As a result of being out of words to explain her euphoric state of mind with colors whilst experiencing LSD for an experiment of US army, a beauteous housewife of 1950s utters: “I wish I could speak in Technicolor!” When Elephants Come Marching In in de Appel, Amsterdam...
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Christmas is blinking – about to arrive homes… Every year after Christmas I feel such melancholy and loss because of seeing all those abandoned Christmas trees on the streets of Berlin. Different hues of green, still beautiful, left behind – tears leaking from every single leaf… Exaggerating? Maybe, a little…...
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Yingmei Duan, Rubbish City, 2008 Once a friend had an idea of an exhibition with 1 artist and 20 curators – by shifting the roles. Although, I had no idea how he was planning the structure, I found this idea interesting by thinking that it may open up a...
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In most of the dystopian films of 60s and 70s, machines were taking over the world, repressing human beings. Now we are in the so-called (post)digital era, surrounded by gadgets. I remember, as a kid in the 90s, it was thrilling to think about having a cable phone with a...
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Angelin Preljocaj’s neo-classical piece, The Nights is in the repertoire of Stattsballett Berlin. The spectacle inspired by One Thousand One Nights, depicts Arabian, Persian and Indian folk fairytales. As declared in the website, Preljocaj’s intention is to narrate the stories “from the perspective of the female protagonists”. The costumes by...
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Virg — Intervention #14, 2007. Digital print, 22 x 31 cm, framed Homo Sapien is the only animal, in the class of mammalia that hunts others without the need, just for a moment of pleasure. Despite being an animal, our relation with other species, our surroundings or our consciousness cannot even try to...
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Most of us are living away from home in Berlin, therefore we have visitors, who would bring some smell from our past. Making one wonder: what is home, eventually? Speaking about Berlin,one may face another kind of reality, say, by enjoying exhibitions, parties, working but knowing that the day would...
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights! A phenomena… Article 13 of this Declaration that the European Union has also signed proclaims: “Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.” Well, we all know that works in the world of Alice, not ours....
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Considering 20th Century art one may easily configure a set of systems leading towards nationalism and colonialism. The provocative book How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art by Serge Guilbaut pinpoints the relation between CIA, the legendary curator of MoMA Alfred Barr and the well known abstract expressionist...
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Tourists… Maps, having a stupid hat especially for summer; stopping all of a sudden in the middle of the street to take photos… Getting angry to the guide or unnecessary loop of questions about a building is a must. Design Tourism, a collective of designers based in Zagreb, is inspired...
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Sectarianism… Pushing the limits by fascist acts! Now regardless of their political views, beliefs, social class or age, people of Istanbul are on the streets; demanding for their rights. The movement is being spread in other cities of Turkey as well as cities like Berlin, Amsterdam, London, NY… But…why? Demonstrations...
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Hitchhiking… Trusting to the stranger; a courageous trip to the unknown. After the sad story of Pippi Bacca, hitchhiking gained a negative place in my mind till I met the blog Angles by Sébastian Dahl and had the opportunity to ask questions to the photographer about this journey. Angles...
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The beautiful space of Berlin Philarmonie, Kammermusiksaal, hosted a night of performances including the works of Saâdane Afif, Bethan Huws, Christoph Keller, Annika Larsson, Klara Lidén, Olaf Nicolai (feat. Elliot Sharp), Tracey Rose, Tino Sehgal in collaboration with Kammerensemble für Neue Musik Berlin, Truike Van Der Poel and Chor der...
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In his tale of Dubliners James Joyce paints a portrait of a man dealing with the problems of isolation. “Every bond”, that man says, “a bond to sorrow.” (Joyce, 1993, 139) [1] While living the dream of sci-fi movies of 1960s in terms of communication and technology, did we end up...
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Faye Mullen is a Toronto based artist who resides in Berlin right now for culturia art in residence program. Some of the keywords that came into my mind whilst trying to learn more about her works were weigh, white, emptiness, covering, enclosing, death drive; patience; duration; silence-sound; presence – absence/appearance...
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For years I used to “listen Doors and drink alcohol” in the streets of Ankara as the artist group Avareler (The Vagabonds) recommends.The group, based in Ankara, is dealing with ugly billboards, urban development of a city where was beautiful a decade ago; the political situation changing towards the conservative...
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The body of the dancer: a fetish object! Although comtemporary dance started to break that wrong notion/understanding of the dancer as ‘the thing to watch for joy’, there are still photos, texts, interviews seeing the dancer as the nymph. The body that glitters, capable of doing the unbelievable; jumps and...
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Zeynep Kayan is dealing with torn-s/ed feelings, moments and memories. In her works what she felt, thought and experienced can be observed. Nowadays talking about theories mostly helps to understand a work of art. In the case of Kayan’s work, do what a cliché tells to you nowadays; just be...
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