Notes From Diyarbakir: Thursday 9th May - a walk to the Conservatory

A walk to Cegerxwin Gençlik Kültür ve Sanat Merkezi, a Kurdish Language cultural education centre for media and performing arts.

Behind the main streets of Ofis, where the Diyarbakir Arts Centre office is located, are pedestrianised artisans' lanes based on European city plans.

Fresh chickpeas are delicious, and available from street carts for 1TL (around 33p).

This hand is anatomically inexcusable and frightening.

The municipality's bin bags are nice...

...as are the pavements in the new cement high-rise suburbs of the North West.

Bio

Cressida Kocienski holds an MA in New Media Production from LJMU and an MFA in Art Writing from Goldsmiths, London. Working between video, performance and text, her research concerns spatial research and modes of narration. In October 2013 she will begin practice-based PhD research in the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield to examine modes of spatial narration in contemporary film practice. She has worked collaboratively with antepress within Art on the Underground, James Taylor Gallery, ICA (London) and Resonance FM. Her films have screened at Benaki Museum (Athens), FormContent (London), Pleasure Dome and TSV (Toronto). In 2011 she was Filmmaker in Residence with DAAR in Beit Sahour, Palestine. She is Co-Editor of The Institute of Immaterialism, and works collaboratively with architects O[S]R (Toronto) and OPENkhana (London and Sheffield).