In 1995, Övül Avkıran and Mustafa Avkıran established the 5th Street Theater in Antalya. In 1997, they left Antalya to enlarge their productions both nationally and internationally. In 2000, they became the establishing partners of İstanbul Arts Center, 2nd Floor. When Övül Avkıran and Mustafa Avkıran were looking for a venue to perform their productions on the 10th anniversary of 5th Street Theater, they decided to establish garajistanbul where they can produce with many other artists. They became the originators, initiators, and fırst supporters of garajistanbul. They decided to name every production they would create as 10+ after the 10th anniversary of the 5th Street Theater and garajistanbul was the very fırst 10+ project. Since 1995, Övül Aykıran and Mustafa Avkıran have been transferring their political stance and their artistic choices to the work they create. They have chosen to pursue their existence via independent works in national and international platforms. Considering as a starting point the time in which they exist, the multidisciplinary platform where they work, the land where they live, the socio-political events of that land and the need to narrate all of this, they have dealt in depth, via their own personalities, with concepts such as migration, minorities, women and being the other. With this understanding, they created ashura, Kassandra, I'm Breaking the Game and Reporter which circulated in national and international platforms. With every new project, they have reconsidered and questioned their language, their choices and at times all of their means of production. They have created, or acted as mediators in the creation of their own texts…

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