Third episode of Sanem’s Historical Revelations. Why can we not think about a good future anymore? Why can we not imagine a good society? Earthquakes, train accidents, climate and environmental disasters and robots writing poetry – whither humanity?
Second episode of Sanem’s Historical Revelations, a series of musical lecture-performances where public history meets subjectivity. Forced migrations. Running for one’s life in Palestine today or during the dirty war against Turkey’s Kurds in the 1990’s. Running for one’s life in the Caucasus while the Ottoman Empire crumbles into pieces. Grandmothers, grandchildren.
Full recording of the first episode of Sanem’s Historical Revelations, a series of musical lecture-performances where public history meets subjectivity. Migrating as a child, getting lost on the highways of Istanbul, mother listening to song “Neden Geldim İstanbul’a”, women longing after their children lost to another continent, poet Nazım Hikmet longing for the Istanbul he can no longer set foot on.