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.
Director of Photography and Camera 2016: Meryem Yavuz and Rossella Biscotti; Sound recording: Rossella Biscotti and Aykut Evin; Video editing and postproduction: Massimo Mosca; Sound editing and mixing: Attila Faravelli. Commissioned by Protocinema, Istanbul – New-York with the support of Nearch and Mondriaan Fonds, Netherlands.
