2 May 2026

1 May 2023

Küçük Buluntular ::: Small Finds

Küçük Buluntular 20', 2023

Olympos Antik Kenti’nde kazıların başlamasıyla, çocukluğunda onu büyüleyen bu yeri yeniden hatırlamaya çalışan eski bir seveni ve onu takip eden bir üst ses kentte gezer. Olympos’un yıldızlara uzanan, büyük, kutsal ve tastamam hikâyeleri yerine, yeryüzüyle meşgul olma vakti gelmiştir.


Olympos Archeological Site is not an untouched getaway spot, a “hidden gem” anymore. Its ruins were unearthed and are being watched with surveillance cameras. However, the fact that utopias are long gone, and the mountain of the gods is now a museum, is not the end of the story. Small Finds traces the transforming universe of Olympos both with resentment and curiosity, as it opens for new encounters by the ongoing archeological excavations. A frequenter who lost her childhood refuge, a voiceover following her, a leaf reluctant to fall, diggers and spiders weaving their nets all need a new story to settle in Olympos.

5 Tem 2020

Ubiquitous Surfaces by Open Space

 

with Artıkişler Collective

 

Curated by Rita Aktay

15 – 30 November 2019
Seager Gallery, London

 

OPEN SPACE presents Ubiquitous Surfaces, an exhibition that explores two kinds of surface that have become integral to the human experience; the surfaces of the city and the surfaces of images; the architectural facade and the screen. The two are not separate, but they increasingly resemble each other; the discolouring of a facade is now most reminiscent of a degrading image

 

Ara Güler, Artıkişler Collective, Berkay Tuncay, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Lara Ögel, Larissa Fassler, Oddviz Collective, Serkan Taycan, Sevgi Ortaç, Erdal Inci

 

 


'Ubiquitous Surfaces', curated by Rita Aktay, organised by Open Space. Photo credit: Rita Aktay

'Ubiquitous Surfaces', curated by Rita Aktay, organised by Open Space. Photo credit: Rita Aktay

'Ubiquitous Surfaces', curated by Rita Aktay, organised by Open Space. Photo credit: Liz Gorman. Courtesy of Open Space.
'Ubiquitous Surfaces', curated by Rita Aktay, organised by Open Space. Photo credit: Rita Aktay

 


23 Eki 2019

Burada ve Başka Yerde: Ovde i drugde @ Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine


Burada ve Başka Yerde: Ovde i drugde
reasamblaž pejzaža velikih razmera
Savremene neposlušne umetničke prakse iz Turske
10.10 - 11.11.2019. 

Umetnici: Artıkişler Collective, bak.ma, Bilge Emiroğlu, Ege Berensel, Rojda Tuğrul, Sevgi Ortaç, Oktay İnce, Barış Seyitvan
Kustoskinje: Özge Çelikaslan, Gordana Nikolić

#msuv #prostorotvorenihmogucnosti
@ Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine

Burada ve Başka Yerde: Here and Elsewhere /reassemblage of sprawling landscapesThe Contemporary Disobedient Art Practices from Turkey 10/10/2019–11/11/2019

The exhibition concerns the production of counter-narratives of the image of the political landscape in Turkey. As we experience socio-spatial transformation through oppressive state policies, forced migration, upside-down urban transformation projects in Turkey, this exhibition as a collective process of alternative imaginings indicates how we want to speak up for them “here and elsewhere”. A selection of engaging videos and transmedia works by artists from the Turkish Diaspora and those living in Turkey will be presented; featuring images of civil disobedience and social movements, online archival practices, found footage methodologies and image- and text-based artistic researches.




Sevgi Ortač, Spomenik okrenut naglavce, publikacija, 2010.
“To je neznanje naravno, kako sam mogao da znam da je grob ispod kuće. Odlagali smo ugalj i drva u podrum, ali nikada se ništa nije desilo. Zapravo, muškarci su tu često čistili metlom.
Imao sam samo oko 14 godina. Tada nisu postojale mašine za pranje, pa smo grejali vodu. Želeo sam da operem drveni pod sa preostalom vodom od pranja. Iščetkao sam pod i zatim ga dva puta oprao vodom. Odjednom sam čuo vrisak! Otvorio sam prozor misleći da je stariji čovek na vratima, ali nije bilo nikoga, pogledao sam svuda i ništa. Prislonio sam uvo na pod, o Bože, ide iz zemlje! Istrčao sam vrišteći.
Nakon nekog vremena, moj svekar je došao. Rekao sam mu da je čovek u podrumu i da je ispuštao zvukove poput “uuuh uuuh”. Počeo je da se moli kako je ušao u kuću. Sutradan me je njegova tetka pitala: “Da li si prosuo neku prljavu vodu negde?” Nikada to vise nisam uradio, naravno, ali sam bio poprilično uplašen da nastavim da živim ovde. Na kraju sam se navikao.” Neriman, Mevlankapi (Mevlanakapi-naselje u Istanbulu u kome su vizantijske zidine)
 


