Çatalhöyük Physical Archive- Special Collections

Çatalhöyük Research Project under Ian Hodder's direction ended in 2018 although publications are still in preparation. The data remain available on this website. The physical archive of the 25-year-project is stored and accessible through Stanford Library Special Collections. Please use the following link to access the special collections : https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12647164

The City

Rossella Biscotti, The City, 5-channel video and 8-channel audio installation, 50 minutes, 2018.
Rossella Biscotti, The City, 5-channel video and 8-channel audio installation, 50 minutes, 2018. This preview is for documentation purpose only.

Rossella Biscotti, The City, 5-channel video and 8-channel audio installation, 50 minutes, 2018. This preview is for documentation purpose only.

Watch the preview here: http://www.catalhoyuk.com/video/city

The video installation subtly narrates past and present stories of Çatalhöyük. The artist Rossella Biscotti spent several months on site, documenting the international network of specialists, excavators and academics who are part of the Çatalhöyük Research Project, a living community uniting both professional agents and local actors.

In an associative montage of recorded material, Biscotti weaves together a narrative that links the ways of living and organisation of a very early form of society to the contemporary community. The timelessness of the narration gets interrupted by the sudden closure of the excavation site after the attempted military coup in Turkey in 2016. It brings us back to the here and now, pointing out the power relations that determine social structures and forms of organisation.

main sponsors

Yapı Kredi

Koçtaş

Boeing

secondary sponsors

Konya Şeker

Shell