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David Harvey interview: Tarlabaşı Istanbul

October 21, 2014

Acclaimed geography academic and Professor of Anthropology at City University of New York provides an interview on urban issues in the district of Tarlabaşı Istanbul, an area in the last throes of evictions for the long-standing residents. Tarlabaşı is in the process of a gentrification programme to create an upscale housing and shopping district in the centre […]

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One morning when Gregor Samsa wakes up …

October 20, 2014

“Gregor Samsa woke up one morning and found himself, supposedly transformed into a gigantic insect. Can you imagine?” A video about young people who explore an abandoned house and make it come alive by introducing some kind of art into it. Starting with graffiti, action paintings, and climbing up to the house amongst cheers, the […]

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Left Over Work in Istanbul / Tünel − Beyoğlu

October 20, 2014

Artıkişler Kolektifi shoots a documentary around a trash pile in İstiklal Caddesi. A garbage truck bearing the logo of the municipality arrives at the scene. Soon the stack of trash is destroyed by the truck. However, before that, some people come by and pick out some stuff from the pile on the street. A boy, who […]

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Left Over Work in Istanbul / Istiklal Caddesi − Beyoğlu

October 20, 2014

From an abandoned Turkish wooden house, begins the journey of a man with a big bag slung on his shoulder. Having stepped out of the non-touristic locality, he happens by the Istiklal Caddesi where he suddenly has to deal with a lot of people aimlessly walking around the street. At almost the end of Istiklal […]

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Left Over Work in Istanbul / Galata − Beyoğlu

October 20, 2014

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 […]

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Left Over Work in Istanbul / Taksim Meydanı − Beyoğlu

October 20, 2014

Since summer 2013, Taksim Meydanı has lost a lot of its usual sights but still many people pass by; businessmen, businesswomen, tourists, students and dustmen. The documentary focusses on dustmen and their daily walk through the Taksim Square and its surroundings. It shows their hard work of lugging around tonnes of garbage stashed in one […]

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Left Over Work in Istanbul / Dolapdere − Beyoğlu

October 20, 2014

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 […]

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Smoked Fish

October 14, 2014

Anne Knödler spent six month in Istanbul with a residency from Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle. She developed the performance “Fümeli balık”, “Smoked fish” an ongoing social interventional art project. On different spots in Istanbul the artist started smoking local fish in a selfmade oven. The interaction with fisherman and different people joining the performance generated […]

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Second Life in Ayvansaray

October 14, 2014

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 […]

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Electrical Walks

October 14, 2014

An introduction video to Christina Kubisch's Electrical Walks series of works. Electromagnetic radiations can be directly translated into the acoustic domain with the help of Christina Kubisch's custom made special headphones.

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Archives for October, 2014

David Harvey interview: Tarlabaşı Istanbul

One morning when Gregor Samsa wakes up …

Left Over Work in Istanbul / Tünel − Beyoğlu

Left Over Work in Istanbul / Istiklal Caddesi − Beyoğlu

Left Over Work in Istanbul / Galata − Beyoğlu

Left Over Work in Istanbul / Taksim Meydanı − Beyoğlu

Left Over Work in Istanbul / Dolapdere − Beyoğlu

Smoked Fish

Second Life in Ayvansaray

Electrical Walks

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