Gürsoy Do?ta?
Gürsoy Do?ta?, author and cultural scholar, explores the queer politics of the feeling of hüzün a culturally specific sort of melancholy in the Turkish-language region in the music of the Turkish singer Zeki Müren. In 2014, he edited with Alejandra Labastida the publication The Politics of the Melancholic Voice Zeki Mürens Kah?r Mektubu (Letter of Sorrow) in the frame of ICI in New York. In 2017, he was invited by the Wiener Festwochen to a reading performance drawing from his novel project Zeki Müren The Displayed Life (An Unauthorized Biography). In the winter semester of 2017/18, he held the reading seminar Writing the gay self: Diaries, Autobiographies and Autofictions at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 2018, he will expand his research on Rembetiko (music in the tradition of the Ottoman Empire) with a curator grant from the Goethe-Institute in Thessaloniki. He curated the discursive program for Public Art Munich 2018.
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2013 Summer Curatorial Intensive Symposium
Summer Curatorial Intensive Public Symposium: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10am6pm ICI Curatorial Hub 401 Broadway, Suite 1620 New York, NY 10013 FREE Join ICI and the new Curatorial Intensive class on Tuesday, July 30 for a daylong public symposium where the participants will present new exhibition proposals. Participants include: Jessica Baran (St. Louis, Missouri), Igor […]
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ICI/SAHA Research Award recipients Gürsoy Do?ta? and Alejandra Labastida co-edited and authored this publication on Zeki Mürens arabesk music.
read more »THE POLITICS OF THE MELANCHOLIC VOICE: ZEKI MÜRENS KAHIR MEKTUBU (LETTER OF GRIEF)
Alejandra Labastida and Gürsoy Do?ta?, recipients of the 2013 ICI/SAHA Research Award, explore the feeling of melancholy in Zeki Müren’s arabesk music through interviews and texts.
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