Archiving the Echo, Echoing the Archive

Graphic design by Studio Beautiful Problems

Walking Archive: A Practice of Neighbouring is an audio-walk collectively created by Oda Projesi artist collective, curator and researcher Seda Yıldız, and former neighbors of Şahkulu Street. By walking, listening, imagining and picnicking, we revisit artistic, social and discursive projects that Oda Projesi realized in the Galata neighborhood between 2000 and 2005. While activating the collective’s archives and strolling on the streets of Galata, we also look at the neighbourhood that went through a strong gentrification process from today’s perspective.

Audio-walk documentation. Photos by Öncü H Gültekin

Picnic at Performistanbul courtyard. Photos by Öncü H Gültekin

Listen to the audio-guide narrative

The audio walk followed by a picnic around an archive box invites participants to remember collectively in an open and informal space, share knowledge and reflect together on the following questions: How can the practice of neighbouring that build multilayered relationships between Oda Projesi, neighbors and other stakeholders be presented and documented? How can an archive of relationing be presented, mediated and circulated? What is the significance of revisiting a practice of neighbouring in times of shrinking public space? Can accounts of the participants affect the way we understand these projects, allowing new perspectives?

Live documentatiom drawings by Meli Rümeysa Öztürk

What

Audio-walk and picnic

Where

Galata, Istanbul (Turkey)

When

3 May 2025

Narrators

Alpay, Aslı, Aysun, Burcu, Gizem, Güneş, Fatma, Fatmanur, Haydar, David, Elyazar, Emine, İshak, Mehmet, Mutlu, Nadin, Naz, Nur, Nurcan, Nursel, Nevin, Özge, Saim, Seçil, Seda, Tolga, Ufuk, the waiter, Köfteci

With

Performistanbul

Support

Apaçık Radyo, Melih Sarıgöl, Feryal Kabil

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Graphic design by Studio Beautiful Problems