The sun of art

Name: The sun of art
Start: 2024-05-19T18:00:00+03:00
Location: 6 Μανουσογιάννη, Αθήνα

Schedule

Sun May 19 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC+03:00

Location

6 Μανουσογιάννη, Αθήνα | Athens, AT

Zeki Müren, a prominent Turkish cultural icon, was known for his distinctive voice, flamboyant style, and captivating stage presence, rising to fame as a singer, composer, and actor, with a career spanning several decades, leaving a lasting impact on Turkish music and culture.
He was the Edith Piaf of Turkey, with the “velvet voice”.
The singer of “rakı tables”.
The David Bowie of Turkey, with the extravagant costumes that had their one names.
When people were buying their first televisions, they were asking "Will Zeki Müren see us too?".
New Year’s special programs opened with his peaceful (and super queer) “new year messages”.
He got the title "The Sun of Art”.
But he was also a contradictory and complicated person in a contradictory and complicated country. Grandmas were saying “he was such a gentleman with a sensitive heart”, but trans women of his generation describe him as cruel and jealous. When he died, he left a very big legacy and so many gossips.
In recent years, people from that period started talking about him more openly.
In this event Ecem Dalgakiranlar will present Zeki Müren’s music clips, scenes from old movies, tv programs and “new media”. They will tell their own story of how they met with this queer icon when they were a child, along with insights from their grandmother and the local queer community.
We will look towards the story of a country’s queer culture, oppression and resistance in this very special event at the week of The International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.
This event aspires to be the first of a series of presentations titled “Queer Cultures Beyond Borders” that will focus on different popular figures or cultural products, wishing to pose the question ‘what if different queer cultures watched each other's old movies, and came to know each other’s queer icons?” Can such events disrupt east/west dichotomies, resist cultural colonialism and the building of queer cultures that see themselves only in western figures and aesthetics?
Ecem Dalgakiranlar: Multi-talented person, a migrant, queer, activist, journalist, artist, graphic designer who has been living in Athens for some years.
* Video clips will be with English and Greek subtitles (if we can manage), presentation: English
** There will be a box for donations for our unemployed migrant presenter.
Date: 19.05 Sunday – 18:00
Adress: AMOQA - Manousogianni 6