Analysis on Stone Throwing Practice (2015)

This work focuses on the practice of a participatory action in the intersection of time and space. A momentarily produced script from the a TOKİ apartment intersection generates the basic codes of solidarity.

A Functional Anatomy of Anticipatory Anxiety (2017)

Exhibited in Designhuis Eindhoven

Anxiety is best conceptualized as a future-oriented cognitive-affective-somatic state, the prominent feature being a sense of uncontrollability focused on possible future threat, danger, or other upcoming, potentially negative events. The sound of a circular drone that one cannot necessarily see but hears in the present, is a constant reminder of policing, control or a strike that may come at any time in the future, unexpectedly. Outside the windows, the soundscape created by drones bring the future into the present as a felt effect, whereas drone vision is directed towards staving off a future event through violence. Behind the curtains, constant drone surveillance has created a widespread culture of fearful apprehension, to the extent that the sound of whirring drones trigger varying consequences for the social dynamics of communities as well as, mental and bodily responses for individuals in advance of a drone strike having actually taken place. This work intends to use possible sonic scenarios with a spatial interface, in relation to Schuppli’s Uneasy Listening, to explore the relationship between military technologies and their collateral effects in present and future forms.

The Former Is Destructive, The Latter Constructive (2017)

Film, 20 minutes.

‘‘..Nostalgia is a word, like aesthetics,

whose birth we can locate with precision.

Nostalgia, then, is a sickness

born of an inability or unwillingness to be content

with memories or dreams of a home left behind.

When a nostalgia does manage to return home,

Kant notes, reality is likely to shatter its imaginative construction

and leave the sufferer disappointed.

But while blaming the changes that have taken place, she is finally cured.

What really has changed, however is not the place but the individual.

Nostalgia plays a part in this appreciation and is not divorced from hope.

The inability to forget and let go of past

—whether in the form of nostalgia clinging to a past transfigured

into paradise or to memories that have become a vision of hell

—can blind us to what the present and future have to offer.

We find it difficult to let go of the past;

after all, it has made us who we are and provided us with orientation.

Nostalgia shows us two faces—one that looks to the past and the other to the future.

One seeks to return home; the other is content to leave home a dream that projects its promise into the future.’’

[ Philosophy of Architecture (2016) by Karsten Harries, p.102 ]

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