A Horn in The Neck: Verfremdungseffekte May Occur Everywhere: Performances
29.10.19
Aparment Project Berlin

Ece Gökalp – A Mountain As Many

Kerem Ozan Bayraktar – Respiration

Eren İleri – Indigenous Martian Bacteria DOES Have Precedence Over Human Exploration: An Exercise in No Man’s Sky

At Apartment Project Berlin
Hertzbergstr 13, Neukölln, 12055 Berlin

Afterparty
DJs:
Asifeh
Kolonel Blip
at arkaoda Berlin

Kerem Ozan Bayraktar – Respiration
“Respiration” (2018-2019) is a video gathering encyclopaedic definitions and concepts of historical relations and effects of oxygen respiration on earth. Throughout the video artist’s text is read as voice-over. With this voice in the background, we see an unidentifiable topography evoking post-apocalyptic landscapes of post-Big Oxidation Event ice age, displaying movements of ambulances identified with emergency in urban life, trapped in repetition. With images of death, accident, and unavoidable continuity of uncertainty, the work creates a computer game atmosphere dur to the digital drawing method used by the artist. In his most recent works, Kerem takes the ambulance as an intersection of various modes of existences and processes in the history of earth such as death, energy, life, technology, and language. According to him, the ambulance is an element that complexifies questions on naturality of an artefact, inanimateness of an object, and the life-death relation. Its ethymological root being ambulare in Latin, meaning to walk, to move, triggers images of the idea of “motion” which is inherent in its definition. Ambulance, being a motor vehicle, needing energy to move like living beings, uses fosil fuel as energy source that is combusted with oxygen in its engine system. And fosil fuels are remains of dead organisms, living beings.