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Text on my method

Cihad incorporates photography, video and installation. His recent works have focused on the production of the space and the relationship between human and non-human. Caner creates a visual field for his personal interpretations of how humanity can look upon a changing world, and at our ever-evolving environment. He investigates these topics through digital and analog objects such as sound, video, 3D objects, appropriated material.

During my BA I was working on my identity, my environment and me. Because I believed, in order to work on other subjects you need to know yourself better. I started to investigate my identity based on my origin. In the last year of my studies I shifted from environment and my identity to space and the identity of the object. This line of interest continues during my Master study at Piet Zwart Institute. I started to read and think about space and object in a social context. Because space surrounds us. It is everywhere. Space, according to Lefebvre, consists of natural space, social space, representations or theories of space (Lefebvre, 1991). And object, I used my cultural background and Bruno Latour's ideas about object. In eastern mystical philosophy, we believe every object has a soul. We need consider this idea that while we are using objects. , “In order to develop social theory in this century we need to consider objects (non-human) on the same level as human” (Latour, 1994).

Root project. The environment is one of the parameter that shapes our life. I started to travel to my village to know people and the environment. I believe we shape the environment and at the same time the environment shapes us. I collected minerals and stones and used photography and video at the beginning of the Root project to document the relationship between my roots and me. The relationship that I want to build up was not working at the beginning. Photographs and videos were not enough to tell my experiences, stories. Then I decided to build up a space for the viewer to experience my relation with my roots. The idea of building up a space or production of space comes from Lefebvre’s book “The Production of the Space”. By using the concept of “representations of space”, I created a dark room full of soil and a photograph in a light box. the installation turned into a representation of my village where visitors could experience, a disconnected relation to my roots. In the installation the earth is colder than the ambient temperature and the light box gave off ‘heat’.

image from Root, 2014

The other part of my root project is a reproduction of my origin. At the end of this project I realized that my village is no longer my roots. My father and me were born in Istanbul not in this village. As a result of this project this village is just a beginning of my origin. I took the stones and minerals that I collected from my village as a starting point and started to reproduce them in different ways such as Resin, 3d mapping and reflections in a three sided mirror. The reproduced stones looked like each other (like me and my grandfather). In appearance reproduced stones are the same but they are totally different from each other internally. And on the other hand during this project working with stones helped me to establish a starting point to understand non-human language to build up non-hierarchical relationship in this anthropocentric contemporary world.

image from Root, 2015

If you live in a city you forget the relationship with the natural environment. Cities are consuming nature to make new spaces for new buildings. We have less communication with nature in this century. We forgot how we could live together. In this video work I wanted to investigate the relationship between nature and human in cities in order to deny that there are existential divisions between human and non-human nature. There is a tree in my garden and it has direct impact to my life as physical, psychological. I started to records its movements as a diary. I project this video vertically in order to point my window and there is a mirror on this video and reflect part of video to opposite site which is symbolize me.

image from Tree, 2014

In between, shift from my identity and environment to production of space and non-human subjects. This work is about the identity of Turkish people and our environment, which is was constructed by the state. The fictionalized Illusion is based on protests in Istanbul. I was collecting a lot of archive photographs, family albums from flea markets in Istanbul. I used this archive photographs in order to work on Turkish political history. In Turkey’s ninety years history, there have been four military coups. Every time these coups attempted to remove different people. Because, there is no room for difference, among people who live in Turkey, I made collages and divided them into three sections. It starts with colorful photographs showing how they are different from each other, it ends with a photograph of a commander’s face. The second section shows after a military coup and people are depicted with a blank inside. the state removes their identity. The third part consist of grey people. the state imposed grey upom its people. This grey color comes from colorful stairs in Istanbul. After the Gezi park protests, people painted the stairs in many color, then the municipality painted these stairs grey. I took the grey they used to show the color of state. I am going to exhibit this work in a room with a small entrance. In Turkish culture, we used to have small entrances. You needed to crouch down to get inside in order to show your respect to people as you enter. I am going to use same entrance. The wall of the installation will be grey. Because, this room is going to turn into a representation of the Turkish state.

image from Fictionalized Illusion, 2014

Circle is a four channel, 49 minutes sound installation. It is last result of my research on Production of Space idea from Lefebvre and Bachelard' The Poetics of Space. It makes a circle around you in order to effect you in the dark room. It opens you to a small space where you can have a direct relationship with an artwork. It affects your sense of hearing and seeing. The produced space starts to suggest new emotions. The sound I produced refers to “designed space”, the sound refers to “lived space” and suggested emotions refer to “space that we make sense ” using the triad of Lefebvre. The dialectical relationship between these three spaces makes a product of space like a circle.

