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Recently (04.02.2012) one of my latest tracks ”Arkadaşımı Yedim” was featured on Monocle24 (London based radio station). Thanks to Mersenne (Musical director at Minimüzikhol) for this lovely gesture. He was invited to the show (The Review) to talk about the contemporary music scene in İstanbul. So yeah, all nice.
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06.02.2011 @ Arkaoda, Istanbul |
During winter, the animal shelters become more sensitive and need more support. To make it happen 35 artists and 2 design collectives joined forces at Milk to aid the selected shelters in Istanbul. All the income will be donated to food and medical supplies.
This organization will be the first step of the initiative which will help to improve the animal shelters and their situations.
Artists
Gaye Su Akyol, Murat Başol, Ezgi Genç, RAD, Ece Kalabak, Murys, Emrah Özhan, Emre Parlak, Ayşen Karakaya, Emrecan Erol, Ece Gökalp, Nalan Yırtmaç, Eser Epözdemir, Rafet Arslan, Oytun Yılmaz, Dilan Bozyel, Cins, Bahadır Baruter, Canavar, Sena, Wicx, Özgür Erman, Bora Başkan, Sedat Girgin, Büşra Üzgün, Bîmar Efendi, Can Pekdemir, Duygu Bircan, Fulya Hocaoğlu, Dünya Atay, Güçlü Polat, Mert Papik, Burak Beceren, Merve Morkoç, Caner Uyanık, Canavar, Çağlar Bıyıkoğlu, Esk Reyn, Fulya Çetin, Korgün Akgün, Mehmet Akçakoca, Nuka and Erkin Gören.
Two design studios will participate with their designer objects : Optimono & Klick The Case
Erkin Gören © 2011 / İstanbul & Berlin
Thanks to : Barış Günal, Gülden Canol
Video : ”Kıyı”
”Ne zaman bu kıyıya gelsem, düşüyorum arkasına. Çıkar beni n’olur, elindeki sopayla, elindeki sopayla.”
Video conception / Idea / Performing : Katja Voigt, Felix Stumpf, Steef van Lent, Erkin Gören // Camera: Ivar // Assistant : Paul
Sauen 2011
Pen on paper, 2011
Horaley’s 35th issue is out!
This issue’s contributors are; Ece Kalabak, Tennur Baş, Frobuk, Ezgi Aum, Elif Keskinkılıç, Yeliz Yorulmaz, Erkin Gören, Huma Birgul, Esat Başak, Mert Akbal, Deniz Ilgaz, Gümüş Özdeş, Buket Püren, Onur Kılıç, Ecem Ardalı, Melis Sevinçli, Hatiye Garip, Davut Yücel, Zggy, Begüm Süley Birgül.
Since 4 years, hundreds of people contributed to Horaley. You didn’t? If so, to get informed about upcoming themes, subscribe to Horaley’s newsletter here.
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Video : ”Üstüme”
”Yollar bindi üstüme. Suçlar kaldı büstüme. Beni de gör, o çatık kaşının arkasından.”
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Mixed technique on canvas,
20 x 20 cm. 2011 |
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Copyright Monster vs. Samplers, 2011
3D / Pen / Digital Paint, 41 x 17 cm.
For an article about the copyright conflict within the music of Hip-Hop bands like De La Soul, Beastie Boys, Public Enemy.
Bant Magazine
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Guitar, Vocal : Erkin Gören Kestim Öldün |
A show focused on gentrification : Soft City
Inspired by Jonathan Raban’s book Soft City
“…the city goes soft; it awaits the imprint of an identity. For better or worse, it invites you to remake it, to consolidate it into a shape you can live in. You, too. Decide who you are, and the city will again assume a fixed form around you. Decide what it is, and your own identity will be revealed, like a position on a map fixed by triangulation.
Unlike in villages and small towns, the cities can be kneaded by the nature of urban incomes. We can knead them with our ideas. we show them, we impose them our own personal form of resistance and they shape us this time. In this sense, it seems to me, to live in the city is an art. In order to describe the special relationship between the substance and the human, we need the dictionary of art at the creative everyday game of urban life.
The city as we imagine it, the soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.”
