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Istanbul - 20 September 2017

1. Various of gnome and rubber dinghy, part of work by American artist Stephen G. Rhodes focusing on migrant crisis

2. Various of exhibition visitor viewing artwork titled "Wilkommen Assumption: Or the Private Propertylessness" by Rhodes installed in an historic Turkish bath

3. Pan to the artwork which is about the migrant crisis

4. Wide of the dome of the bath, artwork beneath it

5. Close of water falling as part of installation

6. Visitor walking through installation

7. Mid of plastic child heads installation being exhibited in historic Turkish bath

8. Wide of the entrance of one of the exhibitions

9. Close of black bags reading (Turkish and English) "A good neighbour"

10. Wide of Bige Orer, Istanbul Biennial's director, in Istanbul Modern Art Museum

11. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Bige Orer, Istanbul Biennial's director:

"The 15th Istanbul Biennial is curated by duo artists Elmgreen and Dragset. And we are celebrating 30 years and the 15th edition of Istanbul Biennial in 2017. This Biennial titled "a good neighbour", it brings together the different art practices from different regions and different generations. We have 56 artists in total and 30 of them produced new works for the Biennial. They came to Istanbul many times, both for their research and the production and installation of their work."

12. Wide of South African artist Kemang Wa Lehulere's artwork titled "Conference of the Birds"

13. Close of papers on ground as part of Lehulere's installation

14. Mid of Lehulere's work, visitors passing

15. Various of Turkish artist Ali Taptik's photo work titled "Friends and Strangers" being exhibited during Istanbul Biennial

16. Close of sign reading (Turkish) "Ali Taptik, on each stairwell, Friends and Strangers, 2017"

17. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Ali Taptik, Turkish artist:

"As I said, being a part of Istanbul Biennial is very important, especially to be able to work with the support of an institution is very important. Istanbul is the city where I was born, raised and live, so I have been dreaming about being invited to Istanbul Biennial for years. I am very happy that this happened this year."

18. Wide of the exhibition in Istanbul Modern Art Museum

19. Tracking view of a visitor taking a picture and walking around the exhibition

20. Wide of the exhibition

21. SOUNDBITE (English) Gary Simmons, visitor:

"It's a breath of fresh air, I love it. I just enjoyed being in the space, and experiencing the colour and the diversity of materials that people used, that's fantastic. I loved the one with the post-it notes, and I think, I have been taking photos of the man hole covers and I used the same for that piece of art which I thought was fantastic."

22. Various of artwork titled "Continuouslessness by British-Polish artist Kasia Fudakowski's, being exhibited in a former Greek Primary School, one of the exhibition locations

23. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Bige Orer, Istanbul Biennial's director:

"Who is the good neighbour? Does a good neighbour have a more extended family than yours? Is a good neighbour your friend on social media? Is a good neighbour somebody from a neighbouring country? We asked those questions with the aim of having different approaches to the concept of the neighbour. Basically, everyone is a neighbour and everyone has a neighbour. So we believe that both the topic of this Biennial and the exhibition can interact with us easily."

24. Various of exhibition

25. Mid of the door to the exhibition in historic Turkish bath

26. Wide of the exhibition in historic Turkish bath

LEADIN:

Istanbul is hosting Turkey's most important contemporary art event.

This year the Istanbul Biennial is running under the theme of 'a good neighbour' with art that explores the migrant crisis, cultural diversity and environmental changes.

STORYLINE:

The nightmarish artwork of American artist Stephen Rhodes' is on display at this historic Turkish bath.

Titled "Wilkommen Assumption: Or the Private Propertylessness", it focuses on the migrant crisis.

The installation is part of the Istanbul Biennial.

It's Turkey's most important contemporary art event and this year has attracted 56 artists from 32 different countries.

Their work is being exhibited at six different locations across the city including the Istanbul Modern Art Museum, a former Greek primary school, and the Turkish bath.

