TESTING GROUND is a month-long series unfolding like a slow festival, tracing cultural rhythms across the city’s selected venues and art spaces. Each event breathes out its own messaging and preserves it through printed publications and digital artifacts.
In an era that favors speed, TG originates from fatigue and overlapping acts, aiming to create the right conditions for a resonant rhythm—one that trusts in time, listening, and chance encounters.
@year___zero , along with its Istanbul-based radio station,
@year___zero___radio , hosts a constellation of artists, musicians, and publishers who have constructed autonomous worlds driven by care, persistence, and a dedication to creation even as the world accelerates around them. The program features workshops, panels, screenings, and performances in addition to the artists’ presentations.
The first stop is
@sumahanist and
@studiosuma , welcoming ABADIR and ZULI from Cairo and Berlin; Marwa Belhaj Youssef from Tunis; and SAUD from Belgrade, alongside local talents howl, Granul, GLVRE, Maui, and Semi, each charting their own trajectories across borders, sound, and movement.
Poster design
@brodie_kaman and
@nmrdotcc in collaboration
Tickets at the door and
@bugececo
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