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.
WHISPERS' GARDEN
type sound installation
role artist and curator
team with Eda Aslan
produced as part of The Garden of (not) Forgetting project
presented at
DEPO, İstanbul, 2021
The whisper of a letter was written by two German Jewish botanists in exile to invite other Botanical Gardens' support for the initiation of a new garden in Istanbul in 1935 resonates in four languages through the sound installation.
By sharing this letter found on the first page of the first catalogue of Istanbul University Alfred Heilbronn Botanical Garden, the work invites everyone to remember the struggle and determination of pursuing practice in an exile land. While asking for seeds, roots and sprouts from other gardens around the world in German, French, English and Turkish languages the letter underlines the condition of the decade and the forced mobility. It invites thinking of the possibilities inherent to a seed and learning resilience from the plant world.
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