Wednesday 31 March 2010

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar/Ne İçindeyim Zamanın

Ne içindeyim zamanın / Ne de büsbütün dışında;
Yekpare geniş bir anın / Parçalanmış akışında,

Bir garip rüya rengiyle / Uyuşmuş gibi her şekil,
Rüzgarda uçan tüy bile / Benim kadar hafif değil.

Başım sukutu öğüten / Uçsuz bucaksız değirmen;
İçim muradıma ermiş / Abasız, postsuz bir derviş;

Koku bende bir sarmaşık /Olmuş dünya sezmekteyim,
Mavi, masmavi bir ışık / Ortasında yüzmekteyim.

Mehmet Kaplan, Şiir Tahlilleri, 2. Cilt

Tuesday 30 March 2010

Anish Kapoor


Widow, 2004

Past Present Future, 2006

Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be expressive? I think it's my role as an artist to bring to expression, it's not my role to be expressive. I've got nothing particular to say, I don't have any message to give anyone. But it is my role to bring to expression, let's say, to define means that allow phenomenological and other perceptions which one might use, one might work with, and then move towards a poetic existence.
Anish Kapoor
(Anish Kapoor and Homi K. Bhabha, 1998,hereafter, Conversations)
available @ Anish Kapoor :Making Emptiness by Homi Bhabha:
http://www.anishkapoor.com/writing/homibhabha.htm

Saturday 27 March 2010

Muzeyyen Senar/Evlerinin Onu Mersin

http://fizy.com/s/1agpv6

Here is an old song from the Aegean Region sang by Muzeyyen Senar, my personal favorite among the whole Turkish singers. This piece clearly shows the mastery she has achieved at an early age. In her later performances the color of her voice is more distinguishable though.

Tuesday 16 March 2010

Ujin Lee


Dust, 2009
@http://www.ujinlee.com/index2.html

Jenny Saville



image and more @ http://www.colectiva.tv/wordpress/lang/en-us/jenny-saville/