“Walking Archive: A Practice of Neighbouring”, a performative
audio-walk by Oda Projesi and Seda Yıldız as part of a cooperation between
HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg and Performistanbul
Oda Projesi organized a performative guided walking tour in collaboration
with the independent curator and academician Seda Yıldız. Participants wore
earphones and revisited the artistic, social and discursive projectst hat Oda
Projesi realised in Galata, Istanbul between 2000 and 2005. Accompanied by
a spoken narrative and a sound collage featuring the voices of neighbours
past and present, participants explored the neighbourhood, which has
undergone significant gentrification, from a contemporary perspective.
The audio walk followed by a picnic around an archive box invited
participants to remember collectively, share knowledge and reflect toget her
on the following questions: How can practice of neighbouring that builds
multilayered relationships between Oda Projesi, neighbors and other actors
be presented and documented? How can an archive of relationing be
shared? What does revisiting a practice of neighbouring in a time of shrinking
public space mean? The picnic was hosted by Performistanbul with its
members’ warm invitation, as a new alternative space at the very same
neighbourhood where Oda Projesi run its space.
