Inspirational music for Sokak Edebiyatı:: THIS EMPTY FLOW
This Empty Flow webpage:
http://nikoskorpio.net/thisemptyflow
This Empty Flow myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/thisemptyflow
Website for This Empty Flow:
http://sokakedebiyati.net/thisemptyflow
Niko Skorpio ( member of This Empty Flow) :
http://nikoskorpio.net
Niko Skorpio myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/nikoskorpio
Sokak Edebiyatı is the name of the fanzine series created by Girdap Unthatow from İzmir/Turkey since 2000, and it is inspired by the need of creation and the Crass movement from 70’s. (Information about Crass Movement can be found at the address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/Crass) For the last couple of years, increasingly more people have shown an interest in helping out with the fanzines. As of April 2009, the existence of the fanzines has been going on for almost ten years, and as one of the members of this creation I want to say that I hope it will exist for another ten/twenty/thirty years.....
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Sokak Edebiyatı, “Street Literature”, started as a single handed project in mid 2000s, and it matured through side/sub projects, with all the support it has been receiving over nine years. “Sokak Edebiyatı” is a “sub-cultural art collective” which is completing its 9th year.
Sokak Edebiyatı includes every derivative of sub cultural elements. It advocates every underground anti-authority stream, which had become a component of consumption and therefore corrupted by capitalism, or which in essence came from same roots but separated by the life style after they take shape. Sokak Edebiyatı supports to produce, publish, and share art.
Sokak Edebiyatı is against the system, but it does not stand for revolution. It encourages individual rebellion and artistic expressions rather than revolution.
The only mission of Sokak Edebiyatı is to create a place to share, to publish, and to live. In other words, it tries to provide a place to live and to publish for those who have the same spirit, similar points of view and ways of artistic expression.
Sokak Edebiyatı consists of all the elements relating to sub cultural art. In order to allow these to be presented and published easily, it tries to establish an independent collective company, a publishing house, and a hangout, which would be similar to an info shop. This independent company will be using a model of independent punk record labels from the 70s. In the future, Sokak Edebiyatı will be working on publishing of music, film, and visual arts as much as possible. Another purpose of Sokak Edebiyatı is to share the information with the people who live in Türkiye through the translation of the sources into Turkish language. Various activities are being executed in order to publish a monthly magazine at this moment, and the magazine will be published once all the requirements are completed. After this, Sokak Edebiyatı will be trying to publish albums and books, to shoot short and long movies, and to organize art exhibitions, and concerts.
In addition, Sokak Edebiyatı wants to open a café/house type of an info shop in Izmir to allow people who have similar worldviews in terms of being “anti-authority”; to come together, communicate, and exchange information.
Sokak Edebiyatı will not rush these plans and projects to come into being. Sokak Edebiyatı is only tries to carry on its existence. These projects might happen or they might never come to existence, but Sokak Edebiyatı will be printing and publishing the fanzine no matter what happens. In short, Sokak Edebiyatı is satisfied with its current condition.
You can support "Sokak Edebiyatı" what we usually call "sub-cultural art collective" if you believe that you are as enthusiastic as we are. Our door is open to everybody, but open doors might close to your face if you do not respect our concept of life.
The word "literature", other than its literal meaning, also represents language, culture, ethics, and lifestyle.
Sokak Edebiyatı is an anti-authority, anti-capitalist, anti-militarist, and anti-sexist organization. It is absolutely not commercial. Its primary purpose is to carry off money matters in order to pay off the expenses to publish artwork and to conceive the projects mentioned before. Lets put it this way, in order to cover the costs for print and distribution, we need to extract earning as much as we can from the previous month's fanzine. Sokak Edebiyatı published 60 issues up until now, financed by its own pocket . In future, Sokak Edebiyatı would share the earnings with those who published their work through fanzine, if possible. For now, it seems like we will continue paying money from our own pocket for a while.
• - Sokak Edebiyatı does not support any party/establishment or hierarchical structure.
• Sokak Edebiyatı should not be confused with Beat Generation. Even though there are small similarities, Sokak Edebiyatı is never ever walking on the same path. Moreover, it encourages losing the path.
• Sokak Edebiyatı does not believe in change and preparing for an ideal future, and is not in preparation of that. It does not promise hope, it nestles rebellion. Sokak Edebiyatı is only interested in reality on earth in which it is believed everything is shitty and will be shittier.
• Sokak Edebiyatı is not a community, it actually denies community. Sokak Edebiyatı supports the individual and individualism. Therefore, every individual who supports Sokak Edebiyatı can come in to conflict, every member can be involved in writing opposing ideas which can be published in the same publication. Sokak Edebiyatı believes in the beauty of diversity; without trying to impose ideas on each other, we can work this out all together instead of destroying different point of view. We continuously discuss our issues, and sometimes our opinions stand apart, but every one of us is aware of we are lonely, very lonely... Sokak Edebiyatı is not more than a madhouse for lonely and desolated people; a house for army of the insane. And instead of accepting treatment, it only tries to keep its insanity and abnormality level just right in a genuine manner.
• Sokak Edebiyatı acts based on the DIY movement.
• Sokak Edebiyatı is inspired by Crass movement in the 1970s. In their autobiographies Crass says "There is no them and us, there is only you and me. ......... We need to find the 'self' that can truly be the authority that it is".
written by: Girdap Unthatow
edited by: Cenin von Catlien
translated by: kozmonot (Deniz Pelin Songur)
adjusted by: Jayne
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