Özge Topçu 

Agora

2018
Site-specific installation

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Agora is a participatory site-specific installation project. It is inspired by the idea of the marketplace - arguably one of the most organic urban landscapes in history. The project was a part of Art Night London 2018.

The aim was to engage with the local community through a series of workshops in which I asked the participants to come up with designs for alternative public spaces which can be built from one of the key components of the market place – the market box.

After the structure is built we created a conviviality with the participants and have discussions around this new public space, considering its temporality.

The aim of this participation was giving the ownership of the urban landscape back to local residents, to empower the participants and ask them, and the audience, to consider their role in building the urban landscape of the future.

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Exhibited in Art Night London 2018, New Covent Garden Market 

Supported by SAHA and Faruk Sade Sanat Fonu
http://2018.artnight.london/projects/ozge-topcu/