“One Night Installation” series
concept design
A collective underground project on club culture. “One night installation” series aims at creating fictional atmospheres through durational exposure to art. Mixing electronic music and installation art, the project creates visual and auditory interventions on the texture of space, creating unique collective experiences. It is not a party or an exhibition; it is a night to interact within an installation.
The Spirits and Distorted Nature are different episodes of the “one night installation” series. Inspired from Walter Benjamin’s words in the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, they explore the parallels that can be drawn between the unifying resonance experienced both during raves and religious rituals.
The Spirits and Distorted Nature were produced by Mutual Collective, initiated by Bilal Yılmaz for creating large-scale installations and interaction-oriented experiences. Both projects showcased emerging local DJs and invited young designers and artists to create the posters, teasers and after movies based on each night’s concept. This somewhat open format functioned as a platform for a shared, collective ownership of the creative input.
“one night installation” series:
The Spirits, Mixer Gallery, Istanbul, March 2018
Distorted Nature, Anahit Stage, 16th Istanbul Biennial Parallel Event, September 2019
“Artistic production begins with ceremonial objects destined to serve in a cult. One may assume that what mattered was their existence, not their being on view. The elk portrayed by the man of the Stone Age on the walls of his cave was an instrument of magic. He did expose it to his fellow men, but in the main it was meant for the spirits.”
Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
