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2' 12''

Patiknos, 2015

The introduction speech of “patiknos” that makes a reference to Michel Meyer’s rhetoric book tries to persuade masses by relying on various documents. He makes it by Thomas More’s Utopia against Platon’s the Republic. In this persuasion, the presented arguments being fake or real is not important at all. It presents this rhetoric book called “tranimod” that occurred in the triangle of art, artist, art history, and creates an open-ended area for discussion.

Tranimod-Book.pdf

The mechanism of “Suppression”, one of the defense principles of Freud is addressed over his artistic personality. According to Freud, “Suppression” means suppressing threatening facts to the unconscious; moving thoughts or emotions away from the conscious without the wish of the person. An artist looking at a mirror does not see himself but his portrait. The mirror corresponds to the mirror metaphor of Jean Baudrillard’s The System of Objects. When keeps looking, it becomes a tool that imprisons into itself, makes him a stranger, integrates him with itself and makes him invaluable. By making a referral to verbal period, a reverse reading over a conscious structure that serves to social control such as creating an addiction, keeping under control, supervision, etc. by readdressing this reading of Freud with an Antipsychiatry approach.

Video

4' 37''

The Artist's Two Meals, 2015

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Canvas On Akrilic Pencil, 150x150 cm.

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Canvas On Akrilic Pencil, 150x150 cm.

Voice Recorder

Mancarlı Pide, 2015

I am sharing the letter again, which I narrated and wrote on “id codes” of the persons I interact with over the Facebook network before, by traditional exhibition method. I am decoding the people I pried on, acting as if I am the one who is pried on. I am making my communication with these people whom I don’t know of physically, but see their pictures or read things about them every day, even more complicated. I associated and built this study on personality-related dissociative disorders with the computer interfaces and present it as a fetish object addressing human’s impulses of prying. I am also connecting this relation I established with “id codes” that I interact with, with the “id” concept of Freud

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Video

15' 11''

3P; Project Process Probability, 2010

''Bilimciler, şüphe ve kesinsizlikle iş görmeye alışıktırlar. Tüm bilimsel bilgi kesinsizdir. Şüphe ve kesinsizlikle ilgili bu deneyim önemlidir. Ben bu deneyimin çok büyük bir değer taşıdığına ve bilimin ötesinde de genişletilmesi gerektiğine inanıyorum. İnanıyorum ki, daha önce çözülememiş bir problemi çözmek için, kapıyı bilinmeyene aralık bırakmak zorundasınız. Tam olarak doğru biçimde kestiremediğimiz olasılığa fırsat vermek zorundasınız. Aksi takdirde, zihninizi önceden hazırlarsanız, problemi çözemeyebilirsiniz. '' Richard Phillips Feynman’ın bu sözleri ile gerçeklik algılarını, takınçlı hale gelmiş olan rakamlar üzerinden sorgularken, belirsizliğin ışıkla ilk ilişkisinde baş göstermesini ve bunu doğum gibi doğal bir süreç üzerinden görselleştirerek parçalayıp üretim aşamasına geçmesini sağlayan, içine projenin tüm gelişim sürecini de dâhil eden bir çalışmadır.