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Anakronik Fısıltılar - Serra Bilgincan
00:00 / 08:32
Anachrconic Whispers @soundcloud
producer: Eren Turgut

Megaron I

2023


Quarried Andesite stone carved back into having organic stone form and textures painted with ochre paint made from found stones and flaxeed oil, oak, speaker



 

sound:
https://on.soundcloud.com/p3Yu6


 

exhibition website:
https://www.illseeitwhenibelieveit.com/megaroni

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I, a thinking flesh,
have seen a fat bodied, thin legged bison today, swallowed its anatomy.
Dipped my fingers into ochre, rubbed them on walls
and blew life into a bison made of stone.

When I speak in the depths of a cave,
the spirits of my animals speak back at me.

I’m a cave artist,
forever anonymous.
with no face,
and leaving no trace to be chased.

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"If one day one will have killed much meat
and will think of himself as the chief,
we’ll speak of his meat as worthless,
to cool his heart and make him gentle."

For survival is not for the solitary and
arrogance has not yet been learned here.

O child of man,
how you've watered the gardens of your hearts,
The harvests have withered, drained of their sustenance

We may never be sure of why people did drawings in caves, but we may create our own creative anthropological stories.

Were these drawings sourced from the human need and desire to tell stories? Were these depictions the execution of an artistic symbolism narrating the unknown, natural, and supernatural forces? Perhaps mankind, while a hunter-gatherer, deified the animals that were stronger than him, that filled his stomach, or served him.

Or could the ancient human, a master of the law of attraction, have created his own reality with hunting spells that wrote destiny for a successful hunt? Could he have identified with the animals he drew, in the secluded corners of caves, when the echoing sound talked back at him once he spoke to those animals drawn? What is your animal?

Was the first music a shout of a tribe member to communicate with other team members? Followed by a flute made of bone, to make himself heard, to broadcast a message across a wide pasture? Could humans, secreting oxytocin while making music together, have strengthened team bonds through music, and gained existential advantages by enhancing mental and physical integrity in the harsh theatre of the savannas?

Producing barley. More barley every year. More barley at any cost. The human doesn’t realize, no matter how much he consumes from the field, a single source of food does not nourish his miserable body. He is in deed a genius for finding ways and tools for propagating what the earth offers him. A genius who's forgotten to listen to his essential needs.

From caves to primitive huts, savannas to agricultural fields, the cognitive revolution, genius farmers, property owners, barley collectors, barley distributors, those begging for barley, the industrial revolution, bisons on stone walls, white spots falling on plastered concrete walls, from communal societies to individualism, spotlight, I, arrogance, contemporary artist, arrogance, originality race, art dealer, more barley, genius artist, metaphor, disrespecting a history, cumulative knowledge is a lie, our ancestors may go to hell!

Shouldn't metaphor, than making ideas and visions incomprehensible and mysterious, work towards enhancing  acknowledgement. Otherwise, doesn’t it become an expression where the person keeps the experience of understanding to himself, believing only him to have enough capability and insight?

The distancing nature of contemporary art, invented so-called art lovers who meaninglessly do counts  in front of works of art. A group of artists who prefer not to convey as a means of conveyance, are they sinisterly smiling in the corners of galleries, satisfied no one can understand them?

Hunting spells on cave walls, class doctrines in agricultural fields, extracting barley from art,
art as a prey

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