Uyku

Abstract

The anxiety emerging from human’s urge to conform and concern for status which develops with the damage caused by humanity both to himself and on to nature is aimed to be expressed through “dormant/sleeping/sleep allegory”. As human body gets weakened and forged/rectified within built environments, the dormant body form molds within the domain of sleep. Being under constant surveillance in supposedly free living spaces, intervention to the body and mind (punishment, treatment methods, violation of privacy, status anxiety, school, business life), the life that supports and transcends to an automated way of living all constitute the context by depicting a modern world with the concept of sleep in its core. The "loss of our relationship with our personality in the modern world", as described by Carl Gustav Jung, has been described as sleepy and dead identities in the body. The daily recordings of the impression notes that correspond to the people who "fall asleep outdoors" are selected from daily routine actions of their lives. These records constitute the source of this research. While creating the research material, people who fell asleep in social areas outside the home were followed for a long time, and actual studies were revealed with reference to the visual notes. In the research process, the concept of sleep has found a place in new living spaces which serve lifestyles that embrace and protect the body. Within the masses, where consciousness closes itself against external stimuli and ignore what is happening outside, turn into forms that can be watched by the individual himself. This process, which Erich Fromm defines as “automaton conformity”, is also a mental sleep state of the body formed in the spaces serving the control mechanisms. Political siege of the body and ideas, actions and inertivism against this siege were combined with abstracted or abstract fictional spaces to depict the relationship between the individual and the world. The study, improved by notes of observation and impression, is introduced by fictions/constructions contributing to the claim with painting, sculpture and site-specific and experimental art as well as the documented and visual data make up process. In addition, dormant/sleeping/sleep concept is considered through its metaphor expressions in art history, mythology and the modern world; the representations of “state” and “still” of body all day along are corresponded to the samples and analysis of the works of artists concentrated on instantaneous/momentary figure forms.