Becoming-Spatial Installation, 2021, w/Damla İnci, Öykü Şimşek

Ecological crisis, through bringing out the fact that human beings are affected by

their own actions, opens the position of people to discuss in relation to other

living beings and non-living things. While matter emphasizes its agency through

the relationship it builds with local dynamics; daily routines of people such as

protection, isolation, or cleaning, make the will of matter invisible by removing

the traces from its surface and preventing it from affecting other agents. In the

scale of building in which the actions of matter take place, traces of matter’s

relationship that are formed under the influence of local dynamic underline the

will of matter. In this regards, as a part of a series of experiments that discuss

the matter’s agency, the oluş/becoming performance aims to discuss unpredictable

relationships of matters- which are mycelium, sawdust, coffee and soil, on contrary

to the idea of getting rid of changes such as abrasion, color-change, or mold, which

is generally associated with modern architecture.