cables of the bazaar / soft dicipline exhibition / curator : Ekmel Ertan
pwc turkey - art collection
The descriptions of mechanization on the body create an ideal, immortal body formed by a technological fantasy. As technology advances, the city that accompanies us also grows and becomes more complex over time. In addition to the infrastructure systems added to life in the last century, the bcending and twisting between the building/body that has existed in the city for centuries and the age, shaping each other, emerges precisely at the threshold of the changing infrastructure system in the Grand Bazaar. This body, existing even before electricity, and electrical equipment attempting to be added to a pre-designed body, draw the contours of the Grand Bazaar with different axes and system corresponding to the chaos of its existenre. The artwork, specifically addressing the Covered Bazaar, unravels and reunites this "complex" system that emerges with the coexistence of old and new technologies through repeated representations in different forms, revealing something beyond "just cables" in each representation. All these representations consist of parts of a cable/wall system where we cannot understand where they are connected. The drawing's own infrastructure accompanies the entire representation set.
*Thanks to the instructors of the Architectural and Urban Representation (Graduate Level) course at Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture.
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" The Misconstructed No:1 was commissioned to archive the information of objects worth conserving, recording in the city. It would walk around the city with a camera mechanism, decide whether what it saw had a value at that time, or not, by means of an algorithm that creates relation mappings that exist outside the material existence of the object, and make scans of them.
Contrary to what was planned, in this world where micro-events are connected to the macro narratives of the age, while it cannot decide exactly what information should be kept or not, it started to take the mis-recordings of the stones, the constructions going on, the market showcases and the conversations on the street. "