…rail hub as well as the busiest railway station in Turkey until 2012. As of 19 June 2013 all train service to the station has been indefinitely suspended due to the rehabilitation of the existing line for the new Marmaray commuter rail line. The closure of the station has been subject to a lot of controversy. As it was unclear if Haydarpaşa would be re-opened to rail service once the Marmaray project was completed. Claims that the Turkish governme…
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…st: The Future Is A Constant Wake, by Ariel René Jackson & Michael J. Love, 2019, 6:12min. Kate Lain is a Los Angeles–area based, multidisciplinary artist working in film, video, clay, and other media. In her varied works, Kate plays with material, texture, traces, and movement and is interested in ways humans understand and interact with nature. Kate Lain’s experimental film and video work verges on documentary and spans a wide range—from essay…
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…t the song Susamam – We cannot stay silent –, a 15 minutes tune released in 2019, reuniting 20 rappers among which Tahribad-ı İsyan, Fuat, Ados, Deniz Tekin… Tahribad-ı İsyan from the clip of Susamam Each one evokes in his verse a different subject dealing with a political or social failing in the country, from education, to justice, law, privilege, domestic violence, or corruption. Gathering more than 50 millions of views up to this day, this…
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…her”. Selma Gürbüz was born in Istanbul in 1960, began her art education in 1980 at the Exeter College of Art Design in the United Kingdom. She graduated from the Department of Painting of Marmara University’s Faculty of Fine Arts in 1984. Gürbüz has participated in numerous exhibitions in Paris, Rome, Buenos Aires, Barcelona and various cities in Japan, and her works are included in several museum collections, including The British Museum in Lond…
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…nt. The muse doesn’t really exist. All that exists is work Guillotine , 2019, Wood, stain varnish, rope, stainless steel, steel, paint, screws How is the process from finishing an artwork to starting a new one? I think creativity is a very interesting term that is used by people who are not, in a sense, creative. I’m saying this because the muse doesn’t really exist. All that exists is work. And by work I mean sitting down and doing somethin…
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…ject was born in 2014 and they started working with recycled instruments in 2019. Roni Aran, Serhat Ayebe and Herman Artuç wanted to create awareness about the dangers of climate change, and nowadays they’re inspiring people with their music to recover the natural order of life. Their last album, called Trash Oriental, was released in 2022 and they received very good feedback from people who are sensitive to ecology and the environment. Fungistanb…
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