Digital culture: music & politics
» I find subversive art exciting! «
Beat / Your music is highly political. When did you first feel the need to change the world through art?
Ferhat / At first, I was just a little bored with my work as an actor. When I say something there, it‘s not my own words. At some point I also wanted to share my own point of view, my opinions with the world. My first own song was written from my point of view as an actor and dealt with the topic of fame and celebrity culture. Photo: Sareh Oveysi But then suddenly crazy things happened in my home country, Turkey. I was shocked, as if paralyzed, and wanted to convey the situation there through my music.
Beat / Do you see yourself primarily as an artist or as an activist?
