the needs will suffice. If we reduce it all down to Bedri and his JFK exhibition, the artist with his production, instead of oping for this present comfort struggles to catch the right moment / particle (monad) in the flowing time, and discerns the singular in the universal, weeds out those dumped into the collective memory; if all this is not a rush to clear the vapor on the glass, then what is it? The right treatment is possible only with an accurate diagnosis, adequate action. When we observe isolating or manifolding this question, the emerging picture will gain diversity. The masculine dimension of production employed by the Sublime Object / Secret State is to neutralize the perpetration by making the crime identifiable through the attempt of placing the blame on Oswald. In Leviticus 17/7 with reference to the Israelites it says, “They must no longer offer any of their sacrifices to the goat idols to whom they prostitute themselves.” On the spur of reclaiming the past, however hard they try to divert this to the mind, and consistency, the paradigm that the Jews forget is that desire creates sin; the sacrifice to the goat being a goat is the result of the forgiving authority’s solution being only one. Moses putting a veil upon his face (Exodus 34:33) is not a metaphor; the nature of the action carries the task for the covered truth to restrain the energy of love. Morality, essentially puts symbols in an order like letters; it’s the declaration reflected to our practice as a causal composition that monitors making the corporate manifesto significant. In the incorporate network, questions that cannot be asked regarding modern ethics remain as a fantasy. The content of the symbols have been deleted. A document compiled by the artist warns those who are mere spectators of the show that has come to a standstill. The narrative focused on the figures of Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, Lee Oswald reveals to us what and how the system of government implicates, and under the threats of concentrated accumulation that generates the capital, how it also produces the continuation of life. Although the images also bring to mind the heroes of the consumer society, monads possess all the values / knowledge of the whole. 


In the experience of the Gladio massacres between the years 1960-80, we encounter similar denominators in all the countries of Europe. Later, what the colorful Sorosian revolutions want to say is the same. In the struggle for Enlightenment, the war game is precisely located in the heart of progress as a negative dialectic; the only thing we have to do is to admit its being ‘as is’, its constituent will, and governing authority. We experience live democratic fantasy covering the law at the center with a protective membrane. When comparing the tendencies of freedom, in the exchange of intellectual necessities its great to invite by name -JFK, Che, Marx or anyone else -the no-longer existing-; but history has taught us that contacting the spirit world is in vain. If we call the capitalist system created by historical evolution a normative formation, and believe in imperialism and its tools, and the accumulation that finances these tools, invisible mediators that protect the acquisition and the cause that connects everyone to everyone else, then we should not be surprised at the organizing of power ever expanding by forms, legislations, writs of incurred expenses, circulars, regulations that are produced by law in an unprecedented way in history. White / red, green: Everywhere that labour produces value for capital, there are no autonomous areas where we are obliged not to refer the needs of secularity to the authority of the regime and no history or law that can be changed by a person’s free will. Drama sets fire to the whole scene; society which we call the factory, could be a borderless, flexible, ambiguous concept of freedom that corresponds to the thinking/mind/ idea of an individual trained in its system; its empirical equivalent on the other hand cannot be defined. Production hybridizes the main motives / trends of all classes as much as it does the capitalist. In an inorganic area here develops kinships from medicines to traveling, ubiquity to communication; with its norms and without an excuse, attaches common consumer awareness to political economy. Constitutive paradigm -returning to Marx at the title- is the ‘what’ of production. The vulnerabilities of being a consumer, corners the subject rather than the power resulting from production; from inside the periphery pulls it to the center. Hegel refers to this as follows: “Need and labour are thus elevated into this universality, and this creates in a great nation an immense system of commonality (Gemeinschaftlichkeit) and mutual dependence, a life of death moving within itself (ein sich in sich bewegendes Leben des Toten). This system moves hither and thither in a blind and elemental way, and like a wild animal calls for strong permanent control and curbing.” (Jenenser Realphilosophie 1/239-40, Negri/DE. 95)

Kennedy says, ‘A police state finds it cannot command the grain to grow’. The truth Bedri seeks in his paintings lights the fuse of a very deep debate. Stirs up a hornet’s nest. The problem is not only an issue concerning ‘Kennedy’, its the fundamental problem of the world...

