…ers must be released! And those who resisted should not be prosecuted! 3 – Taksim belongs to the people! All the people forbidden places should be opened! 4 – Stop the gentrification! 5 – The governors and police officers, who gave the orders to attack the people must be held accountable! Except for these very reasonable demands, the whole movement is based on its humor and as a consequence, its solidarity from all walks of life. Hundreds of illus…
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A tour from Istanbul’s Taksim Square over Istiklal Street to the pier in Karaköy. This route is usually abound with crowds. Snapshots from Sema Sincap. An artist living in İstanbul. On a stroll through the city she is picturing pieces of street art mainly in Karaköy. The location is undergoing massive gentrification due to the Galataport-Project: it shall become a new center for tourism with a yacht-harbor, shopping malls, hotels …. Due to th…
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Kazım Koyuncu Marlene Kadgien “I am a musician, then I am a bit of a Black Sea person, but above all I am a revolutionary. And I don’t hesitate to put forward what I really know to be true, at least if I am forced to do so.” “Ben bir müzisyenim, ondan sonra biraz Karadenizliyim, ama hepsinin ötesinde ben bir devrimciyim. Ve gerçekten doğru bildiğim bir şeyi en azından çok zorlanırsam ortaya koymaktan çekinmem” During my time in Turkey I visited…
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…ear in other places) included two other segments in different venues. Near Taksim Square, the heart of contemporary Istanbul and the elegant Marmara Hotel, a street-level foyer was the site of Bathers (2001–03), a video by Elina Brotherus. On three large facing screens nude Finnish bathers slipped in and out of a cool Northern lake, dispassionately entering and exiting the vision of the stationary camera. Brotherus’s piece is about the ordinary ev…
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…eir diversity reflects the heterogenous structure of the Inner City around Taksim Square. The artist sketched the Cat Houses interpreting the different styles and forms of rapid urban growth in the metropol. In his scetchbook the artists notes: “The city is home to numerous stray cats, many of which live in specially designed architecture exclusively for cats.” In a serial of works Franz Schubert is experimenting with the concept of original and…
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…in Çemberlitaş. The second exhibition was opened in the Marmara Museum at Taksim sqare. I beleive to remember the clay figure of Don Qixote in the Marmara Hotel. But maybe I am mistaken. That was in 1994, two years after I had moved to Turkey to work for German television in the war-torn 90’s. If I had known then that the artist was from Mardin, it would have been very important to me. We were sent to Diyarbakır and Mardin, the cities were under…
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…imensional topographic relief of Istanbul, spanning the area from Şişli to Taksim Square. On this relief, lost rivers and creeks are marked on the current roads. Deniz’s other piece centres on a creek near which she grew up, near Bergama. This wall installation, which focusing on the small and insignificant, calls attention to natural and human-caused environmental transformations and extinctions. Lost waters, 2019 Three dimensional wooden relie…
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…tsızlığını yaşamıyorum. Oturumdan en çok aklımda kalan yine Erbay Yucak’ın Taksim Meydanı’nı 1 Mayıs’ta dolduran kalabalığın şu an verilen mücadelede neden sessiz kaldığı sorusuydu ve en son dile getirdiği artık kendi kavramlarımızı oluşturmamız gerektiği. Sanırım sonuçta vardığımız diğer bir konu kavramların pratik hayatta işleyişi ya da işlemeyişi ve “Toplum olarak bir özne olma sürecinde neredeyiz?” sorusu. Şehri kamulaştırmak ya da kamunun yen…
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…shade of a huge walnut tree in a garden in the district Firuzağa close to Taksim Square. Ayşe Tütüncü is an important musician who has embroidered the memories of her audience with various albums and iconic clips such as ‘a rainy April day” and “a cold spring day “, in which she deals with the sufferings in the country’s history. She has just returned from Ukraine two days ago with her quartet, where they performed at the Leopolis Jazz Festival i…
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