The Other Stories: Migration, Art and Living Together: Recent Episodes
Bilgi-Migration
In this podcast series titled The Other Stories, we would like to continue the conversation on the relationship between art, human mobility and living together that we started with the exhibition. The podcast series will explore this relationship under three main themes. We will be interviewing with academics, artists and intellectuals on the specific issues relating to the effects of art on consciousness-raising and policy making about immigration, solidarity, and living together with immigrants and good practices both globally and in Turkish context. https://goc.bilgi.edu.tr/en/
Today our guest is Dr. Umut Erel. Her research employs an intersectional approach and explores how gender, migration and ethnicity inform practices of citizenship. We talked about her research and how collaboration between researchers,participants, artists and activists has the potential to open up a space where other ways of being together can be imagined and rehearsed.
Website of Pasar Project: https://fass.open.ac.uk/research/projects/pasar?nocache=65d4eb08351ff
"Collaborations Between Academics, Artists and Activists: Transforming Public Understandings and Representations of Migration Issues." In Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies: Re-Imagining Communities Through Arts and Cultural Activities,
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-39900-8_10
Today our guest is Dr. Wiebke Sievers. She has been working asmigration researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna since 2003. She recently completed an editedbook titled Cultural Change in "Post-Migrant Societies: Re-Imagining Communities Through Arts and Cultural Activities".
Dr. Sievers’ website: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/isr/team/rg-urban-transformation/wiebke-sievers
Open access book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-39900-8
This interview is under the first theme of the podcast, where we invite artists and scholars to reflect on their research on the relationship between migration and art. Today our guest is Dr. Emine Fisek. We will be talking about how the theater’s representation of migrant subjects has developed after post-crisis both in Europe and Turkey.
Refugee Tales: https://www.refugeetales.org/
Balat Monologlar Muzesi: https://tiyatrolar.com.tr/tiyatro/balat-monologlar-muzesi
Gabriel’in Düşü: https://tiyatrolar.com.tr/tiyatro/gabrielin-dusu
Grand Hotel Cosmopolis: https://www.on-curating.org/issue-25-reader/the-grandhotel-cosmopolis-augsburg-germany.html#.Y-VNa-xBwbk
Clean City: https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/clean-city
This interview is under thesecond theme of the “The Other Stories” podcast series, where we focuson good practices and lessons learned relating to art and the integration ofimmigrants in Turkey with NGO professionals, artists, and scholars. Today ourguest is Dr.CHIU Chen-Yu (Cho). Since2016, Cho has worked voluntarily as the architect for consolidating the programand design of the Taiwan–Reyhanli Centre for World Citizens. Since 2020, he hasfurther acted voluntarily as the founding Director of the Centre forimplementing its humanitarian programs and collaboration of local NGOs,business sectors and grassroots.
https://taiwanreyhanlicentre.com/en/about/
How Taiwan is helping Syrian refugees in Turkey:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfolewWb-7U
Welcome to The Other Stories podcast series. This interview is under the first theme of the podcast, where we invite artists and scholars to reflect on their research on the relationship between migration and art. Today our guest is Dr. Silvia Aru. Silvia Aru is an assistant professor of Economic and Political Geography at the University of Turin. Her research interests encompass migration policies and their socio-spatial impacts and related issues of justice and socio-spatial inclusion/exclusion. Today, we mainly talk about her two projects titled “Eufemia” and My "Diary from the border":
My "Diary from the border": https://iris.unito.it/retrieve/2a1d944d-dd84-49c7-a238-b74c4fa00c70/Diary_Ventimiglia_compressed.pdf.
The catalogue of the Exhibition 'Eufemia' in the Italian-English version: https://www.laboratoriosociologiavisuale.it/new/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Catalogo-Eufemia-Ita-Eng-WEB.pdf
"Beyond Inhabitation lab": https://beyondinhabitation.org/.
This interview is under the first theme of the podcast, where we invite artists and scholars to reflect on their research on the relationship between migration and art. Today our guest is the artist Dr. Bogdan Mihai Florea. Dr. Florea has written a PhD thesis titled “Actor in a Second Language” at Department of Theatre at University of Bristol. The thesis discusses emigrant actors and acting 2nd language in the context of the practice-based research conducted with Nu Nu Theatre, a company that focuses its work on the question of who a Second-Language Actor is and who he/she can become.
Nu Nu Theatre | Bristol | Facebook
www.nunuplatform.com
Ileana Gherghina – Theatre maker
This interview is under the second theme of the “The Other Stories” podcast series, where we focus on artistic projects globally. Today our guest is the artist Elizabeth Kwant. We talk about her project titled ‘In Transit’ where she performs migrants’ stories in key sites across Europe. Elizabeth Kwant lives and works in Manchester. From 2015 -2019 she founded and curated Zellij Arts, an artist led project exhibiting the work of emerging artists from The Middle East, North Africa and diaspora. Kwant’s work investigates contemporary geo-political issues; migration, immigration, displacement and representation. She has produced and participated in a number of socially engaged arts projects with refugees and asylum seekers in partnership with local organisations.
https://www.instagram.com/elizabethkwantstudio/?hl=en
https://www.elizabethkwant.com/
This interview is under the second theme of the “The Other Stories” podcast series, where we focus on good practices and lessons learned relating to art and the integration of immigrants in Turkey with NGO professionals, artists, and scholars. Today our guest is the artist and social anthropologist Eva Rapoport. Today, we will be talking about her work as a coordinator of the Istanbul branch of the Ark (Kovcheg) – an organization that is helping Russian political emigrants. We will discuss her research on political emigrants in Istanbul and her digital art project titled ‘Imagine/unimaginable’ employing an AI to visualize the reflections of the shock and trauma of witnessing a familiar world suddenly falling apart.
