Armenian Creatives 02: A Question Makes a Room for Collaboration

I had the privilege of writing the introduction for the second publication of Armenian Creatives. Please also find a collaborative piece realized with Deborah Valoma, Following an Anonymous Thread, among many other brilliant collaborative endeavors. 

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Contributors: Kamee Abrahamian, Cleo Abramian, Alex Aleco, Armenian Record Archive, Ali Cat., Katie Giritlian, Alina Gregorian, Osheen Harruthoonyan, Alexia Hatun, Knar Hovakimyan, Caylah Jean, Levon Kafafian, Rehan Miskci, Caroline Partamian, Anahit Pogosian, Hrayr Varaz, Mher Tarakjian, Cassandra Tavukciyan, Deborah Valoma, Emma Welty.

For the Armenian Creatives' second anthology, collective members were invited to participate in collaborations. A Question Makes a Room for a Collaboration documents participants’ experiments, which range from reimagined archival practices, new translation endeavors, and playful exchanges across text and textile. Alongside these collaborations, our anthology disperses, and bears love to, archives from our gatherings over the past two years, March 2021–July 2022.

Editorial Team: Katie Giritlian, Rehan Miskci, Caroline Partamian, and Mher Tarakjian with support from Harry Berberian

Copyediting: Hande Oynar
Book design: Caroline Partamian with support from Rehan Miskci and Katie Giritlian
Zine design: Katie Giritlian

Self-published by Armenian Creatives Summer 2023
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-7364724-2-2
Size: 7”x10”
Pages: 160

Armenian Creatives 01: Transciption - The Space before Translation

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Contributors: Kamee Abrahamian, Arpi Adamyan, Harry Berberian, Angel Deradoorian, Katie Giritlian, Alina Gregorian, Kohar Minassian, Rehan Miskci, Caroline Partamian, Anahit Pogosian (and Hakop), Emily Stamboulian, Mher Tarakjian, Emma Welty.

A collection of gatherings and collaborations, transcribed for the printed page, Transcription—the Space Before Translation is both love letter and testimony, correspondence and assembly, offered from and for members of our group, the Armenian Creatives.


Published 2021
Publisher Armenian Creatives
Format paperback
ISBN 978-1-73647-240-8
Pages 114
Size 7” x 10”

Kismet for SAVED New York

A Film by PinkYellow Studio for SAVED's 2022 Fashion Collection

Directed by: Sinan Tuncay
Art Director: Rehan Miskci
Creative Director: Sean McNanney
DP: Can Dolu
Project Coordinator: Eda Gökşahin
Production: Berra Demirhan
Styling: Çağla Üst, İlhan Dalaklıoğlu
Cast: Tatiana Tüfekçi, Zeynep Enhoş, Doğanay Küçükaltan, Damla Pehlevan, Sean McNanney, Purevkhuu Ganbat, Sinan Tuncay, Eda Gökşahin, Aslı Tapucu & Rehan Miskci
Casting: The Casting Killer, True Models İstanbul
Hair & Makeup: Tamay Karaloğlu
1st AC: Fırat Levendoğlu
2nd AC: Zahid Candır
DIT: Deham Acar, Ahmet Polat
Lighting: Pusula Işık
Gaffer: Uğur Karaca
Lighting Assistants: Onur Karaca, Semih Dönmez
Production Assistants: Ertuğrul Togo, Kürşat Alp
Boats: Aykut Kızılay, Anıl & Nil Yatçılık
Music & Sound Supervision: PinkYellow Studio
Sound Design & Mixing: Eray Polat

Musical Credits:
Gaye Su Akyol “Şahmeran”
Written by Gaye Su Akyol

Kit Sebastian “Pangea”
Written by Kit Sebastian Elliott Martin

Bryan Teoh “Friday Night Twist”
Written by Bryan Teoh

Mabel Matiz “Gözlerine”
Written by Fatih Karaca

Damla Pehlevan “Düşten Güzeldir”
Written by Damla Pehlevan

Bryan Teoh “Neptunian Princess”
Written by Bryan Teoh

Kit Sebastian “Yanımda Kal”
Written by Emine Merve Erdem, Kit Sebastian Elliott Martin

Sezen Aksu “Allahaısmarladık”
Written by Aysel Gürel, Baha Boduroğlu

Editing: Pinkyellow Studio
Color: Flodpost
Colorist: Musap Çelik
VFX Supervision: PinkYellow Studio @pinkyellowstudio
VFX: Umut Selim Örnek
Photographer: Ekin Özbiçer
Photography Assistant: Aşık Toprak
“Kismet” Illustration: İbrahim Tuncay

Special Thanks To:
Bosphorus Palace Hotel, İhsan Kurukahvecioğlu Halefleri, Gaye Su Akyol, Nymagerel Ganbat, Purevkhuu Ganbat, Elvan Gökşahin, Berk Ilhan, Çağdaş Kurtoğlu, Semih Levi, Mabel Matiz, Suzan Ani Miskci, Şeref Özen, Damla Pehlevan, Kit Sebastian, Aslı Tapucu, Nihat Yıldırım, Büşra Yüksel and Sezen Aksu

Silikon for Damla Pehlevan

Director: @rehanmiskci
Director of Photography: @eyupkaanyoksu
Camera: @cengizhandmirr
Art Direction: @banianoe
Costume: @damlapehlevan / @rehanmiskci / @crumigungor
Hair: @esragulwork
Make-up: @gulsahuzunofficial
Thank you @kalimbaprojects!
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