FORECAST TÜRKİYE /
MEMORY OF WATER
Designed by Teos Culture and Arts Association (Izmir – TR) and Invisible Dust (Scarborough – UK) in collaboration with KARANTINA collective, Selçuk Efes Municipality and Bir Tohum Foundation – Çamtepe Ecological Life Center; “Forecast Turkey: The Memory of Water” program aimed to create a common ground that will enable the sharing of useful practices between United Kingdom and Turkey, in regard of urgency of the climate change. Thus the program aimed at enhancing the understanding between artists and scientists while giving local communities and decision makers the opportunity to voice their remarks, insights and suggestions in public discussions, in the context of ecological improvements.
The program that included a series of field researches in Little Meandros basin and the ancient swamps that link Pegasus (Belevi), Barutçu, Gebekirse, Kazan lakes and the Pamucak coastline also opened up a creative space for production of artworks that addressed naval / fluvial pollution in relation to rural memory and folklore, under the curatorship of Invisible Dust founder Alice Sharp.
During the first phase, which took place between October 2024 and January 2025 Shezad Dawood (UK), academic-artists Aşkın Ercan, Pınar Boztepe and artists Sinan Kılıç, Melisa Geçalp, Sarp Keskiner and Gökçe Süvari (TR) had the opportunity to work together in Selçuk with scientists, archaeologists, historians and headmen to enrich this unity with various narratives and presentations. While Can Luca Etterlin (CH-EST) contributed to the program with his contemporary performance recorded on the Pamucak coast, eco-activist Güneşin Oya Aydemir tracked the traces of recently extinct slender-billed curlew, which was last seen in the Little Meandros basin, also mapping stork nests.
The program ended with the launch of a national symposium on 4th of June, 2025 to be held at Selçuk Efes Life Village – Seed Bank with participation of historians, archeologists, eco-activists and academicians from İzmir, İstanbul and Ankara, to be followed with the launch of the project exhibition at the Selçuk Efes Urban Memory Center, on the same date.
The production and documentation of the “Forecast Turkey: Memory of Water” project is supported by the British Council‘s “Creative Collaborations” grant program, and the production of the art book of the program is supported by the “Sustainability Fund” of SAHA Association.
PROJECT DIRECTORS
Sarp KESKİNER
Gökçe SÜVARİ KANTÜRK
(Teos Arts and Culture Association)
CURATOR
Alice SHARP
(Invisible Dust)
LOCAL FACILITATORS
Özgür GÖKDEMİR
(Directorate of Social and Cultural Affairs of Municipality of Selçuk)
Jacqui BARROWCLIFFE
(Invisible Dust)
RESIDENT ARTISTS
Aşkın ERCAN (Eskişehir – Bilecik)
Can Luca ETTERLİN (Zug – Talinn)
Gökçe SÜVARİ (İzmir)
Güneşin Oya AYDEMİR (Çanakkale)
Melisa GEÇALP (İzmir)
Sarp KESKİNER (İzmir)
Shezad DAWOOD (London)
Sinan KILIÇ (İzmir)
COMMUNICATION MANAGERS
Ebru TURGUT
(Teos Arts and Culture Association)
Jane FARAM
(Invisible Dust)
GRAPHIC DESIGN AND APPLICATION
Emre DUYGU
PHOTOGRAPHY
Alice SHARP
Aşkın ERCAN
Elif “Cio” Aybüke AKDERE
Gökçe SÜVARI KANTÜRK
Güneşin Oya AYDEMIR
Melisa GEÇALP
Pınar BOZTEPE
Media Office of Municipality of Selçuk
Shezad DAWOOD
Sinan ÇELIK
VISUAL DOCUMENTATION
Elif “Cio” Aybüke AKDERE
Media Office of Municipality of Selçuk
AUDIO DOCUMENTATION AND PRODUCTION
Kronovox Archives
SOUNDTRACKS AND SOUND DESIGN
Sarp KESKİNER
VIDEO DOCUMENTARY
Elif “Cio” Aybüke AKDERE
CONSTRUCTOR OF EXHIBITION
Darağaç collective
APPRECIATION OF SUPPORT
Filiz Ceritoğlu SENGEL
(Mayor of Selçuk)
Altay Mocan
(Director of Social Affairs and Culture of Municipality of Selçuk)
Cem SUBAŞI
(District Councilor of Selçuk)
Cenkhan AKSOY
(Darağaç collective)
İrfan YILDIZ
(Vocational Higher Education School of Dokuz Eylül University)
Feray KARAPINAR
(Karaot Seed Foundation)
Mesut SELVİ
(Headmen of Zeytinköy village)
Muharrem BALCI
(Istanbul University – Faculty of Science)
Sinan MİMAROĞLU
(Directorate of St. Jean and Ayasuluk Excavations)
Villagers of Zeytinköy and Barutçu
OFFICIAL PARTNERS
CO-EXECUTIVE ORGANIZATION
GRANT PROVIDERS
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