The title of the upcoming Istanbul Biennial 2013 Anne, ben barbar miyim? (Mom, am I Barbarian?).
The owner of a hairstylist in Nişantaşı, Istanbul, modified the title of the 13th Istanbul Biennial ‘Anne, ben barbar miyim?’ (‘Mom, am I Barbarian?’) to decorate his hairdresser shop ‘Hair Mafia’ to ‘Anne, ben berber miyim?’ (‘Mom, am I a Hairdresser?’) as an advertisment for a new hair style.
The Emek Sinemasi (cinema) was quoted as being the most elegant cinema in Istanbul and was one of the last remaining ‘movie palaces’ to survive in Turkey. It is said it was one of the most beautiful cinemas in Turkey… maybe even in all of Europe! It was located just off the Istiklal Caddesi in the busy Beyoglu district of downtown Istanbul.
In the mood for love: Ed van der Elsken’s Love on the Left Bank at Poligon Istanbul presented by Schaden.com. from Cologne, Germany and with the support of the Istanbul Consulate General of Germany and the Netherlands .
Güneş cıkmıştı. Evelsi gün kadar ısıtmıyordu yüzümü Kumbaraca Yokuşunu aşağa doğru yürürken. Bu gün Tophane’yi gezecektim. Yok Mathias Poisson gibi değil. Mathias Poisson Tophane’yi gezip, sonradan bir harita çizmiş. Ben elimde Tophane Art Walk’un haritasını tutuyordum. İlk maksatım DEPO’ya gitmek olacaktı. Poisson’un Tophane’sini görmek istiyordum. DEPO büyük bir harita ve küçük bir laboratuvar sergilemiş. Çok hoşdu.
Küçük guruplar içinde gezen insanları gözetliyordum. O rüzgarlı güneşli gün vaktinde Boğaz Kesen Caddesini gezinip, galerilere girip cıkıp, soru sorarak, sanat’a bir türlü yol acıyordu Tophane Art Walk. Ziyaretçilerin yüzleri büyük soru işaretleri veyahut hoşnut bir aydinlanma yansıtıyorlardı. Insanlar haritalari ellerinde, başlamışlardı düşünmeye.
One Map, 25 places: Tophane Art Walk.
The sun was high in the sky, but it was not as warming my skin as the day before, while I was walking down Kumbaraca Yokusu. I would explore Tophane today. No, not like Mathias Poisson. Mathias Poisson explored Tophane first and made a map afterwards. I was holding a map already in my hands. The map of Tophane Art Walk. My first goal supposed to be DEPO. I wanted to see Poisson’s Tophane. DEPO was showing a huge map and a little laboratory. That was lovely.
I observed the little groups of people walking around at this sunny, windy day, strolling up and down on Bogaz Kesen Street, getting in and out the galleries, asking questions and finding somehow a way getting into art through this walk. I saw faces reflecting big question marks and bright inspiration, while they were holding maps in their hands- they started thinking.
One Map, 25 places: Tophane Art Walk.
“Memories of the Forgotten”, the second exhibition that came out of the collaboration between Artshift and Adahan Hotel Istanbul, takes place between 7 March – 14 April at the Adahan, a town mansion of the Camondo family, a famous Jewish family during the Otttoman Empire in Constantinopl. The exhibition was developed around the phrase “sustain, contain, recycle” and features works by Ahu Akgun, Didem Erbas, Dilan Ozdemir, Eser Epozdemir and Hera Buyuktascıyan.
“Contain, sustain, recycle” are terms used causally on a daily basis and generally refer to solid, material “things”. However, is it possible to contain, sustain, and recycle a building? The word “recycle” here does not necessarily indicate architectural restoration, although restoration is the most important part of recycling. Perhaps the real question is “what can be recycled”?