Exhibition example (object, videos and collages together)
The work is an experiment to observe the communication between public space and the person. As an individual also international/immigrant resident, I tried to be part of the public space and transform it with my own expression.
With the work, I am also trying to understand where am I between the concepts of public space, public transformation and individual existence.
The movements of the performance come from the forms of three objects that at first I tried placed in the space before my performance.
Since I did not get permission to build, I decided to express the form of the object with my performance by mimicking them. So I transformed the space directly with my body.
The idea behind the objects and the performance have developed with a small art project that was planned by colleagues and me. The project was to have an exhibition in the public space in Charlottenburg/Berlin. Thus, I decided to work in
Steinplatz- Charlottenburg. Suddenly it was under construction for transformation and renovation. Meanwhile, some of the places and buildings in İstanbul - where I personally connected and inspired- were also under construction for the same reasons.
The elements of the construction were everywhere. It was an occupation. They were the mold of the city.
All of a sudden, the small project started to refer to some
questions about the struggle between an individual and
administrational interference. Interference by using the elements of the construction.
So, I wanted to express the situation by occupying a public space where individuals are part of their acts and expression. For this occupation, I decided to you the existing material which is construction elements. Yet with the second interference of administration, the elements captured my body as well. Then it also became a tool of the occupation.
Image of the object
The object (300-100-55 cm) consists of bricks, tiling adhesive, chrome coated iron profiles and mesh.
The videos are planned to show on three different screens with headphones. For this expression, they are shown -temporarily- with projecting on the wall.
During the experiment, I did 6 performances. The performances happened in U2 Zoologischer Garten.
From left to right: Video 1, Video 2, Video 3
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
On the 'video 1', I show my first performance. It has been interrupted by the U-Bahn securities. Despite the interruption, I finished my performance. But my moves were reformed.
On the 'video 2', I show one of my performances where I did in a different(hidden and unseen) part of the U-Bahn stop with the new movements.
On the 'video 3', I show my last performance. For this one, I went back to the first place where I did my first attempt. This time securities did not interrupt the performance. They were even mentioning that they know me and I am doing it regularly. Thus, I managed to do the performance one after the other with the new movements and the movements that I wanted to perform at first.
With the digital print collages, I refer to the process of the work. They consist of images from the public spaces that were transformed. I used found images, screenshots from Google Earth & Google Map and some images I took.
They are printed in three different A2 size paper.
the detailed images of the collages-from left to right(please slide the images)