Events

My Garden: Rooting, Ecology, and Post- Human Thinking

16 May 2026 Sat ○ 13:00 - 16:00

Workshop for Adults

Date: Saturday, 16 May 2026
Time: 13.00-16.00

Designed within the scope of Edward Burtynsky: Shifting Topography at Borusan Contemporary, this workshop invites participants to reconsider the relationship between humans and nature.

Led by artist and academic Dr. Işıl Eğrikavuk, the workshop draws on the human-altered landscapes featured in the exhibition to collectively reflect on concepts such as erosion, care, responsibility, and rooting. Beginning with large-scale industrial landscapes, the workshop opens up space to rethink these ideas through a more personal and embodied experience.

Accompanied by selected photographs from the exhibition and a short presentation, the workshop approaches the human–nature relationship from a post-human perspective. Through writing, drawing, participants are encouraged to reflect on roots, belonging, and practices of care.

In the final section of the workshop, participants work with soil and seeds, planting in small pots together. Here, the seed is approached not only as the beginning of a plant, but also as a metaphor for continuity, responsibility, and care. During the collective planting session, participants reflect on how relationships of care established with plants can be sustained within everyday life.

At the end of the workshop, participants take their planted pots home, extending the exhibition experience into an ongoing relationship within daily life.

About Işıl Eğrikavuk
Dr. Işıl Eğrikavuk is an artist and academic working in the fields of performance art, dialogical art, and artistic research. A co-recipient of Türkiye’s first contemporary art award, the Full Art Prize, Eğrikavuk has participated in international exhibitions and artist residency programs, while her work has been published in numerous local and international journals. Developed at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), her project The Other Garden explores the relationships between art, ecology, and collective production as a space for collaborative learning.