Istanbul Time Travel Experiment 2010

„ (…) In fact, the discovery process started at a place like this one: That place looks like it has the structural characteristics of a tower. It’s as if there are two worlds and Istanbul has like a spiral that joins these two worlds together. I even feel as if there is a channel that stretches all the way from Istanbul’s surface to the centre of the earth.“ Cigdem Zeytin, participant imagining the past

As artists, we work with the imagination. The object of our research is the imaginary and its effects on the physical, the “real”, world.

Milton Erickson, a constructivist and founder of hypnotherapy, made use of mental journeys through time in order to re-awaken pictures from the past, but also as a way of integrating new ideas and perspectives along with, ultimately, visions of a possible self in the future.

Expanding Erickson’s approach – from the possible self to the potential self in a potential city – we undertake mental time travel through cities shaped by radical transformations. read on