16.00-20.00 IKSV Alt Kat

BAK Fellowship for Practice is a post-academic research programme held in Istanbul, Jakarta, Utrecht and online in collaboration with BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Istanbul Biennial Production and Research Program and Gudskul. The fellows of the programme carried experimental research within the expanded field of contemporary art and in connection with the overarching ‘Spectral Infrastructure’ research trajectory, which issues from BAK’s long-term collaborative trajectory with the freethought collective. The Hauntologists: Istanbul Gathering is a three-day event series taking place within the framework of the 17th Istanbul Biennial’s public programme. The Hauntologist project at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst is convened by Zeyno Pekünlü in collaboration with the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) Istanbul, and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht.

16.00-17.30 Zone Collective, Collective Annotation
The event will be in English

Zone Collective is an experimental research platform co-founded by Kirila Cvetkovska (MK) and Megan Hoetger (US/NL) in 2016 as a space for archive-based work that investigates historiographic conventions and/of cultural production in geopolitical sites marked by their grey zone ‘border status(es).’ Since 2017, they have been developing a method of collective annotation rooted in workshopping as a primary site of knowledge production. Beginning from the group’s archive of collective annotations on Yugoslav media histories, their presentation for the FSP gathering invites audience members into an interactive annotation session to map out different spatially and geographically contingent frameworks for cultural preservation and policy.

18.30-19:30 Gazelhân, İlyas Odman
Text: İlyas Odman
Poem: W. Yeats “the poet pleads with elemental powers”
Music: Belenescu Quartet

The autobiographical novel, "Gazelhan," concludes with the storyteller lyas Odman's first solo, "Yorgun," which was produced in 2000. In this work, İlyas explores the human stages he observed in his own life as he transitioned from his twenties to his forties, which is linked with his solos "oggi niente" and "yolluk" after "Yorgun". He sought to witness the development of a child who faced love, separation, lust, and death. “Gazelhan” is perhaps the last ring that in pursuit of the poetry and song that we always contain within us event after death, that is, after language and structures.

As the Irish poet Yeats said, “The poet appeals to the essential elements.” "Gazelhan", who plays his poem "Gazelhan", invites the audience to witness a tragicomic effort that is constantly changing between the theatrical and the performative. In "Gazelhan", the last piece of all the solos that Odman will unite under the name "Night Burn / Zona Zoster", the audience has the opportunity to watch these solos in a non-theatrical simplicity for the last time.