Pussy Riot, the Russian feminist punk band, has released a music video urging protest against the sentencing of Alexei Navalny.

During the Gezi uprisings in summer 2013 Erdem Gündüz gained a sudden fame. In the night of the 18th of June, when all the demonstrations on Taksim Square were forbidden, he kept standing in front of the Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM) staring on the building. The AKM is one of the central cultural palaces in Istanbul and a symbol for the spirit of the early Republican times.

For British artist Simon Beck, scenes in the snow are his castles in the sand. Simon Beck seeks out winter landscapes on which to create impressive geometric images.

In 1961 Germany and Turkey signed an agreement about the migration of Turkish workers to Germany. In the 70th Turkish movies about this subject were produced either in a dramatic or comedian style. The Gerta- or Helga- movies were comedies about Turkish wifes and German mistresses competing for Murat or Şaban. The movie “A Turkish Girl in Germany” from 1974 was one of them.

In July 1914 WW I started as a global war concentrated on Europe. It lasted until November 1918. Around 14 million combatants were killed.

Library of Babel 2- “Successive Totems and other Stories”

Rafet Arslan is questioning the relationship between a Totem as an item of eternity and icons, that got pseudo Totems of our daily life and consumerism. The Chanel-bottle, Car-brands and genderbased icons got Totems of a lifestyle, that is falsly confused with an eternity it doesn’t include.