Space Debris Darkroom Talks

Seyhan Musaoglu and Jeremy Dalmas talk to artist Julie Upmeyer as they are surprised by a shooting star and get caught in midst of a meteor shower, and will have to travel through a dense bodily fluid in space to take rescue in a ferryship. Upmeyer talks about her recent work "the Guest Host" that was curated by Annna Zizlsperger of Exhibist Magazine together with Musaoglu for the "trans-ID" exhibition that took place in Surp Yerrortutyun Church in Istanbul as a parallel event of the 15th Istanbul Biennale.

In this episode Space Lady Seyhan and Space Girl extra-ordinaire astrophysicist Jeremy run into a modern day Barbarella and a contemporary Antigone in Space Debris.

Jeremy and Seyhan make their way over to the Manifaturacilar Carsisi in Unkapani, the oldest record district known in Istanbul history. They visit the recording studio set up as part of an artist project by Can Altay and Saz Arkadaslari produced by Amira Arzik, where they have been hosting musicians and performers for recording sound tracks, as well as allowing podcast recording time. Taking part in Studio 5533, formerly a shop in the Textile Traders Market (IMC), a contemporary art space founded by artists Nancy Atakan and Volkan Aslan, the project spanned over two months.

Space Debris in-house astrophysicist Jeremy Dalmas catches Space Lady Seyhan Musaoglu in action with new media artist Mert Keskin setting up the new show at Space Debris "GFX Free Error" as the Wrong New Digital Art Biennale Istanbul Embassy. Curated by Haydi Roket, the Istanbul Wrong pavilion includes works by artists Adam Ferris, Chromo Valdez, Domenico Barra, Esra Özkavcı, Flavio Scutti, Hexeosis, Jacques Urbanska, Jean Guillaume Le Roux, Kate Parsons, Kenaim, Michael Systaime Borras, Peter Rahul, Raquel Meyers, Sholim, Subtlegraces, Tachyons+, Thomas Cheneseau, Tom Galle, Trapers, V5mt, Yoshi Sodeoka, Uğur Engin Deniz. The exhibition will be open from November 21st to 26th, online biennial will be open through January.

In this episode of Space Debris Podcast Seyhan and Jeremy travel to see Etem Sahin’s art exhibition “Instruments” organised by Gizem Karakas at Galeri 5 in Umraniye. The exhibition may be seen until December 29th.

In this episode, Space Debris introduces its new season the Space Debris Darkroom Talks 2.0
Astrophysicist and newly initiated Space Girl Jeremy Dalmas and founding director of Space Debris, Space Lady Seyhan Musaoglu introduce the new new season, where they will travel in their space shuttle around Istanbul to investigate the city’s art exhibitions.

Space Debris Darkroom Talks 'ın bu bölümünde sanat eleştirmeni Ali Şimşek ve sanatçı Bengisu Bayrak ile Space Debris’de gerçekleştirdikleri
güncel sergileri Aletheia-Açığa Çıkan’ı, Aletheia nın anlamını, sanatta trajedya sorunsalını, gözlük meselesini, çağdaş sanatın itibarsızlaştırılıp itibarsızlaştırılmadığını konuştuk.

Bu bölümde, Creative Çukurcuma'nın kurucularından Mine Kaplangi ve Naz Cuguoğlu'yla konuşuyoruz. Bize Creative Cukurcuma'yı , kuruluşlarını, geçmiş ve gelecek projelerini anlatıyorlar.

In this episode Seyhan Musaoglu is speaking with the 'Creative Cukurcuma' founders Mine Kaplangi and Naz Cuguoglu on their recent projects, the reasons they founded the initiative and what they plan on doing with the project in the near future. **this podcast is in Turkish

In this episode Seyhan Musaoglu is talking to London-based innovation strategist Richard Watkins is discussing the art of collaboration and the importance of collective work.
Watkins talks about his current projects particularly the "Airmail Project" and "Being Bodies". Airmail Project is currently on view at Camberwell Post Office as part of the Camberwell Festival after shows in LA and Beirut and will be on show at SPACE DEBRIS in july. theairmailproject.tumblr.com and being bodies can be followed at beingbodies.tumblr.com

The second edition of SPACE DEBRIS "Darkroom Talks".
Artist Melis Bursin is speaking to the curator Seyhan Musaoglu of her current solo exhibition at Space Debris. The exhibition can still be seen until May 3rd. This podcast is in English :)