Is a story shaped by the choices presented to us, or does the storyteller also have a say? Based on Vera Molnár's art practice that integrates algorithms and mathematics, the workshop participants try to construct a story from the cards distributed to them. Participants will try to build their unique stories by making interventions to the cards sorted by chance. Even though the starting point is the same, it is experienced how different subjectivities and the chance factor can take the story to different points.
Note: Participants are kindly requested to send a photograph or drawing they have taken, created, or selected to ogrenme@peramuzesi.org.tr prior to the workshop.
Instructor: Ekin Can Göksoy
Capacity: 15 people
Duration: 90 minutes
Fee per workshop: 350 TL
The event will take place at the Pera Museum (face-to-face).
About Ekin Can Göksoy
He is a historian, writer and storyteller. In 2014, his story book Münhal and in 2016 his novel Epope Tatavla were published by İletişim Publications. Since 2017, he has been organising storytelling performances in Istanbul and San Francisco as part of Artship Foundation. In 2018, he opened his first exhibition titled Bir Mucize İhtimali (A Miracle of Possibility) with Larissa Araz at poşe. In 2020, he was a writer-in-residence at Camargo Foundation as part of Be Mobile Create Together and co-directed Garp Sessions, a research programme bringing together artists and thinkers.
Inspired by its Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection, Pera Museum presents a contemporary video installation titled For All the Time, for All the Sad Stones at the gallery that hosts the Collection. The installation by the artist Nicola Lorini takes its starting point from recent events, in particular the calculation of the hypothetical mass of the Internet and the weight lost by the model of the kilogram and its consequent redefinition, and traces a non-linear voyage through the Collection.
In a bid to review the International System of Units (SI), the International Bureau of Weights and Measures gathered at the 26th General Conference on Weights and Measures on November 16, 2018. Sixty member states have voted for changing four out of seven basic units of measurement. The kilogram is among the modified. Before describing the key points, let us have a closer look into the kilogram and its history.
Pera Museum presented a talk on Nicola Lorini’s video installation For All the Time, for All the Sad Stones, bringing together the artists Nicola Lorini, Gülşah Mursaloğlu and Ambiguous Standards Institute to focus on concepts like measuring, calculation, standardisation, time and change.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 200 TL
Discounted: 100 TL
Groups: 150 TL (minimum 10 people)