https://jathilan.me/about
This interview is under the second theme of the “The Other Stories” podcast series, where we focus on good practices and lessons learned relating to art and the integration of immigrants globally with NGO professionals, artists, and scholars. Today our guest is the artist barbara caveng. Today, we will be talking about her KUNSTASYL which was created as a project by an individual artist and developed to a complex organism with a branched structure, partly working as an independent artistic collective. We believe that this initiative and her future projects have become particularly important as yet another refugee movement has developed recently in the heart of Europe.
https://caveng.net/en/
https://caveng.net/en/portfolio/kunstasyl/
We continue our conversations on the relationship between art, culture, migration and social cohesion, which we started with the "The Other Stories" exhibition. Today, we will talk about the work of Migration Jam on good practices and lessons learned in Turkey regarding the adaptation of immigrants and the development of a culture of living together, which is the 3rd theme of the podcast. In this episode of our podcast series titled Other Stories, our guests are Amal Jibril, Suha Nabhan and her cat Zumrut.
https://www.instagram.com/migrationjam/?hl=en
https://migrationjam.com/
This interview is under the second theme of the “The Other Stories” podcast series, where we focus on good practices and lessons learned relating to art and the integration of immigrants globally with NGO professionals, artists, and scholars. Today our guest is Dr. Isber Sabrine. Isber is a Syrian archaeologist, specializing in cultural heritage management, as well as a certified National Tourist Guide in Syria. He is currently chair and co-founder of the international NGO Heritage for Peace. We will be talking about Cultural Heritage and Abuab Initiative and Palmyrene voices projects.
https://abuab.org/en/
http://kvadratinterwoven.com/salvation-in-the-wreckage
https://palmyrenevoices.org/
This interview is under the second theme of the “The Other Stories” podcast series, where we focus on good practices and lessons learned relating to art and the integration of immigrants globally with NGO professionals, artists, and scholars. Today our guest is Joya Sfeir. We will be talking about how we canactivate the role of independent artists in enabling cultural, political and social change.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/434517910393024
https://www.ettijahat.org/uploads/arts_and_uncertainty_en.pdf
https://www.facebook.com/Ettijahat
After a decade in the Syrian civil war, mass migration and resettlement of Syrian refugees are still high on the political agendas of many countries. Turkey has become the most refugee-hosting country, which has raised the issues of possibilities of living together on various levels. Unfortunately, these possibilities are usually constructed with a dualistic understanding of the identities of immigrants and nationals. The positioning of the immigrant identity as the ultimate Other has fallen prey to unidimensional and dualistic understanding. The identities and cultural values in question have always been treated as though they occupy the opposite poles of a vertical spectrum. İstanbul Bilgi University is hosting the exhibition titled “The Other Stories” to address the phenomenon of migration through its various dimensions from December 16, 2021 to February 7, 2022 at santralistanbul Campus Energy Museum. With this collaborative art project organized by BİLGİ Center for Migration Research in collaboration with different institutions that are active in the fields of migration and art, we have invited 50 artists from Turkey and abroad valuable contributions for an art exhibition on multidimensional and imbricated nature of human stories, revolving around human mobility. We realize that it is essential to orient our focus away from dualistic understanding of identities to just democratic understanding of plurality and the fragility of our stories.
relationship between art and human mobility that we started with the exhibition. The podcast series will explore this relationship under three main themes. Under the first theme, there will be interviews with academics, artists and intellectuals on the specific issues relating to the effects of art on consciousness-raising and policy making about immigration, solidarity, and living together with immigrants. Under the second theme, there will be interviews with NGO professionals, artists, and scholars on good practices and lessons learned relating to art and the integration of immigrants globally. Under the third theme, we will talk about these types of good practices within the Turkish context. Under each theme, after answering Goksel’s specific questions, every interviewee will be asked to tell a story about their encounters with the Other through art. Greeting, storytelling, and rhetoric can be effective tools to do justice to difference and with these podcast meetings, we are looking forward to listening to these encounters with difference through art.
Podcast Producer:
Dr. Gulay Ugur Goksel
BREDEP Project/The Other Stories Exhibition Coordinator
International Relations Department
Istanbul Bilgi University
Gulay.goksel@bilgi.edu.tr
This interview is under the second theme of the “The Other Stories” podcast series, where we focus on good practices and lessons learned relating to art and the integration of immigrants globally with NGO professionals, artists, and scholars. Today our guest is Dr Taiwo Afolabi . Dr Taiwo Afolabi says that with his theatre organization, he has had the opportunity to create meaningful dialogues, to direct and perform stage plays, and to facilitate drama workshops with refugees and immigrants of different nationalities across diverse age groups to explore issues around identity, diversity and inclusion.
We continue our conversations on the relationship between art, culture, migration and social cohesion, which we started with the "The Other Stories" exhibition. Today, we will talk about the work of arthereistanbul and TheArtCornerOfTehran Association on good practices and lessons learned in Turkey regarding the adaptation of immigrants and the development of a culture of living together, which is the 3rd theme of the podcast. In this episode of our podcast series titled Other Stories, our guest is Shirin Zeraaty.
https://www.arthereistanbul.com/