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A 3 minutes long high-octane-jump cut heavy excerpt of 3 projects in the past. |||||||| shot and edited by SinWave, excerpt editted by G. Atabek. 4000w shot and edited by Ivan Smudja, excerpt edited by G. Atabek. Sonopotentia shot by Pim Kersemaakers, excerpt edited by G. Atabek. 2022
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VLKSFST III - IMECEinfo
On January 3rd 2020 Vølksamt! teamed up once again with kargART to create Vølksfest! III - Unplugged // kargART; a musique concrète performace without any speakers. The concert "Infinite Dynamic Range" was recorded live at the venue, to be remixed/remade/recontextualized by the associates of Vølksamt! at a later date. One year later, the resulting works are presented as 'VLKSFST III - İmece' in a colab featuring works by Vølksamt!, VLKSFST Gökçeer and Murat VLKSFST Seçkin. Mastered by Can Ersalıcı. Provided is the single "Elektrikli Tekno" Full release available on all streaming platfroms.
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infoSonopotentia as it was displayed in the Between Here and There Group Exhibition. The prepared piano sent out a ping of 138Hz every 17 minutes to excite the building and create resonances. Every Friday a different performance piece for Sonopotentia and a detuned piano was enacted. Photo by Pim Kersemaakers
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infoDetail from the prepared piano.
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Tender to the Megalomania (Framing Square)info
Single from the EP "Framing Square" Provided as an "quarantine report" during the initial Covid-19 Lockdowns. Uses material spanning anywhere from 2017 to 2020. Recorded and produce by Volksamt! in Den Haag. Full release available on all streaming platforms.
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A sonic poem for the staircase of Extrapool. Composition for 2 2000W Vacuum Cleaners and one 9v Radio, Shot and edited by Ivana Smudja.
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![Sonopotentia Live!]( "Sonopotentia Live!")
infoSonopotentia is a piece for prepared pianos and microphones. It explores primary sonic phenomenon such as feedback and resonance. The pianos are loaded with 4x18-inch speakers creating reverb tanks/resonators. The confines of the space combined with the pianos create a feedback chamber peaking at 150dB. Performed by our co-conspirator G. Atabek The live performance was presented in VOLKSBAR!; a one-off space constructed within the Graduation Show. In the bar a special cocktail called "Higgins" was served, made with liqueur infused with the wood reclaimed from the two pianos. Photos by Charlotte Brand
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![Sonopotentia Live!]( "Sonopotentia Live!")
infoSonopotentia is a piece for prepared pianos and microphones.
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infoSonopotentia is a piece for prepared pianos and microphones.
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infoAn installation based on TL lamps as primary units/bit/1s. Composed in various site-specific forms. The system functions by pushing electrical current through the body, connecting the recipient into the machine. Light reacts to body, body reacts to light, light reacts to sound, sound reacts to light, body reacts to sound, light reacts to body. Body is the tool of the trade. Made in the image of the forefathers, the original Generation Z. For they are the lightning beneath our wings. An homage to Carolee Schneemann's Hearth Chamber/Cunt Chamber
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infoAn installation based on TL lamps as primary units/bit/1s. Composed in various site-specific forms. The system functions by pushing electrical current through the body, connecting the recipient into the machine. Light reacts to body, body reacts to light, light reacts to sound, sound reacts to light, body reacts to sound, light reacts to body. Body is the tool of the trade. Made in the image of the forefathers, the original Generation Z. For they are the lightning beneath our wings. An homage to Carolee Schneemann's Hearth Chamber/Cunt Chamber
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infoG. Atabek's death basket. 160 liters of water was dug out by him at an undisclosed location and carried manually to Herenstraat 14, making space for his and his de-facto mothers ultimate death. Made possible by The Balcony and Stroom Den Haag.
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infoTitle card for The End, displayed at The Balcony.
