An unsettling re-composition: Istanbul's lost Armenian April 11 Memorial

dc.authoridTuncer, Ezgi/0000-0003-0755-6311
dc.contributor.authorTuncer, Ezgi
dc.contributor.authorTuncer, Ezgi
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-19T15:11:32Z
dc.date.available2023-10-19T15:11:32Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.department-temp[Gok, Ela; Tuncer, Ezgi] Kadir Has Univ, Dept Architecture, Istanbul, Turkiyeen_US
dc.description.abstractThis research uses 3D drawing techniques to create a re-composition of the lost April 11 Memorial, a contested monument which commemorated the deportation of Armenian intellectuals from Istanbul in 1915. We use the only photograph of the monument remaining in the public record as a witness to inform this re-composition and multiply the possibilities of remembering through the medium of drawing. The memorial's absence in the archive can be viewed as an extension of the violence Armenians endured during the deportations and subsequent massacres of the twentieth century, as well as a prolonged suppression of the Armenian people's right to memory within Turkey's unequal historical geography. For this reason, we represent the monument in a new way, in a new medium. Our research explores the value of non-physical reproductions of lost monuments. The re-composition takes place through making a visual and spatial analysis of the photograph, and reveals how drawing techniques, that use 3-dimensional projections, can be used to overcome the absence of knowledge. This method allows us to speculate on the lost monument, to reappropriate and carry it to the present by producing a new visual archive. This act also calls for the profanation, in Agamben's sense, of the memorial by unsettling and removing this forbidden object from the realm of the sacred and the inviolable. Through play and design, we open up a new use and space for the lost memorial.(c) 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.en_US
dc.identifier.citation1
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jhg.2023.04.004en_US
dc.identifier.endpage31en_US
dc.identifier.issn0305-7488
dc.identifier.issn1095-8614
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85159183000en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage19en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2023.04.004
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/5062
dc.identifier.volume81en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001002099700001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.khas20231019-WoSen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAcademic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Historical Geographyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectHistorical GeographyEn_Us
dc.subjectTaksim SquareEn_Us
dc.subjectMonumentsEn_Us
dc.subjectProtestEn_Us
dc.subjectPlaceEn_Us
dc.subjectParkEn_Us
dc.subjectHistorical Geography
dc.subjectTaksim Square
dc.subjectArmenian historyen_US
dc.subjectMonuments
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectProtest
dc.subjectMonumentsen_US
dc.subjectPlace
dc.subjectDrawingen_US
dc.subjectPark
dc.subjectCultural heritageen_US
dc.titleAn unsettling re-composition: Istanbul's lost Armenian April 11 Memorialen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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