Production of space and non-human concepts became my main topic for a period. Counting is one of the results of this research. Using a quote from Bruno Latour, during my performance I count every object and human together on the same level in the space that I am in. In order to give a space to the non-human. If we want to give an equal level for non-human we need to call them by their names not just as objects. I am trying to understand the relationship between human and non-human with this performance. I ask a question, are we observers or ingredients of this society or both?

Thinking about human non-human relationship and the production of space are my main research strands. The world that we live in is consistly of space and objects. We believe in an anthropocentric world, but this is not true. We share it with space and the non-human. Human beings started to effect his environment, space and the non-human. But we forget an essential thing; we can’t live without spaces and the non-human. Through these subjects I want to tell my words in social context as an interpreter, of these issues in social context.

References

Books

Bachelard , Gaston, (1958), Poetic of space

Bourriaud, Nicolas,(2002),Relational Art

Florenksi, Pavel, Reverse Perspective, Pavel

Grayson, John, (1975), Sound Sculpture

Henry, David, ( 1995 ),Noise: a Human History of Sound and Listening, David Henry

Lane & Caryle, Angus,(2013) On Listening

Lefebvre, Henri, (1991),Production of the space

Ranciere,Jacques (2008), Le Spectateur Emancipe,

Sayin, Zeynep, (2006), Pornography of image

Sterne, Jonathan, (2012), Sound Studies

Tufeyl, Ibn, (1122), Hay Ibn Yakzan

Articles,

Benjamin, Walter, The Work of art in the Age of reproduction

Garcia, Tristam,No Matter What

Latour, Bruno, What are the missing Masses

URL's,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecocentrism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gezi_Park_protests

