Dilşad Aladağ

m.dilsadaladag@gmail.com


Researcher and practitioner
on cultural, artistic and curatorial grounds. 
She is a  doctorate researcher at the Arts and Design
PhD program at the Bauhaus Uni. of Weimar.  more


Mahsul Vakaları / Yield Events 2024

    exhibition
    Natives and Displaced Ones
    A Fictive Dialogue on Dunes
    RENK / TIMBRE

Mahsul [Yield] Project 2022 - ongoing

    online platform
    curated gatherings
    printed publication

Taklak 2022 -  ongoing
   
    research and archive
    performance

ALAN at Berlin 2022 - 2023

    curated gatherings

Unutma Bahçesi 2017 - 2022
The Garden of (not) Forgetting


    research
    exhibition in İstanbul
    exhibition in Fürth / Nürnberg
    film
    Nevşunema
    a Sequence From a Garden

Many Places on the Trial of a Place 2021

    printed publication
    article series
   
Hajde 2021 installation and zine

Narrating the Discordant 2022  thesis

Belonging
2018 - 2019 design

Plankton Project
2015 - 2017
   
     urban collective
     Gölge Seferihisar
     Durak Ovacık
     
WORKS as an employee

SALT Winter Garden
Visiting Scolars and Guest Artist Offices
Imaginable Guidelines Istanbul
Salt Reading Room
Summer Homes: Claiming the Coast


Dilşad Aladağ

m.dilsadaladag@gmail.com


Researcher and practitioner
on cultural, artistic 
and curatorial grounds.
She is a doctorate researcher at the
Arts and Design PhD program at the
Bauhaus Uni. of Weimar.  
more

Mahsul Vakaları / Yield Events 2024

    exhibition
    Natives and Displaced Ones
    A Fictive Dialogue on Dunes
    RENK / TIMBRE

Mahsul [Yield] Project 2022 - ongoing
 
    online platform
    curated gatherings
    printed publication 

Taklak 2022 -  ongoing
   
    research and archive
    performance

ALAN at Berlin 2022 - 2023

    curated gatherings

Unutma Bahçesi 2017 - 2022
The Garden of (not) Forgetting


    research
    exhibition in İstanbul
    exhibition in Fürth / Nürnberg
    film
    Nevşunema
    a Sequence From a Garden

Many Places on the Trial of a Place 2021

    printed publication
    article series
   
Hajde 2021 installation and zine

Narrating the Discordant 2022  thesis

Belonging
2018 - 2019 design 

Plankton Project
2015 - 2017
   
     urban collective 
     Gölge Seferihisar
     Durak Ovacık
     
WORKS as an employee

SALT Winter Garden 
Visiting Scolars and Guest Artist Offices
Imaginable Guidelines Istanbul
Salt Reading Room
Summer Homes: Claiming the Coast




Natives and Displaced Ones

Artistic research, installation / İzmir / Bayetav Sanat 
The project is developed within the scope of the Mahsul [Yield] Project and exhibited at Mahsul Vakaları - Yield Events exhibition.


Installation.
Wooden plinth and a fig tree sapling, 270 x 270 x 150 cm.
Found and produced objects, frame, 30 x 40 x 5,5 cm (6 pieces)
Sound, 5’ 45”, Syrian Woodpecker-Dendrocopos syriacus.

As humans transform the uncultivated and unclaimed 'mevat' lands into gardens and orchards, İzmir evolves into an important connecting port in the trade network carrying the fruits of Western Anatolia to Europe. Centuries pass, hunts and hunters, natives and displaced ones change. While the birds of this harbor fly into exile, the woodworms of distant ecologies reach this harbor. Finding the strength to mature and settling in the hollow of the tree, the worm cultivates its own gardens on the tree. In the absence of the bird, the tree that feeds the worm's belly cannot nourish itself or humans anymore. The gardens turn into landscapes of struggle.


The Natives and Displaced Ones is a current station of the research of the same title that explores the entangled stories of the Fig Tree, the Woodpecker, the Woodworm, and Human that have left traces along the Mediterranean coasts. The installation originates from the Land Law of 1858, which can be considered as a turning point in the environmental history of the geography covered by the Ottoman Empire. Assembling a multispecies narrative, Natives and Displaced Ones installation opens up questions about ownership, care, and satisfaction in humanity's relationship with the land.  As a part of the installation, a spatial intervention questions the scale and the ownership of the land that is occupied to feed and settle. A video installation and cabinets of curiosities hosting the traces of species of this entangled story completes this intervention.

Natives and Displaced Ones installation is produced with the support of BAYETAV. The research process was supported by CultureCIVIC, a project by the European Union, which included consultancy support from Meriç Öner.

Natives and Displaced Ones  hosts the book Seeds of Power by Onur İnal and Yavuz Köse, which compiles various studies on Ottoman environmental history. Maps from 1925 depicting various districts of Izmir, selected from the SALT Research Collection, accompany the installation.

Photo credits: Kayhun Kaygusuz