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Why Turkey's performance artists take to streets

Turkey’s best-known performance art work is the dignified immobility of a man at the height of the Gezi Park protests five years ago; many young artists have followed in his footsteps since.

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One of the objects displayed in the exhibition "This is Not a Performance" in Istanbul's Daire Sanat Gallery. The hose refers to a police chief who used to beat the homeless and transgender women with a hose in Tarlabasi district. — Emre Baykal

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