Website: http://www.odaprojesi.com/
Oda Projesi is composed of Ozge Acikkol, Gunes Savas and Secil Yersel.Oda Projesi was given a start in 1997 in Galata, an old neighborhood in Istanbul, Turkey. The project is still based in Istanbul, now with ties to other locations nationwide as well as worldwide.
The main aim of the project is to multiply the possibilities of making art by drawing attention to ordinary ways of living. The Oda Projesi lives on the potential of everyday life practices. It draws on the plural, complex ways of making in everyday life. It reclaims everyday life as a way of making art. It is a social sculpture in process, an unfinished everyday life performance being shaped by the relationships between people and spaces. Its inspiration comes from the rhetorics of everyday life shared by all.
The project invites artists or people with different backgrounds to realize their projects in Galata. The actual inhabitants of the neighborhood are often involved in these projects, not only as an audience but also as participants.
Oda Projesi shares these often hybrid processes of making art with larger audiences by documenting the realized projects in the form of photographs, video recordings and books.
In the past, Oda Projesi realized projects at Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art - Project 4L, the 4th Gwangju Biennial in South Korea, Kunstverein Munchen and Kunstprojekte Riem in Germany. The project is now participating in an exhibition in Finland-Vaasa. The Oda Projesi was also invited to the Istanbul Biennial-2003 and the Venice Biennial-2003.