art in a time of migration
The female is becoming male to survive the streets. The male gaze stops women from being themselves. Women are formed by the rules on the male dominated streets of Turkey i.e. where unwritten (but not untaught rules are the norm to follow.) These rules are the ayip rules. The overall gaze of men and even […]
A too narrow provisional proposal for a possible phd: “Almanci” youth amazingly enough know their Yesilcam cinema by heart in contrast to Turkish born youth living in Turkey. why is this?
Movie 15 Movie 16 ÆBLETRÆERNE I HAVEN: Æbletræerne i haven, de to store. Dogan, kan du huske hvor mange træer der var ude i haven? I familien Lilleørs hus, som farfar lejede af den gamle præst. Nu bor de vist på Falster eller noget i den dur. Jeg må også snart ha taget kontakt til […]
Tryyying to undress. This was back in june 2009. I havent done much about my cultural body shame since. Other than sending a small portfolio of these photos from the “ayip-series” for a few group exhibitions and then really forgetting about it as life was taking up too much of my time. Life (read: health!).
[FMP]http://artterrorist.co.uk/wp-content/images/2012/11/Movie-14.mov[/FMP] Part of the “Tryiiiing to become Turkish”-series. And for others who wants to practice their pronounciation of this word: http://www.seslisozluk.net/?word=teferruat The worst and funny part of this being that I have trouble pronouncing the word “pronounce” in Turkish. http://www.seslisozluk.net/?word=telaffuz