In the second episode of Out of Focus, Tom Sachs talks to Merve Çağlar about how he has spent his days in lockdown and how this period manifested his opinions on anti-consumerism. Beginning from his early years, Çağlar and Sachs delve into his technique of bricolage and DIY as well as his most recent ISRU
In the seventh episode of Art on the Verge, Founder and Director of the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Bryce Wolkowitz and Author, Art Historian and Curator John Hanhardt discuss what makes one museum different than others, how did the moving image find its place so quickly within the institutional ranks, preservation of new media, as well
This new series in collaboration with Merve Çağlar is about imagining and creating in a world that has become increasingly obscure. COVID-19 has paralyzed humanity and the future of our planet is grim. Existing inequalities continue to worsen and the socio-political structures that brought us to today are now near collapse. How do you imagine,
In this episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, the two-thirds of the Raqs Media Collective Monica Narula and Jeebesh Bagchi talk to Shwetal A. Patel about their socially-distant curation of the upcoming Yokohama Triennale, new modes of working as a collective during the lockdown as well as their roles as artists in a
In this episode of “Nasıl Bir Yarın?”, moderated by founder of Baksı Museum Hüsamettin Koçan, founder of the Sanatla Randevu platform Yonca Ebüzziya talks about the journey of humanity into nature, ideologies behind tales as well as the foundation of Baksı Museum. This episode is in Turkish. This episode is in Turkish. “Our age is
In this episode of Art on the Verge, Founder and Director of the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery Bryce Wolkowitz, and Environmental Photographer Edward Burtynsky discuss his early inspirations, his first darkroom experience, the composition within the frame, current state of art institutions, as well as his latest project “Natual Order.” “To me as an artist, engagement
In this episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, Trajal Harrell, the American dancer and choreographer, talks to Shwetal A. Patel about how the lockdown has influenced his working practices and ideas. Harrell also discusses his childhood in Georgia and how he ended up at Yale, as well as his epic series entitled “Twenty
In this episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, artist Lubna Chowdhary talks to Shwetal A. Patel about her working practices during the lockdown as a ceramic artist, her relationship with various materials, the challenge of diversity in the art world as well as her first solo show in India to be inaugurated in
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, designer and critic Gökhan Karakuş, and New York poet, filmmaker, and librarian Mustafa Sakarya talk about the nature of “Spatial Stories” in storytelling by a discussion of American conceptual artist Robert Smithson in his multidisciplinary series of works in landscape,
In this episode of Art on the Verge, Founder and Director of the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Bryce Wolkowitz and award-winning art historian, Founder & Chief Curator of Artmuse and Artmuse Selects Natasha Schlesinger discuss the joyful experience of seeing art, the power of social media in the art business, how virtual and physical experience should
In this episode of Art on the Verge, Founder and Director of the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Bryce Wolkowitz and award-winning art historian, Founder & Chief Curator of Artmuse and Artmuse Selects Natasha Schlesinger discuss the joyful experience of seeing art, the power of social media in the art business, how virtual and physical experience should
In this episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, artist Dayanita Singh talks to Shwetal A. Patel about her three-decade journey in photography, her bookmaking practice, and its performative aspects, the Mobile Museums she produces as well as her surprise book release at Museum of Innocence in Istanbul. “I don’t want to be a
In this episode of Art on the Verge, Founder and Director of the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Bryce Wolkowitz and Visual Artist and Storyteller Oliver Jeffers discuss the art of storytelling, the relationship between memory and identity in Jeffers’ work, the imaginary borders of the world as well as his first solo exhibition For All We
In the third episode of Art on the Verge, Founder and Director of the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Bryce Wolkowitz talks with painter and art educator in design and one of the most influential graphic designers in the world, Paula Scher about her early career, her inimitable approach to design, her thoughts about the shift in
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, Diana Winston, one of the best-known teachers of mindfulness and the author of The Little Book of Being, talks with New York-based writer Hande Oynar. Exploring the work she’s done with the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA, Winston gives
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, founders of Cave Bureau, Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi talk to Gabriel Kozlowski, architect and assistant curator for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2021, about colonialism in relation to the current social and political climate,
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, interior designer and founder of Zeynep Fadıllıoğlu, Zeynep Fadıllıoğlu talks with creative director Antonio Monfreda about the manifold façade of creativity, the future of reimagined indoor spaces as well as cities as a source for inspiration. “Creativity does not apply
In the second episode of Art on the Verge, the Founder and Director of the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Bryce Wolkowitz and Photographer Stephen Wilkes discuss what led Wilkes to the field of photography, his early works as well as challenges of being a filmmaker and its difference with photography. “Talent is only ten percent maybe
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, founder of Earth Yoga Studio and the School of Embodied Poetry, yoga instructor Shannon Paige Kenney talks to ISTANBUL’74 Communications & Project Director Leyla Karakaş about her personal journey with yoga and how yoga can help us stay strong mentally
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, architectural scientist and building technology researcher Mae-ling Lokko talks to Gabriel Kozlowski, architect and assistant curator for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2021, about different aspects of Lokko’s work in relation to the current social
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, curator, writer, and educator Vasıf Kortun speaks with designer Defne Koz about the ever-growing role of technology in changing the meaning of craftsmanship, the relationship between artificial intelligence and design, and how the current introduction of AI is affecting design
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, artist and photographer Gail Albert Halaban talks to ISTANBUL‘74 Communications Assistant Işıl İlkter about the period when New York City was in lockdown, her ongoing project Out My Window and the concept of being neighbors as well as different techniques
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, co-author of the New York Times bestseller “The Tools” and psychotherapist Barry Michels, and three-times TEDxWomen producer, coach and psychotherapist Kristan Sargeant talk to ISTANBUL’74 Communications & Project Director Leyla Karakaş about how to deal with the negative psychological impact
In this episode of ’74PODCAST Series “How Can We All Make it into the Future?”, artist duo Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset talk to art writer Osman Can Yerebakan about how we all need human interaction, their latest exhibition recently opened in Koenig Gallery, Berlin, and the strategy of displacement. “I am hopeful that [the
