Ceylan Öztrük
Document3 (Transmission Tower), 2021
For the Net Encounters series, artist Ceylan Öztrük has developed a work that invites everyone to contribute to a Google Drive document that is co-written by the audience and the artist. The audience is invited to either simply follow the development of the text online or to edit it and add new paragraphs to the story.
While writing is often an intimate and personal experience, in Document3 (Transmission Tower) Ceylan Öztrük has chosen to share this process with the public in order to encourage a creative encounter and exchange. Her work is an experiment that focuses on the new opportunities and possibilities that this exchange can bring. The writing added by the viewers transforms the work-in-progress text into a performative act; Google Drive becomes a stage on which the performance takes place and its development can be witnessed, rather than a finished work. By inviting the audience to participate in the document, Öztrük relinquishes some of her control over the development of the work, leaving the outcome uncertain. In the end, Öztrük will bring together all the contributions received, as well as her own additions and edits, into a final text that acknowledges all participants. To participate in this participatory action and access the online document, visit the artist's website: ceylanoztruk.com.
Ceylan Öztrük is an artist living and working in Zurich. She investigates accepted forms of knowledge and how they have been constructed to become tools of power structures. Öztrük aims to disrupt the conventional flow of information through a multidisciplinary approach in which she proposes to establish new channels parallel to, or sometimes replacing, the already existing ones. Ceylan Öztrük completed her practice-based PhD (2016) at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (Istanbul), which she started in 2014 in Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts. She received her graduate and undergraduate degrees from the Fine Arts Faculty of Anadolu University. Some of her exhibitions and performances are: Oriental, Theater Gessnerallee, Zurich (2020); Am a Mollusk, too; re/producing tangents, Longtang, Zurich (2020), IV Berliner Herbstsalon, Berlin (2019); Oriental Demo, My Wild Flag Festival, Stockholm (2019), Building Poems, 1.1, Basel (2018); Speculative Domestics: Ai (Artificial Intimacy) Showroom, Alienze, Lausanne (2019); Call me Venus, Mars, Istanbul (2016).
Year: 2021
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Artist website: http://ceylanoztruk.com
Net Encounters was generously supported by the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia.