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Robert Walser: Turkey? No, thank you
At the same time, the publisher Samuel Fischer had called Robert and asked him: ‘Do you want to go to Poland and write some things on this trip? ” – Robert:’ What for? I like Berlin much!’ – “You may prefer to go to Turkey? ‘ -‘ No thank you! Especially because now there are…
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Faik Şardağ – Sharr Mountains
Faik is a songwriter, from the family of Lumineers/Bon Iver… His pop-folk originated music takes you away into the numerous encounters of his journeys. He puts a spell on his music and his ballads could even bring tears into your eyes… You could find yourselves singing and dancing along to his folk originated music that…
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Belit Sağ: Open Letter about the group exhibition Post-Peace that was censored by Akbank Sanat.
Refusing to accept Turkey’s silencing of artistic expression
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Yeşim Akdeniz: Club Dystopia
Club Dystopia is a fictitious club imagined by the artist populated by re-creations of now demolished buildings typical of the early Republic of Turkey, buildings whose architecture reflected the idealism of the newly founded nation state. Club Dystopia is Yeşim Akdeniz’s second exhibition with Pi Artworks. She had previously exhibited with foundations such as MAK…
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Ben Frost: Outside of the didactic
Ben Frost talking: A lot of the time I was just using an iPhone to record stuff, which was basically a way of circumventing that problem. But the thing you realise very quickly is that they’re not reacting to the camera or the microphone, they’re just reacting to the big white guy who’s walking through…
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Piri Reis: Scream and survive
A screamo group from Malaysia goes with the name Piri Reis, because of the fact we Fütüristika crew consists jobless people, reached the group members from here, Kadikoy Istanbul and asked fucking why to Mira Sutan, vocalist of Piri Reis. Mira explained that Piri Reis chose Piri Reis as a world should have known is a Ottoman admiral…
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A Little Fable [Franz Kafka] by Vincent Stall
“A Little Fable” (“Kleine Fabel,” in the original German) is a paragraph-long short story masterpiece by Kafka. I ran across a wonderful mini-comic adaptation of it by the American comic book artist Vincent Stall around 2004. A little fable – Franz Kafka “Alas,” said the mouse, “the whole world is growing smaller every day. At…
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[Allen B. Ruch] The Crimson Hexagon: Books Borges Never Wrote
Jorge Luis Borges: blindness. Tango poetry. blindness. Tango poetry. The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes! A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then…
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Jan St. Werner – Felder
Jan St. Werner, a well-respected artist and musician known for his solo compositions, his work with Mouse On Mars, and his conceptual art pieces, has created a beautifully rhythmic, instantly gripping work with his new album Felder. It’s an infinite, boundless creation that unravels upon every listen. “Felder” means “fields” in German, and here the…