Link for the performance video in the exhibition;

The artist e-book in the exhibition consists of two parts. The first part includes performance documentations and texts written by the artist. The second part focuses on the Istanbul and Göbeklitepe aspects of the artist’s creative process. For the artist e-book in the exhibition;

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YSxuNQaLdeGlm4XC9PLZ_yeVkPi7UV2K/view?usp=drive_link

Performance artist Ayça Ceylan has been chosen to the Do a Front artist residency programme in Yamaguchi, Japan. The artist residency programme, which took place between October 1 and November 10, ends with the transformation of the works produced by the artist during this period into an exhibition.

In the artist residency programme inspired by the Sagi no Mai (dance of the great egret) ritual and combining it with the theme of “Thinking like Dancing” in contemporary art, Ceylan produced a site-specific performative installation called “The key that opens to the gate of invisible library (egret)”. Installation consisting of performance video, artist book, sound design, performance photos; she creates an intertemporal narrative by touching on the concepts of animal symbolism, comparative mythology, the synchronizing of the body with nature, and multispecies through the great egret.

Ayça Ceylan’s performance was created in Istanbul and Göbeklitepe in the artist residency programme, which has evolved into an online format due to the restrictions in Japan. The exhibition opened on November 5 at Do a Front’s physical space in Yamaguchi, Japan. Leonhard Bartolomeus, curator of the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, was the guest curator of the process.

For online review;

https://www.doafront.org/projects/air2021/omline-exhibition/index.html