Director: Umay Işık
Turkey, 2020, 24’
Kurdish with Turkish and English subtitles
In 1994-95, hundreds of Kurdish villages in Turkey were destroyed, forcing the villagers to leave. They were not able to return to their homeland for over 10 years. When they got back, they had to rebuild their houses and infrastructure. Then they began their lives sheep farming again, after getting used to a more comfortable lifestyle in cities. Therefore, they do not spend rough winters in the village anymore, instead returning to the city after the summer season. The film illustrates this half-nomadic life in between tradition and modernity. Director Umay Işık follows the life and work routine of his grandmother and family in the village of his origin.
Inspired by the exhibition And Now the Good News, which focusing on the relationship between mass media and art, we prepared horoscope readings based on the chapters of the exhibition. Using the popular astrological language inspired by the effects of the movements of celestial bodies on people, these readings with references to the works in the exhibition make fictional future predictions inspired by the horoscope columns that we read in the newspapers with the desire to receive good news about our day.
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.
Coffee was served with much splendor at the harems of the Ottoman palace and mansions. First, sweets (usually jam) was served on silverware, followed by coffee serving. The coffee jug would be placed in a sitil (brazier), which had three chains on its sides for carrying, had cinders in the middle, and was made of tombac, silver or brass. The sitil had a satin or silk cover embroidered with silver thread, tinsel, sequin or even pearls and diamonds.
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