This is the 15th edition of the Biennial and the artists are bound together with one idea: the concept of "home", "belonging" and "neighbour".

South African artist Kemang Wa Lehulere is one of a number of international artists showing at the event.

But there is home-grown talent too.

Ali Taptik's photo work titled "Friends and Strangers" is here.

He says being part of the Biennial is very important for him.

"Istanbul is the city where I was born, raised and live, so I have been dreaming about being invited to Istanbul Biennial for years. I am very happy that this happened this year," he says.

Around half-a-million Turkish and international visitors are expected to see the exhibitions in 2017.

"It's a breath of fresh air, I love it. I just enjoyed being in the space, and experiencing the colour and the diversity of materials that people used," says Australian visitor Gary Simmons.

The theme is "a good neighbour" and the artists involved have many different interpretations of that idea.

The migrant crisis, environmental changes, and cultural diversity are among the topics they have explored.

"Who is the good neighbour? Does a good neighbour have a more extended family than yours? Is a good neighbour your friend on social media? Is a good neighbour somebody from a neighbouring country?" asks Bige Orer, Istanbul Biennial's director.

"We asked those questions with the aim of having different approaches to the concept of neighbour."

The Istanbul Biennial opened on 16 September and runs until 12 November 2017.

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Fans of a romantic novel by author Orhan Pamuk are being urged to travel to Turkey to complete the book.

The 83 chapters in "Kemal and Fusun" are on paper, but at the end of the book there's a free a ticket to a museum in Istanbul that readers are invited to visit in order to fully finish the novel.

Housed in an old building in the Cukurcuma neighbourhood of Beyoglu, Istanbul, the Museum of Innocence is dedicated to a love story.

Created by Nobel laureate, Orhan Pamuk the museum is an object-based version of the fictional love story between Kemal and Fusun, the two main characters of his novel of the same name published in 2008.

According to the author, the book and the museum work in tandem, so although the story ends at the end of the book, "Kemal and Fusun" will not have been fully completed until readers have also visited the museum.

In May the museum won the European Museum of the Year prize for its innovative concept.

Boxes and cabinets are filled to the brim. There are old photos, women's clothes, shoes and bijouterie, vintage watches, newspaper clippings, a typewriter, glasses of tea and raki (national Turkish liqueur), hair combs, old movie posters and figurines.

The objects reflect Kemal's obsession with collecting everything that evokes his brief and passionate romance with his distant cousin Fusun.

They are also a daily life catalogue of the second half of the 20th Century in Istanbul - the setting of Pamuk's novels.

Some of the pieces have been created especially for the exhibition.

"An anatomical chart of love pains" is an example. As is the framed collection of 4,213 lipstick stained cigarette butts arranged in chronological order and supposedly smoked by Fusun.

But most of the pieces come from Pamuk, who spent three decades collecting vintage objects that inspired him from friends' homes and junk shops.

The author developed his idea for the novel and the museum in parallel. He has personally arranged the collection according to the 83 chapters of his book.

Museum director, Onur Karaoglu says that one of the main reasons for receiving the European award was the novelty of the concept:

"It suggests that the idea of a museum doesn't have to be that big and it can be a much more humble thing. The idea that through sharing the stories in every household, a museum can be built, is very innovative."

Pamuk's books have been translated into 60 languages and he has many international fans.

Organisers say 70,000 people, most of them tourists from Europe and the U.S., have visited the museum since it opened in April 2012.

Karaoglu says visitors are mostly curious about the photographs on show:

"Are there photographs of the main characters Kemal and Fusun in the museum? If so, where are they? How can we see them? Display and images that are inside is the main thing visitors ask about. Other than that, the museum has ties with both reality and fiction."

For visitors that have not read the book, the museum becomes an emotive trip to old Istanbul.

But the original idea of the author was that the reading of his book should finish with a visit to the museum.

A ticket placed in the 83rd chapter of the book allows readers to enter the museum for free.

