What is better: a hostel more in Istanbul or a theater? Today I am pretty sad and thoughtful. I left my room at GAF, where I was hosted in these last weeks. The theater will close next week and I had to find another room. In fact GAF was not only a theater, it was the effort of a few guys to imagine another way to theatric idea. Most of those guys were living in the building where the plays were performed. But the European Union decided to deny the funds for the coming year, so this experience must close. The actors will work in other plays in other theaters and will try to bring there their theatric idea and their experience. The building instead will become a hostel for young foreigners.
So I thought today what is better: a hostel or a theater? It is better if new young people will come from abroad to visit Istanbul bringing their idea of Orient. Or it is better if guys living here will try to tell their beings as Orientals. Beside this GAF was always a place were Europeans artists used to gather. And certainly they were sharing and experiencing their idea of Orient in a laboratory that was always telling something different and out of any cliché. So who are this young people that will be hosted in the hostel? What they will be looking for? What they will bring back home of Istanbul? Istanbul is a performance itself. I guess they will come to see a performance rather than make a new one out of it. This is my fear. No. I am not happy. I am really not happy. Well, I am definitively sad.
This is my turkish dilemma today. But today there is another aut-aut day here in Turkey, but at the end there's no such difference. The big dilemma is the referendum on constitution. And nobody will care that a theater in Istanbul is closing. What kind of support Europe is giving Turkey, at this point I don't know. They deny GAF the funds, but they are happy to support "yes" outcome from the referendum, because this way the Turkish constitution will be on European standards with the human rights issue. On the military coup of 1980 in Turkey was told in the last play at GAF which I collaborated with. It's healthy to let people find their own way to look back their things, I think. This way Europe, supporting "yes" vote, once again, is mistaking with understanding Orient and fatally blindly giving AKP isalmist party a chance to distort their way Turkish History.
It's always tricky to choose in an aut-aut dilemma, but this time we are playing really dirty.
In addition, today Turkey will live a national psychodrama. Referendum on the 30th anniversary of the military coup and final of the world basketball cup played in Istanbul between Turkey and United States (that this military coup happily welcomed). What a day!
LISTEN HERE an interview I released to Radio Onda d'Urto in Italian on the coming referendum.
WATCH HERE the videoclip I made of "Sıradan Bir Gün" performed by Jülide Özçelik just uploaded. Will be able to save our innocence tomorrow?
"Isti'mariyah - windward between Naples and Baghdad" (WATCH HERE) was selected at Moqavemat International Film Festival in Tehran. I will be there next week.
So I thought today what is better: a hostel or a theater? It is better if new young people will come from abroad to visit Istanbul bringing their idea of Orient. Or it is better if guys living here will try to tell their beings as Orientals. Beside this GAF was always a place were Europeans artists used to gather. And certainly they were sharing and experiencing their idea of Orient in a laboratory that was always telling something different and out of any cliché. So who are this young people that will be hosted in the hostel? What they will be looking for? What they will bring back home of Istanbul? Istanbul is a performance itself. I guess they will come to see a performance rather than make a new one out of it. This is my fear. No. I am not happy. I am really not happy. Well, I am definitively sad.
This is my turkish dilemma today. But today there is another aut-aut day here in Turkey, but at the end there's no such difference. The big dilemma is the referendum on constitution. And nobody will care that a theater in Istanbul is closing. What kind of support Europe is giving Turkey, at this point I don't know. They deny GAF the funds, but they are happy to support "yes" outcome from the referendum, because this way the Turkish constitution will be on European standards with the human rights issue. On the military coup of 1980 in Turkey was told in the last play at GAF which I collaborated with. It's healthy to let people find their own way to look back their things, I think. This way Europe, supporting "yes" vote, once again, is mistaking with understanding Orient and fatally blindly giving AKP isalmist party a chance to distort their way Turkish History.
It's always tricky to choose in an aut-aut dilemma, but this time we are playing really dirty.
In addition, today Turkey will live a national psychodrama. Referendum on the 30th anniversary of the military coup and final of the world basketball cup played in Istanbul between Turkey and United States (that this military coup happily welcomed). What a day!
LISTEN HERE an interview I released to Radio Onda d'Urto in Italian on the coming referendum.
WATCH HERE the videoclip I made of "Sıradan Bir Gün" performed by Jülide Özçelik just uploaded. Will be able to save our innocence tomorrow?
"Isti'mariyah - windward between Naples and Baghdad" (WATCH HERE) was selected at Moqavemat International Film Festival in Tehran. I will be there next week.
Me and Serkan Öz at Gaf.