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocentrism

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 '''Text on my method'''
-During my BA I was working on my identity, my environment and me. Because I believed, in order to work on other subjects you need to know yourself better. To know myself better, I started to work on my identity based on my origin. Last year of my study shift from environment and my identity to space and identity of object, take place in my practice. And it continues during my Master study at Piet Zwart Institute. I stated to read and think about space and object in social context. Because space is surrounds us. It is everywhere. Space consists of natural space, social space, representations or theories of space, according to Lefebvre (Lefebvre, 1991). And object, “In order to develop social theory in this century we need to consider objects (non-human) on the same level as human”  (Latour, 1994). Beside Bruno Latour I used my cultural background. In eastern mystical philosophy, we believe every object has a soul. We need consider this idea that while we are using objects.
-In order to start from one of my early topics. I need to talk about '''Root''' project. Environment is one of the parameter that shapes our life. I started to travel to my village to know people and environment. I believe we shape environment and at the same time environment shapes us. I collected minerals and stones and used photography and video at the beginning '''Root''' project to document relationship between my roots and me. The relationship that I want to build up was not working at the beginning. Photographs and videos were not enough to tell my experiences, stories. Then I decided to build up a space for beholder to experience my relation with my roots. The idea of building up a space or production of space is coming from Lefebvre’s book “The Production of the spaces”. By using concept of “''representations of space''”, I created a dark room with full of soil and a photograph in a lightbox. Installation turned into representation of my village where audiences can experience, disconnected relation to my root. In the installation the earth is colder than the ambient temperature and the light box gave off ‘heat’.
+''Cihad incorporates photography, video and installation. His recent works have focused on the production of the space and the relationship between human and non-human. Caner creates a visual field for his personal interpretations of how humanity can look upon a changing world, and at our ever-evolving environment. He investigates these topics through digital and analog objects such as sound, video, 3D objects, appropriated material.''
-[[File:root1.jpg | center| 500px]]
-image from Root, 2014
+During my BA I was working on my identity, my environment and me. Because I believed, in order to work on other subjects you need to know yourself better.  I started to investigate my identity based on my origin. In the last year of my studies I shifted from environment and my identity to space and the identity of the object. This line of interest continues during my Master study at Piet Zwart Institute. I started to read and think about space and object in a social context. Because space surrounds us. It is everywhere. Space, according to Lefebvre, consists of natural space, social space, representations or theories of space (Lefebvre, 1991). And object, I used my cultural background and Bruno Latour's ideas about object. In eastern mystical philosophy, we believe every object has a soul. We need consider this idea that while we are using objects. , “''In order to develop social theory in this century we need to consider objects (non-human) on the same level as human''”  (Latour, 1994).
+'''Root''' project. The environment is one of the parameter that shapes our life. I started to travel to my village to know people and the environment. I believe we shape the environment and at the same time the environment shapes us. I collected minerals and stones and used photography and video at the beginning of the '''Root''' project to document the relationship between my roots and me. The relationship that I want to build up was not working at the beginning. Photographs and videos were not enough to tell my experiences, stories. Then I decided to build up a space for the viewer to experience my relation with my roots. The idea of building up a space or production of space comes from Lefebvre’s book “The Production of the Space”. By using the concept of “''representations of space''”, I created a dark room  full of soil and a photograph in a light box. the installation turned into a representation of my village where visitors could experience, a disconnected relation to my roots. In the installation the earth is colder than the ambient temperature and the light box gave off ‘heat’.
-The other part of my root project is reproduction of my origin. At the end of this project I realized that my village is not my root anymore. My father and me were born in Istanbul not in this village. As a result of this project this village is just a beginning of my origin. The stones and minerals that I collected from my village, I took them as a starting point like my grandfather and started to reproduce them in different ways such as Resin, 3d mapping and reflection.  Reproduced stones looks like each other same as me and my grandfather. As an appearance reproduced stones are same but they are totally different from each other internally. And on the other hand during this project  working with stones helped me to have a starting point to understand language of non-human to build up non hierarchical relationship in this anthropocentric contemporary world.
+[[File:root1.jpg | center| 500px]]
+<div align="center">''image from Root, 2014''</div>
+The other part of my root project is a reproduction of my origin. At the end of this project I realized that my village is no longer my roots. My father and me were born in Istanbul not in this village. As a result of this project this village is just a beginning of my origin. I took the stones and minerals that I collected from my village as a starting point and started to reproduce them in different ways such as Resin, 3d mapping and reflections in a three sided mirror.  The reproduced stones looked like each other (like me and my grandfather). In appearance reproduced stones are the same but they are totally different from each other internally. And on the other hand during this project  working with stones helped me to establish a starting point to understand non-human language  to build up non-hierarchical relationship in this anthropocentric contemporary world.
+[[File:root2.jpg | center| 500px]]
+<div align="center">''image from Root, 2015''</div>
+If you live in a city you forget the relationship with the natural environment. Cities are consuming nature to make new spaces for new buildings. We have less communication with nature in this century. We forgot how we could live together. In this video work I wanted to investigate the relationship between nature and human in cities in order to deny that there are existential divisions between human and non-human nature. There is a tree in my garden and it has direct impact to my life as physical, psychological. I started to records its movements as a diary. I project this video vertically in order to point my window and there is a mirror on this video and reflect part of video to opposite site which is symbolize me.
+[[File:Aga1.png |center| 175px]]
+<div align="center">''image from Tree, 2014''</div>