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infoMy Stroom.htm
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infoDigging the "gracht", at an undisclosed location. Photo by Arthur Cordier
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infoDigging the "gracht", at an undisclosed location. Photo by Arthur Cordier
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infoPiece for 2 dancers and 2 performers. "O"s wield light controlled Waveshaping Oscillators. "/"s wield a single TL lamp modulated by a variac. Body is the tool of the trade. Part of the performance HayeHaye (2019), with many thanks to our colleagues from Ésam Caen.
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infoPiece for 2 dancers and 2 performers. "O"s wield light controlled Waveshaping Oscillators. "/"s wield a single TL lamp modulated by a variac.
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infoAn installation based on TL lamps as primary units/bit/1s. Composed in various site-specific forms. The system functions by pushing electrical current through the body, connecting the recipient into the machine. Light reacts to body, body reacts to light, light reacts to sound, sound reacts to light, body reacts to sound, light reacts to body. Body is the tool of the trade. Made in the image of the forefathers, the original Generation Z. For they are the lightning beneath our wings. An homage to Carolee Schneemann's Hearth Chamber/Cunt Chamber
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hata yapıninfo
Title track from sophomore release "hata yapın". Music for Turkey, made in Turkey, by Turkey. Composed and recorded by Volksamt in Istanbul. Full release available on all streaming platforms.
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"When a service is free, you are the product" "When a service is free, you are the product" :| was an installation at REM Artspace in Istanbul where the audience was invited to turn their face into the center pieces of an artwork, at the price of having their face achieved forever in a database. The resulting data set was then composited into a ISO/IEC 19794-5:2005 Biometric of G. Atabek.
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Peachfuzzinfo
Title track from the debut release "Peachfuzz" Initial noise efforts of Volksamt! Recorded and produce by Volksamt! in Den Haag. Full release available on all streaming platforms.
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Websites
Volksamt! Kultur Manufaktur
www.volksamt.orgSocial media
Member of Artists’ Initiative/Collective/Incubator
Volksamt! Kultur Manufaktur
Platform
De Besturing
Curriculum vitae
Education
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2024 - 2024Building on Talent Stimulerings Fonds, Rotterdam
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2016 - 2020Artscience Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
exhibitions
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2021Valkhof Festival Doornroosje Nijmegen, Netherlands Group
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2021Cyberdrum PaiKa Budapest, Hungary As I part of the Cyberdrum residency 21 artists from 3 different cities gathered at PaiKa Budapest to organize a one night spectacle with performances, installation and VR pieces. Group
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2021Between Here and There Pulchri Studio The Hague, Netherlands Gökay Atabek (TU), born in Istanbul, is a media artist and musician. He is a member of the enigmatic Volksamt! Over the years they broke no less than 4 ribs during numerous performances. Harold de Bree (NL) makes work that often has an industrial and/or military appearance. Heavy, filthy, colossal and dangerous. It is work that can be regarded as a repetition and or reconstruction of parts of history. The kinetic sculptures of Pim Kerssemakers (NL) are often created intuitively. Movement is an important part of the story of the work. This is the result of a playful investigation into movements and the effect they can have on different objects. Oliver Labs (DE) is a mathematician and artist. His works are not only related to mathematics, but their forms are even determined by mathematical formulas. Oliver's main creative process usually begins on a sheet of paper, followed by a long period in front of a computer trying to figure out the details of the formula he wants to use. The final artwork is usually created by high-end machines using laser technology or 3D printers. The primary motivation for the creative process of Alexander Zaklynsky (USA, IS) lies in breaking through the two- and three-dimensional fields of traditional art into a fourth dimension. The aim is to provide these fields with aesthetic resonance. Expression, abstraction, representation and spatiality come together in his work through meditative explorations of perspective, color and structure. This exhibition was made possible thanks to Stroom Den Haag. Group
