“I dance for no reason, for reasons you can’t dance,
Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance
You can’t learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit,
soul, can’t be store-bought.”
Saul Williams
Pera Film begins its new season with an energetic and gripping program titled We Rule the Streets: life, art, music. Presented parallel to the exhibition Language of the Wall: Graffiti / Street Art, the program peaks into the street, life on the street and the culture it nourishes. As Norman Mailer has expressed “in the environment of the slum, the courage to display yourself is your only capital.” The city’s vein, the street, encapsulates many: the masses roar, the youth thunder and thus an eclectic culture is born. This diverse selection of films with different genres and themes all come under the same roof of how humanity has created an indelible relationship with the one and only pathway, the street. From living to surviving, to creating and performing, to cherishing, listening and moving each film explores the street through a specific angle. It is time We Rule the Streets!
Screenings can be seen with a discounted museum ticket (8 TL). No reservations taken.
September 12
19:00 Style Wars
21:00 Beats of Freedom
September 13
14:00 Everybody Street
16:00 Dark Days
18:00 Inside Out: The People’s Art Project
September 14
14:00 Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot
16:00 Brooklyn
18:00 12 O’Clock Boys
September 18
19:00 Dogtown & Z-Boys
21:00 Control
September 19
19:00 Beats of Freedom
September 20
13:00 Bomb It
15:00 Bomb It 2
17:00 Style Wars
19:00 Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot
September 21
14:00 We Can’t Go Home Again
16:00 Don’t Expect Too Much
18:00
Who Took the Bomp?
Le Tigre on Tour
September 25
19:00 12 O’Clock Boys
September 26
18:30
Who Took the Bomp?
Le Tigre on Tour
20:00 Exit Through the Gift Shop
September 27
13:00 Dogtown & Z-Boys
15:00 We Can’t Go Home Again
17:00 Don’t Expect Too Much
19:00 Control
September 28
14:00 Bomb It
16:00 Bomb It 2
18:00 Exit Through the Gift Shop
October 1
17:00 Brooklyn
19:00 Dark Days
September 12
19:00 Style Wars
21:00 Beats of Freedom
September 13
14:00 Everybody Street
16:00 Dark Days
18:00 Inside Out: The People’s Art Project
September 14
14:00 Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot
16:00 Brooklyn
18:00 12 O’Clock Boys
September 18
19:00 Dogtown & Z-Boys
21:00 Control
September 19
19:00 Beats of Freedom
September 20
13:00 Bomb It
15:00 Bomb It 2
17:00 Style Wars
19:00 Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot
September 21
14:00 We Can’t Go Home Again
16:00 Don’t Expect Too Much
18:00
Who Took the Bomp?
Le Tigre on Tour
September 25
19:00 12 O’Clock Boys
September 26
18:30
Who Took the Bomp?
Le Tigre on Tour
20:00 Exit Through the Gift Shop
September 27
13:00 Dogtown & Z-Boys
15:00 We Can’t Go Home Again
17:00 Don’t Expect Too Much
19:00 Control
September 28
14:00 Bomb It
16:00 Bomb It 2
18:00 Exit Through the Gift Shop
October 1
17:00 Brooklyn
19:00 Dark Days
October 3
19:00 Everybody Street
21:00 Inside Out: The People’s Art Project
Program Trailer
This diverse selection of films with different genres and themes all come under the same roof of how humanity has created an indelible relationship with the one and only pathway, the street. From living to surviving, to creating and performing, to cherishing, listening and moving each film explores the street through a specific angle
Pera Museum hosted, for the first time in Turkey, an exhibition on one of the art world’s hottest topics – Graffiti and Street Art. Work from America and Europe were exhibited, providing interesting examples examining the concept of ‘graffiti’ and ‘bringing the street to the museum’, as well as creating a platform for discussion and debate.
You try to remember the future. A bird painted on the ceramic panel in a historical palace has found its place on the wall. The tiles of a church and a mosque have been painted on canvas. The pattern of a centuries-old ceramic plate appears before you on a velvet curtain.
I remembered a game as I was waiting in the passenger lounge for the ferry to arrive just a few minutes ago. A game we used to play at home when I was young, in my country that is very far away from here, a relic from the distant past; I don’t even remember how we used to play it. The kind of game that makes me feel a thousand times lonelier than I already am among the crowd waiting to get on the ferry.
Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017.
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