With the Wind, 2021
Merve Ünsal, in collaboration with Gizem Bengisu Erenler, With the Wind, 2021. Recycled ventilation pipes, insulation foam, a microphone, stereo speakers, and an online streaming radio setup.
Merve Ünsal, in collaboration with Gizem Bengisu Erenler, With the Wind, 2021. Recycled ventilation pipes, insulation foam, a microphone, stereo speakers, and an online streaming radio setup.
With the Wind is a radio transmission. Installed on SAHA Studio’s balcony and constructed from locally-derived materials, the repurposed wind-catcher is from where the transmission is made. The transmission has two channels: the first channel is the sound of the air passing through the wind-catcher and the second is the sound recordings collected from various media channels including TV and radio from Turkey, in which sets of words are collated about Taksim and its surroundings. The sound recordings are realigned constantly. The wind is utilized as an element that carries, narrates, and collects; With the Wind is added onto the already-existing infrastructure of the air vents in the space, with which I search for the possibility of radio transmissions to narrate a place. Using the method of montage to expand language, I attempt to oblige the already-existing transmissions to be relayed and reconstructed.
