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- Born in Istanbul, Beyza is a designer and an artist currently based in Paris. She is exploring poetic narratives in personal and universal stories about human and nature relationship by developing cross disciplinary research with philosophical, environmental, ecologic and abstractionist approaches. Her work revolves around using artistic interpretation to create storytelling, conceptual and critical pieces; by experiencing variety of mediums such as projection mapping, sculpture, data visualization, performance, photography, film and book design.
Patterns of Unintentional Coordination
" If peace ever comes to the middle east and we can be sure of their safety; we can send them out again to migrate in future years."
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As humans, we survive through the existence of nature, but today we became the most destructive beings in the ecosystem, we act towards construction, consumption, demolition and reconstruction. These human centred behaviours, resulted in calling the current geological age, The Anthropoceneepoch, where human activity is most dominant in the environment. But one of the most important things we usually tend to forget is ; nature is not an inert object, but a conscious subject and the creatures that bring together our ecosystem, bound a unified energy. Everything is connected to each other, each organism changes someone's world and all the species on the planet are part of the same communion. We are unified and borders and boundaries don’t matter, we have the borders as long as we build them. Borders are just another abstraction of Anthropocene patterns.
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Since 2011, the civil war in Syria has resulted in 465,000 deaths and the displacement among almost half of the pre-war population. Northern Bald Ibis birds, an endangered species, have not been allowed to migrate from Turkey to Ethiopia due to the conflict since 2014, because their routes pass by Syria. They have been kept and protected at the Bald Ibis Breeding Centre, in a cage at Birecik in the Sanliurfa province of Turkey.
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Patterns of Unintentional Coordination is an installation consists of a one channel video and an artist book; all documented at the Bald Ibis Breeding Centre on 21 February 2017, the seasonal release day of the birds for nesting purposes in natural areas. This cross-disciplinary research creates a spatial storytelling experience, in order to open up conversations about interconnectivity, borders, and migration. The overlapping patterns evoke the abstraction of migration; the invisible border by which Bald Ibises are constrained creates an empathy for humans, unexpectedly intertwined and interrelated with the destruction of war zones.
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