Fikirtepe is a district northwest of Kadiköy. It is good connected to a central city highway. “Outstanding Bosporus sea and city view luxury homes” a real-estate-firm is marketing currently. In fact the district underwent extreme gentrification and processes of land grab from the former owners of modest houses, that had been dominant there.

The self-reflective Sunglasses are made for the puzzled passenger in our poststructural, post factual times.  They help him to look inside himself, to hold on for a moment. Museum Fortress Builders in Malta is hosting artistic positions around a globalized world-economy in the Conceptual Mahalla Share House.     

Museum Fortress Builders is located in Valletta across the skyline of Sliema. It displays the history of Fortresses. In the Frame of a European Union using its outskirts as Fortresses  the Mahalla Festival invites for artistic debates on various topics.

From the First Floor of the Palazzo we oversee a square with the social club and a soccer-clubhouse just across. Once the home of a noble family, the building served as a police-station in the 1950th and was set on fire during the anti-colonial uprisings in 1958.

When Istanbul is threatened by an ancient vampire, three veterans of the Turkish War of Independence are horrified to find themselves face-to-face with their nation’s hereditary enemy. Ali Rıza Seyfioğlu boldly reworks Stoker’s classic story, retelling it from the unique perspective of a people once routed by the real-life Dracula. And accompanying its first English publication is a host of exclusive material.