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2021Destilaat #22 Extrapool Nijmegen, Netherlands Extrapool visits the graduation exhibitions of the Dutch art academies every year. What keeps these young artists busy? How do they shape their work at the end of their academy days? In the summer of 2020, well-known circumstances made graduation complicated. Academies presented their 'graduates' later or only online. We would have liked to have Destilaat take place physically, unfortunately that turned out not to be possible. The strength of Destilaat is the working period that takes place prior to the exhibition. Fortunately, Extrapool was able to offer this to the artists in a safe way in a modified form. From 23 April 20:00 will there be a digital presentation available. Destilaat #22 presents the work of the following young artists: Angelique Farge (Amsterdam) https://angelaf.org/ Gökay Atabek (The Hague) www.volksamt.org Judith Reijnders (Maastricht) http://www.judithreijnders.com/ WONNE (Arnhem) http://lala.cool/home.html Dave Fransz (Enschede) https://www.davefransz.com Goretti Pombo (Rotterdam) https://gorettipombo.com/ Eugenie Boon (The Hague) https://www.eugenieboon.com Daan Mulder (Den Bosch) https://www.daan-mulder.com/ extrapool.nl/weekend/extrapool-weekend-destillaat22/ Group
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2021Valkhof Festival Doornroosje Nijmegen, Netherlands For the screens laid out on the facade of Doornroosje, Gokay Atabek & Daan Mulder have created 6 videos that border between sound art, performance and experimental cinema. www.valkhoffestival.nl/news/het-extrapool-programma/ Duo
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2020Graduation Festival 2020 Royal Academy of Arts The Hague The Hague, Netherlands graduation2020.kabk.nl/students/gokay-atabek Group
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2019Music For Contemporary Audience Nr. 74 - The End the Balcony The Hague, Netherlands For its 18th exhibition at Herenstraat 14, The Balcony has selected Gökay Atabek‘s proposal through an Open Call. Gökay Atabek presents ‘Music For Contemporary Audience nr 74 - The End’. The artist dug a grave for himself and one for Yoko Ono. “ Since my inauguration to arts I started feeling a bond with Yoko Ono. A love that can be only described as maternal bond. The way I can elaborate, at best, would be through how I feel about V-2 Missiles. Still that wouldn't be so comprehensive either. Where I was born, we bury children next to or on top of their mothers. Maybe I wasn't born at the same place as my de-facto mother, but at least now we can be buried at the same place. ” * Gokay Atabek is an intermedia artist and a member of VØLKSAMT!, a collective serving to burn the final bridges of art. thebalconythehague.com/18-Gokay-Atabek Solo
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2019Generate Festival Loewen Tuebingen - Generate Festival Tuebingen, Germany “We make installations, happenings, performances and sound material. We stay away from implicit narratives and deep poetry. We are driven by our fascination. We do things to see the result. Things we are doing right now are "(Vølksamt!) festival2019.shedhalle.de/ Solo
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2018Cachee Rem Artspace. Istanbul, Turkey As a part of a group exhibition, ":|" was erected at REM Artspace (IST). A screen contained in a metal frame took visitor's faces and made them the center piece of a brutalist portrait, at the price of their faces being archived in a server. Yet vox populi triumphed again. By simply not visiting the exhibition the audience transformed the work; from a computer program designed to recognize faces into a program that only recognizes walls. The resulting datapool, "Greatest Archieve of the Same Wall" is presented as 8000 distinct images composited into a ISO/IEC 19794-5:2005 Biometric of G. Atabek, our local representative at the time. View it at http://volksamt.org/Gallery/faic.html www.remartspace.com.tr/ Group
Projects
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2024
Fire! of Unknown Origin V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media Rotterdam, Netherlands v2.nl/works/fire-of-unknown-origin Infrasonic waves are roars of the Earth; generated by the shifts in tectonic plates, volcanic eruptions, ocean currents, and meteorological events. It is a spectrum of sound that is not directly perceivable to us, yet traces of our presence are encoded within it. Nuclear blasts, wind turbines, freighter shipping and other feats of moving gargantuan things around produce signatures of infrasound unique to the Anthropocene. Another emitter of infrasound, wildfires, presents a paradox; while arson is a human-induced “anthropogenic hazard”, wildfires can equally erupt without direct human intervention, however exacerbated as the consequences of the human-caused climate crisis. Observing a wildfire up close is an (anecdotally) anxiety-inducing and gut-wrenching experience, extending beyond just fright or despair. A forest fire operates as a self-sustaining feedback system: as winds carry the flames, rising hot air generates its own currents, culminating in a fiery storm. The lack of oxygen in the air, coupled with disorienting air pressure changes, transforms the experience into a peculiar physical affliction. G. Atabek’s first encounter with a wildfire was in the summer of 2023 near the coastal city of Canakkale, Turkey. This strong physical experience was what inspired the project. It is this aforementioned physicality that the project tries to explore and re-create. The departure point of the project is developing 3 fundamental tools that can listen to, interpret, and “reproduce” air movements surrounding fire. Inspired by field-recording as an artistic medium and informed by musique concrete, the final outcome of the project will be a fixed media piece presented as an installation; showcasing the unique tools developed and the recordings made by these tools.
