a.k.a. Performans Serisi: Batool Mohamad a.k.a. Em-El Beat, 16.11.2016

Batool Mohamad is producing as “Om-El-Beat” mainly on the Internet. This stage performance took place in an experimental space at İstanbul Bomonti Bira Factory.  Batool Mohamad uses analog sounds and digital effects to produce electronic music in dub step style. Artists with a visual art background are  featured in a.k.a. sound series (curated by Asena Hayal) in winter 2016 to demonstrate a sculptural plastic approach to sound and performance.

This map shows the estimated net immigration (inflows minus outflows) by origin and destination country on the example of Syria between 2010 and 2015.

Hover over a circle to see that country’s total net migration on the map below between 2010 and 2015. Click a circle (or tap the circle twice on mobile) to view only the migration flows in and out of that country.

A semi-fictional diary that emerged after a trip to Diyarbakır, August 2016, four weeks after the failed coup d’etat in Turkey.

The morning after the coup of July 15th in Turkey: empty streets in the center of Istanbul, closed shops, military tanks replaced by antiterror vehicles of the police, lots of police.

Approx. 200 people died this year in Turkey around the holidays

Just few days before Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan the Islamic holy month of fasting, 45 people were killed and 239 wounded in a gun and bombing attack on the Atatürk international airport in Istanbul on June 28.

To the Rose upon the Rood of Time/ Akan Zamanın gülü