A Transmitted Dialogue, 2019
Merve Ünsal, A Transmitted Dialogue, 2019. 10 min 12 sec audio.
Shooting the Window, 2019. Digital photograph on satin fabric, 3 x 2 m. Installation view from From a Wandering Window at Bilsart, Istanbul, December 2019.
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A Transmitted Dialogue (2019) is a sound collage made from audio recordings from NASA’s expeditions to the moon. Cutting and splicing sentences and phrases from various recordings, I wrote a new dialogue. With this dialogue based on descriptions—while one party can see, the other can’t—, I am interested in finding out when a narrative and a description begin to lose their function, as well as the encounter with what has never been seen before.
A Transmitted Dialogue functioned as the soundtrack to From a Wandering Window in an exhibition at Bilsart, Istanbul, in 2019.
Sound editing by Emin Yu
My first self-portrait, Shooting the Window, is a caption to A Transmitted Dialogue and From a Wandering Window (both 2019). Inspired by Clement Cogitore’s Braguino (2017), I wanted to create an image-based signature—the photograph was taken in the park next to my apartment with a plastic bear paw on my right hand, looking at the building that I had previously filmed.
