A Long Night at Pera Museum

Party

September 23, 2016 / 18:30

Pera Museum’s “Long Night” event on Friday 23rd September between 18:30 – 23:00 will welcome DJ performances by Coşkun Akmeriç, Ladies on Records and Grup Ses Beats.

Katherine Behar and Encounters exhibitions and the Museum’s collection exhibitions can be visited free of admissions between 18:00 – 23:00.

A Long Night at Pera Museum

18:30 – 20:00              Coşkun Akmeriç
20:00 – 21:30      
       Ladies on Records
21:30 – 23:00      
       Grup Ses Beats      

Coşkun Akmeriç

Coşkun, part of Reduced family, one half of Gecko Chamber, founder of music and art collective Simplastique, is an Istanbul based producer and DJ. His unique blend of dubby and atmospheric sounds started to get him international attention in late 2013. Since then he travels around Europe with his music, meeting new people and making a number of good friends!

https://soundcloud.com/coskunakmeric

Ladies on Records - Kornelia Binicewicz

Record collector and explorer of female music from 60s and 70s. Founder of Ladies on Records project about women music from various cultures and worlds caught in dusty records and blurred memories. As a first destination Kornelia chose Turkey and Turkish female music of the period. In her dj sets she focuses on music from golden era of good taste - 1963 -1977, bringing forgotten records from around the world. Her favourite genres are go-go, big beat, ye-ye, freak-beat, Middle-Eastern and Meditteranean psychedelic grooves combined with Eastern-European sounds of 60s and 70s.

https://www.mixcloud.com/korneliabinicewicz/

Grup Ses Beats

Grup Ses Beats is mostly known for his ability to mix obscure Turkish music with contemporary electro or hip hop sounds. Grup Ses Beats supported, De La Soul, The Gaslamp Killer, Dj Premier, Gonjasufi, Tricky and Turquoise Wisdom during their performances in Istanbul. Also performed in various festivals such as Distortion (Denmark), Le Guess Who 2012/2014 (Netherlands), Milhões de Festa (Portugal) and Off istanbul (Belgium)

soundcloud.com/grupsesbeats 
soundcloud.com/grupses

Istanbul-Paris-Istanbul: Mario Prassinos

Istanbul-Paris-Istanbul: Mario Prassinos

Mario Prassinos liked Istanbul more than the current Istanbulites of today. It is obvious that you can understand this from the article written by her daughter Catherine Prassinos in the Pera Museum's book on the artist.

Serpent Head

Serpent Head

The Greek god Apollo and his son Asklepios presided over the realm of medicine and healing. Apollo was also the god of light and sun, whose solar symbolism and association with medicine would become linked to Christ the Physician, and the resurrected.

Postcard Nudes

Postcard Nudes

The various states of viewing nudity entered the Ottoman world on postcards before paintings. These postcards appeared in the 1890s, and became widespread in the 1910s, following the proclamation of the Second Constitutional Monarchy, traveling from hand to hand, city to city.