Zainteresovana za moć afekta i politiku upravljanja zajedničkim resursima, umetnica Sevgi Ortač u umetničkom i izdavačkom projektu „Spomenik okrenut naglavce“ istanbulske vizantijske zidine posmatra kao odbrambenu strukturu i kao urbani prag naspram pozadine koju čini proces urbane transformacije Istanbula.


19 Haz 2019

Atık Sözlüğü

http://atiksozlugu.net/

Atık Sözlüğü” bir tür ardına bakma, geride bırakılanlara dokunma, eskinin hikayesiyle yeninin kırılganlığını düşünme, dönüşümün doğasında hiç bir şeyin kaybolmayışını heyecanla izlerken nafile notlar tutma; bedenin, aklın, doğanın gündelik hayatta oluşturduğu hiyerarşiyi bir çöp konteynerinde yeniden okuma çabasıdır. Bu çaba ile 2017’de usulca çıkan sözlüğün birinci fasikülünü, 2014 yılından itibaren süren “İstanbul’un Artığı” videolarının ve metinlerinin geri dönüşümü izledi. Halen sözlük, sözlerin ve imajların geri dönüşümünü kurcalamaya, biriken notları vakit buldukça paylaşmaya ya da yayınlamaya devam etmektedir.

Sevgi Ortaç & Artıkişler Video Kolektifi


11 Kas 2018

ESAS ÖNERİ



'Önerilerimiz benzer olsa da kendi gerçekliklerimizin doğasına uygun olarak farklılaşmaktadır.'
 
Maraba Deklerasyonundan alıntı (La Via Campesina Küresel Tarım Reformu Kampanyası) 17 Nisan 2016

Kadıköy Kooperatifi Davetiyle

Biz her gün, gün be gün deneyimlediğimiz, bildiğimiz, arzuladığımız bir süreci kendi ellerimizle dokuyoruz. Örgütlenmeye midelerimizden başlıyoruz. Üretici-tüketici ikiliğini aşmak, üretimin bilgisini ve çeşitliliğini şirketlerin elinden kurtarmak için ihtiyacımız olan gıda ağlarını ve mübadele biçimlerini hemen şimdi örgütlemek zorundayız.

Kadıköy Kooperatifi
 

13 Tem 2017

Crafting Neighbourhoods @ Visible Award 2017

Crafting Neighbourhoods is long-listed in Visible Awards 2017  
http://www.visibleproject.org/blog/award/2017-award/asli-kiyak-ingin-sevgi-ortac/

Crafting Neighborhoods emerged as a collaboration in 2010. Aslı teaches design, engaging architecture-design departments and craft ateliers and has been running Made in Şişhane project since 2006. Sevgi is a visual artist, teaches multimedia storytelling and initiates paper or web based platforms. Crafting Neighborhoods took part in Istanbul Design Biennial 2012, VCAS; Projections on Education in 2014, Adhocracy Athens in 2015.

INFO: In Istanbul, craft based production operates within a network structure made of clusters that have formed in various neighbourhoods, mainly in the city centre. Crafting Neighborhoods initiative focuses on these neighbourhoods which are under threat of displacement by current urban policies. It emerged as a need for a common ground for arts, design and craft practices to facilitate collaborative and transformative action and knowledge against top down processes.
Hosting face to face interaction and unmediated design practices, ‘craft neighbourhoods’ challenge not only the social and operational segregation between the craft and design communities but also the producer and consumer dichotomy that dominant economic models are based on. We urge the reconsideration of the means of crafts neighbourhoods in the production of urban space and social networks that facilitate knowledge production and sharing in the rapidly transforming city. Initiating workshops, meetings, exhibitions and publications, we experiment with different methods to create situations where people from different positions, experiences and professions can confront each other in practice. We’ve initiated photography and multimedia storytelling workshops for apprentices in collaboration with local schools; organised workshops where design students work with local craftsman to produce objects for the neighbourhood; held meetings in ateliers of craftsman inviting designers, academics, apprentices, students and local residents to think together and to deepen on subjects and urgencies such as the reproduction of space and heritage, master-apprentice-atelier based education, alternative pedagogies and labour processes.