Ali Cem Doğan
This year, “Darağaç” turns the Umurbey neighbourhood into an area where artistic creation becomes diversified with three different events, namely, “Darağaç Bostan [Vegetable Garden]”, ‘’Darağaç Volta_Kombo’’ and “Darağaç Contact”. “Darağaç Bostan” is turning fallow land in the neighbourhood into an urban garden. Scrap wood, metal, and other discarded materials are upcycled for the vegetable beds and multifunctional modules: They sometimes turn into a workbench in the studios, into a table at meetings, into an arbor during sowing and harvesting times, and into a stage at performances. ‘Darağaç_BOSTAN’ is implemented with the coordination of the Darağaç Collective, and with the contribution of Maquis Projects, Çiçek Tezer / NomadMind – Design and Art Implementation Association, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Department for Culture and Arts, and the neighbourhood residents.
‘’Darağaç Volta_Kombo’’ brings together artists from different cities to create murals in Umurbey: Cem Sonel x DEVAK from Ankara; Ali Kanal x Suatilyus, Ecem Yılman x Hill.Hell, Hemon x Snme, Kalender x Meşrep, PAPYX x Hazal Arol, Dheno 35.5 x Jaku from Izmir; Fatih Altan x KAPTAN in the combo of Izmir and Ankara. ‘Volta_KOMBO’ is realized with the coordination of the Darağaç Collective and the productional and special contributions of Marcin Bourges, Aleksandir, Apeiron Collective and Mega Stationary.
The exhibition “Darağaç Contact” is realized every year, and now in its sixth year it is held in the streets and private areas of the Umurbey Neighbourhood. Focusing on the concept of “Contact”, the meaning of which underwent a transformation with the pandemic, the exhibition aims at exploring new ways of contact. Barış B. Atal, Meltem Sarıkaya, Bedia Ekiz, Ahmet Hamdi Soydemir, Ezgi Yakın, Murat Kahya, Mert Acar, Ali Kanal & Deniz Pasha, Yekateryna Grygorenko & Şebnem Akdeniz, Ayşegül Doğan & Nihat Gök, Caner Çoban, Damla Gök, Zarife Arslan, Dinçer İşgel, Çağrı Çamcı, Kadir Kayserilioğlu & Daraptor, Y AD A , KÜNK, the urban arts and Elden Ele 2021 (Ahmet Yörük, Asena Polat, Didem Erişkin, Serkan Mercan, Ozan Atalan, Elif Sarıgüzmen, Gökçe Dilek, Yasin Uysallar, Hamza Kırbaş and Ecem Yılman).
The project ‘Elden Ele 2021’ within the ‘Contact’ exhibition is realized with the coordination of the Darağaç Collective and the productional and special contributions of the SAHA association.
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