-If you live in a city you forget the relationship with nature environment. Cities are consuming nature to make new spaces for new buildings. We have less communication with nature in this century. We forgot how we could live together. In this video work I wanted to investigate the relationship between nature and human in cities in order to deny that there are existential divisions between human and non-human nature. There is a tree in my garden and it has direct impact to my life as physical, psychological. I started to records its movements as a diary. I project this video vertical in order to point my window and there is a mirror on this video and reflect part of video to opposite site which is symbolize me.
+In between, shift from my identity and environment to production of space and non-human subjects. This work is about the identity of Turkish people and our environment, which is was constructed by the state. The fictionalized Illusion is based on protests in Istanbul. I was collecting a lot of archive photographs, family albums from flea markets in Istanbul. I used this archive photographs in order to work on Turkish political history. In Turkey’s ninety years history, there have been four military coups. Every time these coups attempted to remove different people. Because, there is no room for difference, among people who live in Turkey, I made collages and divided them into three sections. It starts with colorful photographs showing how they are different from each other, it ends with a photograph of a commander’s face. The second section shows after a military coup and people are depicted with a blank inside. the state removes their identity. The third part consist of grey people. the state imposed grey upom its people. This grey color comes from colorful stairs in Istanbul. After the Gezi park protests, people painted the stairs in many color, then the municipality painted these stairs grey.  I took the grey they used to show the color of state.  I am going to exhibit this work in a room with a small entrance. In Turkish culture, we used to have small entrances. You needed to crouch down to get inside in order to show your respect to people as you enter. I am going to use same entrance. The wall of the installation will be grey. Because, this room is going to turn into a representation of the Turkish state.
-In between, shift from my identity and environment to production of space and non-human subjects. This work is about identity of Turkish people and our environment, which is made by state. Fictionalized Illusion is based on protest in Istanbul. I was collecting a lot of archive photographs, family albums from flea markets in Istanbul. I used this archive photographs in order to work on Turkish political history. In Turkey’s ninety years history, there are four military coups. Every time these coups made for intervention to different people. Because, there is no room for differentness, among people who lives in Turkey. I made collages and divided them into three section in this work. It starts with colorful photographs shows how they are different from each other, it ends with a photograph of a commander’s face. Second section shows after military coup and people has blank inner. State removes their identity. Third parts consist of grey people. State imposed itself with a grey to its people. This grey color is coming from colorful stairs in Istanbul. After Gezi park protests, people painted stairs in to color then municipality painted these stairs in to grey. And I took same grey as they used in order to show color of state.  I am going to exhibit this work in a room with small entrance. In Turkish culture, we used to have small entrances. You needed to crouch down to get inside in order to show your respect to people who are inside. I am going to use same entrance. The wall of installation will be grey. Because, this room is going to turn into representation of Turkish state.
-'''Circle''' is 4 channel, 49 minutes sound installation. It is last result of my research on Production of the Space idea from Lefebvre and Bachelard.  It makes a circle around you in order to effect you in the dark room. It opens you a spot where you can have direct relationship with an artwork. It affects your sense of hearing and seeing. The  produced space starts to suggest you new emotions. The sound that I produced refer to “''designed space''”, experienced sound refer to “''lived space''” and suggested emotions refer to  “''space that we make sense'' ” using the triad of Lefebvre. The dialect relationship between these three spaces makes a product of space which space can be producible both up and down like a circle.
-Production of space and non-human concepts became my main topic for a period. '''Counting''' is one of the results of this research. Using quote from Bruno Latour during my performance I count every objects and human together on the same level in the space that I am in. In order to give to non-human a space. If we want to give an equal level for non-human we need to call them with their names not just as an object. I am trying to understand relationship between human and non-human with this performance. I am asking a question, are we observers or ingredients of this society or both?
-Thinking about human non-human relationship and production of space are my main research recently. The world that we live in is consist of space and objects.  We believe an anthropocentric world. But is not true, where share it with space and non-human. Human being started to affect his environment, space and non-human. But we forget an essential thing; we can’t live without spaces and non-human. Through these subjects I want to tell my words in social context as an interpreter, of these issues in social context.
+[[File:Fu1.jpeg | center| 500px]]
+<div align="center">''image from Fictionalized Illusion, 2014''</div>
+'''Circle''' is a four channel, 49 minutes sound installation. It is last result of my research on Production of Space idea from Lefebvre and Bachelard' The Poetics of Space.  It makes a circle around you in order to effect you in the dark room. It opens you to a small space where you can have a direct relationship with an artwork. It affects your sense of hearing and seeing. The  produced space starts to suggest new emotions. The sound  I produced refers to “''designed space''”, the sound refers to “''lived space''” and suggested emotions refer to  “''space that we make sense'' ” using the triad of Lefebvre. The dialectical relationship between these three spaces makes a product of space like a circle.
+Production of space and non-human concepts became my main topic for a period. '''Counting''' is one of the results of this research. Using a quote from Bruno Latour, during my performance I count every object and human together on the same level in the space that I am in. In order to give a space to the non-human. If we want to give an equal level for non-human we need to call them by their names not just as  objects. I am trying to understand the relationship between human and non-human with this performance. I ask a question, are we observers or ingredients of this society or both?
+Thinking about human non-human relationship and the production of space are my main research strands. The world that we live in is consistly of space and objects.  We believe in an anthropocentric world, but this is not true. We share it with space and the non-human. Human beings started to effect his environment, space and the non-human. But we forget an essential thing; we can’t live without spaces and the non-human. Through these subjects I want to tell my words in social context as an interpreter, of these issues in social context.