Tag Archive: cultural-strangers

A surprise visit to Çatalhöyük

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In an earlier post, we wrote about the neolithic site Çatalhöyük and the beautiful mountain Hasan Dag. I was fascinated with the neolithic archeological site because of its significant finds and the contested… Continue reading

Mehmet Caliskan, a Man of Many Talents

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During the artist residency at the Babayan Culture House we had the fortune to meet an extremely warm and and interesting man called Mehmet Caliskan. Mehmet runs the Babayan Evi Cave Boutique Hotel… Continue reading

Oneiromancy

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Here is a series of images from a piece that we are currently working on as part of the Cultural Strangers project. It explores how our initial feelings of isolation, disorientation, confusion, and… Continue reading

Adrift – multiple location installation

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Here are some images from our latest project from the Babayan Culture House residency, titled Adrift – multiple location installation This work is an exploration of themes that relate to the notion of… Continue reading

QR Narratives

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QR Narratives is a new series of work that has been developed during our residency at Babayan Culture House. This work utilises QR Codes which can be read by smart phones to reveal… Continue reading

çok lekker

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One of the surprising things that we didn’t really account for on our residency was the cross fertilisation of other cultures and languages aside from Turkish. We had imagined that we would immerse… Continue reading

The day of the elephants in Ibrahimpaşa

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Our friends, artists Sonja van Kerkhoff and Sen McGlinn came and visited us in IIbrahimpaşa for a couple of days. We met Sonja and Sen In Istanbul at ISEA2011. Sonja and I met… Continue reading

Kilim symbology

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The Turkish carpets (kilims) provide a rich source of symbolism into the life of the region as well as personal information about the woman (men do not make these carpets) who made the… Continue reading

Memories of Istanbul

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Today, we had a quiet day in the cave doing some computer based work.  Marty has been reacquainting himself with Freehand and I played with Flash to create this collage of sounds and… Continue reading

The beauty of light in Turkey

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When recently doing some research into  Turkish tulip designs,  I came across a blog by Aaminah Shakur who is a poet, artist and writer. Some of her work is inspired by the art of… Continue reading