Selim Hanturer https://selimhanturer.com/ Art, Performance & the Stories Between en Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:26:00 GMT Raw on Purpose: How Today's Performers Are Turning Vulnerability Into Their Sharpest Edge https://selimhanturer.com/raw-on-purpose-performers-turning-vulnerability-into-their-sharpest-edge/ https://selimhanturer.com/raw-on-purpose-performers-turning-vulnerability-into-their-sharpest-edge/ Forget armor. The most compelling artists working right now are showing up unguarded — and audiences are responding like never before. Here are five ways performers across disciplines are making vulnerability their most powerful creative strategy. Selim Hanturer Features Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:25:35 GMT What Happens Backstage Is the Real Performance https://selimhanturer.com/what-happens-backstage-is-the-real-performance/ https://selimhanturer.com/what-happens-backstage-is-the-real-performance/ The sweat, the self-doubt, the 2 a.m. rehearsals nobody claps for — these are the moments that actually shape an artist. In a culture obsessed with polished outcomes, the messy, invisible labor of performance deserves its own spotlight. Selim Hanturer Essays Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:25:35 GMT You Are Not Your Brand (But You Kind of Have to Be): On Staying Artistically Honest in a Self-Promotion Culture https://selimhanturer.com/you-are-not-your-brand-staying-artistically-honest-self-promotion-culture/ https://selimhanturer.com/you-are-not-your-brand-staying-artistically-honest-self-promotion-culture/ Every artist with a website and an Instagram is technically a personal brand now. But at what point does the work of promoting your art start quietly replacing the art itself? This is the question I keep wrestling with — and I don't think I'm alone. Selim Hanturer Opinion Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:25:35 GMT