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2022
Amplified Fencer V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media Rotterdam, Netherlands v2.nl/works/amplified-fencer Amplified Fencer is a research project that investigates the implicit choreography of a fencing match. The fencer’s movements are dissected via motion sensors, formatted with the help of a neural network and remapped to an experimental audio synthesizer. Inspired by late 19th century chronophotography experiments, the explosive compositions of the fencer are displayed stretched out over time, with artificial-intelligence filling in the gaps where recording equipment (or the fencer) falls short.
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2021
DNK Ensemble presents: Intona Re-enacted V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media Rotterdam, Netherlands v2.nl/events/dnk-ensemble-presents-intona-re-enacted/?searchterm=dnk For the original 1991 work, Raaijmakers heated, boiled, and pierced his microphones to capture their ‘dying breath’ within a musically theatrical context, he even dissolved them in acid. Doing so, he mobilized the microphone as an instrument in and on itself, disconnected from its common reproductive function. In a four-day reworking Intona Re-enacted, the DNK Ensemble investigates this unique performance. Following an opening performance, the space and the materials used will be slowly transformed and processed into an exhibition. Here, Raaijmakers' points of departure regarding the microphone and its cultural and musical function, serve as guideline for a series of performative and transformative processes.
Commissions
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2024A Breather Ijselland Ziekenhuis Capelle aan den IJssel, Netherlands “A Breather” is a kinetic sculpture made with a tree, resembling the shape and movement of a lung. With its inverted body and expanding and contracting branches, the work aims to amplify what connects humans to trees: breath. A linear actuator, salvaged from an old hospital bed, is used to move the sculpture and give the tree an artificial life in a hospital. The sculpture was produced in collaboration with artist Werner van der Zwan “A Breather” is permanently on display in the foyer of IJsselland Ziekenhuis in Capelle a/d IJssel, Netherlands. finished
Publications
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2020Music for COntemporary Audience Vol I Book Volksamt! Volksamt! The Hague, Netherlands volksamt.org/mfca.html Music for a contemporary audience by contemporary composers, through a contemporary scope, for contemporary art. A book archiving 40 scores written by Volksamt! betwen 2018 and 2020
reviews
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2021
Awards and grants
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2024Composing Colors (Building on Talent) Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie Rotterdam, Netherlands Gokay Atabek werkt voor animatiestudio Prinsen.Studio mee aan een interactief beeldexperiment en gaat gesprekken voeren met dirigenten van grote orkesten en kleinere ensembles. Zo wordt een antwoord gezocht op de vraag hoe een interactief podiumproduct eruit ziet dat optimaal bijdraagt aan de beleving van een muziekstuk en daarbij muziek, design en educatie met elkaar verbindt.
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2024The Muttering Void Amarte Fonds Den Haag, Netherlands
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2020Thesis Award - Nominee KABK awards, Den Haag The Hague, Netherlands
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2020Department Award - Nominee Artscience Award. KABK. The Hague, Netherlands