Poetry Performance
January 29, 2016 / 20:00
Complementing the exhibition This is Not a Love Song: Video Art and Pop Music Crossovers and presented as part of the program “Music Embodied”, poet and historian Efe Murad will read his latest poems out loud on 29 January Friday at Pera Museum.
All writing is in fact montage. It relates to the present and its affectations. Just like punk, it belongs to the unseen. The hallucinated have come to tell you that your utilities are being shut off and assume that all the possibilities are explicit now. Efe Murad will read his new poems from the mouth of his latest demon Xstinks. Simply dark and starkly about the world. The poem comes to terms with its infernal power.
About Efe Murad
Efe Murad is a poet and a historian. He studied philosophy at Princeton and is currently working towards his Ph.D. in Ottoman History and Arabic Philosophy at Harvard. He published Matter-Poetry Manifesto (2004) with Cem Kurtuluş and the journal Cehd together with Ahmet Güntan (2006). He has published five books of poetry, and five books of translations from the Iranian poets M. Azad and Fereydoon Moshiri and from the American poet C. K. Williams, Lyn Hejinian and Susan Howe in Turkish. His poems appeared in an installation piece “Pivot” by the American-Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander at the opening of the 13th Istanbul Biennial. He is currently working on the complete Turkish translations of Ezra Pound’s Cantos.
Held on a Long Friday at Pera Cafe, the performance is free of admissions. Space is limited, drop in.
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Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)
