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Archipelagos of Time: On the Song of the Sirens
Eirini Vourloumis, The Mermaid Madonna, (2015), Onassis Cultural Center, Athens Homer, Odyssey, 12.184-191, (trans. Emily Wilson) (Full text on the Scaife Viewer) ‘Odysseus! Come here! You are...
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Istanbul/Beirut: “We were waiting for the apocalypse and the apocalypse...
And I have the unbearable feeling that my entire life won’t be enough to remove this drop from my soul.And the thought haunts me that if I was burnt alive, this persistent moment would be surrendered...
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On Ghosts & Apparitions
For Cihan Erdal #freecihanerdal John Flaxman; The Ghost of Patroclus Appearing to Achilles; 1792-3 (c) Royal Academy of Arts Homer, Iliad 23.65-76 And there appeared to him the ghost of poor...
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The Debt To The Birds
Felekşan Onar’s “Perched” at the Damascus Room, Dresden Museum of Ethnology, 2020. Photo Credit: Dario J. Lagana. Aristophanes, Birds 227-262 Epopopoi popoi popopopoi popoi, here, here, quick, quick,...
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There’s Only One City: Istanbul
A Recipe for Daphne, Nektaria Anastasiadou, Hoopoe Fiction/AUCPress, 2020 Herodotus, Histories, VII, 7.219.1-7.220.4 The seer Megistias, examining the sacrifices, first told the Hellenes at Thermopylae...
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The Wave of All Waves
Prinkipo Greek Orphanage, 2021, photograph: the author. Giorgos Seferis, “Thrush” I, Poros, ‘Galini’, 31 October 1946, trans. Edmund Keeley The house near the sea The houses I had they took away from...
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Argo Navis & the Abolished Constellations
Alexandra Paperno. Abolished Constellations, 2016. Installation view at the ‘Møenlight Sonata’, curated by René Block. Kunsthal 44Møen, Møen, Denmark, 2018. Courtesy Galerie Volker Diehl. For B.Y....
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The Debt To The Birds
Felekşan Onar’s “Perched” at the Damascus Room, Dresden Museum of Ethnology, 2020. Photo Credit: Dario J. Lagana. Aristophanes, Birds 227-262 Epopopoi popoi popopopoi popoi, here, here, quick, quick,...
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A Mourner’s Meal
Slika and Incense. 40th day memorial, 18th March 2023, Istanbul. Courtesy: Nehna. ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἐὰν μὴ ὁ κόκκος τοῦ σίτου πεσὼν εἰς τὴν γῆν ἀποθάνῃ, αὐτὸς μόνος μένει: ἐὰν δὲ ἀποθάνῃ, πολὺν...
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A Farewell to the Birds
After Utopia: The Birds, at Sadberk Hanim Museum, 2022. Photo: Ivan Erofeev During the pandemic lockdowns back in 2020, Turkish artist Felekșan Onar and myself got together to conspire over what would...
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