Jonathan Raban, Soft City: What Cities Do To Us, and How They Change the Way We Live, Think and Feel. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974
Artists
Alfredo Ramos Fernandez, Amandine Braci, Antonio Cosentino, Erdem Helvacıoglu, Erkin Gören, Gümüş Özdeş, Katarzyna Badach, Levent Kunt, Miriam Linschooten, Monika Bulanda, Merve Çanakçı, Neriman Polat, Nalan Yırtmaç, Pınar Ögrenci, Sameer Farooq, Sevil Tunaboylu, Sohrab Kashani, Şafak Çatalbaş, Timothée Huguet, Yeşim Akdeniz Graf, Zeynep Beler
Düzenleyen
Nihan Çetinkaya
Taşkışla Stage, is theatre group which started their work on 2006. It’s been founded by architecture students from Istanbul Technical University and supported by Atölye Tiyatro Topluluğu. So they’re on stage with their new play called Antigone.
On this poster of Antigone, they used one of my works from the series of Escape From Civilization.
You can check their website out here, www.taskislasahnesi.net. (@Facebook)
10 / 13 cm. Watercolor / Pen on paper, 2011
5 / 7 cm. Watercolor / Pen on paper, 2011
(For an article written by Doruk Yurdesin at Bant Magazine)
3 / 5 cm. Watercolor / Pen on paper, 2011
| Since the first release date of my new album Kestim Öldün, it has been listened and downloaded by an unexpectedly huge number of people. In terms of psychology, I still have doubts on why it makes me happy to share what i do, but I’ll live.
Anyway.. I thought maybe you are one of my appreciating listeners and you might want to make me happier. From now on, you have the chance to support me by buying the album with the price you defined. Just click on the download link on the right. Otherwise it’s still free when you enter zero to the price field. Cheers! . |
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Horaley’s 33rd issue is now out with the title The Right to be Lazy. This issue is strolling around the ideas in the famous book called The Right to be Lazy, written by Paul Lafargue in 1883 during his conviction at Saint Pélagie Prison. The photo on the cover belongs to Elif Keskinkılıç which you can recall from the issue called Domestic Existence. Here are the other contributors’ names;
Cansu Bulduk, Tayfun Polat, Serdar Yılmaz, Sibel Açıkalın, Emre Kerimgil, Levent Koban, Yeliz Yorulmaz, Kutay Cengil, Giulia Paravicini, Mert Akbal, Sevil Tunaboylu, Sinem Boyacı , Deniz Koloğlu, Batuhan Güven, Hatiye Garip, Dinçer Özüarap, Deltoidhead, Göktuğ Ülkar, BaL İcme, Angela Esin Özbek, Buket Püren Açıkalın
Just after the terrible disaster happened in Japan, my friend Motoko sent me an email. She decided to sell some of her artwork to support a foundation in Japan. Here’s her letter.
Dear friends,
As you probably know from the news, a terrible disaster happened in Japan two days ago. Many people lost their familiy, friends or their home and live in despair. Fortunately my family is not struck but I want to help the people in my country.
Therefore I will take part in an art project for which artists sell a piece of art and donate the money to an aid organisation.
On this Link http://www.motokodobashi.com/ you can buy my drawing for a special price and I will give the money to the reputable japanese organisation JEN that already came to help in Haiti and other natural catastrophes.
If you want to help and you want to buy my work please contact me!
You can also send this email to other people or if you’re an artist take part in this project as well.
Thank you.
Where Fire Has Struck is a series of events organized on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey and as part of the Project ‘Dealing with Continuing Social Trauma.’
The events have been organized with the purpose of raising awareness regarding human rights violations in social memory and contributing to the process of confronting the truth. The series of events, realized on a voluntary basis, includes an exhibition, several seminars, a documentary film program and the publication of a catalogue. The exhibition opens on 9 March 2011 at 6.30 pm, and may be visited from 10 March to 23 April.
Depo Address: Lüleci Hendek Cad. No:12 Tophane 34425 İstanbul/Türkiye.
Handmade CD’s of my new release Kestim Öldün are available at the music shops listed below.
PS : I drew something different on each CD.
Vintage Records (Dr. Esat Işık St.. No:4 Kadıköy)
Zero Müzik (Caferağa Mahallesi Kadife Sokak No : 8/A Kadıköy / İstanbul)
Kutu Kafe (Fırıldak Sokak25/A Moda 34710 Kadıköy / İstanbul)
Deform Müzik (Kuloğlu Mah. Turnacıbaşı Cad. No:45 Çukurcuma / Beyoğlu)
To listen or download before buying please click here.
See you there!
70 x 100 cm. Acrylic / Pen on Cardboard, 2011
We’re going to play at Nublu this Monday. I think we will be on stage about 22:30. Here’s the beautiful gang; Taner Yücel (guitar), Oğuz Erdin (drums), Fehmican Gözüm (sax), Erman Evcil (bass), Gümüş Özdeş (vocal), Umut Çetin (sound) ve Cem Yardımcı (visuals) You’re invited!