"Since this museum is actually based on a novel, at the end of the book there is a ticket. If visitors come to the museum with their book we stamp the ticket and they can visit for free. And actually the book finishes after visiting the museum. This is the first time such a project has been carried out in the world," says Karaoglu.

Didi Wenzl-Thoma, a German tourist, says that she has been a fan of Pamuk for a long-time:

"I read the book and I listened to the audio book. I am really enthusiastic about it. I am very pleased that this museum has opened. It is such a nice idea to have the novel and then the museum."

The collection is still a work in progress. The management team say it is setting up collaborations with international artists in order to fill some of the empty cabinets next year.

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Istanbul, Turkey - 19 June 2014

1. Mid of poster reading: (Turkish) "An anatomical chart of love pains"

2. Close-up of cigarette butts with notes on display

3. Wide of cigarette butts on display

4. Mid of video installation, showing female hands holding cigarettes

5. Close-up of vintage typewriter

6. Low angle of a boxer picture, nameplate reading: (Turkish/English) "Getting past the censors"

7. Close-up of Pamuk's books reading: (Spanish) "The Museum of Innocence"

8. High shot of visitor reading book

9. High shot of museum interior

10. Mid of Onur Karaoglu, Director, The Museum of Innocence, speaking on phone

11. SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) Onur Karaoglu, Director, The Museum of Innocence:

"One of the main reasons the Museum of Innocence has received the European Museum of the Year Award is that it comes up with a more individual museum concept. It suggests that the idea of a museum doesn't have to be that big and it can be a much more humble thing. The idea that through sharing the stories in every household, a museum can be built, is very innovative."

12. Close-up of nameplate reading: (English/Turkish) (chapter) number 57 and "On being unable to stand up and leave"

13. High shot of screen showing boat sinking, a vintage clock and three glasses of "raki" or Turkish national liqueur

14. Mid of vintage objects on display

15. Close-up of picture showing movie posters reading: (Turkish) "The Man Looking for Trouble" and "One Woman is not Enough"

16. Close-up of visitors with audio guides

17. Wide of visitor going downstairs

18. Close-up of vintage horse figurine

19. Mid of figurines on display

20. SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) Onur Karaoglu, Director, The Museum of Innocence:

"Are there photographs of the main characters Kemal and Fusun in the museum? If so, where are they? How can we see them? Display and images that are inside is the main thing visitors ask about. Other than that, the museum has ties with both reality and fiction."

21. Close-up of picture showing man and woman on display

22. Close-up of family picture on display

23. Close-up of photo of woman on display

24. Mid of female pictures

25. Detail of nameplate reading (chapter) 49 and "I was going to ask her to marry me" in Turkish and English

26. Mid of a washbasin and male shave objects

27. Close of nameplate reading (chapter) 69 and "Sometimes" (in Turkish and English) and metal butterflies in display

28. SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) Onur Karaoglu, Director, The Museum of Innocence:

"Since this museum is actually based on a novel, at the end of the book there is a ticket. If visitors come to the museum with their book we stamp the ticket and they can visit for free. And actually the book finishes after visiting the museum. This is the first time such a project has been carried out in the world."

29. Low angle of an old child's tricycle by a bed

30. Close up of Nobel Prize Orhan Pamuk handwriting

31. Mid of a wall displaying Pamuk's handwritten notes for his book

32. Mid of a female dress and bijouterie on display

33. Close pull focus of a necklace

34. Wide of museum room with visitors

35. SOUNDBITE: (German) Didi Wenzl-Thoma, Vox pop:

"I have been a fan of Orhan Pamuk for a long-time. I read the book and I listened to the audio book. I am really enthusiastic about it. I am very pleased that this museum has opened. It is such a nice idea to have the novel and then the museum."

36. Various of perfume and spices glass jars

37. Close-up of wall displaying (Turkish / English) "Let everyone know, I lived a very happy life"