‘Division of labor’ that presents its self-interest as the interest of the majority, has taken place of mutual assistance in the society. Mankind’s “false” consciousness produces life forms alternative to nature. It destroys the information in nature in the last instance, autonomies from nature the knowledge that is institutionalized by ‘knowing’s illegitimate violation. We live in an age where production is a purpose, everything else remaining and the productive forces are just means to an end. We cannot say ‘What does that have to do with anything?’ Marx’s discernment on the title is true. The element that creates history filled with impudence and which we criticize, is the man-free connections of industrial production.. The subject who is to obey the command ‘Dare to think!’ is courageous. The conspiracy against Kennedy who stated, “A police state finds it cannot command the grain to grow”, is the result of the interests of those who create war, a product of history and trade of the inegalitarian and devise the wealth of nations. It gives the message that it cannot be stood up against; rationality of the machine that will stop at nothing; all these must be read correctly. The priests, missionaries of the Catholic Church would go hungry if it were not for sinners. If there is evil in the world, according to dialectic, the ‘good’ is the balanced element in the categorical order. If there is wealth, it is the result of some people’s poverty. 
Democracy is a result of the wealth of nations. The creepy confrontations of democracy, its contact points with comprehension can be defined by the codes of the society as well as the geography. The logic used self-affirms itself according to mathematical modelings. The oligarchies of others, financing of totalitarian governments, the exporting of the character of democratic process in developed countries is a process on the control panel without a subject; endorphin is a meaningless but a purposeful device on the serotonin plane.. Imperial accumulation in the hands of a colonialist is not just the domination/despotism of money; the black hole that sucks and exploits the 
energy that generates all the values in the world is financial power. The world is what it looks like; embodying all criticisms in its formation there is only one structure available that consumes ‘as is’ or preserves, without taking into consideration the parties, their organisms, human attributions. Dehumanized disciplinary control mechanisms, interact but with the mechanics of grinding wheels. When we talk about the operational tools of the synthetic organism, where we are heading is clear: Equipment/apparatus called the ‘dispositive’, the device all of us hold from some corner with our hands is ‘as is’. Capital does not enslave the labor outside but it also produces the climate that provides suitable democratic conditions at home and the malady called economy for which there is no other option, and also the administrative structures attached to each other by global network.. Not to mention structures of protective materials positioned at its asymmetry. In symbolic activities with no human involvement, ‘the bad loses and the good wins’ is nothing but an urban myth. 

“Liberation from the domination of commodities over the individual is the prerequisite of freedom” says Marcuse. The heaven in Utopia will not have a place in this world, so long as man realizes production parallel to nature..

Hegel sees the state as a shell that protects the subject. Against the individual, he gives the upper hand to this protective enclosure, that is to say the shell. The value of the state is higher than the society. Marx was a pre-Hegelian. At 25 years of age, in August 1843 he wrote “Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Law”.. He points out that ‘what-ness’ of society is determined by the relations of production. “To say that the State is an external necessity (…) means subordination of the family and civil society to the laws and interests of the state (…)” When Marx criticizes Hegel: “The personality of the state is actual only as one person, the monarch (…) Hegel conveys a single empirical man, an empirical person, is brought forth as the ultimate actuality of the state.” Has he then been able present as a solution by copying the governing ‘monarch’ phenomenon coming from “the power of the crown comes from being a king”, and overcome it by replacing it with the birth of ‘proletariat’ praxis, which he so heralded? When his criticism on ‘division of labor’ limited to the writings of 1844, jumps from philosophy to economics, capitalism being the threshold standing before progress which he deems necessary to overcome, that is the solution to the crisis of production in anarchy. Concept of ‘confiscated labor’ is invalidated. Summary of the whole theory is ‘voluntary individual productivity’. However, ‘utopia’ takes the gear to reverse by organizing mass-production regime with central planning and placing a limit on the natural needs. Central planning means, centralized power. Labour gets its power from the possibility of ‘production’. Production creates commodity, exchange and surplus value; division of labor establishes intrusive bureaucracy and insurmountable hierarchy. In the setup of Dialectical Materialism, ‘Freedom’ exists at the value of a movie trailer diagonally from the phenomenon of ‘production’; “freedom for what?” is left unanswered. History has not been able to realize, neither in old age nor in practice the ‘young’ theory concerning the worker’s move towards the center in order to abolish himself.. As a result, Marx affirmed with tutelage cadres the Hegelian central government and factory organization, and has refrained from changing the state of domination of those in authority in favor of the individual. Anarchists opposing the fatalism in Marx’s philosophy cannot digest the idea that the present generation is to become saviors of tomorrow’s generations. This is the main difference between Stirner, even Bakunin, and Marx. They do not approve of an ideology that renounces life; rightly, too.

Marx continues,”… the division of labour implies the possibility, even the fact that 
intellectual and material activity – enjoyment and labour, production and consumption – devolve on different individuals, and that 
the only possibility of their not coming into contradiction lies in the negation in its turn of the division of labour.” (Karl Marx. The German Ideology. 1845)

To state that division of labour can be retracted, constitutes an obvious contrast with objective of creating a prosperous industrial society through the socialist ideology. Marx by converting the utopia he has built into the dictatorship of the proletariat conceals from sight the horizontal objective that is obscured by his theses. Apart from the demand for elimination of inequality in income distribution in socialist/capitalist ideologies, welfare society that gives rise to bestial violence is the imaginary partner. As Marx stated above “No society can survive and make history without making production!” Therefore what needs to be discussed is the reality of what societies produce and correspondingly how history is written. The basic dynamics of the U.S. economy, the arms industry and the wars provoked in the world, is the ability of the U.S. to create a market for its national production..

