Cruise of Endless Confessions 2016, Installation view, Exhibition "A Sharp Cliff After A Soft Landing" Gaia Gallery, Istanbul
CRUISE OF ENDLESS CONFESSIONS / SONSUZ İTİRAFLAR SEYRİ
Embroidery, video and sound arrangement on fabric
Sound arrangement: Taner Yücel
..go on! Clear away!! (traffic police announcement)
Announcement: Attention
please! There is a suspicion that they will cross the border!
-ID Card Please! Where do you come from?
-You can not enter here!
- I can’t hear you under the water
-I have been here.
-I can’t recall exactly.
- I feel the water, does it
feel me too?
- Watch out! Water is tricky.
-Did the debacle happen at night?
-Let’s not turn full circle.
-All that is recurring
-First, we shall thank
-Then we shall deflect it, I said
Ah! I’m exhausted
I was the hope do to
something
I forgot myself
“What was it ?”she said “what
was it?”
Void
Announcement: It’s forbidden to hold your breath under the
water
-Are we going to smother?
-Don’t be afraid, this is not the smoke that you already know
- How many people are we here?
-If
we are swept away by the current, you will come and save us, won’t you?
-Where are you?
-Are you there?
-I am on this side
-Does your foot touch the
ground?
-Don’t worry, the water keeps you on the surface.
Announcement: Attention
please! Stay on the surface! The visibility will be narrowed down! Please take
precautions for situations like nausea and edema. Make sure that the place you complain about
is not the same with where you file a complaint. Please move within visibility
range.
-The visibility range is narrowed down.
-Something got in my way!
-Where is the land?
-Almost there
-The waves will take us to
the shore
Announcement: Important notice! Don’t curse your destiny!
Imagine a piece of land where you can step on the soil, walk and breathe on
it. Fake dreams designed this island for
you.
-Which way shall we go?
-This place is that place,
isn`t it?
-The sound of the wave,
always the same
-The ground I step on is slippery
-Lend an ear to the sound coming from far away!
-The land is on this side now.
-I can`t see my hands
-Nowhere to hold on to
-We’re lost
Announcement: Danger of drowning! Sail softly and
attentively. Beware of the past which will come from the depth.
-They are coming from that
direction. Where are they going?
-Just go on. Roger that.
-A trap, or
not, confirm. Roger that.
-I don’t think so.
-I
didn’t get it. What do you mean by that?
-Confirm whether here is there. Roger that.
-Take command, issue a command, resist actively!
-despite myself. Roger that.
Announcement: How
safe are you inside the water? Do you
suspect what comes from depth? Don’t
ignore the invisibles. Today’s experience is our guarantee.
At which time does the
place where the sound is not enough start?
Which past should we blot
out so that this place no longer exists?
A fear suspicious of its
own heart gnawed the self
The sounds enemies to the
fingerprint, you tell them, me, stutterer
Even if the recurring
moments in dreams fall in line
I would not get into that
water in case I get cold when I get out
Announcement: Please
stay under the water until the next announcement!
Announcement:
Attention please! In order not
to be crippled by the bends, put yourselves in such a place that you do not
crush it when it crushes you
I pretended as if I hadn’t heard, I thought
I had hidden
I
was a secret witness at the very bottom of the water
I
picked on a void, I stooped over every wave
I
was a fish crippled by the bends between the past and the future
Announcement:
In a little while, we’ll do a very efficient
breathing exercise for you to breathe well..
Now, pick up a wave on
which you can make yourself comfortable, let yourself fall on the water. Take a
deep breath from your mouth and breathe it out. With the every breath you
exhale, cool down and relax. Imagine yourself getting rid of all the stresses
and burdens that cause you to sink. Fill your body with your breath and exhale.
We will do it together now.