Tepeden Tırnağa

Designed as a presentation-performance, "From Head to Toe" explores the connective tissue, specifically the fascia, from head to toe.
It depicts a journey that extends all the way to the toes. It unravels the connections that create a space.
It is operating with the intention of bringing people together, acting as a living "embodiment" of...
It is exploring the possibilities of incorporating it. The approach, which utilizes the concept of "embodied dramaturgy," establishes a...
It captures the characteristic that defines the building, and thus reveals how Barın Han became a place of "life."
It describes the experiences and achievements of those who lived there, highlighting the physical, cultural, economic, and social aspects of the caravanserai.
how it is connected to other structures, its location in Çemberlitaş, its architecture, and the story behind its name, which comes from Emin Barın.
Excerpts from his life and work, his connection to the present day – all of this is encompassed within this "life."
Throughout the performance, information, experiences, memories, and quotes are interwoven and interpreted.
The narrative is woven with small, playful moments, creating an engaging experience for the audience. It's a collaborative creation.
Other clues related to tasks within the scope of this project may also manifest as part of this pattern.
"From Top to Bottom" is a project idea for a larger scale event, planned for Istanbul Fringe and Barın Han.
It is a personal interpretation.

This ticket also includes admission to the following 4 exhibitions/installations, which are part of the "Building Connections" project, a joint production between Barın Han and the Istanbul Fringe Festival.

"Go ahead, do it! Take the risk, see what happens!"
Mesrure Melis Bilgin Koen.
"Let's go! Come on, let's go!" Exploring Istanbul's outdoor spaces, its interiors, its lower levels, and its upper reaches...
Connecting people through their horizontal and vertical spaces, their public and private realms, buildings, and streets.
Transforming a familiar neighborhood tradition, the hanging basket, into an installation and a performance.
It transforms. The basket, with its inclusivity, represents a feminine and nurturing object, while the masculine and vertical architecture...
It is used as a balancing element. Baskets are hung from the windows of Barın Han, and...
Contents: Han, witnessing the street day and night, with the presence of artists, visitors, and passersby.
Throughout the night, it's forming new connections.

Bachmann: Broken Poetry.
Mina Kocailik.
The artist Mîna Kocailik invites us on a visual journey through excerpts from the poems of Austrian feminist writer and poet Ingeborg Bachmann. The artist, who explores the interconnectedness of literature and art, incorporates selected lines from Bachmann's various poems into the surfaces of her paintings, created using mixed techniques. By reassembling these lines using collage, Kocailik creates a new poem from Bachmann's words, while simultaneously creating a series of visual poems where individual works and the whole work together. Bachmann's words are deconstructed, reassembled, and transformed into a different language within Kocailik's paintings. The resulting series opens up a space of visual poetry where poetry transforms into painting, and painting into poetry, blurring the boundaries between these two disciplines.

Double Contact: A Memory and Repair Experience.
Nalin Yeşilbaş
The visitor experiences the profound isolation of the pre-birth period within a space resembling a womb. Upon stepping out of this enclosed area, they are confronted with the artwork "Double Contact," which forces them to confront the existential "thrownness" of being in the world and the moment of birth.
The artwork centers around the Palmer Reflex, the first biological connection a baby makes with the world. The setup in front of the artwork allows visitors to directly interact with the paper, allowing them to connect with the space's historical memory. This interaction transforms the viewer from a passive observer into an active participant in the narrative; visitors leave a part of themselves on the pages they choose to engage with, creating an enduring, spiritual connection to Barın Han.

DREAMS - UPON WAKING.
Mina Kocailik and Ceren Yılmaz.
Mina Kocailik and Ceren Yılmaz are two artists who utilize Barın Han not only as an exhibition space, but also as an integral part of their creative process. After meeting at Barın Han, the connection they formed between their works, initially not intended for display, evolved into a meeting point for two distinct artistic practices within a shared space.
In Kocailik's painting "Dreams," as the artwork explores the themes of dream, body, and liberation, Yılmaz's butterfly, titled "Upon Awakening," appears as if emerging from the painting's dreamlike world into reality, landing near it. However, in this transition, it loses its wholeness.
One of the philosophical starting points of "The Awakening" is Zhuangzi's butterfly dream, which blurs the distinction between humans and butterflies, between the dreamer and the one being dreamed of. The encounter between the two adds a new possibility to this question:
Can something that is complete in a dream remain complete when it becomes reality?
Is it a dream?