Two Feet and Two Tires on Between Two Seas

2021

Sabancı Üniversitesi Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi (Emirgan, İstanbul, Türkiye)

The main axis of the video is the walking route, Between Two Seas, as conceived by Serkan Taycan in 2013 to advocate for natural life along the city’s periphery, created in defense of the common right to access the city, crossing from the Black Sea to the Marmara Sea. The route follows the planned line of the controversial Kanal Istanbul project. The artist presents his conversations with the urban geographer Jean-François Pérouse who uses walking as a research method, and with illustrator, writer, cyclist Aydan Çelik who explores the city periphery by cycling. Taycan walked the route with Périouse and cycled it with Çelik. This body-based effort to investigate the transformation taking place along Istanbul’s periphery also suggests the slow, self-reflective, participative, nature-friendly, humble quality of walking and cycling, as an alternative to internalizing the space and towards an understanding of the world.

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