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TY - JOUR
T1 - Representations of everyday life in İnci Eviner’s We, Elsewhere:
T2 - Comedy, use and free will
AU - Tuncer, Ezgi
AU - Diken, Bulent
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media on 02/04/2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14794713.2021.1905264
PY - 2021/12/31
Y1 - 2021/12/31
N2 - İnci Eviner’s latest installation We, Elsewhere1 for the Turkey Pavilion2 at the 58th Venice Art Biennial offers an inspiring spectacle of the incomplete, in which the objects, videos and their characters, figures and sounds in the piece, along with the exhibition space itself, consist all of halves, missing something. It is designed as a non-place in the midst of nowhere, which appears as a liminal space of exception, in which the inside and outside become indistinct. In this respect, the role of the large ramp, which transgresses the public-private divide, is particularly remarkable for it both connects and disconnects the place in relation to the outside, incarnating a paradoxical form of inclusionary exclusion. One cannot avoid noticing the ramp on entering the pavilion: cut horizontally and vertically, the spaces between left void, it is a cross-sectional space experiencedthrough its corridors, area closed off by metal bars, a semi-closed room and viewing area arranged on stairs. However, its interior is endered visible through the cross-sections of buildings and the subterranean. Consequently, we bear witness to the events inside it, and, ceasing to be spectators, participate in the installation. Through this displacement, we also move from a representationalspace to a lived space.
AB - İnci Eviner’s latest installation We, Elsewhere1 for the Turkey Pavilion2 at the 58th Venice Art Biennial offers an inspiring spectacle of the incomplete, in which the objects, videos and their characters, figures and sounds in the piece, along with the exhibition space itself, consist all of halves, missing something. It is designed as a non-place in the midst of nowhere, which appears as a liminal space of exception, in which the inside and outside become indistinct. In this respect, the role of the large ramp, which transgresses the public-private divide, is particularly remarkable for it both connects and disconnects the place in relation to the outside, incarnating a paradoxical form of inclusionary exclusion. One cannot avoid noticing the ramp on entering the pavilion: cut horizontally and vertically, the spaces between left void, it is a cross-sectional space experiencedthrough its corridors, area closed off by metal bars, a semi-closed room and viewing area arranged on stairs. However, its interior is endered visible through the cross-sections of buildings and the subterranean. Consequently, we bear witness to the events inside it, and, ceasing to be spectators, participate in the installation. Through this displacement, we also move from a representationalspace to a lived space.
KW - everyday life
KW - comedy
KW - free use
KW - form of life
KW - architectural space
U2 - 10.1080/14794713.2021.1905264
DO - 10.1080/14794713.2021.1905264
M3 - Journal article
VL - 17
SP - 387
EP - 404
JO - International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media
JF - International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media
SN - 1479-4713
IS - 3
ER -