cura: 1. spiritual charge: care. 2. to restore to health and soundness, to bring about recovery: cure. 3. Root of the word “curator” in Latin; one who is responsible for the care of souls, later, one in charge of a museum, zoo, or other place of exhibit. 4. instrument with two or three strings that is used in folk music. 5. small sparrow. 6. the name of a short story written by Cevat Sakir Kabaagacli, also known as the Fisherman of Halicarnassus (A Flower Thrown to the Sea from the Aegean, 1972). 7. “The double sense of cura refers to care for something as concern, absorption in the world, but also care in the sense of devotion” Martin Heidegger

Saturday, June 12, 2010


2 ada / 2 islands


beer and sea get people together

basliiyoooorrrrrr / it staaaarrtts!!

Screening I

Last night we watched "The Gleaners and I" by Agnes Varda and discussed issues like politics of sampling, private property, control, open source communities, collaboration, the notion of public space (kamusal alan) in Turkey, etc...

Cura Bodrum Day I


Friday, June 11, 2010

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Fortress Europe Map, 2009



Frontex Europe is the European Union agency for external border security. It is responsible for co-ordinating the activities of the national border guards in ensuring the security of the EU's borders with non-member states. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontex