Before the online screening of a moving portrait of “Tuire Kayapó” (First Contact), we talked with the artist Pınar Yolaçan about the preparation process behind her video piece, the shifts in her artistic practice, and her particular interest in the indigenous communities. You are most known for your Maria and Perishables series and as a
Rapid production hence the rapid consumption as an acquired habit, while destroying natural resources on the planet, causes the fundamental problems of the earth: climate change and global warming. A group of people trying to act with the awareness of this exploitation, develop concepts and events -through whatever the medium may be- towards renewable resource
Magdalena Wosinska’s California aesthetic invites us to a world of her own- raw, timeless, and free. Growing around the skate culture in the USA, her early works feature the documentation of the lives of her close friends and alternative music scenes. Brimming with the energy of endless summers, Magdalena’s maturing style is vibrant and edgy.
Fascinated by the blend of art with various disciplines and out-of-the-box forms of display, Bryce Wolkowitz, Founder of Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York, dedicated his career to support an array of innovative and multi-disciplinary practices on art. ‘74 Co-Founder Demet Muftuoglu Eseli asked Wolkowitz how he got involved in the field of public art,
Marit Ostberg is a filmmaker and visual artist from Sweden. Her visual world has been described as uncompromising – uncompromisingly current and uncompromisingly sexy. How did you start directing queer feminist porn?I was asked to make a short porn for the Swedish feminist-porn-DVD compilation called “Dirty Diaries”. I was excited to do something that I
Canadian photographer Andrew B. Myers is based in New York City. He has collaborated with many brands and publications such as American Express, Airbnb, Apple, Vogue, Google, Time magazine, GQ and The New Yorker. Source Let’s jump straight into the conversation; what are you focused on nowadays?Right now I’m focused on settling into New York life and trying
Hanne Lippard (1984, Milton Keynes, England) is a writer and visual artist working with text in the idioms of concrete poetry and text art, using her own voice as her main medium. She lives and works in Berlin. Considering the constant move that we are all dealing with in our era, are you on this
JR is an artist who is in equal measures, a photographer and a graffiti artist. By fly posting black and white photographic images in public locations such as buildings, he states that the street is “the largest art gallery in the world. Initially beginning his career as a teenage graffiti artist on the streets of
Swedish fashion designer Johan Lindeberg is the founder of J. Lindeberg, Paris68, and BLK DNM. He has previously worked with Hans Brindfors Annonsbyra ad agency, Justin Timberlake, Diesel, William Rast, and Absolut. Johan has a daughter, Blue Lindeberg, who is a model. Source Tell us a little bit about your background. What was it like to pursue an interest in
German journalist Sven Schumann is co-founder of the online interview magazine The Talks. Schumann is also editor of Purple Magazine and started his own company, Black Ink. Source How did you end up with this profession?I always enjoyed talking to people, so it came to me pretty naturally. I started working with magazines around the world first
In 1986, Alain Passard opened his restaurant Arpege, previously run by his own master Alain Senderens under the name Archestrate. He named it so to pay tribute to music, his second passion and decorated the restaurant in an Art Deco style. Source First and Foremost thank you for welcoming me here today. It is such an
José Parlá (born 1973) has received critical acclaim for his works, which lie at the boundary between abstraction and calligraphy. Composed from layers of paint, gestural drawing and found ephemera, his work evokes the histories of urban environments. Parlá is a documentarian of city life. Using the backdrop of New York City and many other
Joseph Dirand has been sharpening his eye since childhood, he knows how to see, a rare quality indeed. He sees the space and perspective of a place. His sense for composition comes from his creative family background, he has a scenographer’s eye and frames volume with extreme precision. Dirand is sensitive to the way light
Prof. Dr. Ali Akay was born in Istanbul in 1957. He studied sociology, philosophy and politics at Paris VIII University, and graduated in 1979. He completed his doctoral degree in philosophy at his alma mater in 1986. Akay has taught at the Sociology Department of Mimar Sinan University. He received a title of Associate Professor
Gilles Peterson is a broadcaster, DJ and record collector who’s played a pivotal role in supporting forward-thinking underground music in the UK and beyond over the past three decades. He hosts weekly primetime Saturday afternoon show on BBC Radio 6 Music that’s one of the broadcaster’s most popular music shows, helms independent record label Brownswood
A graduate of French Language and Literature from Hacettepe University, Done Otyam also attended art courses in Bilkent and Hacettepe Universities. She founded Abitus and Zon galleries, she has also been the director of various other galleries and opened many exhibitions. Otyam has worked for various TV corporations as art director producing art related programs.
After completing her education; including St. George’s Austrian High School, Koc University and UC Berkeley, Zeynep Moroglu took part in variety of financial institutions in Turkey and abroad. Zeynep Moroglu started in the food and beverage sector in 2004 as the cofounder of the brand “biriki” and she went back to San Francisco to study
Waris Ahluwalia is an Indian-American Jewelry Designer and Actor. He immigrated with his family to the United States at the age of five, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He is based in New York City but has also lived in Los Angeles and travels frequently to Rome, Tokyo and Rajasthan, India, where most
Tugberk Selcuk ‘s first solo show, “Tobe Nuts”, will be shown at Siyah Beyaz Gallery from September 28th until October 17th. Here are his As to our Qs! When are you happiest?When i see the completion of something. What motivates you?Ideas. Which city or cities are centers of creativity and inspiration for you?Any city where
Serra Behar is an Instillation Artist and Sculpture who’s work carries themes that challenge belief systems by exploring the physical and metaphysical body in both humans and animal. By employing different techniques and mediums, she raises questions on ethics, freedom, survival, body, mind and thought. Serra Behar uses material such as silicon, polyester resin and “electronic junk”, papier
Born and lived in London, Sinem Yoruk studied Media Arts (BA) and Management Studies (Bsc) at Royal Holloway University of London. After graduating Sinem Yoruk went into media and event coordination in the field of Film and TV. Several years later she joined the Turkish Automobile Sports Federation in Istanbul where she was in charge of
Following his graduation from the Saint Martins School of Art in 1979, Stephen Jones gained initial reputation for his work in the music industry through his collaborations with Boy George, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. Today, with numerous collaborations with some of the world’s top designers, he is considered one of the most radical and
The editor and the presenter of “Hayatım Sinema“ TV programme, Muammer Brav is a graduate of Istanbul University Department of Economics and has a PhD in industrial design. While still studying, he has coordinated Istanbul Film Festival for six years. Muammer Brav ’s interviews are being published in various magazines and newspapers, alongside his movie
Bora Akinciturk was born in Ankara, Turkey– funnily enough, the region where a vernacular representation of the Sphinx, dated 9,500 BC, is believed to be found. Although very specific on a geographical basis, this is not the central link connecting Bora Akinciturk ’s work to the enigma of the Sphinx. Inserted into a realm of
