Last Tuesday, we met with <a fr-original-style="" href="https://norabyrne.com/?utm_source=aposto" 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 lazy="loading" src="https://images.aposto.com/1200xauto/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/?utm_source=aposto" 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/?utm_source=aposto" 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&utm_source=aposto" 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/?utm_source=aposto" 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?utm_source=aposto" 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.

There are only extremes here. You can find yourself in extreme glamour or extreme ramshackle. You don’t have to go far to find it. Just take a cab and go around Levent and Bebek. The contrast is surreal.You are embraced by concrete here. But when you go down or up a hill, you realise the sea is all around you. The city is fluid as well as solid. It is possible to be stuck and also be flowing and moving forward at the same time.&nbsp;Isn’t it liberating?This week we met with Nora Byrne at Nadas; her residency, and the place where she produces. We stopped by to see woodworking gentlemen&nbsp;and hip ceramicists in Yeldeğirmeni. Then we moved on.The next stop will be one of our favourite meyhanes in Istanbul. Ending the night with Arab Strap sounds good, right? Maybe we’ll travel back in time with Ancient Futures at the Istanbul Archaeological Museum tomorrow.&nbsp;There are only extremes here.<a fr-original-style="" href="https://soundcloud.com/user-637448757/zel-zele-170822" 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">Isn’t it liberating?</a>Elif

<h1 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="font-size: 2em; margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Group exhibition at <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.mesher.org/Home/English?utm_source=aposto" 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">Meşher</a>: I am Nobody. Are You Nobody Too?</h1>Curated by Selen Ansen and inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Echo and Narcissus’ unrequited love, the group exhibition I am Nobody. Are You Nobody Too? will be open in&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.mesher.org/Home/English?utm_source=aposto" 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">Meşher</a>&nbsp;until 12 February 2023.Interpreting the themes of reflection, resonance, and metamorphosis that are highlighted by the myth in light of contemporary artistic and social dynamics, I Am Nobody. Are You Nobody Too?&nbsp;features nearly 120 works by 44 artists from both Turkey and abroad, including works created for this exhibition with the support of the&nbsp;Vehbi Koç Foundation.The exhibition consists of the works of world-renowned artists including Koray Ariş, Defne Tesal, Laurence Demaison, Erol Akyavaş, Fabrice Samyn, VOID, Necla Rüzgar, Mehtap Baydu, Gizem Karakaş, Yaşam Şaşmazer, Ayça Telgeren, Claude Cahun, Betty Bui, Elina Brotherus and&nbsp;Stéphanie Saadé.You may click on <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.mesher.org/Exhibition/Detail5English?utm_source=aposto" 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">this link</a> for further information and visit Meşher by 12 February to view the exhibition.

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