m-est.org | Can Küçük
Can Küçük’s “Will Be Ignited” is a prophecy-diagnosis-dream-nightmare. While expressing the relationships between people through the sticky air between them, Can transforms this physical and bodily expression into stage commands, the text reminds us that we are longing for the breaths of some as he builds a world with people by passing through their vapors. The text transforms longing, desire, contact, and the unspeakable, the permeability of the soil, and the evil of the lemon into tangible objects. With an acute awareness of the limits of our own body, we are confronted with the fact that air is a material that circulates, enters, and moves. It delivers on the promise of the title, “Will Be Ignited” at our fingertips.
This text is part of ,a series ,that addresses artistic strategies to measure, report, fabulate, and tell stories about the weather, air flows, circulation, and other high to low pressure aspects of our practices and cities. Commissioned for the World Weather Network, a constellation of weather stations located across the world, and with the invitation of SAHA – Supporting Contemporary Art from Turkey, the series asks: how do artists respond to ideas of change, crisis, and future, focusing on various elements of the weather as an embodiment at the intersection of bodies, peoples, and landscapes? –Merve Ünsal
WILL BE IGNITED
Can Küçük
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The elephant in the room in all the sections is “air.” The fact that the air contains both raw materials that meet vital needs and threatening particles, but is invisible to the eye, corresponds to the expression “elephant in the room.” If they think the elephant, dead or alive, is a vital need and a threat to a museum, all the similarities will be put into the same pot. Also, the elephant is an adorable animal.
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