LabforCulture

Passing in proximity...

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Musings, thoughts before & after, anecdotes and critique of passing through - and rubbing shoulders with - life in arts and culture.

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Interview with Erden Kosova
Erden Kosova is a critic and curator based in Istanbul. He contributes to two independent Istanbul-based magazines, Siyahi (post-anarchist politics) …
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Interview with NOMAD's Basak Senova
September 9th saw the “soft opening” of NOMAD’s 3rd edition of their ctrl_alt_del sound art festival. As a digital art collective, with Istanbul as …
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Interview with Justin Bennett
The practice of The Hague-based artist and composer Justin Bennett often takes on an explorative character: whether he is relating sounds to various …
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Tricks of the Trade: World Factory
My last day in Istanbul took me to the exhibition World Factory, at IMÇ (pronounce eeh-meh-che), the Istanbul Textile Traders' Market. A complex of …
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Crossing into Asia
On Monday my friend Basak Senova, a university professor and curator, took us (a small but motley crew of international artists, composers and …
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Burn it or Not? No please don’t, but…
AKM (Atatürk Cultural Centre) is located speck in the middle of Taksim square. It stands out like a shiny black box, authoritative, pensive, …
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Of Power Plants, Art, Success and Failure
My second day at the biennial was a bit of a frustrating affair. We ventured out to attend one of the panels at santralistanbul, which on this very …
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Eventful Beginnings, Ending in a Splash
Istanbul never ceases to impress me: its scale, its grandeur, its luxuriousness combined with the typical Balkan/Mid-Eastern chaos (forgive the …

 

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