I will tell you about yesterday, Saturday the 3rd day on the field in Aksaray. We have to count the previous night to the day, since friday night ended up - after having amazing input from of Jan Rath, Sule Can and Kristen S. Biehl - with a traditional Raki evening which put us all in a tipsy sense of lightness. Raki tastes not as good as it looked like, but the served „turkished tapas“ along side made it possible to go through the evening. We continued the night in a nostalgic 90ies turkish bar, so full immersion into turkish culture - and full turkish hangover.
Saturday started off very slowly and we went to the field, had interesting encounters and found out a lot about our topic.
Vera, Rhagad, Ezgi and me research right now on a rare and valuable mushroom, the so callde desert truffle, that has been importet from Irak and Syria for the very first time to Istanbul. We had the chance to try it cooked yesterday and found out that tastewhise and identitywhise it can trigger a lot of emotions. Syrian people value it as a present from god, a blessing and mysterius mushroom that comes out of the ground and has all the potential to become westerner's world new super-food-gluten-free-and-meat-substitute. Let's see how far it will get in the next weeks. For sure we will start a export business to Sonnenallee.
Saturday continued with a first critique meeting where we got the chance to present our first ideas and discuss it with thre very diffrent teachers of ours. Tolga wants energy and strong images, Ulla wants us to be reflected and not generilizing our impression, Anna wants us to not forget about the spatial aspect of our actors in Aksary.
We ended the night with a glamourous birthday speech, a cake and all the possible blessing to our amazing and sweet Ulla, who is still part of the young people in our all impression !