The surplus value of labor, hence the cause for production of exploitation, is the result of life being besieged by goods, in other words objects: as Marx explains, ‘Money’ is the summary of life. Exchange of money with labor bills or the like, does not change the fact that labour is the extorted capital. In a world inverted, it does not resolve the laborer’s alienation to his product. Thought, cannot resist the representations, dictatorial symbols that eliminate the mundane presence of a more tangible truth or the dialectic. Metaphysical takes the place of materialism. A better idea that we can exchange has not yet been constituted by mankind. The whole excuse is that capitalism is an unfair financial system that the works poorly. The resolution does not go beyond repairing the factory organization by protecting the production skills of communities, restoring production, getting the laborers to work with self devotion / responsibility, and demanding the production of prosperity with commodity. In societies where philosophy is laid aside, it is assumed that labour that obeys orders will someday establish a technological heaven. Even Marx will not interfere with the smooth running of the ambitious machine that gives life to economy. Instead of changing the mechanism, the concept of dialectical materialism, on behalf of people who have chosen to work and consume, wants to seize it with political possibilities working in its favor. The experience we undergo via commodities, the metamorphosis in our micro / macro organism is the natural evolution process of the human society. Emotional meanings are as important as sociological concepts. Competition reveals the power of emotions. The psychology of economy that finds its clearest expression in Theodore Veblen, describes the way in which the production processes takes shape. Psychoanalysis investigates the underlying cause provoked by the personal motive behind our certain experiences; ponders on the causality buried deep in our relationships with other people. Libidinal energy is the real source of the attitude we display in the natural flow of life and all the strong emotions; it is it’s foundation. Society is the cause of a pornographic production process that is autolytic. Relations, corresponding only to the continuation of life, want to create an exchange system in all its forms. The state of alertness in our ontological reality is the mysterious mechanism of exploitation that has to engender the obvious, shameless, ruthless exchange. ‘Reproduction’ is the main task of everyone. Hormones provide the chemicals that mobilize the individual, and the motivation that creates thoughts. At the heart of life there exists covered or uncovered sexuality. Freud who evaluates sexual impulses as the motive behind labour, detects that our sexuality, with all the gimmicks of everyday life, is the main supplier that provides fraternity/solidarity positions required producing economy and working schedules for the sectors. Zizek in “The Fragile Absolute” with Habermas reference strengthens what we have underlined: “When libidinal motivations are prevented from emerging as conscious intention… The id penetrates the texture of everyday language by distorting grammar and confounding the proper use of public language through false semantic identifications: in symptoms, the subject speaks a kind of ‘private language’ incomprehensible to his conscious ego. In other words, symptoms are fragments of the public text chained to symbols of illicit desires, which have been excluded from public communication… The symptomatic concealment of meaning and corresponding disturbance of interaction cannot at first be understood either by others or by the subject himself.” Looking at what has been said, is it possible for us to state that Zizek and Habermas have completed the missing part and thoroughly understood the destructive cause? Difficult; they just admit that they saw in as a philosopher in sheep’s clothing. The person organized on the basis of division of labor, cooperation is unconscious in society; the goal of a welfare state at the core of ideology is neither as much convincing as it would make it worthwhile for us to choose to die for doing a revolution, nor mystical enough for us to postpone life or sacrifice ourselves.

That is the truth Bedri is seeking answers for in his paintings! The result we may arrive at by asking, not who did it, but why it was done, will correspond to the assertion in the letter written by Marx to Pavel Vasilyevich Annenkov in Paris: “No society can survive and make history without making production!” 

Bedri thinks that with the assassination of Kennedy, the probability of living in a completely different, democratic world has disappeared. Kennedy wants to achieve things. The two opposing parties prepare a theory for the bipolar world; he will live together with Khrushchev in peace. Following this, he will end the Vietnam War, abolish nuclear weapons, make transparent the secret state, change the laws against blacks that cause racism and inequality, etc. etc. But most important of all, he will cancel the authority delegated to a family for the printing of the US dollar. The basis of the story told by Bedri is Kennedy, yearning for democracy and being a true pacifist. The exhibition is based on this discourse; the audience, of course, is free to think whatever they want...

This exhibition is a product of an incredible interest and close follow-up right from the start. He went to the crime scene in Dallas several times. He went through all the scenes with the sensitivity of an artist. In those days, at focus of Turkey’s reality there is American aid, the cold war, and anti-communism. The agenda is progressing step by step: With Stalin’s death the chief of police of the dictator, Beria is executed. At the center of the geopolitics, one can find Khrushchev’s dramatic democratization efforts, the invasion of Bay of Pigs, the rebuilding of the faraway security station in Turkey in regards of the Cuban crisis.

