32nd Day
32nd Day, 2017
32nd Day is a collaborative project between Yeliz Yorulmaz and Baki Kocaballi, inspired by the Turkish television news show first launched by Mehmet Ali Birand on TRT(Turkish National TV Channel) on 1 October 1985. The show was aired on different TV channels after 1992, by gradually transforming from a progressive show to a censored and warped traditionalist news show under the influence of the increasing conservative and authoritarian governance of Turkey.
Borrowing its title from the original TV show, 32nd Day suggests a special day to review and revise the most important political events of the month. It represents the day that one needs to zoom out of the distracting details of everyday life and see life from a broader political perspective.
The exhibition explores the increasing affinity with conservative and authoritarian politics and governance in many countries and regions around the world. It comments on the fast-paced technological developments of the past few decades contrasting with the small advancements in the methods of governance and the control oriented desires of authoritarian political actors, whose aim is to convert societies into their useless monolithic machines.
32nd Day speculates on a uselessness-producing ideology through a collection of little robotic structures, assemblages of technological waste, sculptural installations, and video works.
You can view short videos of some of the works here, here, and here.
Photos by Baki Kocaballi and Isabel R. @interludegallery