Academic, artistic and cultural :: Constructive imaginings of the discordant . Making heritage of urban movements . Hajde
The Garden of (not) Forgetting :: Reflection . Nevşünema . Memory of a place, topography of destruction . Many places on the trail of a place . Mehpare's herbarium . Whispers' garden .
Last year's herbarium . Last year's catalogue . The pool . Seeds from the Earth . Remembering exercises . A sequence from a garden; whispers, seeds, traces
Spatial design :: Winter Garden . Visiting Scholars and Guest Artist Offices . Reading Room . Imaginable Guidelines
Plankton Project :: durak Ovacık . gölge Seferihisar
Visual design :: The Garden of (not) Forgetting . Hajde . Aidiyet [production] . Aidiyet [visual]
Study experience :: Sound Topography . Observers' Route . Loafer Cinema . All that is Solid . Summer Homes: Claiming the Coast.
NEVŞÜNEMA
type research, installation
role researcher and artist
team with Eda Aslan
presented at
Saint-Joseph, Battements D’une Machine Fabuleuse
Exhibition Curator: Aslı Seven
St Joseph High School Nature Museum
İstanbul, 2021
In the summer of 1939, a group of scientists, including Alfred Heilbronn and Mehpare Başarman Heilbronn, who was a lecturer at the university at the time, went on a trip to the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolian lands. The aim of botanists was to observe and record the diversity of flora in the region. The journey, which started from Elazığ to Harput on August 7th, continued until September 3rd, following the stops at Sivrice, Hazer, Harbato, Maden, Dicle, Diyarbakır, Bismil, Batman, Bitlis, Tatvan and Van.
Nevşünema focuses on this botany excursion by tracing the photographic and written travel diaries left behind by Mehpare and Alfred Heilbronn. Experimental short-length video installation created by combining the photographs taken by Alfred Heilbronn and the diaries kept by Mehpare Heilbronn at the same spot on the same date. The video reflect the “orient” experience of modern Turkish woman and Jewish German Scientist in the East of Turkey. With the printed maps, installation invite others to experience the route in the Eastern Anatolia to follow the differences of geography, landscape and the climate from these records.
Image 1 the map printed and accompanied. the installation shows the excursion's route.
image2: pages from M.Heilbronn's diary, Van, Bitlis, Diyarbakır, 1939
image3,4,5 pages from A.Heilbronn's diary, Van, Diyarbakır, 1939
