Berk Duygun

The mobile Galery of The Hague took the art audiance to a galery tour during the group exhibition Night Shift. As the curator of the mobile exhibition, my role was to give the audiance information about the art work which were exhibited inside the mobile galery. I would have the intruction to the galery and the artworks as a performance, while driving in the streets of Antwerp, before the art auction.

The aim of the art auction in Antwerp was to showcase the artworks of active young artists from the Netherlands, especially The Hague, and deliver the artworks to their new non-dutch owners. Although The Hague is a very international city, it can still feel very local, especially during the post-graduation era for the local-international young artists. Therefore I felt the need to help other artists to reach an art audience abroad, while gaining power from their artworks myself, as the result of a productive colloboration between 6 artists.

The mobile galery is a mopet car, which is modified and streched to become an art gallery on wheels. It is a micro initiative, which focuses usually on pop-up exhibitions. It's role is to both host exhibitions in unusual spaces, or to host independent exhibitons within exhibitions.

Art safari was a performative work which the audiance was taken to a safari ride through the artworks that were placed in the garden of Villa Welgelegen.

During the Graduation Festival, I hosted the opening of the Mobile Galery, featuring works from 8 different artists, and 4 sound performances. In a way, the galery I built the galery as my art project, that the other artists' work would complete and finalize my work in the bigger scale. The mobile galery was a part of 'The Hague Contemporary Week', and traveled to 5 attenting galeries to deliver the mobile exhibition.

It is a biological & mechanics hybrid interactive sculpture. During my art study, I was curious of what were the limits that I could make the art audiance participate. It designed to be a game, where the audiance had to hit the testicals of the performer via a mechanical joystick, without breaking the eggs which are connected to the mechanism. Although I can not call the art work very successful, and it was simply a game. However, after watching the documentation videos, and to see how people would interrect with such an alien object, it helped me to develope a deep curiosity of the reaction, and participation of the audiance during public art events.

As an indivitual from a country, where violance is way more tolerated, I developed a weird habit over the years. In stressful situations, I would have random violent machines which would pop up in my head. Those were mechanical machines which would loop in my mind until I could take myself out of the situation that I was in. While in paralel, I was trying to adapt to the new society that I was a part of now, and had the urge to hide how violence my imagination could go without my control. But after all, I decided to built those violent, sculptural machines, and tried to adapt them back to society, by turning them into friendly kitchen tools. The 8 bladed guillotine turned into a water mellon slicer, a double sided catapul turned into a nut cracker, the weird double hoocked circuler machine that I don't even know myself what could do, turned into an egg smasher. The water mellons and nuts were kindly offered to the audience.