Stop Shitting in our House
A guy dressed in a t-shirt with the Turkish flag trys to leave an abonded barrack in Trabzon.
RANTISTANBUL – TAKSIM MEYDAN II
Taksim square just one month before the Gezi Park uprising 2013 in Istanbul video created by mythones music: devrim ck (mythones), nilüfer ormanlı shootings and editing 28.02.2013 camera: jvc everio hdd (720×576) edit: fcpx
Left Over Work in Istanbul / Dolapdere − Beyoğlu
In this seven-minute documentary, we get to see how lively a flea market in Dolapdere/ Beyoğlu can be. We get the sense of a typical Turkish flea market where people bargain, break into conversations, have discussions on everything from the things we find in this market to musing about life itself. The camera captures all […]
Left Over Work in Istanbul / Galata − Beyoğlu
Through Galata, a street vendor walks with his cart full of brassware. His path does not cross the touristic places. He leads us to the side streets where it is quiet, where people live in apartments and lead lives cut off from the everyday buzz of the bustling tourism in Galata. Comparing the present of […]
Nevin Aladag: Citylanguage II
Part of the exhibition Modernity? Perspectives from France and Turkey The works in the exhibition focused on the dynamics of modern life, both criticized and considered as an endless opportunity for research by visual arts. In a globalized world, we are going through a period of diverse, profound, and complex relationships in which uses of new […]
Left Over Work in Istanbul / Çukurcuma – Beyoğlu
“We are heading towards the heart of the “quality” waste collection of İstanbul. Paper trash collectors and scrap dealers are on either side. Once a picker told me that he had learnt, about three or four years ago, that the “Black & White photos also sell.” Sometimes, his friend would find Black & White photos […]
Left Over Work in Istanbul / From Beyoğlu to Ümraniye
Starting from Beyoğlu the journey leads us to the Anatolian district Ümraniye. Artık İşler, by ferry crosses the Bosphorus to Üsküdar so as to take a bus to Ümraniye. Beyoğlu’ndan Ümraniye’ye gidebilmek için en pratik yollardan biri öncelikle Üsküdar’a ulaşmak. Üsküdar Ümraniye’yi denizden ve Boğaz’dan saklıyor. Bu ilçe yaklaşık 30 yıl önce kentleşmenin ve endüstrinin İstanbul […]
Second Life in Ayvansaray
If you are thinking where to move next in Istanbul, have a look at Ayvansaray. It is going to be one of the new fancy places, populated by Avatarians designed by the muncipiality of Fatih. You feel like in the virtual world of Second Life, unreal looking houses with wooden looking plastic surfaces, stereotyped people […]
St. Oberholz in Berlin
The Aischinger brothers August and Carl opened the first public venues for drinking beer in Berlin 1892. The building at Rosenthaler Platz was the ninth place, built in 1898, where you could have snacks and a beer for 10 Pfennig (5 Cent). Alfred Döblin describes the place in his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz. Aischinger lost there […]
The City Of Anselma
SAMPLE CITIES / IMAGINARY SPACES Expanded Cinematographic Installation by Gusztáv Hámos and Katja Pratschke The video shows one of the art pieces of Sample Cities / Imaginary Spaces. It deals with the theme of personal urban perceptions, which we call »the city« and researches what is contained or concealed in the city. The source material […]