A kind of electricity appeared in outer space: Musical Turkey in the 1960s

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15 September – 24 October 2012

DEPO begins the new season with an exhibition curated by Derya Bengi from the editorial teams of Roll, Express and Bir + Bir magazines, aiming to understand and redefine the transformation Turkey went through in the 1960s by researching the prolific music scene. The exhibition will bring together a rich selection of archival material with new artistic works in order to recreate the political, social and cultural atmosphere between two military coups – 27 May 1960 and 12 March 1971.

This is an exhibition devoted to the 1960s, a time of important social transformations. It begins with the popular anthem of 1960, ‘Olur mu Böyle Olur mu’, and ends with the Hair musical staged in Istanbul in 1971. A time of ‘first’s in music: the first English songs, the first popular melodies by Alewite poets, the first socially engaged songs, the first twist, the first ‘aranjman’, novelties in Turkish classical music, the emergence of Anatolian pop and arabesk…

The product of an extensive research, the exhibition showcases an assemblage of diverse and interesting material from the 1960s: A compilation of 60s melodies permeating the exhibition space; record covers, news and magazine articles, postcards, musical notes, posters; musical Yeşilcam scenes in an open-air cinema setting; the adventures of hippies in Sultanahmet; the footprints of the 1968 movement; archival photographs of many figures from Erkin Koray to Ruhi Su; a timeline registering the eleven years between 1960 and 1971, presenting important events and lists of books, films and records that came out in these years and reflect the spirit of the time.

Tülay German, Yellow Submarine, Zeki Müren, Süleyman Demirel, Resimdeki Gözyaşları, Ajda Pekkan, Tutunamayanlar, Beatles, Tanju Okan, Her Yerde Kar Var, Aşık İhsani, Jim Morrison, Ertuğrul Kürkçü, Ah Güzel İstanbul, Hippi Perihan, Haramiler, Dağlar Dağlar, İsmet Sıral, Keşanlı Ali Destanı, Moğollar, Siluetler, Mühür Gözlüm, Orhan Gencebay, Fikret Kızılok, Damdaki Kemancı, Yüksel Özkasap, Sylvie Vartan, Abidik Gubidik Twist…

During the exhibition a series of talks will be organized at DEPO with Emin Alper, Mehmet Ö. Alkan, Tanıl Bora, Ömer Madra and Taner Öngür. In the first talk on Thursday 20 September at 18.30, Mehmet Ö. Alkan will talk about ‘The audio history of democracy in the parentheses of the military coups of 27 May and 12 March’ and Ömer Madra will talk about ‘Being young in the 60s.’

The exhibition and the talks that will take place at DEPO with the support of the European Union Culture 2007-2013 Programme and tranzit.at were conceived in the framework of the international research project ‘Sweet 60s’ coordinated by tranzit.at, Vienna in collaboration with WHW, Zagreb and Anadolu Kültür, Istanbul. The project explores, through contemporary artistic and theoretical perspectives, the unknown, underestimated, and hidden contexts and territories of the 1960s that were omitted from the meta narrative of the ‘romantic revolutionary epoch.’

A kind of electricity appeared in outer space: Musical Turkey in the 1960s
Exhibition and lecture series

Curator: Derya Bengi
Project coordinator: Balca Ergener
Exhibition design: Cem Sorguç and Özlem Yılmaz (CM Mimarlık)
Graphic design: Ayşe Karamustafa, Hakan Lokanoğlu, Harun Yılmaz, Özgür Karacan
Ayışığı Sineması film editing: Ümit Kıvanç
Photography exhibition: Baran Özdemir, Şahan Nuhoğlu
Costume and drawings: Deniz Çağrı Bilgili
Jim Morrison drawing: Herman Taşçıoğlu
Archival research and exhibition production: Alican Boz, Ahmet Aküzüm, Annegret Roelcke, Asena Günal, Aslı Çetinkaya, Atalay Şengül, Birtakım Şeyler Baskı ve Tasarım Atölyesi, Ceren Oykut, Çiğdem Öztürk, Daimi Yılmaz, Ekin Bayraktaroğlu, Elif Çepniler, Fahrettin Örenli, Mahir Yıldız, Mahmut Aksu, Mert Hocaoğlu, Onur Bali, Turgut Yüksel, Urszula Wozniak
Archives of: Gökhan Akçura, Murat Meriç, Naim Dilmener, Necip Sarıcı, Arslan Eroğlu, Murat Kuru, Pazar Mezatı, Ercan İmre, Volkan Özboz, Bedri Koraman, Cumhur Sönmez, Murat Ertel, Nihan Taştekin, Ulaş Özdemir, Levend Yılmaz Pazar Mezatı, Ercan İmre, Volkan Özboz, Bedri Koraman, Cumhur Sönmez, Murat Ertel, Nihan Taştekin
English translations: Barış Yıldırım, Liz Amado, Ayşe Boren
Thanks to: Damla Özlüer, İletişim Yayınları, kült/ideha, Nurgül Şimşek, Suat Aysu, Yücel Göktürk

Sweet 60s
Research project

Curators: Georg Schöllhammer, Ruben Arevshatyan
Project coordinator: Mirjam Paninski

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22.9.2012
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Bianet

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Hürriyet

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Milliyet Sanat

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Bianet

23.9.2012
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Akşam

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