A while later, we witness in 1967, the execution of “Che” Guevara, in 1968 the assassination of Martin Luther King who follows his dream, and the exacerbation of the long-standing Vietnam War. Bedri investigates with the precision of a detective the site of the assassination of Kennedy. Taking notes, drawing sketches. He has laid his hand on all the books, movies covering the incident and the report of the Warren Commission that officially investigated the case; he endeavors to bring to light to the motive behind this sinister incident. A leader created and 
destroyed by material conditions; a man transformed by the circumstances, a man metamorphosed by the existing conditions, a consequence of class and women’s struggle. At the 50th anniversary of assassination of JFK which is implemented after Marilyn Monroe’s suicide on August 5th, 1962, he unlaces the murder layer by layer; thinking back on the incident once more, we look more closely at the case with the lens of the artist..

People gathered at the sidewalks to watch the president, stood like a moment frozen in time; they were bewildered.. Then everyone started shouting unconsciously. “What have they done? What have they done?” were Jackie’s words as JFK was shot. “Oh, no, no, no” several times and Connally screamed “My God, they are going to kill us all!”.. All the while one of the most amazing things was the Zapruder 8mm amateur movie camera standing on the concrete at grassy area that continued to film without a break. The tailor, who had come with his camera on purpose at lunch break to film the President, was witnessing the assassination from 10-15 meters away with naked eyes, “live”. When the bullet hit the president’s brain blood and brain particles scattered around, Jackie immediately climbed to climb over the back seat, reaching out on the trunk to grasp at something. For years, people thought that she was “trying to escape from the limousine” whereas she had been trying to retrieve a piece of brain tissue or skull that 
had been blown to the rear of the dark blue marine official car, from her husband’s head! Kennedy must probably have died technically at the very moment, although his body was breathing another 20 minutes

We read in Bedri’s notes: When Kennedy came to Dallas from Fort Worth, tens of thousands of Texans gathered on the streets waiting in excitement to see him. In spite of all the threats pointed at the trip, the mood in the South, on the contrary, seemed to be in favour of the president. After driving through the city, the procession of tens of cars made a left turn on Main Street and headed toward Elm Street; past the short strip on Houston, making a hard left turn on Elm with 120 degrees... In the Limousine, Kennedy and his wife were seated in the back, Governor Connally and his wife sat in front of them while the agent driving the car and another agent sat in the very front. Everyone was pleased with big round of applause and the warm atmosphere. The governor’s wife Mrs. Connally turned to the President and said, “You can’t say, they don’t like you Texas, can you Mr. President?” Kennedy was waving and smiling. “Sure can’t, he said”. It was 12.30 pm. At that moment a big round of applause that lasted 8 seconds, changed history. First a sound was heard which later many people would describe as a “sound of a fire-cracker”. At that moment, suddenly all the pigeons flew up in the air over the Texas School Book Depository at the corner of Elm. They noticed a piece of concrete had fallen from above on spectators who were watching the motorcade and were alarmed. The first few seconds, the majority still did not deem likely that it could be gunfire. Those moments were interpreted as “an inappropriate celebration method” or the sound of a motorcycle engine. After the first shot that misses the car by an inch, Kennedy was taken aback, and turned his head to the right... At that moment, he did not react reflexively with the possibility of being in panic. 

According to the testimony of some witnesses after 3 shots, according to some others after five to six shots, the President’s car and the procession passed in panic under the bridge and turned right to Stemmons Freeway and headed towards Parkland Hospital. Various rumors and claims afterwards about what happened on that day will last till doomsday. However some definite information is also available: For example, first to charge into the School Book Depository building immediately after the gunshots was a Dallas policeman Marion Baker. The manager of the Depository Mr. Truly showed the way around to Baker in building. Baker and Truly went up the stairs and on the 2nd floor Baker caught a glimpse of a man walking out of the cafeteria. The man, (Oswald), turned and approached them calmly as if nothing had happened. Baker asked building manager, “You know this guy?” When Truly replied “Yes, he works here”, they left Oswald and continued climbing up the stairs. According to Baker, Oswald was very quiet and not at all out of breathes. After the police let him go, he immediately left the building, went back to the room he rented. His landlord, Ms. Roberts, recalled of Oswald, going to his room after the President got shot, for three or four minutes, changing his jacket and leaving.. He must have taken his gun with him at this time... After about ten minutes he left the house, at the corner of Tenth Street and Dalton, a policeman was taken down. The description of the suspect that killed Dallas P.D. officer J. D. Tippit is very close to that of Oswald and the identification of this white man has not been fully clarified just like the murder of Kennedy. The suspect muttered to himself, “Poor stupid cop” continued down the street, running away. A few minutes after the incident when Oswald was walking down Jefferson Street, a shoe store manager getting suspicious of his behavior observed him covering his face when a police car drove by and later saw him entering a movie theater without buying a ticket. Immediately informed the police, and the police showed up in due time. Lights were turned on in the hall, and with the help of the shoe store manager the police identified Oswald sitting in one of the rows. Oswald punched the police officer Mc Donald in the face who to arrested and tried to search him. Then receiving a series of blows from Mc Donald and the other policeman, and his face was in a bad shape. Oswald shouted aloud: “I am not resisting arrest! Police brutality!” as he was being dragged away. Police upon the information Oswald gave, straightaway went to the home of Ruth Paine, and interrogated Paine and Marina. Marina showed them where the rifle was: wrapped in a blanket, in the garage. However the blanket was empty. It was a terrible shock for Marina. Finally Parkland Hospital doctors pronounce Kennedy dead at 1:00 pm CST. Vice-president Johnson wanted to leave Texas with Jackie as soon as possible, but the late president’s wife, refused to go without her husband’s coffin. However, under the law, the autopsy had to be done in Dallas. FBI agents from the office of the president officially breaking the law abducted Kennedy’s corpse and took it to the airplane. As the plane was getting ready for take off at Love Field airport, Johnson, on Air Force One took the presidential oath. Jackie, in her blood stained pink suit, stood alongside Johnson in astonishment and fortitude. The process of turning over a new leaf in history was completed at that moment. Oswald’s mother, Marguerite, during her interrogation done by an official, stated that she still believed her son was a ”state agent”…

