Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee…
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#anarchyzen is a Streetartist living and working in Turkey.
#anarchyzen produced two works around the Killing of George Floyd by Police Forces and the uprisings around it in solidarity with the movement “Black Lives Matter”.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee…
At the end of the Video a reference to the Gezi Protests in Turkey in 2013 appears: A Photo from Ali Ismail Korkmaz.
The activist was beaten to death after he joined the solidarity protests in Eskişehir in 2013. The portrait of him appears side by side to a photo of George Floyd.
During the Gezi protests in Turkey parts of the police forces operated with to heavy loads of teargas on demonstrators. Ali Ismail Korkmaz was a student of Arabic descent.
He was beaten heavily and died five weeks later in the hospital.
Mahalla Festival 2020
To cope with the COVID-19 pandemic the Mahalla Festival 2020 took place as a remote festival to overcome self-isolation, demobilization and paralysis.
The Mahalla Festival 2020 was implementing remote tools to keep intercultural communication and creative expression alive even in times of physical distance and to help to cope not only with the pandemic but also to create new forms of interactive communication and understanding between different communities in the world.