The second striking point regarding the biennial was that this biennial, was
organized in the center of historical Sinop State Prison, a place active until recently
but deserted and abandoned presently. It is a place symbolized as an icon of the
considerably painful democracy and human rights history of Turkey. As a result of
these two main facts related to the identity structure of Sinop, the biennial was
entitled “Thing”. Many people from the local public were probably having the
opportunity of experiencing an international art event for the first time in their lives.
The first meaning of “Thing” was Sinopale, which would be some “thing” they could
interpret, define by themselves. Secondly, the biennial organized in three venues
representing three different periods namely; the historical prison from the Ottoman
Period, The Pervane Madrasah from the Seljuk Period and the Ethnography Museum
built in the first years of the Republic, consisted of the works of more than 50 artists
producing especially for this biennial, relating to the history of the city. Thereby each
artwork was representing a proposal for the effort of unveiling the “thing”s that
remained hidden, unnoticed within the memory map of Sinop.
With no doubt, the most intense venue of Sinopale was the prison. Artists carried out
video art, installation and performances in cells, wards and backyards which had
walls full of slogans, poems, pictograms engraved by the prisoners. Together with
the production process, throughout the preparation process of the artists, the local
public -possessing no foreign language-, assisted foreign artists by mostly
communicating with the help of their body language. The relationship established
between the artists conceiving projects for this venue and the local public, moreover
the relationship established between the local public and the prison, integrated the
“sharing and interaction process” into the biennial content as well. Besides the
prison and other venues, also projects were done on the streets of the city. One of
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kullan›lan fakat flimdilerde bofl, metruk kalan, tarihi Sinop Devlet Hapishanesi
merkezinde düzenlenmesiydi. Sinop’un kimlik yap›s›yla ilgili bu iki temel olgu
sonucunda bienalin bafll›currency1› fiey’di. fiey’in birinci anlam›, belki de ilk defa bir
uluslararas› sanat etkinlicurrency1ini görme f›rsat› bulacak yerli halktan birçok kifli için
Sinopale’nin, kendilerinin anlamland›racacurrency1›, tan›mlayacacurrency1› bir fley olacacurrency1›yd›. ‹kincisi
de Osmanl› Dönemi’den tarihi hapishane, Selçuklu Devri’nin Pervane Medresesi ve
Cumhuriyet’in ilk y›llar›nda infla edilen Etnografya Müzesi gibi üç farkl› dönemi
iflaret eden mekanlarda düzenlenen bienalin, elliden fazla sanatç›n›n bu bienal için
üretticurrency1i, kentin geçmifliyle iliflki kuran ifllerden oluflmas›yd›; her bir üretimin
Sinop’un bellek haritas›nda örtülü kalm›fl, farkedilmeyen fleyleri ortaya ç›karma
çabas›na iliflkin bir öneri sunmas›yd›.
Kuflkusuz Sinopale’de en fliddetli alan hapishaneydi. Bu mekan için proje tasarlayan
sanatç›lar›n, duvarlar›nda mahkumlar›n kaz›d›currency1› sloganlar›n, fliirlerin,
piktogramlar›n yer ald›currency1› hücrelerde, kocurrency1ufllarda ve avlularda gerçeklefltirdikleri
video art, yerlefltirme ve performans çal›flmalar›n›n üretim süreçleriyle birlikte, tüm
haz›rl›k döneminde dil bilmeden, çocurrency1unlukla beden diliyle anlaflarak yabanc›
sanatç›lara yard›m eden yerli halk›n hapishaneyle kurduklar› iliflki, üretimler kadar
paylafl›m ve etkileflim sürecini de bienalin içericurrency1ine eklemledi. Hapishane ve dicurrency1er
mekanlar d›fl›nda kentin sokaklar›nda da projeler yer ald›. Bunlardan bir tanesi
benim, sekiz grafik tasar›mc›yla gerçeklefltirdicurrency1im bir afifl sergisi ve kentin
(rahatlama bölgeleri olarak tan›mlayabilececurrency1im) restoran, kafebar ve kumsal gibi
turistik alanlar›n› kapsayan bir eylem plan›yd›.
Sergi ve eylemin bafll›currency1› “Yerel Santral Küresel Mezarl›k“t›. Ocak 2006’da Sinop’ta
sonuçlar› genifl ölçekli bir çevre felaketine dönüflebilecek bir nükleer santralin
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