There are some interesting details. In 1968, Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination moment and Falling Man, depicting a man falling from the World Trade Center, on September 11, 2001, are both photographs taken by the same man: Richard Drew.. What a big coincidence it is that the same person takes the photographs of two short moments of the two great conspiracies in American history that lead to Vietnam and Iraq wars! Hundreds of bodies and equal number of shady names… Leaving behind 57 dead connected with the incident, why can’t we go to the core of President Kennedy’s assassination? Prosecutor Jim Garrison’s struggle in the JFK movie is the last attempt in this respect. The unpublished portion of those records was initially sealed for 75 years (to 2039). The 75-year rule no longer exists, and the remaining Kennedy assassination related documents are scheduled to be released to the public by 2017. In accordance with the general National Archives policy it is currently not possible to touch all of the archives. On Bedri’s canvases we set eyes on the names and photographs of more than a hundred witnesses, who, after the incident have died of extraordinary reasons, unnatural causes.. Before visiting the exhibition, it is advised to make a thorough reading about the incident. Though the commonness sinking into art, sumptuous mediocrity in performance, breaking away of current culture from material life opens the way to aimless rubbish, Bedri, finding a way around the pith falls in the market, as usual has a real event, strong evidence and a claim..

Two major centers; a bipolar formation in the world: on the one side the Soviet Union and its satellites, on the other, the United States and its accomplices. Year 1962; America is on its guard due to the socialist initiative established under its nose. At the Bay of Pigs of Cuba that is seized by Fidel Castro and his comrades, US is conducting landing operations mobilizing legionaries, poor, rich mercenaries, and Deep Reconnaissance Platoons (DRPs); the result, is disappointment. On the other hand, provoked with great enthusiasm by U.S. arms dealers invasion of Vietnam continues. With the awakening led by Martin Luther King, racism within the country hit the fan. The kind but firm policy of reconciliation of Khrushchev who wished to democratize USSR a little bit after Stalin and the détente policy of Kennedy who wanted to end the war in Vietnam seemed to fit. Kennedy is very uncomfortable with the continuation of the order established by McCarthy that produces crime of thought, the weight of “hawks” that demand war, the CIA work force, and the imposition of institutions withholding bureaucracy. “A police state finds it cannot command the grain to grow” he says. Structures that seize the modern state are like cheeky children; moody and capricious, ill tempered and aggressive. Gladio too sees Kennedy’s will to establish a more democratic world, as an adventure for the current regime. In order to survive, the American economy needs more enemies than friends, chaos, tensions, more coups than reconciliations, and appropriate military authorities according to merits of each region. Lacan says, “One who does not want to be deceived is mistaken knowingly”. Here, we read from various sources that the Israeli lobby steps in.. Numerous studies have been made on this incident. Norman Mailer’s “Oswald’s Tale”; “The Killing of a President” is a photographic record of the Kennedy assassination (Viking Studio Books, !993). Besides, Zapruder cameras live documentary; Beverly Oliver’s film. She (known as the “Babushka Lady”) claimed in 1970 that she had filmed the assassination, but that her film had been confiscated from her and never returned; Harrison Edward Livingstone’s book of two parts “High Treason”; William Penn Jones, the author of several books on the assassination: “Forgive My Grief” was printed in 4 separate volumes. He explains how witnesses (300 names) were done away with; Marilyn Monroe - Whale’s murder story at the design stage of the assassination; Gaeton Fonzi’s “The Last Investigation” and others… We tend to say there is almost nothing that remains to be the written, however the mystery of the murder still lingers on! Now we convey the information contained in the anonymous sources:

