Workshop- Instalation- Performance
Mythocondria
A collectively woven research space, a polyphonic living net, which will be exhibited as a participatory multimedia installation.
Since 2019, I have hosted circles with different groups where we simultaneously share knitting practices and oral narratives. Inspired by the etymology of "Mythocondria" (mitos, meaning thread, and khondros, meaning granule), the project involves local participants to trace and record narratives, stories, songs, mother tongues, or lullabies while knitting a tentacular net, a cocoon, a womb.
By viewing oral literature as carriers between the conscious and unconscious and as well as a liaison between individual and collective memory, the project interrogates the construction of meta-narratives.
Mythocondria
Workshop
Arter - İstanbul
2023
Workshop
Arter - İstanbul
2023
Mythocondira is an experimentation on accepting and nourishing the ‘otherness’.
The net aims to expand space for the incubation, transformation or for the stability of the uncanny; for the unknown, through witnessing ‘unacceptable' ideas, dreams, sounds, movements, undesirable parts of human and non-human creatures.
The process started as a women's circle series in Istanbul, with Turkish, Syrian, and Kurdish women under the roof of UNICEF and ASAM, as well as with different women's cooperatives in different cities of Turkey. The work nourishes itself with oral and personal narratives of different languages.
The net aims to expand space for the incubation, transformation or for the stability of the uncanny; for the unknown, through witnessing ‘unacceptable' ideas, dreams, sounds, movements, undesirable parts of human and non-human creatures.
The process started as a women's circle series in Istanbul, with Turkish, Syrian, and Kurdish women under the roof of UNICEF and ASAM, as well as with different women's cooperatives in different cities of Turkey. The work nourishes itself with oral and personal narratives of different languages.
Mythocondria
Workshop
ASAM X UNICEF - İstanbul
2019-2022
Workshop
ASAM X UNICEF - İstanbul
2019-2022
Mitocondrias are tiny structures within cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for life, and that in nearly all mammals, the mitochondrial genome is inherited exclusively from the mother. Given this, the aim for Mythocondria is to be a nest and catalyst for alternative forms of compassion for the unaccepted parts in the phallocentric world. The work supports a new way of encapsulation and creates the "language of HOME" accompanied by multiple forms of communication.
Can we consider this space a hyperobject? Is it possible to fully witness this space?
Mythocondria Interacting with non-human beings
Aside from participatory knitting, narrating, and jam circles with human beings, I also set the net in non-human nature to observe its interactions with non-human entities.
a spontaneous
act of cocooning
for the infertile
pistachio trees
act of cocooning
for the infertile
pistachio trees
‘By encapsulating another with our tentacular being, feeling and thinking we make attachments and detachments; we ‘ake’ cuts and knots; we make a difference; we weave paths and
consequences but not determinisms; we are both open and knotted in some ways and not others. Storytelling and fact telling; it is the patterning of possible worlds and possible times, material-semiotic worlds, gone, here, and yet to come.’
Donna Haraway- Staying with the Trouble
consequences but not determinisms; we are both open and knotted in some ways and not others. Storytelling and fact telling; it is the patterning of possible worlds and possible times, material-semiotic worlds, gone, here, and yet to come.’
Donna Haraway- Staying with the Trouble
All the knotted narratives, gestures, movements, dreams, all the absorbed moments of silence and laughter, all the languages spoken, and all the fantasies have become one fabric composed of countless fibers and lines. All the verbal and nonverbal narratives serve to sustain two barren pistachio trees.