oda projesi

BOOKSTR was hosted and invited by Oda Projesi for a 4-week stay where its books' selection is once more available and a new Radio project co-produced. Set-up in two rooms of the space, the recording & broadcasting studio allowed to produce a radio program based in interviews, discussions, field records, soundscape, sound experiments, jingles, music, live events, etc. where the content was essentially coming from Oda Projesi’s gentrification concerns and its reflection through the project. During the broadcasting, no one would be able to enter to Oda Projesi apartment in the first week but then the studio turned out to be the meeting point for the radio. People were coming with their handy radios. These were the last days of the space of Oda Projesi. The radio was treated as a new project space for Oda Projesi and for the neighbours. The diffusion was limited by the street and the courtyard where Oda Projesi is taking place.

ADA was a project on a Gecekondu (overnight built house) in one of the biennial venues. It was built with a group of man whose work was to build this type of houses after they had come to Istanbul with a flow of migration around 1970s. and later this work has become their profession. The project was both a documentation about their practice in the past and today. A brick house was built near Antrepo, near the seaside in one of the venues, which is the Istanbul Modern museum today. Annex newspaper that Oda Projesi published on the issue of gecekondu was shared with the audience. The project is based on the "idea" of ​​gecekondu construction, organized by cities such as Istanbul; that everyday life dominates, instead of avoiding it, Oda Projesi wants to read and evaluate the city through these spontaneous formations.