The nuclear dispute between Kennedy and Israeli Prime Minister Ben-Gurion is an important threshold. Israel, balances the idea of being besieged by Arab states since the day of its foundation with the dream of becoming a super power in the Middle East. The State of Israel, starts monitoring a fast nuclear weapons program. At the nuclear plant built in the Dimona Desert, the production of atomic bomb and nuclear-tipped missiles disturbs President Kennedy. Kennedy, in his stern warning letter to Ben-Gurion demands Israel to stop its nuclear program; declares to use sanctions against them. Ben-Gurion, in the letter he sends as a response, refers to Kennedy as ‘young man’ and makes heavy accusations. Kennedy did not stop at this; on 4 June, 1963 brings the issue to U.S. House of Representatives. Kennedy with the Executive Order 11110, took away the authority to print the American dollar in order to rein in the power of the Federal Reserve Bank, a family owned bank. He sees the Control of a country’s money to be in the hands of individuals as a major problem, and gives authority to the U.S. Central Bank. After his assassination, Executive Order 11110 issued by Kennedy that took the authority to print the US dollar from the Federal Reserve Bank was nullified. The Federal Reserve Bank owned by the Rothschild family is granted the authority once more… Kennedy is committed to end the Vietnam War; the cutting off of the sources of the arms and steel industry which is the country’s leading sector, means the return of the lumpen sector which is kept outside the society in the form of soldiers through wars. America experiences a decline in the face of Soviet Russia, now extending to Cuba. The threat of nuclear war is at the door..

Kennedy, right after the Bay of Pigs fiasco says in his speech, “I want to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.” CIA Director Allen Dulles and his deputy, Charles Cabell, are relieved of duty. Another detail is that Earl Cabell is the brother of the mayor the city of Dallas where Kennedy is shot!

According to a list of ranking disclosed in the year 2000 by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), of the manufacturer of the world’s first one hundred arms company, 76 are American and Western European, 10 are Japanese and 5 Israeli. During the cold war period following the Second World War, armament in the communist and capitalist blocks mutually, at one stage reached its peak. However after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union, there was a decline in the world production and exportation of weapons. Starting with the end of 1990, the rise begins again and with the collapse of communism, the arms industry now concentrating in a few major capitalist countries, reaches its most advanced technological level. According to the sources for the year 2002 declared by the ‘United States Department of Defence’ of the countries representing military power in the world; total sum of the military budget of 25 countries is about $ 800 billion. Half of this amount, that is $ 400 billion is the U.S. military budget, the rest of the $ 400 billion makes up the budget of the other 24 countries.2 

Carps, coyotes, wolves, pigeons, hedgehogs, nightingales.. Nobody’s fool galleries, compassionate traders, vicious critics.. Short passes in confined spaces.. Laterna, bands, global bickering accompanied by harmonica, deep cultural sneering… In his book “Capital”, Marx who says “Criticism of art is harmful; because it destroys the pleasure of the valuable and noble individuals…” and adds in another occasion: “The summary of everything is money”.. Enthusiasts will ask “Where?”: Grundrisse 1/143.

Competition between countries, the West’s taking care of itself complex, hierarchy created by money being fixed.. All the rules that apply to arms, media or textile industry is valid here too. Philosophy, art, theology, otherworldliness, goodness/beauty, criticism; substantive with their value of exchange. All ideological systems, moral values that lead the society, with their fairs, false messiahs, hours are each an industry with their individual promised heavens: Crocodile tears of post-modern belief and rebellion, a large multi-billion dollar industry.. Adorno says, “The fusion of culture and entertainment that is taking place today leads not only to a deprivation of culture, but inevitably to an intellectualization of amusement…” . And Marx says, “Criticism of art is harmful; because it destroys the pleasure of the valuable and noble individuals…” This sentence is valid only when art is an event that only gives pleasure; participating in it or possession of it for a social reputation, and its intrinsic value becomes an indication of comfort for the elite.. Moreover, there is a positioning beyond pleasure, and a problem of emplacement for the ill-treated nouveau-riche. This gains further importance with art’s ingenious use of interests beyond hedonistic clusters in the battle of imposing living / expanding and autonomous culture’s existence of different nations and also with the societies that have the possibility to be manipulated. However Bedri is not amused; he questions the policies of the CIA in which the production and threat that causes wars still perseveres and also the structure that sustains world welfare, democracy and art; this carries serious risks where there are no Sorosian incentives, democratic instructions..

Down the ages Law has always set up the same regulations, the sovereigns however civilized and developed they may be, always expect the same obedience. It makes no difference whether it is Albinoni’s Adagio, Ravel’s Boléro: repetition is terribly annoying. The only ‘truth’ that cannot be repeated is repetition itself…

The charm of the story of the murder on behalf of the community, the obscene gesture which is called ‘violence’ taking place in modern times has a detective novel flavor, where he butler is expected to be the murderer.. When conditions permit the repetition of incidents is inevitable; the only thing that can stop this from becoming a threat is a transparent society, real democracy. Division of powers is the basic principle.

