“I Was Happy When I was a Virgin”

Abstract

I have written a brief paper entitled “I Was Happy When I was a Virgin”, which tries to think through some notion of “state experience” and of Küba the art project and Küba the place in Istanbul as efforts of creating zones of “deregulated experience”. Ataman’s work is not only about experience, it is in itself a form of experience and one which defies conventional viewing relations with art.