Eda Hisarlıoğlu
Eda Hisarlıoğlu, graduating from Architecture Faculty of ITU, is working on establishing an interdisciplinary practice with her interest in contemporary art, exhibition production/design and critical urban/architectural theory by collaborating with various artists and institutions .Between 2020-2021, she worked as production assistant in 5th IDB and production manager in the 10th year anniversary exhibition of Protocinema. She still continues to work with various artists and institutions for visualization, exhibition design/production and artistic research. She is actively working as an editor at the Amsterdam-based platform Failed Architecture, which she joined in 2019.
Tracing the Subvisible
Is it possible to investigate the boundaries of defined urban spaces in the modern cities by using the movement practices?
What tools can be used to articulate the dialogue between the bodies that constantly define and shape their environment with their fragility, fluidity and transience?
Bodies, as physical carriers, are constantly forgetting, rusting, forming new movement patterns and deciding on relationships and reflexes to be transferred to the future. The inability of the physical built environment to transform in parallel with the flexibility of the body has an important role in the formation of new habits that forget the possibilities of the body. While the bodies in modern urban life play the role of mediator of this dialogue or the scene of this conflict, they also have the potential to provide a reconciliation between the possibilities of dislocation and the necessity of localization. While performing the movement practices that investigate the possibilities of the body and discover its new limits, it is important to consider that the individuals who produce these practices experience the thresholds, domination and conflicts in the city on a daily basis. If we think of the body, as Tuğçe Tuna defines it, "the place where people live and create their own politics"; can design and movement practices that make the urban-public space its stage or subject, imagine the future of the urban existence of the body by ambiguating the boundaries between public and private spaces?
When experimenting on the boundaries of the body and the city, the diverse range of strategies, methods, and tools can be applied together to create hybrid methods that have the potential of articulating the possible thresholds. Is creating a narrative by putting one's body on the focus by associating them with the city's physical components or taking records of micro-stories with unconventional mapping and documentation methods, enables a tool to question the mainstream urban narrations created by the ones in power? Do the artworks that illustrate impossible transitions between public and private spaces in the city have the potential of creating new thresholds just by imagining the collision of these two sharply circumscribed spaces in the modern city? How can practices based on documentation in the center and outskirts of the city be able to undermine conventional information systems by using the body and movement as mapping/unmapping tools?
Tracing the Subvisible is trying to create a performative library of practices that try to change the power balances with many minor shocks by infiltrating the politics that shape spaces and bodies through performance and design that focuses on micro-narratives. This performative library also unleashes the performance creation potential of demonstrating documentation of the performances by offering a variation between documenting performance in different ways and the performativity of documentation/mapping. Located in Beyoğlu, this temporary performative library aims to design a web of bodily thinking, with walks incubating and sprouting towards the city.