Plate 5
A tender map piece of an imaginary island, March 2023
will be exhibited in the “Stratigraphy: Celebrating Layering in the Arts” at the Arts Letters & Numbers Studio, USA, 27-30 May, 2023
Plate 5 is a piece of a 9-plate-collective map made within “A Tender Map-Making Workshop: Imaginary Island” designed and run by Gökçen Erkılıç in the scope of the Dirty Drawings no.2 designed and curated Bilge Bal between December 2022-May 2023. Plate 5 is a monochrome experimental drawing in company with Madeleine de Scudéry's la Carte du Tendre, Frédérique Aït-Touati et al.'s Terra Forma and Alexander von Humboldt’s invention of nature drawings. A collective of emotions are awakened by ever-changing geographic formations through the interior of the Earth at the dry land, terra firma. All in all, it is not a rigorous map piece,but more a messy, dirty one, an attempt to habiter parmi les vivants. Layers of single lines, hatches and black stains, re-de/formations and change of mood through them in a week. Here is a low-resolution /loose geography with intense feelings, life points, living landscapes, blurry borders, escape time, ground, resources.
S [ o und / ile n ce] !
a performative workshop design
re-enacted in Hasköy Park, Istanbul 01-03 June 2022
in the scope of Co-Action: Hasköy [a participatory artistic research project coordinated by İnci Eviner]
Blow the soul. Create many voices from one! A diverse melody! It is your turn to manipulate the text and plant your own lips and poses, leaps and pauses! Think about how the words, their echoes and shadows change when they are shared between sounds and silences. It is an experimental workshop embracing John Cage's poetic musical text entitled “Lecture on Nothing” as an artistic method. If Hasköy had a text (ie. a lullaby, a nursery rhyme, a fairy tale?), could we create it all over again with our sounds, silences, and rhythms as ourselves? S [ o und / ile n ce] ! , will try to establish this environment and record all sounds and silences. Eventually, it will produce a record which has a plural rhythm.
The Puzzle Construction
A Sustained Inquiry into Two Intimate Instruments: Table & Toolbox, Designed & Constructed 2021
Exhibited in the “2021 Young Emerging Architects Selection & Exhibition” celebrating the Diversity of Architecture Beyond Known Practices, the Circle, Istanbul, January-April 2022