Directors: Özgür Cihan Uçar, Yasin Serindere
Turkey, 2021, 35’
Turkish with English subtitles
A region in Guvercintepe (Bayramtepe) Neighborhood of Basaksehir, Istanbul was named as Palestine by the people. Guvercintepe Neighborhood which was formed in the 90s with the migrations from Anatolia has been wanted to be demolished many times after being formed. The last destruction which was wanted to take place in 2009 was prevented by the local people’s resistance. A few years later, deeds were given to the majority of the neighborhood people. Palestine Neighborhood, which got its name from the resistances against destructions, was left out of this process and destruction agenda in Palestine has continued after 2009.
In 2012, expropriation lawsuits were brought for a road project of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. And in the last quarter of 2020, as a part of “Road Project No.3” of Basaksehir Municipality, notifications were sent to 5 houses in the lower part of Palestine Neighborhood. In the notifications sent, it was demanded that they vacate their houses in 7 days…
Pera Museum’s Cold Front from the Balkans exhibition curated by Ali Akay and Alenka Gregorič brings together contemporary artists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.
Selected from the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Photography Collection, we present the landscapes and places in Istanbul photographs, dating from the 1850s to the 1980s, together with their present-day views!
In 1998 Ben Jakober and Yannick Vu collaborated on an obvious remake of Marcel Duchamp’s Roue de Bicyclette, his first “readymade” object. Duchamp combined a bicycle wheel, a fork and a stool to create a machine which served no purpose, subverting accepted norms of art.
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