Last Tuesday, we met with <a fr-original-style="" href="https://norabyrne.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Nora</a> (Byrne) at Nadas; her residency, and the place where she produces. We were surrounded by plants and the fresh atmosphere that they create. You're in luck if you want to discover Istanbul from an artist's point of view who examines the city, space, and what it is made of. We are all about the crux of the matter. &nbsp;<h2 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">ID</h2>Your nickname:&nbsp;No-noIn Istanbul, I have recently visited:&nbsp;The balcony at Nadas Istanbul&nbsp;Recently, I have explored: The Atıksız Yaşam Pazarı&nbsp;in Feneryolu&nbsp;I live in: A nest, with my crow friends and my pigeon adversaries(In my heart,) I feel like I am from:&nbsp;The dirt underneath a hemlock treeI’m regular at:&nbsp;Roots Cafe &amp; Botanik<h2 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">SHOOT THE BREEZE&nbsp;</h2>You were born in the United States, then moved to Doha, and since 2017 you have been living in Istanbul. As an artist who aims to increase awareness of the public's relationship to urban ecologies and their evolution, how and why did end up here?&nbsp;I studied art history at university, curation in Doha, and came to Istanbul to start an artistic career. These two cities are the source of my aims in artmaking. Istanbul emerged as a place caught in the same inadequate and manipulative narratives of East and West I was currently reevaluating, with a similar facade but more soul. Murat Germen was the perfect advisor for someone fascinated by the intricacies of place and injustices of our systems of change, and my time at Sabancı University allowed me to explore artistic inquiry as a type of Urban Studies, with Istanbul as inexhaustible inspiration.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/9/4/1666271177979.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="0.67" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"><h4 fr-original-style="text-align: center;" style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Nora and her studio</h4><hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;">You are a graphic designer and resident artist at Nadas Istanbul. You’ve developed a paper recycling system that takes the paper waste generated each month and re-purposes it into sheets of handmade paper. According to your observation, is Istanbul a viable city?I don’t consider lifestyle changes a genuine solution to our environmental crisis. Istanbul’s structural mismanagement is actively destroying nearby ecologies and our lifestyles won’t affect untreated wastewater channeled into the Marmara.However, future sustainability will require significant lifestyle changes for many, and I see value in practicing these. So-called 'developed' nations developed in ways that deified profit and comfort in a violently extractive relationship with the earth (and other humans). In theory, 'developing' nations could have an advantage in redefining this relationship.One of our goals at Nadas is questioning how our daily lives fit into that relationship and building a community around these questions. In the US or Doha barriers to entry in opening a space like Nadas would make our work impossible, but in Istanbul we manage. Other organizations do, too, such as farm collectives, <a fr-original-style="" href="https://dukkan.kadikoy.bel.tr/" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">waste-free stores</a>, or <a fr-original-style="" href="https://good4trust.org/" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">organic producer platforms</a> that make small lifestyle changes easier.Are there any craft workshops in Yeldeğirmeni? What is the importance of their permanence in the hood and the city?&nbsp;I see many craftspeople in Yeldeğirmeni, from woodworking amcas&nbsp;to hip ceramicists. I suspect this diverse community of creatives has a part in why Yeldeğirmeni feels genuine even as it gentrifies.&nbsp;Though events like <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.instagram.com/openstudiodays/?hl=en" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Open Studio Days</a> or <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.kadikoysessions.com/" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Festçik</a> have helped me learn about other creatives in the neighbourhood, these events are rooted in the 'A' kind of art. I really admire Bilal and Lydia for their project <a fr-original-style="" href="https://bilalyilmaz.info/crafted-in-istanbul" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Crafted in Istanbul</a>, a beautifully designed directory of craftspeople in the hood and throughout the city.

Aposto Istanbul

Meet Nora (Byrne); an artist who lives, creates, discovers, recognises, and loves in Yeldeğirmeni. And of course, she is an Istanbulite.

Nora Byrne

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Müze Gazhane'den çıktık yola, Yeldeğirmeni'ne arthereistanbul'a kadar yürüdük sokaklar, muraller, simit ve kahve kokusu arasında.

Müze Gazhane'den arthereistanbul'a: Yeldeğirmeni rotası

<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2021/6/5/1627631593421.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" alt="Geeva Flava, Mağlova" ratio="Infinity" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Geeva Flava, Mağlova<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;">Geeva Flava, senenin başında Gülbaba Records etiketiyle HADAL ZONE isimli ikinci albümünü yayımlamıştı. Grup, bu sefer İstanbul’un Kuzey Ormanları'nın akustiğini ölçtüğü; şehrin daha fazla eksilmemesi ve tabiatın daha fazla yok edilmemesi için Geeva Flava | Live at Malov Aqueduct&nbsp;adını verdiği bir performans videosu yayımladı. Mimar Sinan’ın 1554-1562 arasında inşa ettiği Mağlova Su Kemeri’nde çekilen videoya grubun Nadas ve Aquatic isimli iki şarkısı eşlik ediyor. 19 dakikalık zamansız yolculuğa <a fr-original-style="" href="https://youtu.be/pMJieGd3cHI" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">buradan</a> dâhil olabilirsiniz.<ul fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Son söz Geeva Flava’nın: “İstanbul’un Kuzey Ormanları’na ve doğaya yaptıklarımızdan ötürü, hasta yatağında yatan insanlıktan, kültürel mirasına sahip çıkmadığımız için Roma’dan Osmanlı’ya bütün geçmişlerimizden ve gelecek olanlardan af diledik. Sahte eş anlamlılığa, hamasete, sadece silerek değil üst üste bindirerek, kopyalayarak değerlerin içinin boşaltılmasına itiraz ettik. Çevre hassasiyetini hepten kaybeden insanlığın kafasında soru işareti bırakma hakkımızı kullandık. Yanıtlarsa tıpkı insanlığın geleceği gibi bulanık kaldı. Halbuki bir üflesen toz olup uçacak. İttirsen tarihe devinim katacak.”</li></ul>

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