The enforced transitory zones have set up new orders that sustain a tidal format. The definition of freedom, security, and existence multiply with shifty conditions. While hopes, passions, and dreams are all embodied in these zones, the potential to explode and implode at any time was inscribed to their very existence. As the artefacts of the dominating system, the end is always more brutal and cruel. Nonetheless, these transitory zones constantly demand a sort of courage that blends with unresponsiveness.

Within the flow of “Vertigo Entrapped”, Osman Bozkurt's work visualizes a transitory dangerous haven (a secretive zone) edging the mechanized and globalized urban reality. “Ohrmong”, by Stefan Bauer and Erdem Helvacioglu, drives us to the close-up realities of a familiar yet uncanny zone trapped in a vicious circle. Hristina Ivanovska's animation proposes surviving tools for nomads that the governing system has created. “Exit”, by Sener Ozmen, indicates a process of questioning the strength and the stability of the mechanisms of resistance, acceptance and survival during and after inescapable incidents and enforced situations; whereas Erhan Muratoglu's questionings in “I/O Interface Overbloated” operate on a different layer determined by the mediated reality of daily life. “I/O Interface Overbloated” invites the viewer into an electronic zone that surrounds the solid physical world around us. With “Making of the Wall”, Gulsun Karamustafa captures striking memory extracts, describing sources and grounds for personal resistance. Eventually, Banu Cennetoglu questions the uncertainty of spatial, territorial and mental distances and definitions. The accumulation of the works unavoidably creates a vertigo effect along with the enchanting traps of diverse realities.


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Osman Bozkurt “Auto-Park: The Highway Parks of Istanbul”, 2003 (15:50 min)
“Auto-Park” documents unexpected and unorganized actions that penetrate through the dictated imperatives of globalized urban situations. Every single inhabitant of the city is expected to circulate within the territories of the domain defined by the governing system. Inhabitants, living at the outskirts of the wealthy and extravagant zones of the other urbanites, subtlety resist these territorial decisions that are overlapping their factual needs. As the authoritative system design lacks a prediction of a possible defect without developing a counteract, the penetrators could legitimize such transitory zones. In this case, such a zone is defined with the use of strips of greenery between highways as areas of leisure.

Stefan Bauer and Erdem Helvacioglu “Ohrmong”, 2005 (8 min)
“Ohrmong” gives a reluctant and disturbing account of a never-ending journey. Amplified actual sounds of this journey operate as the channel for guidance. We are travelling on a train. The sound and instant close-up images are slowly sharpening and drawing the contours of instant realities.   We are still moving forward to complete the journey within the train. We end up with a snow-covered landscape that could be anywhere. This time, the train moves along on the Trans-Siberian railway in Mongolia. Yet, this white limitless setting absorbs many other realities and journeys without a destination.

Hristina Ivanoska “what's behind” (The Urban Prototypes Project), 2003 (2:51 min)
The animation is an attempt to frame the nomadic imprint of the contemporary refugee. Through many concerns orbiting around surviving, security, freedom, self-sufficiency and life-standards, projected scenes correlate with different modes of survival and existence under the present circumstances of globalization. Gadgets and wearable functional nomadic tools propose new possibilities and mind-sets to create alternative zones for living.

Sener Ozmen “Exit”, 2002 (2:30 min)
Earthquake is a trauma by itself. “Exit” renders a repeating series of exhilarating actions performed by a young man, who dives in and pulls himself out from the ruins of an earthquake site. He is rushing breathlessly to complete his cycle following a decisive pattern. His cycle oscillates on the borderlines of resisting, accepting, struggling, escaping and surviving.

Erhan Muratoglu “I/O Interface Overbloated”, 2005 (3 min)
We are living a transition period. Conventional media has mutated into something which strives to fit in the massive amount of digital data into its limited analogue space. “I/O Interface Overbloated” exposes the bottleneck condition in which new digital data try to flow through the television screen. The struggle between the narrated news and visual data feed creates bizarre conditions and undefined zones for the viewer/data receiver. The conventional TV screen is encapsulated by the new data forcing to find a way to flow.

Gülsün Karamustafa “Making of the Wall”, 2003 (16:11 min)
“Making of the Wall” is a collection of memory extracts of three women who were political prisoners during and after the coup d'etat in 1971 and 1980 in Turkey. Physical and mental walls, which surrounded them, created a detached reality from life. Nevertheless, afterimages of these entrapped lives hint the details of various strong sources and ways for any kind of personal resistance to survive.

Banu Cennetoglu “Determined Barbara” 2004 (2:10 min)
The narrative consists of “pausing” black and white photographs which follow a route by questioning mental and physical distances. The voyage takes us from Belgrade to Banja Luka which inhabits Serbian refugees. Then the next stop is Glamoc, which brings Barbara. Barbara is a temporary military training ground zone constructed for SFOR units. It is occupying the land of 704 pre-war inhabitants of Glamoc. In 1998 their land was expropriated for its construction and in 2001 pre-war inhabitants were allowed to move back, but Barbara was waiting for them. Barbara itself still signifies an enigma hovering around the definition of “the land” and “the inhabitants” in the course of political conflicts, territorial arrangements and geopolitical debates. Sarajevo adds another dimension to this enigma by disguising itself through uncertainty.