taksim gezi park to tünel and back

Betül Aksutaksim gezi park to tünel and back 2022
Sound performance and collective writing session
Part of officialese series, produced at School of Commons residency

On April 6, 2022, the artist walked from Taksim Gezi Park to Tünel and back, streaming the live sound of the walk into a Zoom room. While listening remotely, participants from the School of Commons read from The Force of Non-Violence by Judith Butler and wrote in response to the text and the sounds they heard.

The work creates a space between a street marked by protest and repression and a virtual room shaped by reflection and collective thinking. It considers how violence operates across both physical and institutional spaces and how bodies, voices, and language can resist it. The work proposes listening as a political act across distance, censorship, and borders.