Sinkhole Syntax, 2026
“Sinkhole Syntax is an exercise in attuning to the landscape and developing a new syntax of existing images and sounds. The installation comprises three parts. The first is a video installation featuring an expansive “sinkhole archive” of found footage, reconfigured through a specific algorithm. In the second video, sinkhole footage is converted into radio waves via SSTV transmission and returned into circulation. Here, data becomes amorphous as images are glitched and distorted, overlaying the “before” and “after” of the collapse onto a single plane. The field recordings that accompany these works subvert the function of devices such as geophones and hydrophones as diagnostic instruments, and instead lend an ear to the earth, as though listening to a body.”—excerpted from the wall text for Breaking Through a Dam at SALT Beyoğlu
Sinkhole Archive (Algorithm and Infrastructure): Arda Küçükada
Sonic Translation: Elif Gülin Soğuksu
Slow-Scan Television (SSTV) Transmission: Arda Küçükada
Visual Translation and Glitching: Serra Şensoy
Editing: Arda Küçükada, Doğa Yirik
