Koray Tokdemir
Koray Tokdemir is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and a management consultant working with arts & culture organizations and design offices. His current artistic practice focuses on the fields of psychogeography, neuroscience and consciousness studies.
His multidisciplinary background allowed him to work in several different countries such as Italy, USA, China and Qatar for over 10 years in addition to his experience in Istanbul for over 5 years. He worked at several international architectural practices and finished numerous design projects mostly in the fields of arts & culture such as museums, galleries, art storages and artist-in-residence spaces. He is also the co-founder of Doha Architecture Forum in Qatar, where he curated numerous events to increase awareness regarding the fields of urbanism and architecture.
Koray Tokdemir speaks Turkish, English and Italian. He studied Urban Planning at METU and completed his masters at Politecnico Di Milano. He has given numerous talks in the field of Architecture and been involved in many international design workshops. Most recently he completed the curatorial education program organized by Akbank Sanat and Open Dialogue Istanbul in Istanbul.
Belirsizlik
The effects that uncertainty – the source of an endless and uncontrollable worry and anxiety that has a permanent place in human life –
has on consciousness and the subconscious, can only begin being understood through comprehending the basic meaning of this concept. To the extent that the concept/condition of uncertainty can be understood, its effects on the emotional realm can be restrained, and at a later stage, it can be incorporated into human life as an enriching factor.
Through a number of works that are shaped by means of the various phenomena of uncertainty and that have evolved with a process dominated by uncertainty, the exhibition, which invites the visitor to form an idea about the journey of awareness mentioned above, aims to enable the visitor to build new bridges with the subconscious that have not been established before and to allow a confrontation with this inevitable nature of the concept of uncertainty.
Entropy, which presents in the form of a law that the universe moves from order to disorder in an unpredictable pattern; the fact that the elementary particles of matter characteristically involve a Wave/Particle Duality; Heisenberg’s proof of the principle that the properties regarding the position and the momentum of elementary particles cannot be measured at the same time; the Uncertainty Principle and the Vacuum Fluctuations theories, which prove that elementary particles can appear and disappear randomly are among the most prominent scientific references concerning the concept of uncertainty that form the basis of the idea behind the exhibition.
In the first part of the exhibition – consisting of four main sections in the form of physical and sound installations located on the first and second floors and a video presentation – it is possible to observe the production/performance of an installation by a group of artists determined by an open call, in construction since the opening of the exhibition, evolving day by day through a collective interaction, and dominated by a sense of uncertainty regarding the final product. This installation is accompanied by a sound installation by Başar Ünder, which can be experienced in different ways from various points of the installation space, and one that lacks a definitive unity. This section, which contains references to the fundamentally incalculable nature of the collective and complex network of relations that will be occurring during the process of the performance, aims to establish a dialogue with the visitor through a hybrid character that merges the instruments of performance and installation together.
On the second floor of the exhibition space, there is the physical installation specifically produced for this exhibition by the artist duo Jonah Freeman and Justin Love, who set out with the idea of allowing the building of new bridges with the human subconscious, reminding us of the thoughts and feelings that we are unconsciously reluctant to disclose, and providing us with the necessary encouragement to open the closed doors of the subconscious in order to face what lies within. On this floor there is also a video projection by the Nohlab team, examining the transitivity between our physical reality and the seemingly abstract world of the scientific concepts that refer to uncertainty.