statement ( henüz tamamlanmadı- düzeltmeler ve eklemeler gerekicek)

In my own research process, I have considered library as the embodiment of bodies which are constituted through certain forms of knowledge and hierarchy. A book can be considered as a body to produce (establish) a way of thinking that is composed of letters, words, sentences and paragraphs. Through my own artistic practice, I approached knowledge as an archive piled up in a library where every individual confronts it in that specific space in silence and in privacy. Also this confrontation in a library is mostly based on consumption of knowledge or literal absorption rather than production. It is reading rather than writing, it is based on monologue rather than a dialogue. A library and a book which proposes a form of reading, it is always there for me to subvert the meaning of usual forms. Firstly, my experience in the library is about writing letters submitted in an envelope to the library or a possible visitor after spending hours in that specific library. It was a gesture of leaking out to those silent monologues. Secondly, I have checked the catalogue of a library for certain poetry book, if it is not present in that library I am bringing my own book to spend 6 hours in that library. I have written another poem between the line spaces of that poetry book and giving it to the library as a gift to the right alphabetical ordered shelf. In this sense, it becomes the only book which can be borrowed that has no due date and cannot be searched through catalogue engine.

Besides, one of the continuous practices of mine is to deal with the book as an object with all its contents, pages, letters, covers, its smell and also its taste. Fragmentation of the body of the book by dismembering the pages to evoke another chain of connotations is one of the essential aspects of the practice. Whereas these are just books which are the containers of thought, comprehension of their content is obstructed due to the reason of deconstruction of the usual mode of reading.

I have altered the usual form of reading to trace a book as a compile of memory which rewrites itself in relation to possible reader’s memory and idiosyncratic associations? In this sense, the book is dismembered and altered to another form which questions the digestion and transformation of knowledge proposed by ontological hegemony of the book. Each book can be considered as a container, a form of a body. The book is not legible in the usual sense so the obstruction by fragmentation is one of the recurring ideas. The performed actions on pages and books are to disrupt the integrity of its wholeness and to subvert its subjection. Books are not only objects but they are also the embodiment of idea of civilization and progress. Books define a system of thoughts and beliefs, or they are defined as the objects of civilization. I give a readable object an unreadable form and it creates the sense of appreciation of source of knowledge as well as questioning the possibility of a rupture in that knowledge.


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