Laundry / Çamaşır

installation for çukurcuma hamamı;

exhibition "hamam project".

2010~istanbul

sense map

exhibited at Essen,Germany 2010

Pact Zollverein

Feldstaerke International 2010

Project Name: SENSE MAP

Participants:

Amandine Maria , Eda Gecikmez, Tuna Pase

Materials:

Installation with sounds, interwiews, music, photos of the women, Kettwiger street and videos of the working process on the street and feeling maps of Essen.

About the project:

A map can be considered as a visual and symbolic representation of an area which can be thematic. So we wanted to create a map on a new criterion that is based on the feelings of human.

Our working process was; first we have chosen one specific street in Essen. This street is Kettwiger Staresse, which is the main shopping street in the center of the city. We decided to interview with women and ask them about their favorite street in Essen, we also considered asking about their most disliked area/street. We questioned them on the reasons of their likes and dislikes about the streets.

By this way we were able to create a ‘live map’ with materials that we have chosen to represent the Kettwiger Strasse; so that the viewers can feel the street via sound, interview, music, video and visual material such as photos and representation of maps. So you will be able to sense the vibes of people, especially women who use this specific street in many ways.

"citylove"

selected project is exhibited at wien and istanbul, 2009

for city and art project

"In “Der Konflikt der Kultur” Georg Simmel writes about creative

motion of the life that produces forms like civil laws, artworks,

religion, science, technology etc. - we call all of them “culture”. But

after they are produced these forms start living apart, keeping their

own power and life never stops to produce other forms. Then they

start fighting with the life – this phenomenon creates a paradox between

life and different forms of culture.

In our project we try to use this paradox of city culture by one form

of city life: loving the city and the contradiction of polluting the

city with trash. We all love the city in its clean and neat ways, the

touristic places, and the inner districts but if you take a closer look

to different areas of the city, you will discover the whole dirty truth:

Loving the city produces trash. In our way we collect trash that we

can find in the streets and for the Vienna exhibition we made one

stop motion video by using the letters of the word love. We want to

put this in the gallery as installation."

2009 ~ istanbul

applied for the “Qui Vive?” 2nd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art

"The installation Watching Box (2008), is a wooden box that

written on watching is free and has just one small hole to watch

outside for one person; takes the principle “distancing effect” of

Bertolt Brecht as a starting point for making people open their

eyes to the proposed life game and reminding the people that

the life is not reality itself that they are living by their ruled social

roles. . The Box explores the people-viewers as a metaphor

to reflect different personal experiences and social phenomena

and questions the notions of city life, individual borders by living

too close together."

" installation of the street "

galata

tophane

moda/kadıköy

2008 ~ istanbul

sense titol

collective exhibition in ovnicuadrado, valencia, spain. 29 . 02 . 008 ~ interesting day ...