Re-existence

Başar Kurnaz & Dilek Yördem

(2023)

What would be the future of a society that deals with music

instead of a verbal culture built with words?

“ Suddenly, there was a sound of music, the words were erased from memory one by one. Only feelings and intuitions are left behind. Thus, the things that were collected in the corner were dispersed. Nobody owns anything anymore. There is only one moment.
The whole reality became transparent but also became whole.
In the end, all the sounds are transparent and meaningful together.”

re + exist + entia

The project is a light, interactive, visual, and audio series consisting of 3 artworks.

The first two works represent "Exist (World)" and its reflection "Entia (Soul)," which symbolized by the number 2 as in the Genesis Myth of the Old Turkish Mythology.

According to this ancient belief, the World derives from opposites, that is, from duality. In the epic of creation, the god Ülgen first creates the earth and the sky, then places them between two fishes to keep them in balance in the cosmic ocean. The letter b, which turns into a note in the piece, symbolizes this duality.

From the Epic of Altai, Creation Story (Vasili Verbitskiy)

The third work is a representation of the future where this duality “re-”unites.

All three works were produced as depictions of a future written with the words of music, where what we see becomes transparent and one body.

This artwork was exhibited at VOX-POP, the creative production area of Amsterdam University, with layered sound designs by Başar Kurnaz in 2023.