{"id":279,"date":"2025-10-21T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:00:00","slug":"an-unreal-weekend-at-istanbuls-ist-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"An Unreal Weekend at Istanbul\u2019s IST.FESTIVAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/16725\/a-weekend-at-istanbul-cultural-gathering-ist-festival-jeff-koons-kid-cudi?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=an-unreal-weekend-at-istanbul-s-ist-festival\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/6\/466469.jpg\" alt=\"_CR19829\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cArt is the front lines of resistance,\u201d said Turkish psychpop musician Gaye Su Akyol onstage at Istanbul\u2019s exuberant annual cultural gathering <strong>IST.FESTIVAL<\/strong>. \u201cBeing an artist is my way of surviving in this surreal world. Because you can do anything; you are as free as a ghost.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There might be no better city \u2013 a centuries-old melting pot that has seen four empires rise and fall \u2013 to grapple with the question posed by this year\u2019s festival: \u201cWhat ishellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/16725\/a-weekend-at-istanbul-cultural-gathering-ist-festival-jeff-koons-kid-cudi?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=an-unreal-weekend-at-istanbul-s-ist-festival\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14396\/ist-festival\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=an-unreal-weekend-at-istanbul-s-ist-festival\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-280-933-622\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/6\/466448.jpg\" alt=\"_B4A3107\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14396\/ist-festival\/1?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=an-unreal-weekend-at-istanbul-s-ist-festival\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-192-933-622\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/6\/466447.jpg\" alt=\"_B4A2908\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14396\/ist-festival\/2?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=an-unreal-weekend-at-istanbul-s-ist-festival\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-534-933-622\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/6\/466450.jpg\" alt=\"_B4A3196\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14396\/ist-festival\/3?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=an-unreal-weekend-at-istanbul-s-ist-festival\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-1347-898\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/6\/466452.jpg\" alt=\"_CR19185\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14396\/ist-festival\/4?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=an-unreal-weekend-at-istanbul-s-ist-festival\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-363-933-622\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/6\/466453.jpg\" alt=\"_CR19259\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14396\/ist-festival\/5?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=an-unreal-weekend-at-istanbul-s-ist-festival\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-680-933-622\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/6\/466456.jpg\" alt=\"_CR19567\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14396\/ist-festival\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=an-unreal-weekend-at-istanbul-s-ist-festival\">View Gallery (17 images)<\/a>nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cArt is the front lines of resistance,\u201d said Turkish psychpop musician Gaye Su Akyol onstage at Istanbul\u2019s exuberant annual cultural gathering IST.FESTIVAL. \u201cBeing an artist is my way of surviving in this surreal world. Because you can do anything; you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}