Author: Ceni Gulnihal Yesilbahar

Collect or Consume?

For this weeks outcome, I wanted to reflect, show this objects with another method than a publication, I felt the need to work with another medium and started researching exhibitions, and how can things be exhibited. After my research process, I wanted to challenge myself and experiment with video making methods and decided to make a stop motion video. I choose a dynamic soundtrack for the background and kind of dramatic in a sense to showcase how overwhelming it is that we collect this much, how much we consume and I started wondering if this is simply collection things that we like or are we obsessed with materials?

Process

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1E-TCGdlAObkG6A1XOTZM8N4vJJd0qeBrgv3wu_wjRxU

This three object I choose to work with this week represents the three stages of the Shabbat Dinners that we used to have with my extended family. These dinners meant a lot to me, due to them being a time that I can spend time with the family members that I haven’t seen for a while. In the experiments that I have done, I tried to represent the times that we had in these dinners with different methods of presentation.

Process

I started generating ideas for the “collect” task and I started analysing the objects that I have in my immediate reach. I realised that we have a lot of potteries, my mother collects them and keeps them for “special” events. This idea of keeping things for “special events ” made me start thinking when we will be using them next? when we will be having those occasions, gatherings again? so are they useless now?. These questions made me look at these objects from a different perspective and I realised that it’s not about how special the moment is it’s more about how important the guests are, why are we only using our valuable things when we are trying to impress other people?

https://www.notion.so/Collect-Ceni-Gulnihal-Yesilbahar-bf3147d1d9ef46b69a6f9fa7f62c8358

Process