Marx looked at the historical stages; the capitalist regime created by compulsory stopovers as social rationality and evaluated it as normative phenomenon. At the end of the tunnel is the gateway to heaven. The tolerance of an ireless decorum where everyone supervises everyone else; will it create an economic evolution process that is assumed to be dialectic where there is no need for laws? Hegel says, “Africa has no history”; because the continent is a physical geography. History created by the phenomenon of production, does not advance on continually disintegrating floors, broken cracks with dialectic but at the mercy of those who hold the power. There is no apparent reason to fancy a dream of development that procures imaginary consolations. He shows his habitual attitude here, too; he re-investigates with an incurable optimism a world changed by an incident pushed into the subconscious by the subject’s state of entrapment. Bedri, does not only take the assassination of Kennedy out from the dusty archives. He reinterprets history. He also functionalizes the political side of Art which is questioning, and is skeptical and timid but influencing. 

History does not advance on continually disintegrating floors, broken cracks with dialectic but progresses with curiosity and coincidences at a destination the futurity of which is unknown, . The only thing known is that what is to be called ‘today’ or ‘tomorrow’ is the balance of our past. The classes that will create the future will not be different from the despots that created the past. If history exists its due to man’s capacity of producing commodities; its always the same source that generates injustice, hierarchy, power and exploitation. Objects, determine the fate of the subject.

Ideologies with their utopias of the future, grant their missionaries a theological regime clustered around an economy of privileges and elatedness.. Surreal rebels that revolutionized galleries, museums, auctions amuse themselves with the metaphysical image of the world of 1871 aggrandized to the present; but not all. Che says, “Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary”. Bedri is at peace with himself and his society and is a personality who instills hope. Like Kennedy, he too has a principled stance about which we can make references to ‘windmills’. The whole narrative in the exhibition is about questioning the side left in the shade of the murder of a person by the system he tired to change. Pandora’s Box is actually unlocked. The state of the authorities against the dreams of the artists is a total nightmare. The financial oligarchy that finances this world that has paid for every moment / stance, and drives liberal democratic structures via incentives, makes its statements to the culture industry through museums, fairs, biennials. Uses a prompter. Contemporary art in the postmodern world is open to cooperation and is a convenient didactic tool used by global politics. Machiavellist information has politically entered plastic arts as an argument of the Enlightenment culture. Artificial rebellion constitutes an unnecessary representation in the gallery spaces; experience is denied.

Cultural production regime containing open/close implications, constructive or destructive ways and tools of expressing, invades the entire platform that is called life. The goal is to take possession of the collective consciousness. It designs certain types of projects. If appropriate becomes sponsor. Global monarchs that authority leans its back on are in appearance shy; reputation-saving works are needed. Capital, where appropriate likes to be funny; dramatizes the exposure of its crushing wheels. When converting democracy which has a skittish/suspending form with entertainment/performances, it creates a central discourse to govern better, forms categories, places it’s experts at the very top at these divisions. Bedri left outside is also outside the probable possibilities granted at location that resembles a fair. Services offered through art to those who insist on the truth, rescue their reputation is entirety emotional! Some suffice with less; is only known to those that need to know and being visible is satisfactory. When people in the empirical life cannot sufficiently comprehend their place and the system they are be affiliated with, they are not able to identify their positions with their own free will, and are not adequately aware of who they are and where they belong. What is important is the form of expression, not the participation without a price; what makes the product credible is the social and political equivalent of the artist.

Can U.S. civilization survive in a world without wars? The attack on Pearl Harbor, the Kennedy conspiracy, September 11 incidents, or Saddam’s chemical weapons: all act as means to get the American war machine to operate and with a great appetite produce more arms. Do presidents have personal wills? The answer to the question is at the very beginning, as you already have read, given by the 28 year old Marx in Brussels, where he had gone to seek asylum. These words did not come to his mind that very moment. He was developing his ideas that wrote in his notebook in 1844: “ . . . men are not free to choose their productive forces - which are the basis of all their history - for every productive force is an acquired force, the product of former activity (…) Every succeeding generation finds itself in possession of the productive forces acquired by the previous generation, which serve it as the raw material for new production, a coherence arises in human history (…) Men will never give up things they have earned (…) Such a civil society will create its own appropriate political system.” JFK, the leading actor of that page in history written by the struggle of women and the classes, did not know the secret everyone knew.. Bedri’s exhibition underlines the kind of barbarism the so-called civilization of America has created. To be more precise, the inconsiderateness in the logic of the process of the technological appliances above us in the dehumanization process that Foucault conceptualizes with “Dispositif”..

‘Apparatus’ operates with the participation of centralized power’s financial operators who are the center of power of the so-called modern civilization and the institutional knowledge of modernization. Training techniques that are formulated into regulations by the domination organization are realized during their shift. Categorizes reconstruction; approximates distances, arrogates the language of discipleship to everyone, nationalizes. Foucault defines the new notion of apparatus as: “What I am trying to pick out with this term is, firstly, a wholly heterogeneous ensemble consisting of discourses, institutions, architectural forms, regulatory decisions, laws, administrative measures, scientific statements, philosophical, moral and philanthropic prepositions - in short the said as much as the unsaid. Such are the elements of the apparatus. The apparatus itself is the system of relations that can be established between these elements.” Bedri Baykam who is already aware of the corporate knot, goes beyond this threshold; starting with How, tries to get to the bottom of the impersonal, heterogeneous strategy of the connection Why the president was killed. At the 50th anniversary of the incident, just as Foucault would have it, makes us ask an important question. In the world where there is no right answer, trying to ask the right question in all his activities, preparing the audience/spectator is one of the foremost qualities of Bedri.. He has no abstract, vague story; when looking at reality several ready-made objects (parkas etc.) that overlap with his purpose, are the only materials he uses to communicate. People remain as people with their specific characteristics in all his works (Kubilay, Deniz Gezmiş, Mustafa Kemal, Edvard Munch, Van Gogh, Kennedy etc.)

