Performans Sanatında Gıda ile Mimari Mekana İnsan Sonrası Müdahaleler

Öz

İnsan sonrası (posthuman) çalışmalar Batı merkezli Hümanist düşüncenin insan-merkezli ve düalist bakış açısını eleştiren disiplinlerarası araştırmalardır. Bu araştırmalarda insan ve insan olmayan faillerin ilişkileri ekoloji, antroposen, feminizm, teknoloji gibi konular bağlamında tıp, sosyoloji, hukuk, tarih, sanat, tasarım ve mimarlık gibi disiplinlerle incelenmektedir. İnsan sonrası çalışmaların sanat ve mimarlık alanlarındaki araştırmalarla kesişiminde zaman, mekan ve beden kavramları öne çıkmaktadır ve bu kavramlar da daha çok sanallık, dijitallik, sibermekan, sosyal medya, metaverse, zaman yolculuğu, yaşlanma karşıtlığı, beden dondurma (cryonics) gibi konularla ele alınmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı ise mimarlık ve insan sonrası kesişimini performans sanatıyla ilişkili olarak mekan ve müdahale olgularıyla ele almak ve bu kesişimde gıdayı disiplinlerarası bir sanat medium’u olarak öneren bir araştırma ortaya koymaktır. Gıda bir malzeme olarak sanat ve tasarımda kullanılagelmiştir ancak bir sanat ve mimari müdahale medium’u olarak insan sonrası kapsamında araştırılmamıştır. Bu kapsamda akademik kaynaklar ve uygulama örnekleri üzerinden literatür taraması yapılmış ve nitel bir araştırma yöntemiyle yeni öneriler geliştirmek amacıyla bu çalışmalar yeniden yorumlanmıştır. Araştırmalarda insan sonrası çalışmaların odağında olan post-düalist yaklaşımın Fluxus sanatçılarının event’lerinde de yer aldığı gözlemlenmiştir ve sanatçı/izleyici, sanat/gündelik hayat, kamusal/özel gibi düalizmleri sorunsallaştırarak eleştirdikleri görülmüştür. Bu performanslarda gıdanın sadece bir sanat malzemesi olmadığı, sanatçılara teknik, yaratıcı, eleştirel ve sanatsal olanaklarıyla yeni bağlamlar sunan bir medium olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Bu bağlamda kamusal ya da özel, iç ya da dış mekanlara uygulanan mimari müdahalelerin ise inşa etmek, yıkmak, yerinden etmek, kazmak, doldurmak, kaplamak gibi eylemlerin ötesine geçerek, gıda gibi yaratıcılığı zorlayan bir medium’un açığa çıkardığı performatif eylemlerle birleşmesi ile zaman, beden ve mekanın immateryal, sezgisel ve duyusal yorumları vurgulanmış ve akademik literatüre bu bağlamda alternatif bakış açıları sunan bir katkı oluşturmasına niyet edilmiştir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• insan sonrası
• mekan
• performans
• müdahale
• gıda
• posthuman
• space
• performance
• intervention
• food

POSTHUMAN INTERVENTIONS TO ARCHITECTURAL SPACE BY FOOD IN PERFORMANCE ART

Öz

Posthuman studies are interdisciplinary studies that criticize the anthropocentric and dualist perspective of Western Humanist thought. In these studies, the relations between human and non-human agents are examined in the scope of subjects such as ecology, anthropocene, feminism, technology with disciplines such as medicine, sociology, law, history, art, design and architecture. At the intersection of posthuman studies within art and architecture, the concepts of time, space and body come to the fore as mostly discussed with topics such as virtuality, digitality, cyberspace, social media, metaverse, time travel, anti-aging, cryonics. The purpose of this study is to investigate the intersection of architecture and posthuman with the concepts of space and intervention in relation to performance art; and to assert a research that suggests food as an interdisciplinary art medium. Food has been used as a material in art and design, but as an artistic and architectural intervention medium it has not been investigated in the posthuman context. In this context, literature was reviewed on academic sources and applications, and these were reinterpreted to develop new suggestions with a qualitative research method. It’s observed that the post-dualist approach at the center of posthuman studies is placed in Fluxus events which problematize and criticize dualisms such as artist/audience, art/life, public/private. It was concluded that food isn’t just an art material in these performances; it's a medium that offers artists new contexts with its technical, creative and critical possibilities. Therefore as architectural interventions applied to public or private and indoor or outdoor spaces are going beyond the actions such as building, demolishing, displacing, excavating, filling, covering; and with a medium such as food challenging creativity, immaterial, intuitive and sensory interpretations of time, body and space are emphasized. In this context, it’s intended to create a contribution that offers alternative perspectives to the literature.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• posthuman
• space
• performance
• intervention
• food

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