KAİDE [PLINTH], 2016

Performative Sculpture
As part of Nâkil (Carrier)- Toprağın Kaydı: Yedikule Bostanları (Soil Register: Yedikule Urban Gardens)
In collaboration with the Association of Archeologists, Istanbul
TÜYAP Artist Fair, ‘Terra Incognito’, 2016 Istanbul
Installation: Nazım Can Cihan, Sadık Atar
Photos: Ali Taptık, Onagöre

In Turkish, the word Kaide (Plinth) has multiple meanings of substratum, foundation, principle, and rule. Plinths are conventionally made of concrete or stone and are as permanent as the objects they carry, so it is just as difficult for them to one day to become one with earth. The exhibition setup Architect Demirtaş proposed for the Carrier exhibition is based on a terraformed grid of 1m x 1.5m called pan or maşula in Yedikule Urban Gardens. Here is the rule: The basis of the city and settled life is agriculture, the basis of agriculture is soil. The soil rammed into a plinth in the exhibition comes from Kumburgaz. The soil, which is both the plinth and the object of the plinth, is a ground where we can learn to “tread lightly” and which can become a migrant in its surroundings even without moving an inch, as experienced in Yedikule Urban Gardens.

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