Turkey
Highlights
Sounding Art Trail links Britain and Turkey
Sounding Art Trail: Walking, Listening & Creating with Place Sounding Art Trail is a site-specific soundscape project rooted in the creative practice of walking. The project unfolds along two long-distance routes namely the North Downs Way in the UK and the Lycian Way in Türkiye, inviting walkers to listen, move, and create with the landscapes
Suck my walls: One woman’s archive of Turkey’s street art – AL-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012
From the Marmaray underpasses to the erased slogans in Gezi Park, Irem Guler has spent two decades documenting Turkey’s graffiti and street art, tracing how it is made, claimed and erased. Source: Suck my walls: One woman’s archive of Turkey’s street art – AL-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012
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WALKING: THE CYPRUS EXPERIENCE (on Line Seminar/HUB)
Organized by Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab and coordinated by Dr. Gabriel Koureas, the International Hub explores the spatial and sensorial impacts of Cyprus’s divided borderlands through walking as an artistic and performative practice. The project investigates how physical and psychic borders, memory, and trauma are embedded in the urban fabric, using embodied encounters with the landscape to understand the interplay of war, politics, and social conditions in Cyprus.
Little Amal, a puppet, is walking 8,000 kilometres, from Turkey to the UK in search of her mother – The Hindu
Good Chance Theatre’s latest production features aSyrian puppet that will walk from Gaziantep to Manchester, to raise awareness on the refugee crisis Source: Little Amal, a puppet, is walking 8,000 kilometres, from Turkey to the UK in search of her mother – The Hindu
• Walk With Me: A Performance Artist Adapts to the Pandemic
For two weeks last fall, performance artist Alisa Oleva walked with 33 different women in Istanbul; sometimes for 30 minutes, sometimes for three hours, but always from 1500 miles away. Source: Walk With Me: A Performance Artist Adapts to the Pandemic
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The Artist Walking Between Two Seas in Istanbul
For years, artist Serkan Taycan has documented a nearly 40-mile route through the outskirts of Istanbul, which traverses rarely seen landscapes. He facilitates walks through the area, now at risk due to a proposed shipping canal. Source: The Artist Walking Between Two Seas in Istanbul
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The Art of Resistance: 440 shoes on a public wall highlight the chilling rate of femicide in Turkey
The installation is a reference to the practice of leaving a dead person’s footwear in front of the door. Source: The Art of Resistance: 440 shoes on a public wall highlight the chilling rate of femicide in Turkey
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Interview with Roberley Bell
As part of the release of the hardcover release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (softcover comes out in April!), I’m going to be publishing some brief interviews with the various artists, authors, researchers, creatives, collectives, and platforms whose art practice, written material, or other works I cite and mention. My 16th interview in […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2018-05-20 04:10:58
On 12 May 2018 fifty-five people in fifteen countries on five continents explored the centres of their landscape.1 They walked alone and in groups; on short strolls and epic walks; in rural, urban and suburban landscapes; in familiar and unfamiliar places. Some walked during the day and others at night. Some never made it out of the […]
Day 4. The world is the only home I’ve got. Bellver de Cerdanya – Prat d’Aguiló
When I walked through France in 2015 the attack at the Bataclan took place. I asked myself then if it made sense to walk while horrific things are happening in the world. If I shouldn't be doing something more useful.Last Thursday the Ramblas in the ci...
Un/changing City Walk
A long time coming, but even so I thought I should put up some images and a short video of a public presentation of the results of the residency at amberPlatform. The above is an image of the installation from behind. The work was a curved cloth wall/screen. The screen was backlit and images projected from behind. People entered from the left side and entered …
