Dreaming Ruins IV
12 minutes, HD video-poem, 2019
‘Dreaming Ruins IV’ is an extended reading experience that explores the movement of repetition in loop. It is a form of meditation which allows the viewer into deeper narrations. Construction of identities in daily routines, reinforcement of the norm, repeating, repeating, repeating in advance, and moving away for the future.
While being in search of questions on ritual and repetition and mythology and religion, the footages become the source for lulling one to sleep. The artist asks questions such as, ‘Who has the right to put someone into sleep?’, ‘Is the sleeper a surrenderer?’, ‘Who are we giving the power to when we fall asleep?’ in relation to motherhood as a binary form of home-making and healing. The work becomes available to the viewer through her self-reflection as the image. While the work and text are on loop, the viewer catches the differing details, she might feel empowered or allow herself for a radical change.
*This work has been produced with the generous support of @sahadernegi and curator Ruth Noack for ‘Sleeping With Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life’ Exhibition at @wuerttembergischerkunstverein.
Düşleyen Harabeler IV, 12 dakika HD Video, 2019.
Bu video, döngüdeki tekrarın hareketini araştıran genişletilmiş bir okuma deneyimidir. İzleyicinin daha derin anlatılara girmesine izin veren bir meditasyon şeklidir. Günlük rutinlerde kimliklerin inşası, normların pekiştirilmesi, tekrar edilmesi ve geleceğe taşınmasıdır. Video, ritüel ve tekrar, mitoloji ve din ile ilgili soruları araştırırken, izleyicinin uyuması için bir kaynağa dönüşür. Sanatçı, annelik, bir ev kurmak ve şifa bağlamlarına ilişkin olarak 'Kimin uykuya yatırmaya hakkı vardır?', 'Uyuyan teslim olur mu?', 'Uykuya daldığımızda gücü kime veriyoruz?' gibi sorular üzerine yoğunlaşır. Eser, izleyiciye öz yansıması yoluyla ulaşmaya çalışır. Video ve metnin döngüsünde, izleyici farklı ayrıntıları yakalarken kendinde içkin gücü hissedebilir veya radikal bir değişime izin verebilir.
Dreaming Ruins II
text on LED screen, 2018
Dreaming Ruins III
Postcards exhibited in Litost Gallery Prag, 2017.
Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life
The exhibition series Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life takes a close look at contemporary politics of sleep and asks whether we can reclaim sleep and dreaming from the clutches of late capitalism. Can sleep be configured as a radical, subversive activity? Can the act of dreaming, sleep’s correlate, be imagined a political deed? If sleep were to obstruct the cycle of capitalist production and social reproduction, would the sleeper be able to dream up a better life, a better future?
Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life brings together artists from all wakes of life and artworks from diverse cultural backgrounds in order to start understanding how we might share agency in a future politics of sleep. It is conceived as a sketch, which will migrate in slightly changed constellation to lítost/Prague in August/September and Institute for Provocation/Beijing in October.
The Athens version of the exhibition is a cooperation with Yellow Brick. Hosted by Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki and facilitated by Pieternel de Winter, it is funded by the DAI, coming out of a COOP study group lead by Ruth Noack, Maria Berrios and Tina Gverović. Additional funding comes from IFA - Institut Für Auslandsbeziehungen
Participating artists: Florencia Almirón, Clara Amaral, Alaa Abu Asad, Matthijs de Bruijne, Livio Casanova, Ulufer Celik, Agata Cieślak, Anna Daučíková, Teresa Distelberger, Ines Doujak, Nikos Doulos, Gangart, Tina Gverović, Sanne Kabalt, Alejandra Riera, Annette Ruenzler, Jürgen Stollhans, Isabelle Sully, Leeron Tur-Kaspa, Simon Wachsmuth, Baha Görkem Yalim.