Unlike the insurgency of nihilistic gravediggers of the culture industry, there are figures lending hope/trust and use of right materials. Bedri Baykam in his Kennedy research conveys to the audience, not a ‘ready-made’ discourse, his hopes, his experience as an activist and ‘concrete’ information he personally accumulated in his life paying a price; in fact, paying his dues. The longings he shares are values no one in the contemporary world could say ‘no’ to. When someone approaches Picasso saying, “You made this painting in five minutes!” to which Picasso answers, “Seventy years plus five minutes”. Just like in the case of Picasso, we are aware that there is an accumulation of fifty years behind the JFK exhibition; Bedri explains this on the seven-hour video showcased in the exhibition. 


The project of enlightenment of the masses of cadres clustered around a leader that Voltaire predicted, is embraced not only by Marxists, the Young Turks and Enlightened Kemalists. First to put the theory to practice is the French revolutionaries who sent Louis XVI of France to the guillotine. However, the first envisagement of the tutelary democracy was devised by Thomas Hobbes in his masterpiece Leviathan, printed in 1651: “The only way to erect such a common power, as may be able to defend them [citizens] from the invasion of foreigners, and the injuries of one another, and thereby to secure them in such sort, ... is to confer all their power and strength to one man or an assembly of men… The commonwealth is instituted when all agree in the following manner: ‘I authorize and give up my right of governing myself to this man, or to this assembly of men, on this condition; that thou give up, thy right to him, and authorize all his actions in like manner.’ This is done; the multitude so united in one person is called “COMMMONWEALTH, in Latin CIVITAS”. This is the generation of that great LEVIATHAN…”

Immanuel Kant connects the state of not being adult enough to make your own decisions to the matriarchal system, to a person not being able to use his mind without consulting the guidance of another; to transfer the authority from tutelage to the subject Kant says, “Enlightenment is the human being’s emergence from his self-incurred minority. Minority is inability to make use of one’s own understanding without direction from another. This minority is self-incurred when its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! [Dare to be wise] Have courage to make use of your own understanding! is thus the motto of enlightenment.” Kant’s dominating stance in his manifest ‘have courage to make use of your own understanding’ continues unchanged in the fumbling agitation of Enlightenment explanations delivered in an pre-existing language, and in the principles of enlightenment that formulates the ideology of industrialization. It is words that constitute the consciousness and shape the thoughts. And we may be against the meanings imposed by others to the same terms and concepts, and the mission uploaded into their content and also the way of thinking they convey. Even if desire’s lost object is democracy, the concepts that ideologies make a propaganda about, are always only things.

Symbol persists by means of the portrayal of presence through images; with those not represented, in any case, it means a causal link has not been established..

When watching various scenes or framed visuals, the individual’s attitude is of indifference. For a few minutes while suffering the pain of others, the image on the screen can trigger the next moment-uncorrelated feelings of completely of a different kind. In the symbolic order, be it advertising or even a movie there is always a metaphor of heaven behind every story; for those who deserve the celebrities /volunteers country and the peace/welfare society intertwined with divinity, there are notifications of confession issued instigating the conscience. In the imaginary order the President is the prophet, the apostles cabinet.. As in the case of Jesus of Nazareth. 13th person to arrive at the Last Supper: is Judas Iscariot, the one who is claimed to betray Jesus… The rooster crows three times and Prophet Ezekiel’s prophesy is fulfilled Jesus is crucified: “He suffered for our sins; He paid the penalty for every sin of our lives.” [B. W. Johnson, Ezekiel 18:4]

To use mythology or canonical utopias is to take possession of the subject’s mind over again; the state which is protector of the rights and freedoms is Leviathan. In war or in peace or preparing for all the biggest troubles in the world, with the ‘everything is going to be beautiful’ discourse firstly an appeal is made to the conscience. The saving intervention exulting with Pure good / evil hysteria, does not perform a murder for the benefit of others simply by triggering a urge to kill. The visual narrative Bedri has prepared for us verifies the modern West’s belief in the utopia of violence which shapes the world, and the ideology of establish/demolish and protect democracy with weapons. Extensiveness, reason for restraint: History’s unconscious arms industry; modernist foundation of barbarism. From the JFK exhibition, we leave remembering once more that speculations, created by capitalism, is integral part of the reality of life we live in...

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